Weekender XLBS: Building The Perfect Gaming Scenarios
January 24, 2016 by dignity
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Yawnnnnnn. Happy Sunday!!!!! Right I need a coffee before I watch this…..
Damn missed the “First”
*awaits thumbs down*
You keep plugging away. You’ll get it next time. We believe in you! 🙂
Dont worry Toxic – me being up at 6 in the morning is on a par with a solar eclipse – a very very rare thing. I promise I won’t do it again!
Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday!
I’ve never before followed weekly youtube shows, podcasts and the like. But I really like having the weekender in the background when doing some weekend hobbywork. Always have a couple of hours, while the kids are playing and building steam. @warzan : The interview with Alessio yesterday was brilliant. Binged watch all the Designer Studio Videoes earlier. That’s some really good and interesting content. How about trying to get some other designers in to that show? Not game designer, but modellers or artists. Would love to hear about the Perry twins history in the hobby or the work of John… Read more »
Totally agree – it would be really interesting to hear about how people got into the industry
Hi guys,
Cavalry uses has changed a lot over the centuries. Since the advent of the firearm cavalry has started to change it’s tactics and battlefield focus. Since the First World War there haven’t been anywhere near the amount of cavalry regiments in the traditional sense. Automatic weapons and even semi automatic weapons make horse mounted cavalry charges too dangerous. Cavalry in a modern sense tends to be Tank regiments, just look at the names of the British Army’s tank regiments.
An excellent discussion about gaming scenarios. Great job guys!
Interesting chat about tunnels! Seem to be popular in Ulster. Here in Armagh, there is a tunnel that runs between the Courthouse and the Gaol – supposedly.
Theres a really nice souterrain in Dromara County Down which is overlooked by the Legananny Dolmen. Well worth visiting and going into to have a look. If you in the area
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/yourplaceandmine/down/A1956017.shtml
@robert there’s suposedly a tunnel here that runs from the old Abbey to the Ice House. The story goes that when the town was invaded the monks tried to escape using the tunnel and were trapped, walled in, and starved to death. There have been reports recently that the tunnel is haunted, with a horrific squealing, a terrible rattling and loud bangs being heard occasionally. I haven’t got the heart to tell them its probably just my car going past.
Have to agree with you on Airfix Battles … I was excited when it was announced but completely underwhelmed when I saw it didn’t have any models at all.
Happy Sunday, Great show guys, I have to say I do like the AoW marauders, but I can see why you get the old school feeling @Warzan it’s mostly because they’re sculpted by Gary Morley. Horses, there’s good eating on one of those. I’d have to agree with @Dignity, apart from eating they really don’t have a place in modern warfare, and while they were used in WW2 the Japanese armour in the pacific with practically non existant and what they had was out classed and destroyed very quickly. So a cav charge against a non armoured infantry force worked… Read more »
If you guys want to get the best take on Catman (the recent stuff really), start with Villains United, and then both volumes of Secret Six. The first predates the New 52 reboot DC hit their universe with and was a genuine highlight. The second is more recent and still quite good. All written by the wonderful Gail Simone.
For campaigning – I really recommend you read D-Day by Stephen Ambrose. It details how a lot of scenarios and battles fitted together to make up the events of D-Day. What surprised me was how much interlinking there was – it’s made me think a lot about how elements of that can be brought to the gaming table.
Something I had a go at playtesting last year (and videoed as well) after you had Miniwargaming’s Matt over and he was talking “wouldn’t it be great to try and campaign a seige”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVMjUnLOal8 I took the basic idea. I had a group of crash-landed Space Squats, with a defensive perimeter. But nearby were a group of rampaging Orks. The defending Space Squats had double the points of Orks in game 1. But where are the Orks got new army lists, the Squats had to continue with what they had. If any were killed in battle on a, 1-2 they… Read more »
@warzan great backstage! I totally get the Airfix Battles boxset and here’s for why. Firstly by excluding expensive plastic figures they’ve brought a fully playable game in on a budget for just £25. Secondly, this game looks to be is aimed at collectors of Airfix miniatures that might otherwise have them on static display. I think it’s a way to encourage them in to tabletop wargaming. Thirdly, given the huge number of factions and theatres in the Airfix range, what would you actually put into the box? You’d reduce potential sales by charging customers for figures they either already own… Read more »
I fully agree. If they stock this in a model shop, next to all of the models and someone comes in to by his or her next kit. It could be a good impulse buy to go and say “what? I can use them in a game now? Gonna give that a try”.
