Weekender XLBS: The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse Strike On Kickstarter!
November 1, 2015 by dignity
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Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday. I’m of to work 🙁
happy sunday
Happy sunday. I really shouldn’t still be awake at 6am, but glad to have this to watch.
This week probably takes the record for the most content I’Ve seen on BoW – great week! (and happy Sunday)!
Happy Sunday all, @jamesedwards you’re it’s been a great week for BoW content, I’m particularly loving the Dropfleet Commander content.
Happy Sunday! Interesting mix in the show!
Battle of Stamford Bridge (Yorkshire, not West London) was the Battle of two Harolds… Hardrada and King Harold Godwinson… who immediately had to rush down to the South coast of England to repel more invaders days later… the Normans… and we all remember that surely? (1066 and all that)
Yeah, 1066 is far more interesting than just Hastings. King Harold gets a bit of a bad rap for losing to William but given he defeated one of the greatest of the Viking warlords, turned around and marched (effectively) the length of the country to face the Normans in a matter of days, and then came bloody close to winning (bloody arrows…),
Brilliant stuff!
I’d love to learn more about this!
The Normans were actually Vikings as well. A certain King Rollo, who was probably from Norway, was given lands in what would become Normandy to return for protection from further Viking raids. Indeed, Norman means northman… Some of this might be wrong as ts been a while since I read it.
It becomes somewhat ironic when you consider the Norman Conquest marked the end of the Anglo-Saxon era in England, but the Anglo-Saxon period itself was the result of the Angle & Saxe peoples arriving during Dark Ages that marked the final end of the Roman Empire and the Romano-British period. Interesting point: the one thing that most scholars can agree on regarding the myth of King Arthur is that there was a series of battles thought against the Saxon invaders that culminated in a period of relative peace where several realms became normalised that remain part of our cultural heritage… Read more »
Check out books by Tim Severin “Viking” And” the adventures of Hector Lynch” these detail some of the raids from easter countries in to europe and the mercenary armies
The distinction between the Normans and the French is most important. The French have never conquered England. Ever.
Bloody arrows? Did he take one to the knee?
99% of Skyrim players agree, it’s the most annoying way to die 😉
An arrow to the the throat did for Harold (Hardrada) Sigurdsson as well. He was also the King of Norway at the time.
It can be easily argued that if William had landed first the Harold Godwinson but have defeated them and then struggled against Haldrada in Yorkshire. This would have led to Britain looking northwards to Scandinavia for cultural and political laspects of life rather than South towards Normandy and the rest of mainland Europe
Or the shieldwall had resisted the pursuit and held at Hastings, or Harold had sent his brothers on to meet William at Hastings and he had stayed behind to raise another army. It was October time was on his side.
1066 a real turning point in our history, it could of gone so many different ways.
Napoleon’s height is disputed by historians. Often depicted as being short at just over 5ft, many reckon now he was about 5’6″ which was taller than average in France at the time.
In the English speaking world at least, show how powerful a good PR campaign can be
a 40k computer chip? how did they get that past GW? 😉
Kill Dr Lucky reminds me slighly of a great computer game called “The Ship” where you’re multiple players as passengers are tasked with killing another (still on Steam?)
Another one to back…
Happy Sunday. Wife not happy made her watch big trouble in little China last night.
Depending on who you believe at 5’6 Napoleon was above average height for the time, indeed he was taller than that great British hero, Lord Nelson. Or he was 5’2 and indeed a short ass. They may be confusion as I think the French inch was longer than the inch used by the British…
@elromanozo is it true mate the french inch is longer??? 😉
I “think” measurements& weights only became globally standardized in the last century when there became a greater necessity for it.
the old french inch is about 2.7cm
Fun Viking fact I learnt at University: (details may have gotten fudged by the 13 years since I read it) At one point the Rus people found themselves without a clear line of succession to the throne of their fledgling nation, so they petitioned a band of Vikings for someone to lead them as they were familiar with them as traders and warriors as Vikings had traveled deep into the Black Sea regions. This band agreed and so the ruling house of Russia had it’s foundation with the Norsemen….
The Rus were if I recall correctly a Swedish tribe of “Vikings”, I know that Kiev had Viking rulers for a while
Hence Russia. Under both the rule of the Czars and the communist party Viking research was effectively banned as Russia always wanted to be seen as a Slavic people
one of the Viking capitals was on the isle of man for a time I think.
