AdeptiCon Talks

Carl from the Independent Characters sits down and talks with Jon Russell who will be spearheading the Warlord Games Demo efforts at AdeptiCon 2015. They discuss Jon's history with Warlord Games, plans for AdeptiCon, some of the interesting aspects of Bolt Action and Gates of Antares, and how to easily get into Bolt Action! Bolt Action events will be occuring in the Schaumburg Ballroom West all weekend long!

Carl from the Independent Characters sits down and talks with Craig Gallant of The D6 Generation! They discuss The D6 Generation’s involvement with AdeptiCon, the future of board gaming at AdeptiCon, the Sunday night board gaming extravaganza, what Craig has been playing lately and what games he is most looking forward to.Craig and Russ will both be at AdeptiCon, look for them near the board gaming area all weekend!

Carl from the Independent Characters sits down and talks with the our Guest of Honor, Andy Chambers! Once known as the “40K Overfiend”, Andy’s influence on Games Workshop’s universe is indisputable. Andy is a veteran writer and games designer with more than twenty five years experience in creating games dominated by giant robots, spaceships and dangerous aliens. 

Carl from the Independent Characters sits down and talks with the scurvy scalawags behind the pirate game to end all pirate games! Raid, trade, and, cannonade your way around this 800 SQ. FT. board collecting gold and infamy from a dozen Island locations. Beware! Ruthless Cannibals, a terrifying ghost ship and even the legendary Kraken stand ready to consume your crew and drag you to the depths!

We sit down with Jen Haley of Cool Mini or Not and the Crystal Brush to answer a few questions on how the event might work for new entrants.  New categories, new rules, online voting, miniature transportation, and encouragement are all giving in this episode.  So grab a brush and enjoy.

Spartan Games Firestorm Armada debuts at Adepticon 2015.  We sit down the the Organizers to get the lowdown.

Today Andrew gets to sit down with Alex Gonzales (lead Fantasy Organizer) and talk about the Warhammer Fantasy Championships event!

At the heart of Adepticon every year is the amazing volunteer corp that gives endless amounts of time for terrain, set up, tear down, and helps to keep the events we love going strong. We sit down with Jennifer Mehrstedt, the volunteer co-coordinator for Adepticon 2015, and her husband Chris to discuss the process of volunteering including, how can you help, what can be done to help, what you get in return for helping? So take a moment and listen, and we hope that you will be willing to join the Adepticon 2015 volunteer family.  If you are interested in assisting or just getting more information Jen can be reached via koz8248 at yahoo.com.

Adepticon Hobby Czars Chris Borer and Dave Pauwels sit down to discuss the slate of events for the new and improved hobby space at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center.  If you are interested in an early heads up on the instructors, classes, and the hobby area pull up a chair and join us for a chat about Adepticon 2015.

Teras is back this year to talk about Adepticon and his trips he provides via Geek Nation Tours. Geek Nation Tours has a long history with Adepticon and they offer such services as Exclusive first chance at purchasing your favorite events, preferred check-in, and the ability to meet people well known in the gaming industry (Such as representitives from Mantic Games, Cool Mini or Not, Out Law Miniatures, your favorite Pro Painters, and Podcast personalities). Be sure to check out this tour and others in full at:   http://www.geeknationtours.com/   or contact Teras Cassidy directly at:   headgeek@geeknationtours.com

Jasper and Guy from Wargames Soldiers and Strategy Magazine sit down with us this week to take a look at what a full spectrum historical hobby magazine looks like.  Themed issues, Online free content, and Youtube painting tutorials.  We have divided this interview up into two parts.  The week we dive into the results of the WSS Hobby poll, the various historical game systems, and how to get involved with the historical game scene.

Jasper and Guy from Wargames Soldiers and Strategy Magazine sit down with us this week to take a look at what a full spectrum historical hobby magazine looks like.  Themed issues, Online free content, and Youtube painting tutorials.  We have divided this interview up into two parts.  The first part is focused more on the actual magazine, Wargames Soldiers and Strategy.  Next week we dive into the results of the WSS Hobby poll, the various historical game systems, and how to get involved with the historical game scene.

Adepticon is the sum of a massive amount of moving parts.  Volunteers, Terrain makers, Organizers, Attendees, Vendors and much more.  Today we catch up to Alex Landing of Iron Heart Artisans, who helped Adepticon 2014 out in several of those categories.  We discuss Iron Heart as a company, talk about the contributions Iron Heart provided to the terrain efforts.  As well as discussing care and working with MDF terrain.

Part 4 of 4 from the Adepticon 2014 Industry Panel.

Part 3 of 4 from the Adepticon 2014 Industry Panel.

The second part of our four part Industry Panel from Adepticon 2014.

 There were many new events on the schedule for Adepticon 2014.  Adepticon talks decided to attend one in particular and record it for prosperity.  The Miniature Hobby Business Panel, which was the Brain child of Mr Justin McCoy of Secret Weapon Miniatures.  A one hour Q&A Panel bringing three of the great minds business minds present at Adepticon to one room to answer our questions on breaking into the business. Miniature Hobby Business Panel - Insider Perspectives Ronnie Renton - CEO of Mantic Games, Justin McCoy - President of Secret Weapon Miniatures and Iron Box Games, and Victoria Lamb of Victoria Lamb Miniatures, come together to field your questions on the miniature industry in this informal Q&A panel.These companies represent three different perspectives on the miniature market -- and can provide insight whether you're simply curious about the inner workings of the industry, or looking to get into the business yourself.   This is Part 1 of a 4 part recording of this panel.  If you found the panel to be of interest please reach out to Info@adepticon.org and let us know you would like to see more panels in the future.

We round out the Adepticon 2014 vendor hall interviews with three shorter intervies.  We start with Kevin Clark of Iron Box Games talking Angry Sheep and Skid Marks.  Iron Box Games is a brain child of Kevin as well as Justin McCoy of Secret Weapon. We then chat with James Hakola, Mr Dandy, well known for his resin models such as his Thunder Wolves, and various race specific defense lines.  Last but not least we turn to Outlaw Miniatures makers of the alternate Earth history game Wild West Exodus.  Adepticon is one of the first conventions we get to see the great resin models and amazing plastics produced by the very successful WWX kick starter. 

Sunday we caught up to Mr. Ronnie Renton of Mantic Games.  Mantic had been extremely busy over Adepticon, having brought several of the new Battlezone modular terrain kits, as well as Deadzone.  We discuss kickstarter, Mars Attacks, Kings of War, and look towards the future of Mantic Games.

It seems the hybrid board/miniature game Aetherium was one of the surprise hits from Adepticon 2014.  We sit down one last time with Brian, Chris and Vince while the Kickstarter has a few days left to go.  We chat about the Adepticon experience, what we can expect post Kickstarter, the next races, how we will be able to get the next factions, competitive vs casual play and a host of other topics.  So sit back and lets enter the Aetherium.