Weekender XLBS: Hobby Night Live Plans Afoot & Flames of War 4th Edition Tournament Chat!
April 9, 2017 by lloyd
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Happy Sunday
Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday!!
That terrain kickstarter is sold out!
Warren! If you are loving ‘Vikings’, trust me, you will absolutely love ‘Black Sails’. I have just finished watching it, brilliant!
I’m really looking forward to it!
Anyone know if any of the Roman series are any good?
Rome is worth a watch, it’s a really good TV series, it’ll definately get you wanting to play a Roman campaign or two
Rome is awesome!! Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus (even mentioned in Caesar’s De Bello Gallico!!) totally rock 😎
Vikings is largely fantasy, at least they’ve tried to be historically more accurate in therms of costumes and general flavour of the show.
Two thumbs up from me!
Careful tho, this is gonna make you want to start building a complete legion..
THIRTEENTH!!!!
Surely any with the avatar name suetoniuspaullinus but Andy is right. I think Warren’s head may explode with the amount of gaming in the gaps opportunities and the amount of scenarios that can be generated from these TV series.
I am interested to see what impact warren watching Black Sails has for the upcoming Pirate stuff.
Couldn’t agree more, @suetoniuspaullinus .
Who can forget that “street gladiator” scene with Vorenus and Pullo?
THIRTEEN!
. . . chop, hack, slash . . .
THIRTEEN!
Ok on my must watch list!
Awesome scene 🙂 – The opening to that show was epic too. Man, need to watch it again.
I looked up that these on YouTube after watching XLBS . . . and then wound up binge watching the best parts of Rome the rest of the day. Seriously, the whole day was shot. 😀 I say best parts, because the series does admittedly have some threads that are less than fascinating. Niobi, the kids, Timon, Octavia and Servilia, blah blah blah. More Ceasar! More Pullo and Vorenus! More Pompey! More Marc Antony! More of the Senate! Even little Octavian becomes a stealth-badass in Season 2 (I guess becoming the most powerful man on earth and the first Emperor… Read more »
I agree Rome is excellent, brilliant show also Spartacus
If you want to do a pirate board, I suggest this set of mats by Cigar Box: http://cigarboxbattlestore.bigcartel.com/product/beachhead-3-battle-mat-combo-4-x6-plus-161
They are cloth and can be bought seperately but singe Blood and Plunder is both land and sea based you may do well on the set.
Now that is a Mat!!!
Happy Sunday!!
Talking of airbrushes and Christmas Justin… … … ?
An unpainted FoW force you say? … If only you had an airbrush and someone like John to advise you!
Yeah poor @dignity needs some time to get stuck back into that!
In the movie version of the RuneWars bootcamp, Lloyd is played by Al Pacino…
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Iron warrior paint job great and should be easy to do.plate mail army painter primer with black panels filled in with a “big” brush @lloyd.
Dipped then anti shine , then some highlights and details. You should have a squad finished in say….a week?
The rest of us could have one done in about an evening.
@dignity mate. Quick Spanish lesson: “nada” means “nothing”, “de nada” means “you’re welcome” 🙂 Un saludo.
I mostly do my hobby in the weekend during the weekender show. It always gives me a few hours each day.
Well if you miss the live show it will still be available to watch at the weekend 🙂
I could watch it live, I hope and watch it again in the weekend then I have double the hobby time and have a recap of the content shown.
You asked for comments, Justin, so The Strain is trash, and not trash in a good way. Like an elaborate AAR of someone’s crappy rpg session.
Happy Sunday….. i have had a busy week and won’t bore you with my woes… but I pop on the XLBS and it’s like coming home . I haven’t painted all week .. bang .. 5 mins into it and I’m reaching for a mini and the brush …. i’m like Pavlov’s %^% dog. I have just paused it at the 32 min mark to say … thanks Lads….you have improved my week and got my hobby back on track. Cheers you keep me sane ….(well as close to sanity as I can feasibly aspire 😉 )
Aaaaanndd… relax 😉
Hobby night sounds fantastic and I have a ton of unpainted 30k stuff as well 😎
(Although I’d rather crack open another box of Romans right now 😉 )
Thursday works also for me as Friday is often relaxed and quiet at work..
Yeah I’m looking forward to the 30k stuff 🙂
I have the same concerns as Lloyd with scenery you build up and break down so will be interested to hear how his test at the Sunday gaming club turns out. I quite like the look of the Vikings game. I especially like the board design and feel that it could be tied to other games like Saga. We often forget just how many counties the UK has and that would make a great campaign map. @brennon I do love your colour scheme for your ethereal skeleton and understand your concerns of them being lost on a snowy base. I… Read more »
I’ve gone with snow to tie them into my Daqan force but added some splashes of green into the mix as well as it really made them stand out a bit more. It’s kinda like a strange tundra look.
I would like to have done something with them being down in a tomb or something but that might have been a bit too much work.
I second @brennon‘s recommendation of the Lord of the Rings and Arkham Horror LCGs. I’m an especially big fan of the latter. You don’t need to be card gamer to enjoy these.
Very true – I reckon the guys would love Arkham Horror, especially with the way the tokens work and the overall feel of the game.
I’m enjoying AH so much, @brennon , I’ve taken to doing my own scenarios to fill the gaps between releases. Got the first one playtested yesterday 🙂
YES !!! WOOOLLLLSSSSUUUUNNNGGGGG !!!!! gimme date, gimme date, gimme date, gimme date, gimme date, gimme date, gimme date, gimme date, gimme date, I am coming for week @warren @dignity we will have our game finally ! @stusidle are you interested ? and take CJ with us !
I will be in touch 🙂
@warzan childhood illusions shattered after watching vikings and Rollo wasn’t like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bC_0KKWxaA
lol
Must be from the creators of Mr Ben right?
yeh the Mr Ben guys, Mr Ben would sort out all those ruffian vikings btw
Lol totally – while dressed as an astronaut 😉
The Lloyd comedy skit starting at 15:47 so funny. It looks like a concept clip for a scene cut from the Wolf of Wall street / Blow / or ScarFace . So funny. But what kind of snow is Lloyd so vexed about snow or ‘Snoooooooooooooooowwww’ 😉 😉 😉
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Nice one Lloyd
😉
Good show lads. A live show on a Mondy or Friday would be god.
Are you all going to Salute?
The haloween episode is where I learned from romeo what an upper decker is.
I could have lived all my life without knowing it.
I also won a battlefoam bag that night though, so I can’t be too upset.
Thanks for reminding me of the upper decker!!!!!! Lol
I got a name check!
Now if the logistics were easier I would be up for Wolsung in a heartbeat but … life being what it is – we will see
Hobby Weekend Ideas FOW of course, Bolt Action, Lord of the Rings (I know it’s old now but who doesn’t love those models!) How about a Viking/Sword Point/Kings of War Historical/Saga Army building painting weekend. That would allow participants to do just about any type of sword and shield army from a multitude of periods. Nice thing with KOW system since you can play both fantasy and historical against each other you’d have all kinds of cool match ups if folks want to play some games too. It is also very easy to play and thus makes it a very… Read more »
Surprise I got interested when you said the V-word.
I might even go transatlantic for it
Holy crap, I just noticed my scowling mug is on the front panel! And that’s my M7 Priest and A12 Matilda II up there as well! Wow, thanks very much! 😀 😀 😀 😀