WAR-HAMM-ER! WAR-HAMM-ER! New year, new mods | w/ Tom & Ben | (03/01/2024) 

Gameplay starts: 3:54:14

This is a great format. I understand that without new stuff to look at it could be hard to fill 3+ hours, but I love T and B chatting s#!t. The best game play is when it inspires tabbing out and more chat.

Our beautiful boys have returned! Praise Kremlo!

I agree with Ben that a lot of the Extended scenes aren't all that, although all the extra Boromir stuff being cut from the theatrical cuts was an absolute crime

its been too long, so glad the boys are back

"You know, the lads have got me interested in Kill Team again. I should look into - THEY WANT HOW MUCH?" Every time. Oh well, I live for this part of my week as a humble VODgobbo either way. It's hard to blame Tom & Ben for talking up a hobby they love, when the problem I have is the company that produces it. The lads've done no wrong.

21:00 funnily enough, the place where they fight the wargs, and where gandalf rides with pippin with the mountain in the background are both filmed on an actual deer sanctuary in Queenstown

I wholeheartedly agree with Ben about the Extended Cut of LotR. Peter Jackson crafted beautiful movies with proper pacing and cinematography, then he had to bundle up a lot of extra content that turns some sequences into absolute slogfests. He admitted himself that he didn’t like those versions, but he knew that for some fans more stuff = better so he just put all the fan service in there for the DVD.

Praise be Kremlo, Tom & Ben finally returned, and even though there was no actual Total Warhammer this stream, plans of doing it in the future brings joy. I understand (and with recent news in last few months from CA) that they might have burned out a bit or were not as excited to play it, but I was worried that they would move onto something completely new and drop this format. And even if I'm just a vodgobbo for most of it and can't really donate to the cause - it's just so fun to watch viewers getting involved in armies and creating their own mini-stories sometimes, very memorable. Thank you!

The idea of eternal ring Ralph supply, chain, suffering is perfect to me. Imagine them trying to build a factorial style production chain for the crossbow.

fun fact: kendo practitioners are trained to shout before and during a match, hema practitioners are not. this leads to an awkward silence where the hema practitioner says nothing in response and bows, before striking the combat pose of a foppish 17th century noble.

1:42:20 Excuse me: _"Dungeons & Dragons (2000)_ doesn't hold up as comedy-bad"? But it's one of the _best_ comedy-bads!

If you can chop an orc you can lift a skull!

if you're going to lose at a tournament, I'd much rather lose to a man dressed up as the sky to theme with his army tbh

I can’t wait to see the Necron conversions people will do with the Tomb King parts. Or the how people use Osiarch Bonereaper parts to supplement Tomb King troops.

I had to google what a Toby Jug was... I'm glad I did... That was a good one Tom.

Ork Kommandos are top of the pile right now in Kill Team meta. They got a nerf but they're still gonna be real good.

This was stressful lol. The Tomb Kings infantry etc were released in 2002 - the upgrade sprue for the original Undead Skeleton/VC models. But GW raised their prices well above inflation every year. The classic "Undead Skeletons" Sprue is 1998 I believe as Ben says. In 2015 A box of 16 Tomb King warriors was £20.00 (Element Games has a lot of the URLs still in tact!). 2015 was when GW killed Old World. But yes, £25 is randomly exactly what 20 Tomb Kings in 2015 would cost. Until 2021, GW sold the 1999 ZOMBIES for £25 for 20 to be used in Age of Sigmar. So GW's current pricing for 1999-early 2000s models in £25 for 20.

It think it'd be really neat to have a Tom x Ben Baldur's Gate 3 series, either on stream or on RU-vid

Would love to see some Killteam on Games night ! super cool to see you guys playing it!

Maggoty bread might not necessarily refer to the same maggots as fruit-fly larvae. Pantry moth larvae can probably be confused for maggots if you're not being too precise, and they can definitely infest bread.

100% agree about space dwarves. Wish the votann were more like the necromunda ones.

Will they ever share on screen the donation's content? I miss all these painted minis :(

Can anyone help me find the clip of the lore hammer or your hammer the ben did for Tom that astartes was a real person? So the Jimmy space thing they came up with is true. Iv been trying to find the clip for a bit and just can't. Thanks in advance.

"Maggoty bread" would be the larval life stage of the insects such as weavils.

I'm just imagining if Tolkien were here, listening to their chat

total war pharaoh is a pyramid of bandaids on top of a game engine. the bethesda method of game development got to creative assembly a while ago. They lucked out getting warhammer fantasy ip to make things seem fresh for a bit. feels snarky as hell to say, but it also feels accurate and I'm getting tired of big devs shitting the bed while profiting off the aroma

I'll never get why GW did the End Times, why not just mothball Fantasy and set AoS in the distant past or something?

