Cult Of Games XLBS: What Old Games Would You Dig Up?
December 6, 2020 by lloyd
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hello everybody. happy sunday
Happy Sunday! I want Warhammer, Mordheim, Warmaster and Battlefleet Gothic back! Today’s show touched on something that often makes it’s way into my thoughts about wargaming, and that is what makes a wargaming success story. There are a few factors that seem to make or break a game; the miniatures, rules, setting/IP, the number of factions, game balance, the scale, gamer zeitgeist, nostalgia, the cost and the time investment. Ultimately though the biggest factor is the community. The miniatures have to be at least good quality. Today there is such a high level of competition in the market that if… Read more »
I’d argue that Xwing suffered from the Nintendo Wii effect. FFG like Nintendo underestimated who was actually buying. I’d argue that the vast majority never bought more than the core set and only a small minority was dedicated enough to buy into the system as a hobby. As a result the next release (Wii U) was pretty much dead on arrival. Halo could have been good, but it suffered from the lack of (interesting) factions and an advertising campaign that forgot it needed to convince console gamers to play with things that required work. Never mind that when it was… Read more »
It’s the XLBS SHow……Happy Sunday fellow CoGs!
on a personal note….I found a youtube video that explains things over there on those islands that OTT calls home. If anyone else is confused check out this video. (and if the information inside the video is wrong, please let me know!) https://youtu.be/rNu8XDBSn10
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Congrats to the Golden Button winners! All well deserved and earned. 🙂
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A game I’d like to see come back would be “Babylon 5 Wars” or simply (B5W) by Agents of Gaming. Great physics application in that game.
Except some people living in Northern Ireland consider themselves Irish and not British
Had to stop 30secs in …..jesus wept
@lloyd, you’re thinking of Lucy Worseley (sp?) who did “how Edwardian houses kill” show.
Netflix have a new film coming out called The Dig which is about the discovery and excavation of the Sutton Hoo burial mound . Ralph Fiennes is starring
There is also a show called Romulus made by Sky Italy and all the actors are speaking in Archaic Latin
HAPPY SUNDAY!!!!
I quite like Warpath. It has some interesting mechanics
A Happy Sunday to you all hope this finds everyone safe and well ? impeccable hat Lloyd. I’m looking forward to seeing the Wargame Documentary film might try and do that this evening. I did archaeology in college and met Tony and Mick and they are cracking blokes. The other chaps I really enjoyed meeting were the two men in a trench and at Drumossie Moor of all places but time team was a must. I admit that the model side of my hobby was a handy companion to recreating Roman villas and such for college projects but I don’t… Read more »
@ands . Google Wamaster Revolution
Thanks @torros will go over and do that now thanks for the heads up ?…….exactly what I was looking for thanks again
Gerry is right Man O War was pretty poo it was more unbalanced in regards to this new fleet is so much better than the previous releases than even Battlefleet Gothic was
Happy Sunday!!
Tour of Duty was a 2016 book. ‘Nam was the book in 2017 that updated it and covers all the factions with unit card sets for each. Battlefront position ‘Nam within the Team Yankee sub-brand, which has of course recently focussed on updating to WW3: Team Yankee. Within that they have the Warsaw Pact/ NATO conflict which has been revisited first in the product cycle, we can expect the Middle East to be revisited next (as they can re-use models) and I wouldn’t be surprised to see ‘Nam getting an update following that. https://vietnam.team-yankee.com/ still has models, starter boxes, rules… Read more »
LOL.. I was looking at the ‘Nam book and 4 Huey’s on my painting desk, when Ben mentioned ‘Tour of Duty’..
David’s original vision for Home Raiders was to have this 1:1 scale game for a younger audience that could be played on the coffee table (no special scenery needed). The ‘cutesy’ factions worked with that concept, although I’ve never really got the Penguins. The rules attempted to be young-user friendly with loads of icons, but somehow became a bit inaccessible to me. Might dig it out later…
When talking about Smog, were you thinking about Infamy:The Big Smoke from https://infamygames.com/ ? Tesla, Baker Street boys etc… Website appears broken this morning.
