Weekender XLBS: Mega Battleships & The Best Way To Learn A New Game?
February 18, 2018 by warzan
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Happy Sunday Everyone!
FIRST!!!!!!! 😉
Now you are just being perverse at our expense 😀
lol
Bet your not first next weekend 😉
lol I bet your right lol
your banned!!!
Great show. For Warren, I think something to consider about that legacy is who sees it. Sometimes our hobbies are a kingdom unto themselves and our families just don’t get them even when those worlds colide. Your family discovered that uncles love of D&D but had you not been involved in this hobby, it may have meant nothing to you or the kids. The people involved in online tributes and funerals pass on the stories for decades about how important so and so was and what lengths we went to to recognise them, gathering all of the clan and seeing… Read more »
Very good point, well made 🙂
on the Battleship side. Why not play Battleship Galaxies. It came out in 2011.
I will have to track it down! 🙂
Happy Sunday!
I fully understand the concept that Warren was trying to express with regards with real as to virtual. Yes virtual hobbys are hobbys but I am with you our hobby is better . I have two stories to illustrate this point. 1) Some years ago I was in my local GW, a mother had just dropped her kids off for the “free babysitting service” while they went shopping *cough*. She saw her friend, another mother, there, and made some comment about how handy it was to have this shop here, and her friend launched, into a spirited defence of our… Read more »
Re point 1. My real world job has nothing to do with games per se (although my services have been used by welll known video game publishers in the past). It does however have a lot to do with being able to deal with the abstract when modelling and architecting (describing) very real complex business and IT systems, describing values, goals, structures, behaviours and rules/constraints; all while dealing with and communicating effectively with others. Many otherwise professional people struggle with being able to work in this abstract way – but some of the best I know have board or tabletop… Read more »
It is a real thing, and we are all odd.
From memory what Ben is describing is just most the original D&D and AD&D adventures that were produced by TSR and published in Dragon and White Dwarf etc
In any game the QRS s your friend
I think movies are analysed more these days because many of the “big movies” carry political messeges. If the new Star Wars movies were actually just about entertainment the need to nitpick them would be minimal. Unfortunately the opposite is true.
(Elizabeth moon’s Vatta’s War series covers relativistic space combat per what @warzan is describing brilliantly, whilst Alistair Reynolds Pushing Ice hand gets across the effect of time dilation the closer you get to lightspeed in a really understandable way)
Congratulations on your win btw mate.
Thanks man. Still rather in shock O_O
@dawfdd get your white suit on baby and strut your funky stuff
Happy Sunday guys, looks like some nice work was done on the hobby front. @dignity how much of the force is left to do? @brennon I imagine these minis will just keep coming or do you have a final target you are aiming for? @warzan I think it has been key to see the video game industry have the success it has and through it we are reaping the rewards within wargaming. Hobby will continue to grow as we see things like zbrush become more accessible to everyone along with the constant evolution of 3d printing. Interestingly a couple of… Read more »
@Dignity I think you were talking about Corball from Burning Games https://burning-games.com/corball-the-zero-gravity-sport/
Happy Sunday… @warzan with you battleships game you are starting to design a naval wargame, with fog of war. This is kind of like the holy grail of naval war gaming.
As to wacky ideas our naval Wargame group did talk about the idea of doing a submarine game using an old caravan funnily enough it never happened..lol
A little something about digital gaming as hobby.
I myself have played a lot of digital games and still play some games today but I have never seen it as a hobby but as a pass time just like watching TV. This doesn’t mean that it couldn’t be a hobby for other people.
I have to agree with Warren about Mythic Battles, I have taught the game to several people and they get the card, terrain and movement system but struggle with the dice system.
Happy Sunday!! Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) was a big time-chewing part of my life for several years. The main reason was that in that game I regularly hooked up with a group/guild. We initially got to know each other’s online personae, but over time (usually hanging about waiting for a raid to start) we got to know and care about the people behind the avatars. Interesting people from parts of the world we otherwise would never have met. A couple of real world meets (similar to backstage meets) eventually gave us the real world contact. We tried to… Read more »
@47:00 check out the chase game, using cards, called Fugitive by Tim Fowers. Chaser has to work out where the fugitive is and where they’ve been before they escape. Now think of.the empire chasing down the rebels in the last film. X turns tohyperspace (escape) and you need to find and disable them. Battleships is basically about the Fog of War, a dynamic that computer games can manage well but we struggle with on the tabletop. Can we go hybrid – look at the UBoot app as a great example of the use of an app? You both record your… Read more »
Trying to watch the “Sunday show” and it keeps switching off and going black, then pops back for a minute then goes again!!! Don’t think it’s my Wi Fi, maybe it’s that ghost of the Nintendo CEO haunting my I phone!
Click the cof wheel and select 520 or 360 as your stream option and that should help @jimmyjames72
Excuse me a moment. My brain is resetting after the results of the Mythic Battles Pantheon competion O_O
Congrats mate and we see your claim is in 🙂 over to you @dignity!
Thanks dude. Still somewhat shocked to have won O_o
We’ll see if this is the package(s) to finally break our postie 🙂
Congratulations on a prize well won!
Massive well done to you buddy, lots of painting ahead!
Congrats man well deserved 😀
Congratulations @dawfydd . That is an absolute ton of beautiful plastic coming to your door, have fun 😀 .
Regarding Justin’s anus, it seems Warzan has found the youtube channel Isaac Arthur. He has a video exactly about super computer the size of Jupiter. It’s a great channel abour all thing futurism.
Great xlbs as usual guys. On the learning a new game side I’ve also had a few issues here. My club is very focused on 40k and not really willing to move away and try something new. Luckily my two boys are now very into gaming but learning new games can be difficult as im almost having to learn on my own and then teach them. Watching your lets plays have helped massively on the wargame front and I’ve also used simpler games like zombicide to get them interested. Of course the terrain making has got them into gaming too.… Read more »
To learn I just used to read the rules a few times, play with the group and then go away and have another read to see if we played correctly. But nowadays I just watch play-throughs and batreps, but more importantly, read all the comments to see where Justin went wrong 🙂
on the topic of easter eggs i remember back in the late 2000’s when i was analysing mobile phones for law enforcement there was a specific section on certain phones where written in the Hex you could see the message:
If you can read this you’re looking too closely
always made me chuckle
@warzan My personal experience echoes yours, in that, I have abandoned digital gaming almost entirely in favour of tabletop gaming because of the material elements I create as part of that hobby (painted minis, terrain etc).
Like you I always try to convince digital gamers to commit more to tabletop gaming normally in response to phrases such as ‘I could never paint like that’ and ‘I just don’t have the time’.
I would never devalue someones dedication to digital gaming but I hate the thought someone is doing that because they feel intimidated by our hobby.
Happy Sunday.. As the ease of learning I found Saga, Frostgrave and Bolt Action very easy to pick up.
The easiest wargame I’ve learnt in the last couple of years has been the Dan Mersey rules, Lion Rampant and The Men Who Would Be Kings.
I fund them really intuitive.
Happy Sunday, although I’ve never attended one yet, I think one of your boot camps must be a great way to learn a new game. Any boot camps in the works? 🙂
Easiest miniatures game I have ever learned to play is Frostgrave. Simple dice mechanic. Very limited model profiles. Not a compeiitive game but great fun.