Weekender XLBS: Teasing Iron Maiden & Toys For Your Tabletop Apocalypse
October 2, 2016 by warzan
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Happy Sunday!
happy sunday
@warzan here’s your database issue https://codex.wordpress.org/Converting_Database_Character_Sets
Unless you like scripting all this stuff I’d suggest using something like HeidiSQL which will let you change the collation via a UI. http://www.heidisql.com/ I suggest utf8 like in the article linked above.
Great show, Happy sunday
Happy Sunday
That story about The Walking Dead being about aliens is exactly the same story as how the comic book got made. Image Comics passed on the comic originally as the then publisher believed zombies didn’t sell.* Robert Kirkman, the writer of TWD, re-pitched it as a sci-fi comic with aliens being behind the zombie epidemic, figuring that if the comic wasn’t a success it’d be cancelled before he had to do the alien reveal, and if it was a success then he wouldn’t have to do the alien reveal.
*Yes, it’s not that long ago that zombies didn’t sell.
Warren, you’re bang on about playing to win. There’s a conflation of ‘playing to win’ and ‘win at all costs’ when they’re not the same thing. I would rather play a great game that goes down to the wire than stomp my opponent, but if my opponent isn’t playing to win how are we going to have a great game that goes down to the wire? Everything you do during the game is motivated by playing to win, if it wasn’t then you might as well be doing everything randomly. You may as well throw a scatter die to see… Read more »
The Walking Dead is filmed in Atlanta, right? I don’t know if you are familiar with the plant, but kudzu is an invasive species that is prolific in the southeast US. It can grow up to something like a foot a day. People who leave for two week vacations have returned to find their cars are covered by it. You could cover the buildings in kudzu completely (anywhere there is direct sunlight), and it would look in place.
Here are some pictures of abandoned houses near Atlanta to give you an idea…
http://www.jjanthony.com/kudzu/houses.html
Holy smoke!
Thinking caps on…
Thanks for that 🙂
Awesome pictures. Really interesting reference material for us 😀
@johnlyons it really doesn’t take long for kudzu to overtake cars. The stuff is like a near unstoppable wave of green water expanding a foot a day. They stuff is everywhere, and I spent a lot of time as a kid leaning to hack it back to keep it from overtaking our yard every week. If you have a few cars that are slightly out of scale, or ones where the weathering is not taking, take a look at the Explorer below. It doesn’t look like it has been sitting for 10 years, it looks like someone stopped at the… Read more »
Every summer we went to Tennessee to spend with my grandparents we had to cut back the Kudzu. It grows everywhere and I honestly do not know of a good way of getting rid of it. Using green foliage netting would be a good based with extra loose glued on top once you have the shape of the building underneath.
I grew up in Atlanta and the stuff is everywhere. I used weedeaters, lighter fluid, machetes, sprays, anything I could get my hands on just trying to keep it out of the yard.
Copyright law protects you for any creative work you make for the elements of it that are original to that work. For a ‘Smaug-like dragon’, WB would have to demonstrate what it was about their Smaug which was entirely original to it, and in the highly unlikely event they could demonstrate anything, all they could do is make you amend that bit only.
Happy Sunday! Well hopefully it is until I have to do an Ikea run – could always get more storage. Do you need to ask why?
Oh – HP tried to sneak out firmware that suddenly activated in the last week or so blocking non-HP cartridges; they’ve very quickly had to back down and re-patch claiming it was a mistake.
In IP wars there’s heavy handed words like ‘look-and-feel’, ‘brand and design cues’ before you get to more enforcable breaches such as ‘passing off’ (as genuine). What usually matters in those cases though is the size of your legal department and budget to make it not worth it for someone else to bother contesting.
What most games incorporte now to counter the idea of the same tactics playing out is the use of different objective; a set of tactics that works for ‘annihilate the enemy’ doesn’t necessariy win a ‘hold the fort’ or ‘capture the objective’ objectives. I like games where someone wipes you off the board but you turn around at the end and say ‘I still win 8-6’. This works even better with small skirmish games where you choose the squad/crew/team members from a pool with those objectives in mind. Some individual models have certain characteristics that match those objectives and others… Read more »
THe wave you experienced with Re-Roll the best description of that point in producing a magazine issue I’ve heard. We have it every time on Irregular Magazine lol. I have to say the second issue is much better, and there are freebies to boot.
