Cult Of Games XLBS: A New Perspective – What’s The Focus Of YOUR Hobby?
June 11, 2023 by lloyd
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it’s the XLBS Show…………Happy Sunday Fellow CoGs!
Napoléons Battles is/was a good game.You need a lot of figures for it we used irregularminiatures.co.uk 6mm I suggest 10mm wofun or something similar might be in order
Wofun are a great way to add scale to game as I understand 6mm isn’t for everyone although it’s my go to thanks to Baccus
6mm is my thing to. NB is figure heavy . We had 6 of us painting for 6 months and we barely had enough for something like Ulm
Happy Sunday one and all. The cult of the new as Ben puts it has become less important to me as I get older, maybe when I was younger I felt that instant thrill of some new Warhammer faction or item but the older I get and my turn away from grim dark to historical has led me to be attracted to quality not trying to one up my opponent with some new weapon system. I find myself thinking and planning more generic forces. For example, my 20mm zulu war British can be easily fitted to Egypt, the early Sudan… Read more »
Happy Sunday!
Still unsure about VR as a technology at home. I’ve seen some valuable use of it in training situations, but ít’s an expensive tech for everyday stuff.
I suppose if there’s one use case in table-top gaming it’s two things…
a) Fog of War, the SIM controls what you can see.
b) immersive experience: zoom to your generals pov etc.
Happy Sunday!
I love that Lloyd now sounds like his Moonies army.
Oh Jeez no. I’m howling now.
I think he’s activated some curse. Expect his head to increase in size, his beard to become longer and pointed and for him to start wearing a gnome hat.
Happy Sunday! I had a similar UKGE experience really. I was only there for a day so I really was relying on things that caught my eye as I shuffled up and down the aisles. Not a lot did really, some fantastic looking art displays for a myriad of RPGs made me wish I played RPGs at times. Those stands and displays had some really gravity. Aside from that I mostly found myself looking for things I already know, and seeing if there were any bargains I needed to buy. X-Wing and Legion bin ends for example. There was a… Read more »
Yay Weekender XLBSers happy Sunday.
That’s not true you have the empty wallet/pockets @warzan
@warzan My experience was similar. In my youth and as a student I wargamed, when I had a family and work commitments were greater I became a console gamer. One day I was ruminating over my 43000+ gamertag points on xbox live when I realised how much time I’d spent with nothing but this number to show for it. I put almost all my games on MusicMagpie the next weekend, put the console away in the loft and dug out my old warhammer fantasy 6th edition starter box and re-entered the hobby space (to my joy).
You better clean out the John room Warren ?!?
Says you Ben ?
Certainly not sold on throwing augmented reality into board games. Have tried Table top simulator and found it distracting, everything the show mentioned about the pitfalls of these kind of platforms it quite accurate. Though it’s understandably necessary when distance or isolation is an issue and you’re desperate enough. I have Golem Arcana. Which combines physical map and minis with an app. It balanced the physical v tablet assist well, was fun, and seemed to appeal to my younger players taking away the need to care for book keeping as well as controlling hidden elements can be definitely be a… Read more »
VR implementations of tabletop games are gonna become a niche that appeals to a small minority, but it will find an audience. For example when I play video game I like point and click adventure games. This niche oof gaming is tiny in the grand scheme of triple A title gaming but it does have a market.
It’s the B5 SIM suit next ??
The game augmented by special effects is a gimmick that no one in our sphere really needs though, is it? Generally wargamers already have a greater than average capacity for imaginative thinking and minds eye visualisation don’t we?
Thankyou for the Golden Button! I did spam the project system as it was an end to months of building and photos being taken and then the first time I had a chance to start posting.
Congratulations to the other button winners as well!
Good one guy’s.
Great show, glad you’re all on the mend!
Happy Sunday.
Three really nice golden button winning projects there, congratulations.
Happy Sunday – VR is at the beginning – imagine to be a meeple (or a toysoldier or a space marine) in a game you play with friends – thats what i am looking for…not to roll a dice with avatar and move a figure at the screen …..
I was interested to hear your perspectives on UKGE. I’m sure it is a great show and I enjoyed the interviews and coverage. I always got the sense that it was primarily a boardgaming convention with RPGs second and miniature wargames a very distant third in representation and importance. Having just been through the traders it seems there were slightly over a dozen dedicated wargaming show regulars. A good range were there; smaller concerns like Crooked Dice and Bad Squiddo alongside the biggest companies Warlord, GW, Mantic, Troll Trader and a couple of the bigger retailers (Element Games, Wayland) and… Read more »
Happy Sunday,
May the day be filled with Glory and the Greatest movie ever made.
I could do with some large, very cheap shields for Dwarf bulwark conversions, so I will have a keen interest in next week’s button show and tell. I’m thinking a front rank of large Greek style shields rather than rectangular palisades.
@warzan,@avernos you could maybe try this show either this or next year https://www.bhgs.org.uk/britcon.html
Or maybe the Oldhammer show
Glad you like it @avernos have to tell us how it plays