Weekender XLBS: Games We Loved & The Ones That Got Away!
December 16, 2018 by dracs
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Woohoo! Bring on Big Ben!!!
Happy Sunday, I thought you were having a lie in 😉
Happy Sunday
Happy Sunday!
Well it would be if I didn’t have a long drive ‘up-North’ ahead of me today following Storm Deidre. Whatever happened to cool names for storms and who’s next? Probably storm Ethel or Egbert!
It’s Sunday, time for the XLBS!
Wouldn’t it have been awesome if Sam, (with his actors background), would have worn a ‘bald cap’ for this show. We’d have all needed sunglasses to watch it! ?
By the way, I have that Buck Rodgers game. It’s fantastic!
Sixth!
Happy Sunday…. Well I’m late, but in my defence I have been to 4 Christmas parties over the last 6 days and I am feeling a little “tired and emotional”. Now for the show …
don’t worry son, it wasn’t up until an hour ago, so you would’ve been very very early if up at your normal time
I think that’s why I did a “sixth”. I’m not used to beating you to the comment section.
I hope your “fun” and “sociability” was worth it!
Brilliant Show guys
“Like an Assault Charge”
May be in the top ten OTT lines of all time.
Definitely going to check out Inquisitor 28
When Cad was talking about Full Thrust and Dirtside why wouldn’t you not use Stargrunt 2 instead of 40k or was it a slip of the tongue
I remember that Little Big Horn game I also loved campaign and many others from that period
As for games I wish for. Well I’ve been trying start Napoleonics for 35 years but haven’t quite got round to it yet. Maybe one day
Sam’s face early on is all of us I think, lol. Am I the only one who’s not all that enamoured with Jon Blanche’s work? I think it’s great in background books like Libre Chaotica, but otherwise I don’t particularly like it. “Try out blood on bases and it not looking good at all” – that’s why you’re supposed to paint with paint @brennon , not bodily fluids. ? Ben’s mention that he and his mates went on to expand their PtG warbands into full armies – this is what I think they should have done instead of AoS to… Read more »
Good mo….. oh no… I can’t watch this… it will kill me…. I GOT WHAT I ASKED FOR! And I’m scared sh*tless to start the video…. well… here goes nothing, was nice knowing all of you XD
Next week’s XLBS will be sundancer’s wake everybody.
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I’m just past the point of “the salty surprise” and I’m dying XD
We’ll have a whip round for you; I’m sure between all of us we’ll have enough sprue to build you an extravagant mausoleum.
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Build a pyre from it 😉
What, and release all those toxic fumes into the atmosphere? Tsk tsk.
When I go I’ll take you all with me! XD
Dont panic. Its all very sensible. Though the Hobby hangout wasn’t that funny either
Happy sunday folks!
Sat watching this working on my Warbringer titan (Project update later 🙂 )
Happy Sunday!
Now that was a nostalgic trip 🙂
Some of these games including Full Thrust and Adeptus Titanicus are a a nice memory.
well it is a happy Sunday “ho ho ho”
what I wish id played more…
EVERYTHING YOU HAVE SAID
The Buck Rodgers RPG that TSR did was great as well
Great show, really enjoyed it. Happy Sunday.
I SURVIVED! 8)
Great show.
And nobody mentioned Gorka Morka from the golden days 😉
happy Sunday everyone.
it is always a lot of fun when Ben & Cad are there.
know the feeling what Ben saide about frostgrave everything in the house and finally ready to start and then the next game arrived.
but have found the solution.
the frostgrave figures are used for what I am looking forward to next year, The Legends Of Fabled Realms
ho ho hoooo and for everyone a happy play and hobby Sunday???☃️
When you are talking about things being moved around the office, just look at Sam’s facial expressions .. He has to be the culprit!! Sneaky Sam is! ;D
Kill bill 4: Balrog
great group for an excellent discussion. Do get the 4Ground guys back again.
Happy Sunday
I consider myself fortunate enough to still be able to play many of the games I enjoy despite their age due to a great group of gaming friends. If there is one I was obsessed with for years but sadly rarely get the chance to play now it is space hulk. In terms of games I’ve not explored enough there are three. Two are kickstarters, namely Mythic battles pantheon and a song of ice and fire. The third is the Batman miniatures game which no one else at my club has shown an interest in sadly. @brennon Really sad to… Read more »
Having fallen back asleep it was a late finish to this XLBS. The game I loved the most was epic. Between the sheer scale of battles with those tiny models (6 shadowswords? 6 baneblades? Damn right!) and the fact they were too small to spend forever painting I just got so into this game. GW would be crazy not to add tanks and infantry to modern Adeptit (as we called it back then). Game I wished I’d played more: Warhammer Fantasy Battle. Let’s ignore the predictable rant about its demise and replacement by AoS, it’s just rank and flank (IMO)… Read more »
Some of the old games I wish I still played include Cosmic Encounters, Dark Future, Car Wars (one of my all time favs) and Bushido RPG. There have been quite a few I wish I had but never played, which includes Heroquest and Advanced Squad Leader. Yes, I am one of the few 80’s gaming kids who never played Heroquest. Some of the more recent games I’ve not played but want to include Star Wars Legions, Descent board game and Song of Fire and Ice. The one game I wish I’d backed when it was on KS is Kingdom of… Read more »
Happy Sunday