Weekender XLBS: Amazing Hobby Travel Kit & Mega Star Wars Tabletop Chat
October 25, 2015 by lloyd
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Uh huh 🙂
Mornin’ 🙂
Or happy Sunday *jazz hands*
already ordered the osprey black ops. this looks ace
happy sunday
Thanks very much for the intro, @warzan (6:30) – Indeed we’re trying to handle the conflict in the east Ukraine / Donbas with a proper degree of delicate care. Many probably consider this war actually “ongoing” rather than “recent” – although recent news is the last eight-ten weeks seems to indicate the Minsk II agreements are finally taking hold. Let’s hope for the best. Just to level-set expectations about “insights into how modern warfare works” . . . there are really several “kinds” of modern warfare. These articles will deal primarily with one in particular, the others less so. Most… Read more »
I’m only a bystander when it comes to historical wargaming. But this look at more recent/current affairs actually has me more interested than the true historical stuff. Perhaps it’s the feeling of proximity that it could happen today. Or the what-if of what might happen next.
Looking forward to the presentation. I’m sure you’ll do fine.
Thanks, @bucketknight . Not to give too much away, but the first article starts off with a quick primer on “why play current-conflict games,” and the right and wring reasons to open this can of worms. A big part of the “pro” side is this sense of proximity, immediacy, and relevance I think you’re talking about. Yes, if could happen today. Set up a desert board in Syria, Iraq, or Afghanistan . . . and it IS happening today.
You can always use a film as a background story like say crimson tide you can make the table top battle the area around the missile base to prevent the launch? @oriskany I think even top gun had a ground battle mentioned in the news reports in the film?
Happy sunday
Killian that screams kickstarter!
I’m considering it. I need to come up with a version to fit inside an aluminium flight case and a few other modular options for this design.
Love the paint station Killian can you add a box to the base of the station with say wheels and a telescopic handle like the newer suitcases about now? For the compressor.
Happy Sunday!
AT-AT movement – Surely if you put the size 1 turn on the OTHER side of the base, it will turn less (so you turn into the shorter part of the curve instead of the outside of the curve)
I’d be interested in one of those cases that Killian made. That would make life so much easier, especially for shows. I use to run painting demos at shows and this would have been great.
Morning. Happy Sunday.
I’d love that case, not as a carry case but just as a desk tidy. Very useful looking!
Same – my main problem is storage space for everything. That case would work a treat!
Happy Sunday!
@oriskany Looking forward to that series, hope I can add to the debate.
Certainly, @benc . Hope to see you in the comment section. 😀 In terms of debate, I’m really walking right down the middle of the road as far as the two sides of the conflict. Impartiality and objectivity are, I feel, part of the sensitivity that’s so crucial with a project like this. That said, the Ukraine’s desire to join the EU and very pro-EU outlook tend to make them the “good guys” in the eyes of Western media. So when I “walk down the middle of the road” . . . it may seem as if I’m leaning toward… Read more »
@warzan, you can’t reveal a tease, then go straight on into another tease! You sir are a bounder! I have a heart condition you know.
Still, two hinds will go some way to recompense me but six would be better
Black Ops has the rules you need for counter strike. Stealth is a big part of this, Rules on guards and there movement is a good dice idea. This based on the rules will take you up to ghost recon future solider. The only thing missing is the mini drones, but easy to work into the rules. Looking forward to testing with the the thoughts of “strike back” ghost recon wildlands and the division on the table top…even read dawn..!!!!
Happy sunday
For the AT-AT movement, use the inside of the 1-move template. That will make it turn slowly.
was just about to say the same thing!! great minds eh? 🙂
black ops is a must pick up for me sounds great, and this team yankee bootcamp is officially op as fuck, you lucky bunch of sods! happy sunday btw
So, now i still need to scoure the internet to find out what is actually in the army deal…
Don`t expect me not to spoil my findings in the bootcamp threat though 😉
Happy Sunday!
Nice work Killian
Wouldn’t you want the at-at to have 1 die attack and not 5 if if does 3 damage for each hit, will slaughter a model every turn if not. Angle of fire is largely irrelevant when all possible targets are flying down a corridor at you, bit of a duck shoot really.
It balances out with their slow movement, limited numbers and narrow angle of fire. Playtesting is underway to see how they preform on the table.
You have an at-at walking up a narrow corridor of trees, everything is in it fire arc flying at it
There’s a great bit in one of the old EU X-Wing novels, “Isards Revenge”, where Wedge Antilles and Rogue Squadron take their X-Wings into combat against a force of AT-AT’s, and the result of taking a starfighter up against them, versus the Snowspeeders of “Empire Strikes Back”, where blasters & tow cables have been replaced by laser cannons & photon torpedos, and the outcome swings heavily back to the Rebels 🙂 And if you want a feel for X-Wing combat over Couruscants streets, dig out a copy of “Wedges Gambit”. Z-95’s vs TIE Fighters as the Rogues and their allies… Read more »
Black Ops seems great. I will use my Elhiem 2010+ US Rangers with NV googles and all. A four man team for £3.25 and plenty of cheap vehicles and scenery in 20mm about as well 😎
Killian’s case is awesome!! I would just need a compartment for all those plastic sprues.. 😉
@dawfydd
The Xwing game in the Game Cube was phenomenal..tempted to search the loft now…its gotta be there somewhere..!
Black Ops seems great. I will use my Elhiem 2010+ US Rangers with NV googles and all. A four man team for £3.25 and plenty of cheap vehicles and scenery in 20mm about as well 😎
Killian’s case is awesome!! I would just need a compartment for all those plastic sprues.. 😉
@dawfydd
The Xwing game for the Game Cube was phenomenal..tempted to search the loft now…its gotta be there somewhere..!
@Warzan Ref flooding myths and the like – when the last ice age locked up much of the oceans water the geography looked vastly different: there’s the cases where evidence has been found for settlements on the bed of what is now the North Sea & English Channel, and the Mediterranean would have been much lower as well. Temerpatures were also much different. Case in point – the island of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf. Today effectively a dustbowl, but even 4000 years ago would have been a paradise thanks to the cooler, far more temperate climate. There have been… Read more »
loads of stories, but never heard that one – cheers @dawfydd!! one of the big ones I’ve always known about is the flooding of the black sea – as sea levels rose, it breached the dardanelles (which had acted as a natural dam) flooding the basin beyond and giving rise to the black sea. Scary stuff! Glad I live in one of the highest parts of England haha
Not a problem @bigdave! I trained in Archaeology for 6 years and it’s always stayed an interest. And what you say about the Black Sea is pretty much what is believed to have happened to a degree with the Med, with the Atlantic flowing in over the natural barrier that was in place linking Europe & Africa. England is an interesting case as when much of Southern Europe, Africa & Asia had far more forgiving climates, it was 90% covered in glaciers (hence some of the utterly fascinating geography we can find) so the plains that have since been submerged… Read more »
So Killian, when are you taking your project to Kickstarter for mass production? Because I want one. Maybe not so much as a carry case, but as a convenient quick to pack hobby station. If you made a design about half the size that might work better as a carry case. Of course then you have to be more selective about what you want to bring along. And I found the discussion about AT-AT movement options quite interesting. But perhaps that’s just because I have an interest in game design. Fanhunter looks interesting in a weird way, but it might… Read more »
I don’t know anything about Fanhunter and the look of it doesn’t particularly interest me, but I’m glad companies like Verper-on are making things like this. Variety and new ideas are always good things!