I don’t think I could have picked a podcast more different than The 11th Company in terms of tone, focus and accents. The Overlords is both a gaming group and a podcast coming out of London. The cast has rotated a fair amount in the three years that they’ve been online, but, for the most part, it’s been Jon and Steve holding the reins, with folks like Dagmire, Ciaran, Shagga, Mark, Jason, Steve #1, Sarah, Sam, Teras, Skew, Dean and many, many more hopping in front of the mike before disappearing for several episodes and then reappearing again.
The Overlords cover a broad range of topics from Black Library Books (and talking with Black Library authors like Sarah Cawkwell, Dan Abnett, Aaron Dembski-Bowden and Gav Thorpe) to fluff and narrative forging to tabletop tactics to the various specialist games that surround Warhammer 40K to slide whistles. In fact, if a subject happens to be connected to 40K, no matter how loosely, there’s a good bet that The Overlords will talk about it.
Listening to all of their episodes is interesting in that you can see a very definite trend toward more: more jingles, more guests, more contests, more people in the studio, more hours, more and more and more! And then…the build-up stopped. Now,very rarely are there more than three people on the cast talking at a time. There are only introductory jingles for the hosts and the guests and not for every segment. As a whole, the podcast has been slimmed down and is much trimmer and, while I am a little sad that it’s not as…ah, zany as it used to be, I think their podcast has hit a proper stride. It’s more focused, taut and ready for action.
With Steve’s departure a few episodes back (which was depressing, as was the absence of all the rabbiting at the end of each episode), Jon and Jason are in charge now and, with the exception of new jingles and a new singing voice gracing the airwaves, it’s much as it always has been: lots of laughs and lots of general 40K discussion.
If you’re interested in 40K in all its various forms, if you love the Black Library and modeling and painting and if you love to listen to people who clearly enjoy the hobby more than should be legal, check out The Overlords.
I give it Five Dagmire Innuendos, A Ciaran Wail of Dismay and Ten Jasons Laughing.
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