They were two different things, coxjul. The original Smog setting and minis didn’t have a game associated with them, and were a larger scale (40mm I think, but possibly 54mm). Infamy was different setting and minis (although both were fantasy steampunk so have a lot of similarities).
Would FoW Vietnam just mean walls of tanks in SE Asia instead of walls of tanks in Europe and the Middle East?
yup, I’m looking forward to Warwick Kinrade’s Nam game due next year
Speaking of wargaming TV, does anyone remember a short series presented by Edward Woodward “Battleground” with, I think one of the early wargaming drivers, Peter Gilder? I’m guessing it would have been the mid/late 1970s?
Yeah. Good stuff. Most of its on You tube now
yes, excellent series, I introduced Aurorainbag to it a couple of weeks ago. Rewatching it now with the snooker masters on I was struck by the camera set up and voice over commentary by Ed.
It’s like they built straight onto the snooker table and all the cameras were left in situ
Happy Sunday Cogs!
Wow, gold button! What a great way to wake up on a Sunday! Thanks a lot for the kind words.
To fess up: I didn’t actually use contrast paints. The non-metallic is actually an Army Painter Shiny Silver with a matt varnish on top (and a toned down dip in between). I found that emulates the non-metallic quite nicely. As for the bases: I accidentally discovered that after one layer of (I think) Mournfang Brown over white the bases looked wooden and decided to stop, because I liked it.
congratulations and thanks for the clarifications otherwise we would have just made up an answer ourselves and then argued over which of our ideas was correct
as is tradition!
@lloyd I have halo ground command and I find it a good game but it needed some tweaks here and there.
Yes Anish Kapoor prevented the world from using Vanta Black, and he’s a notorious aresehole. Stuart Semple makes the black 3.0, he’s working on a white one too at the moment. His pigment powders are pretty interesting too.
Yay the XLBS Show.
It’s three sided it’s Martians?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijPeKgL22n8
They look very borrowers @lloyd
I was on time team when I was 11-12. I was part of a young archaeologist club …and I got some screen time 😉
An interesting show guy’s
Dropzone ain’t dead, just taking a long time to get back on its feet. Hawk’s internal collapse was pretty absolute, TTCombat have only just about got the whole range back into production. They were heavily invested into bringing back Carnevale at the time and couldn’t do everything at once.
One for your redirected games I would suggest Liavathons, great models not bad rules, but due to problems with model suppliers it just died.
00:00 mornin’ possums… sort of. 2:25pm already 01:00 @lloyd infested by Justins anime stuff? 😉 02:30 Scully McCabe! 07:00 “You’ve got wood!” 09:00 Is that movie available on DVD anywhere? I want that! 11:55 “FREUDE SCHÖNER GÖTTERFUNKEN” *boom* “TOCHTER AUS ELISIUM” *boom* – and people wonder why we (Germans) can’t get away from the “evil person” cliché. ‘SPLOSIONS! 14:30 Killer wallpaper from space! 20:00 reclining hair line… take that though and look at some older BoW videos 😉 27:00 Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagaaaaa. 29:45 Bolden Guttons! 30:30 Yellow and white being hard to paint… humbug! 😉 32:00 dirty Stormtroopers… @brennon have you watched… Read more »
Well ive been absent long enough! My apologies fellow cultist, life has been busy! Will try to get more back into the cult over the holidays while im lounging in Cookstown Northern Ireland visiting and quarantining! Im sure you guys know tue game im going to bring up. Has to be War of the Ring. I know we are not suppose to pick GW games but that is my absolute favorite game of all time! Super easy to play but hard to master. It just needed some small tweaks to make it better for matched play and i think my… Read more »
@silverfox Still plenty of people playing them. Never give up the faith