HOT TAKE : I think I prefer this ramble stream to you playing total war >_

now that old world has returned i hope to see some new warhammer fantasy stories

I love the talks!

Have Tom & Ben ever painted their miniatures on stream? I'd be interested in watching that.

Ha? I know what you mean with the Dark Angels codex early release with the expensive launch box and I do kinda agree, but then I thought if Orks would get one and suddenly the feeling about this being wrong vanished. I would buy that for sure. The only question is how early "early release"?

Gardening orcs would be the best models. Someone do it, please

Maaaahhh books! The best boys! Mot and Neb!

Nice to see the delegation from Rythian's former home of Crybabia are making the rounds in the comments as usual. Frankly, the Tom and Ben podcast is usually the best bit of the stream, and if you're all so desperate for Total War, just acquire it it and play it yourself.

the taste of tom and ben

You got some sort of carpentry tool in my armed conflict!

"Alien beans!"

I loved The Surge! One of the few Souls likes I finished! Sci fi gud times

Im pretty sure that in the end times there weren't 20 skeletons in a pack (im too lazy to dig it out from under my bed) but the Tomb Guards for sure only have 8 or 10 lads not 20

I wish Angron was far more bestial/feral, like a giant demon dog on all fours. There shouldn’t be any humanity or intelligence left in him, just pure fury.

"fish hands" in Latin is "piscis manus" apparently.. just putting that out there

Man, to each their own but I found The Surge to be below average at best. Maybe they ironed it out later, but when I tried it shortly after release it was garbaggio.

I think I've seen Tom & Ben too much b/c I'm not even part of the hobby and still called that Lion El'Jonson would be the #1 model of 2023. They've just drilled down on what GW & the fandom is like so well, I guess.

10mm old world games night would be great

Do you think maggoty is just like a slang term? Maybe he just meant the bread was shitty

Are they going to play rogue trader at some point?

gonna buy a ton of new DA upgrade sprues and make a book boi squad

Regarding Theodred's funeral scene: "It's a lovely and heartbreaking scene of grief. Which is important, as expressions of grief are strangely missing in a war epic like Lord of the Rings. As much as it is a funeral for Theodred, it is really an acting spotlight for his cousin, Eowyn. Miranda Otto is superb as she delivers a funeral dirge for her departed prince. The music of Lord of the Rings doesn’t get enough credit, and Otto’s rendition of Eowyn’s lament is heartbreakingly beautiful. Thankfully, it can be found in the extended editions, but for such a small and well-acted scene that so adds much to the atmosphere of the movie, it should've never been left on the cutting room floor." Agree. Feelings aren't boring to me. Shame Ben can't feel it. Ben, I can recommend if you want nothing but battle scenes just watch vods of Total War: Warhammer? No feelings, just noisy fights.

Looking forward to Nagash.

My only two un assembled armies are dark elves and vampire counts... both got the shaft. My other three armies where rebaded to Kings of War. So I am not going to buy in.

Ben doesn't like my favourite skeletons :(

FINALLY

Cant wait for James Werksherp to take on the fannn favourite femail t'au models that are the online (you know the ones I mean), why make new models when you can buy and reprint the old fan 3rd party favs

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I am so sad Tomb Kings is back. Cause FOR ages I was hoping and dreaming. I got old TK sets unopened under my bed.... and then they go and re release the same fucking models.... So now the battalion box i have is worthless

Ben from Parks and Rec didn't like Peter Jackson's interpretation of Lord of the Rings either. coincidence? all bens hate LOTR movie(s)?!

I'm not as interested in playing the new epic as I am just building and painting the models.

So if i may ask what is the point of titling these as if they are playing warhammer or playing a game at all when they are in fact not, should the tilte not reflect the actual contents of the video?

holy fk , gw realy is customer hostile... that high price for so little plastic ? ....fk that ,i hoppe people speak with their wallets in that regard aka leaves it to fester in gw warehouses and if they need it in their lifes ,gets a good condition original release with all the extra things that make it worth its ORIGINAL price

I legit would buy a release of LOTR where it's split to Only Sam/Frodo and Everyone Else...because at this point I'm hitting skip every time they appear on screen after The Fellowship

Goddammit! I thought for SURE "New year, new mods" meant there was actual TWW gameplay here. I've learned that the word "Warhammer" means nothing in these titles, but now you've taken bamboozling me to new levels. Well, I'm looking forward to next week

welp came to see if it was worth watching tom and ben again. nooooope. just play the game. leave the tab button alone