Can’t wait to get my hands on the British for Team Yankee. I’m planning to write a background piece on 4th Armoured Brigade, as this was the brigade my artillery unit was part of. It’s also the brigade I’ll be basing my army on.
https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/jasohubbard/71507070/sizes/m/
BoW 2.0: two ideas to maybe add. 1.) favorites for backstagers. I want to reference back to videos from time to time….but I can’t always find them again….or forget their name. Especially Hobbylab. If there was a “favorites” selection i can click it would be great. I can then log into my account and surf through things I made my favorite to quickly find stuff. 2.) NOT have the page reload when you make a comment. So many times I will be watching something and want to make a comment….but when I enter my comment the page reloads and starts… Read more »
Both already on the spec and no2 already working 🙂
Happy Sunday
And Iron Maiden gonna get yea
Happy Sunday 🙂
I agree with Warren on the so to say “my event my minis” topic.
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@warzan wot no prison?
Good luck migrating the database. It’s a pig of a job. I did one. Had to change precisely four queries, but had to test every one, for every one of about a dozen customers. Ugh.
Swedish is the default for MySQL. Outside Sweden it’s the sign of a bad (or hungover) DBA 😉 Going for unicode in the new one won’t necessarily fix your crazy characters but ought to prevent them in future..
On winning, I’m paraphrasing someone’s sig on either the Warhammer Empire or Privateer Press forums:
“Winning is the objective of a game, but the purpose is to have fun.”
@warzan wot no prison?? Make some use of Lloyd’s and John’s fabulous wire fences and a couple of Lloydislavia like buildings plus watchtower and Bob is your uncle 😎 We need to ask Ronnie to come up with rules for stabbing walkers/ biters/ roamers thru the fence of course..arcade style. As for scenery how about a downed helicopter (army/ police/ Fox News), surely the pound shop can help. I really am looking forward to seeing all the 4Ground stuff being put to use, this stuff looks just amazing and the seaside Mall will certainly be a highlight. Tell Ronnie to… Read more »
got to agree with you while I can see why the bow team want the shopping mall has the centre piece because its an iconic image of zombie apocalypse movies .However this is walking dead and the prison is that instant iconic image of the show .that said really pleased they managed to get woodbury,barn and the church into the mix
Yep. Prison table with the cool hobby lab wire fences would be great. If the treat level reaches a certain stage the fence is broken somewhere. Very cool.
The Mall looks great.
The effort being put in on the Walking Dead tables so far is really showing dividends. Impressive and really looking forward to playing on them in November. (Love the zombie body piles)
@warzan, try this as it looks like the Da was created in latin1 character set and the latin1_swedish_ci collation. WordPress posted this to their codex support page for converting to the newest character set. I have had some experience at WordPress but not on the scale you seem to be talking about.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Converting_Database_Character_Sets
I’d totally watch a 7TV Italian Job game. Make it happen!
I’d not watch an Italian Job with those minis. Original minis, Michael Caine, Benny Hill or nothing!
The series Life Without People gives a plausible account of how the modern world will transform slowly back to nature without the activity of people to maintain our world. You can view the series on YouTube.
Totally agree this is the best setting for post apoc, atleast table top terrain wise it looks fantastic. Miniwargaming produced a game of their own for a while and had some great terrain in this mode
it was called dark potential.
In regards to buying toys for the tabletop I’ve found toy cars work perfectly. I’ve got a few vans and stuff that are perfect for 28mm skirmish games and all they needs a bit of a repaint to rough them up for post apocalypse stuff.
Funnily enough the best cars I’ve found are the Disney Cars/Planes range. Quite a lot of them have a retro look to them which is perfect for all my Fallout inspired tabletop shenanigans
Great XLBS. Thanks for picking up on my comments about Wreck Age and emotional investment and empathy in miniatures games. Wreck Age is sadly one of those games that I will struggle to find someone to play so probably won’t be investing in it. People like to discuss what it is that sells people on a game. Story, game play, miniatures or hobby and painting? Even if you manage to sell me on the world and make me want to buy your miniatures sadly not having a chance to play the game will be enough to stop me making the… Read more »
The 6 pounder anti tank gun could penetrate 68mm of armor at 500 yards . Late war versions a little more as they had longer barrels , hence more velocity / bigger punch . t Remember the tank version of this gun in a Churchill, knocked out the Bovy Tiger in Africa , Ok it was a lucky shot and jammed the turret but the Tiger was out of commission . Those tank cars are actually Cylindrical Hopper cars ,used for grains , powdered fertilizer , cement powder , etc . They have big rectangular hatches on the top between… Read more »