Weekender XLBS: HUGE Hobby Update & Justin Vs Lloyd At Rorke’s Drift
October 15, 2017 by warzan
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To quote the Muppets Movie:” “Jack not name, Jack job!”
LOL
Good luck on the induction. Hopefully it will go differently than when I was inducted into the army.
I imagine there will be a similar amount of swearing 😉
If this is to be the last you best make use of middle names to get Leroy and Jethro in somewhere…
Good plan 😉
Jack Jethro Johnston, or JJJ
Junior
Best of luck this week, to you and yours, @warzan. 😀
I guess the curries, the long walks and the (ahem!) conjugals have all been given a try?
All the best to Andrea and the new one , and you just hang on in there buddie!
Thanks @oriskany!
And I hadn’t heard about the curry trick @coxjul
Good Luck @warzan all the best!
Wow that takes miniatures to a whole new level. @warzan you have a skirmish level game already to go, are you planning on going for a mass battle army? 🙂 congrats
Oh and where on the dark web do we have to go to get the original cut, with this being a special john week and all was there just too much for the system to handle? With the John month being promised , now is the time to stress test that equipment, he could be too hot for the internet.
To get technical, the recorder crashes and we end up with an MP4 file that hasn’t been closed off correctly. We need some reliable tool to reprocess and close of the file to recover it 🙂
For the volcano, I think that building it in quarters and layers would be beneficial. That would allow easier storage as it will break down into smaller pieces. By building up in quarters, you could do things like break up the volcano into four quarter volcanoes, one at each corner of the table., each with a different warlord trying to take over the other volcanoes. You could play with two half volcanoes, one on each side of the board, and suspend several bridges between the two and a model rocket (think Saturn V) in between the two. Or, if you… Read more »
Brilliant ideas! Quarters is a great plan
Crooked Dice have some great items for a really pulpy secret base – check out the base mdf scenery:
http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/wp/product-category/secret-base/
They have a secret base starter set in mdf which could sit between foam layers:
http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/wp/product/secret-base-starter-set/
Along with a range of minions:
http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/wp/product/starter-set-minions/
http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/wp/product/female-minions/
http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/wp/product/minion-dog-handler-grenadier/
http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/wp/product/minion-commander-administrator/
Bond, Blowfelt & Henchment
http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/wp/product/best-of-enemies/
http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/wp/product/henchmen/
Classic villains, scientists, cameranmen (yes I did say that (!))
http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/wp/product/the-guru/
http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/wp/product/villains-2/
http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/wp/product/scientists/
http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/wp/product/production-team-cameraman/
They also have a game – 7VT – I haven’t played it, so can’t comment beyond pointing out that exists, but info can be found on the website.
Happy Sunday!!
Rorkes Drift again? Ever get the impression someone’s obsessed about a single moment in history?
This one has sat in the queue for a little while 🙂
I am, but weirdly not this one.
Which moment captures your imagination?
I first heard about the Spartans and the thermoplayae stand when I was a kid.
I first saw the film in the mid 70’s it was one of those films that increased my interest in history
300 Spartans is one of my absolute favourites, even if the phalanx attacks seem to have roughly 10 meters per row between them
Jack Jedi and Savannah Sith?
My own little piece of the dark side mate 😉
Glad the cassowary made an impression Warzan , the lady who was digging up fossils that I mentioned last week raised a point when we were chatting. Dinosaurs are always shown as brown, gray or maybe green, we have no idea what colour their skin was, maybe blue like their close relative which is pictured ….maybe and here’s the weird bit, the males had coloured wattles dangling of their neck like the cassowary. Now imagine your big carnivourous dinosaur with a blue face and a red wattle a few black proto feathers down it’s crown ….. wierd but it adds… Read more »
Oh and happy Induction day (damn I meant to put that in). Life’s richest blessings to young Jack and his family
cheers mate, everytime I break it out it gets a little more finished.