Capital or outpost? 😉
Jorvik (York), Hedeby, Dublin and Birka. .. With a little time I could find more names, in Scandinavia or the British Isles…. or even the east
In the UK any town ending with ‘by’ is usually going to be associated with some some of old Viking settlement
And @Warzan, this journey you’ve been on regards historical has been fascinating. I remember back a couple of years where you were talking about Kubricks big Napoleonic movie (Billy Liar was it?) and how you couldn’t get your head around them fighting in lines & squares, but now you are all-in on this stuff 🙂
I think you mean Barry Lyndon the 18th century epic
@warzan if you can (its on amazon prime) watch Vikings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings_(TV_series)
Vikings is a great show!
Also The Last Kingdom currently on BBC is enjoyable. Saxons v Vikings…
I’ll see if I can hunt it down! 🙂
(This is gonna push me over the edge on saga isn’t it lol)
Or if you want a bit more fantasy with your historical, take a look at Darklands. Some of the names might be tongue twisters (and I know with my name that’s saying something), but the human troops at least they’ve tried to base off of reality where they can…
And the models are top noch
I’ve been on the edge of Saga for a while now… I’m sure it won’t be long!
BBC iPlayer
Ghost Castle!!! I used to adore that game when I was ickle!!
Happy Sunday!
@warzan if you want to learn something about Vikings and don’t watch Vikings the series – it is pure Fantasy, may be good entertainment but it is in no way historical. But there is a TV show coming, based on the “Uhtred” books of Bernard Cornwell witch are a great read by the way. (http://www.amazon.com/Last-Kingdom-Saxon-Chronicles-Series/dp/0061126578).
I fully agree that the Vikings show , is just loosely based on what we know of the Vikings. Beside the Cornwell series that already been mentioned, channel 4 did a 2 part show about 1066, I try to find a link when I get home
I have to admit it is totally up to your taste – Vikings just wasn’t my piece of cake.
And I would highly recommend to go to your local book store and buy a copy of the Uhtred book there. Just had to look up the english title and it happened by impulse I posted the link up there.
Said it before. We need a historical war games series. I think John is your man there. Son would love that – going to study history next year.
You should go into advertising “planning to survive a zombie uprising …. why not consider the Diamond Shopping Centre for all your post apocalyptic needs”.
@Dignity – you did not mention Pathfinder the movie in a historical context? !
I did manage to get though it but … I’ll doubt I ever rewatch it
Should say “You did not just. .. Did you?”
LOL
Kill Doctor Lucky hasn’t had 19 editions…. “Anniversary” means that 19 (and a half) years have passed since the first edition.
It was and is a brillant little game. I always liked the concept of low budget and low invest but great board game style. I’m not sure if it needs this deluxe version, but it totally deserves it 🙂
Yeah – thought that was odd myself. But you know when you try filming anything, your brain easily turns to mush as you’re trying to speak.
Sat here getting some hobby on with @Minigiant (A non backstage member). he says that the Ukraine conflict is both a ‘new’ war and a nonlinear war. Termed by Mary Kaldor and Vladislav Surkov respectively. This idea of warfare finds its route in conceptual art in the post cold war era
Happy Sunday!! Getting up at sunday, paint a bit and watch de XLBS. What else does a guy need? 😀
That guy who painted the witch hag must be really handsome. 😉
One of the better tales from stanford bridge, relates to a viking holding a bridge more or less single handed. That was until some smarty went underneath in a boat and stabbed him from below with a spear. Now that is not the most eye watering thing about this, as some king or other was supposed to have been killed by the manner. Stop reading warning now if your squeamish…. long enough. A cow horn was first inserted and the a red hot weapon was introduced killing him and sealing the wound in one, the cow’s horn was to stop… Read more »
England might have ended up with Harold the Hardruler in place of William the Barstard – had the order of the battles been reversed
The breaks when you are out of the game in a game like the Horsemen is normally just enough for a bar run.
🙂
@lloyd beat me to it …
I’m with you guys. Lucky looks like fun, but it doesn’t look like a game that should cost me £42 (Which it does after postage, at current conversion rates). It also runs in to the same problem most games seem to, even if less so. Maximum number of players. The circle of friend I would invite round for a games evening includes 5 of us. Great. perfect for any board game. But then everyone has a partner. And we’ve had gaming nights with the work lot, which can end up with more than 10 people. Most games are for 6… Read more »
I hope warren sees this… download dan carlins hardcore history podcast best way of learning history in a fun manner. Ww2 and mongols and ww1 he has done about 7hrs on and it does not for one minute feel that long as he makes it feel like a story. Seriously. Dan. Carlin. Best podcast period.
He even has shorter ones on ww2 bombing and a history what if.