Agreed. Think of the product as a supplement, not as an end-product in and of itself.
As a supplement, it’s generic. If it offered pre-packaged sprues, then the average consumer would mentally limit themselves to the factions provided in the box, rather than recognize the creative freedom to match the game against any models that the person may already have or want to buy.
did justin really say Magnus Magnusson as a strong man I thought Magnus Magnusson was the guy that presented mastermind….lol
I think he did you know! I was fully expecting Warren to lay into him about that.
i did and heres the Wiki Page for the man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magn%C3%BAs_Magn%C3%BAsson_(strongman)
Woohoo I can combine my two favourite things – gaming and archaeology! With work like that in a town centre they would probably have had an archaeologist on whats called a ‘watching brief’ to look out for anything they find. Once located they would have then stopped the maintenance or what ever it was they were doing and excavated the tunnel entrance.
@warzan @dignity read the rules in BA for cavalry they are nasty against infantry
@dignity if you want Ragnar you should take a look at the Jobs Vikings, they are even more Vikings than the Vikings 😉
Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) use cavalry in Inner Mongolia also US special forces used horses in Afghanistan http://en.people.cn/102774/8378653.html
How else can they charge at friendly protesters? 😀
You pull off that Ragnarock 🙂
@warzan well if you read the Naval stuff that @broadsword has done then your will see the linked scenarios which build into a campaign, and the results of the previous scenario impact on the next it was really good to play through even though we did it over several years.
Thanks so much for bringing this up, Rob. I was really going to say . . . watching this episode . . . with the guys wondering about “scenario design” and “linked scenarios . . .” and then . . . “We’d like to mine your collective expertise . . .”
Hmm . . .
If only there was already an article series PUBLISHED JUST THIS WEEK where @broadsword addressed this exact topic?
http://www.beastsofwar.com/historical/naval-wargaming-cruiser-actions/
Happy Sunday. I like the idea of side or branching scenarios that are revealed during a game, particularly alongside an open primary objective. Deployment isn’t then as obvious as it might be as forces may need to be held back for secondary purposes.
I guess that referencing the Vikings series on Amazon was intended but missed as that Ragnar Lodbruk mini is clearly based on the characterisation in that.
The Bushido retainer is another sculpt done for Rise of the Kage releasing into the main game – partially explains their increased release pace.
Hobbycraft and other stores (not Entertainer) are full of Airfix figure models. Sometimes the bundling of figures in a ‘starter set’ can put buyers off it if they don’t want those sprues – so it’s not a ‘starter set in that sense, its a gaming starter set.
We purposefully tried to avoid that 😉
3 decks – beginning/middle/end…. Haven’t you played Blood Rage yet? 😉
I have indeed and it rocks!
Who needs a Trojan Horse when you have a Viking Christian.
@warzan the modern range you mention for airfix is called Operation Herrick, Afghanistan however the scale is 1:48 not 1:35 as you mentioned (roughly 28mm). The scale is perfect for Skirmish Sangin, Blackops, OSC or Spectre Operations rules set.
http://www.airfix.com/uk-en/shop/themes/operation-herrick-afghanistan.html
@dignity During WW2 Germany had SS Cavalry Brigade which where involved in Poland and the Soviet Union and in the bolt action rules are devastating when using correctly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Cavalry_Brigade
http://www.warlordgames.com/new-waffen-ss-cavalry/