I would like to point out, Grand Master @lloyd wiped out every force he was in charge off 😉 😉 Gary and Clive played blinders and I rolled like CRAP!!! but it was a crackin game, it was long but we had a blast and the rest of the lads were great to play against
When I heard JJ all I could think of was “Cannonball.. Cannonball ” and Burt Reynolds character from the Cannonball Run movies, so I hope everything goes well with Jack, @warzan.
As for the volcano, sounds like a great centerpiece for a 7TV bootcamp (hint!). How about Indiana Jones, Allan Quartermain in Darkest Africa pulp game, spy-fi or an Evil Genius style game but with Warren’s recent dinosaur obsession I’ sort of surprised he didn’t mention the Lost World or a dinosaur game with Neanderthals,
I could imagine Warren being Captain Chaos
For ideas about the volcano I shall just mention the name Doug McClure
This week’s crypto-subject from Warren … Crypto Geography where among other things somehow Australia (7.7m km^2) is bigger than Russia (17m km^2)
Lol yeah I was thinking about this video
Worth it for the battle report alone.
Cheers 😉
Vinegar Volcanoes, crossing generations and boarders alike.
The people suffering from Spider bites is increasing in the UK, a friend of mine was bitten last year on the foot and ended up in hospital for 4 days.
I think Liverpool is the only hospital/university with a tropical bites facility for anti venom etc
Games for the volcano?
Mark some zones on it and use the MB:P models on it in a mass battle. The volcano could be erupting, dropping the omphalos randomly about the board.
Oathsworn Miniatures are lovely miniatures to paint love painting them ,
@warzan were we watching the same Deep Space nine? *A faction of Starfleet endeavoured to commit targeted genocide against the Founders of the Dominion, something Starfleet Command would have allowed to continue if not for Bashir & O’Brien. *Sisko was actively complicit in a scheme to bring the Romulans into the war on the side of the Federation & Klingons that was directly responsible for the deaths of two people (one an sitting Romulan senator). *During the siege of a crucial groundstation Starfleet ground troops were shown keeping the ketrecel white ampules of Jem’Hadar soldiers as trophies. * Now, I… Read more »
True I’m hoping the nastiness is more systemic this time
And we haven’t heard of it, because everyone is going to die 🙂
We are heading into Spider season here in QLD too .. (as it gets warmer)
Up to 15cm leg-span
Dark to light brown, sometimes grey
@thisisazrael
Finally working wifi!
Thanks for the van offer yesterday, if it was my wedding then we’d be sold but as you say the wider family might not be up for it!
Im loving Discovery, I thought it was set in the changed time line as per the latest movies and that could well explain some alterations in star trek history. But my big hope is they will show the incident (that Worf said Klingons dont talk about) that altered their appearance in the future eg hair. lol
That was dealt with in the Enterprise series. Not that anyone watched it lol.
The first season of True Detective is aaaaa-maaaa-zing. Might be the best telly since the fourth season of The Wire.
indeed, shame the second series went no where. Maybe the third will be back on track though. Have you watched Generation Kill @redben? I would guess you have, but if it’s passed you by it’s well worth it
Generation Kill is excellent, the book is a great read as well, mad stuff. Especially as one of the original marines actually plays himself in the tv show – Fruity Rudy rocks!!!! Definitely worth a watch
first thoughts when it came to a volcano would be an Iwo Jima type game, either normal bolt action, or, Konflikt 47 style would be awesome with the Nazi’s in the submarine base smuggling tech into Japan, the allies landing in force to scour the island hehee be great! Jungle fighting, trenches, bunkers, all conventional until you get to the volcano itself
Or 7tv with a mad scientist
@avernos the singing was epic mate.
@warzan i’m holding you responsible for that KD Fade not getting a golden button.
cheers matey, it’s probably for the best they didn’t get my “perfect” seeth afreekan impression of Ardendorf on film ^^
Happy Sunday. Possibly the best XLBS I have seen. Warren, best wishes to all with to all with the new-born, don’t forget to post some baby pictures.