Weekender XLBS: What Makes For The Best Mega Gaming Battles?
February 7, 2016 by warzan
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Happy Sunday!
xlbs makes getting in from the night shift worthwhile. never stop the early uploads
happy sunday fellows!
The thing that jumped to my mind talking about the massive x wing game is to have one central table with say a Death Star type construct in the middle then 8 tables circling the main table each containing a shield generator. Each shield generator weakens the Death Star meaning if you won your table you could reinforce another table or try to hit the now weakened Death Star. I imagine it would be fun if you have taken down a few shields and have a number of players hitting the middle as others are frantically attacking/defending other active shields.… Read more »
Justine hope this article helps 🙂 http://museonminis.com/baffos-sculpting-table-03-urban-bases/
Off to Vapnartak for some tournament action so gonna have to catch up with this one later!
@warzan thats why you have to carry around smoke pellets like a ninja, so you can escape awkward situations in style.
That is exactly what I need
Off to search eBay…
I have thought the same question as to the codex needed for a chapter of Marines that are current loyalist but not entirely touched by chaos, the Soul Drinkers. Their main issue is that the current 40k Imperium is not the dream of the Emperor. While being officially expunged from Imperial record, they strive to continue the fight to protect humanity and fight chaos all the while becoming the play things of the very forces they struggle against.
Lovely series by Ben Counter
dont you just love sundays 🙂
worth getting up for ….dont you just love sundays 🙂
Please please do more playthroughs or battle reports for board games, I know other people do it but you guys do it so much better. I loved your playthrough of dungeon saga and there is surge in popularity in board games at the moment.
the alpha legion paint job is done by painting them silver then using a tamiya clear blue colour over the top, confirmed by actual painter in the thread about the paint job on the alpha legion contemptor dreadnought thread.
Whats this all about its almost eight o’clock and I am the second person on here. Did I wet the bed or something. Is it me or am I missing something, after all a really good show with no kickstarters and a very decent discussion on huge games. It is a Sunday. Oh! yes its the seventh everyone has decided that going to Vapnatrak is a must. Whats Vapnatrak only the largest gaming show in the north! Really where is it? Its at York racecourses main huge building over three stories of wargaming completeness. How many suppliers are going to… Read more »
Bolt Action theater book Empires in Flames has some city fighting rules that has a limited dice mechanic you might want to look into for some ideas towards your D-Day mega game. And would love to watch the BA option for mega game
Well I was when I first looked and started typing. LOL!
Happy Sunday,
We loved the Flash Harry and once again my husband educated me by telling me that Flash Harry is based on a character from a series of books by George MacDonald Fraser and the series is called “The Flashman Papers” they are a series of Comic Historical Novels based on the character called Harry Flashman which of course is copyrighted so they called this character Flash Harry. The miniature is sculpted to the character of Flashman depicted on the cover of the novels.
Great show as always!
Sir Harry Flashman, cavalry officer, was developed from the bully in “Tom Brown’s Schooldays” at Rugby School; since 1969 a series of novels and films have featured various reincarnations. Looking at the flyer depicted @55:45 I don’t think they have a problem using his full name.
Many derivatives have followed – for example Rik Mayall’s “Flasheart” from various BlackAdder series!
I love the paint job on those minis from Justin.
The painting quality really improved from the miniature ER? Series.
Nicely done Justin.
thanks for the kind words 🙂
@Warzan: 2 thoughts for you: Alpharius & Omegon don;t just impersonate each other- because they were incubated in the same chamber (unlike their brothers who had their own chambers) they are closure in stature to a regular Space Marine rather than the even more exagerated physiques of the other Primarchs. As a consequence the whole legion refers to themselves as Alpharius to outsiders and have had their facial features altered to resemble the twins, allowing the Primarchs to hide in plain sight (also, go read Legion. Fantastic book…) And to your thought of Alpha Legion who have made extensive use… Read more »
Also there are a few hints in the background that Omegon becomes the first Grand Master of the Grey Knights. Currently in 40K it seems some have fallen to Chaos as there are Alpha Legion daemon princes (see Hunt for Voldorius). With some of the stories it looks as if Alpharius goes down the Chaos/heresy route and Omegon stays loyal so it’s likely in the future heresy novels that there will be major infighting. From the hobby point of view it means you could do anything you want with the Alpha Legion, full mutated chaos, or use space marine chapter… Read more »
@aekhold – I hadn’t heard the rumours about Omegon being involved with the Grey Knights… Where does that come from? Grey Knight books? Horus Heresy books? Which ones?
Very vague hints, in the Primachs there’s a short story of Omegon with two suits of power armour, one unmarked and grey like the Knights Errant. Janus (name of first grandmaster) was represented as a two faced god of beginnings and endings (eg alpha and omega) in Ancient Rome. Omegon has the ‘super gene-seed’ stolen from the Raven Guard in Deliverence Lost and the grey Knights gene seed is superior to all others and not from any legion. Finally in Mortarions Heart audiobook Mortarions says that he knew Janus and he was from a traitor legion and needed redemption. As… Read more »
Thanks @aekhold, that’s really cool.
Listening to Warren talking about the gym while eating a custard doughnut. I am ashamed
Happy Sunday!
I’m enjoying the Bolt Action Idea most. Think that could make the most fun from a visual and narrative point of view…specially with those modular boards you guys use, they are stunning.
Perhaps if such a big battle can be done in a well coordinated and timely way in the future when Dropfleet hits you could do one day orbital strike. Second day switch to Dropzone and play out the ground battles…It’s what I’m looking foreword to most about getting the KS in June…fingers crossed. Two very different theaters of conflict, one big weekend.
Happy Sunday a great way to start the day. To be honest guys I think this weekends shows have been above the norm. A real diverse content spread between Sat and Sun and interesting subject matter that has been good to watch. At our gaming club we have run a few big games over the years. I understand what you guys are saying about the time constraints and the ability to have everyone do everything. A good method we found was actually giving the players themselves a command structure i.e. A supreme commander with a team of subordinates for each… Read more »
I ran a 6 player BA game where each player had 1000th but only had 8 order dice to use. Any extra units could either be kept off table in reserve or, if you had more than 8 units on the table, you had to decide who not to activate that turn. It kept the turns manageable and introduced some different decisions to be made. If a unit was wiped out you still kept your 8 dice (as long as you still had 8 units) or if a unit became ineffective (one man standing or pinned out) you could just… Read more »
Had a go at a MEGA Warhammer 40k battle to work out how it’d play … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFPa3uXO1Pw It was a lot of fun, but also it was a huge game. Helped to have a hobby area so could play a turn a night. As you can see the table was somewhat crowded, and just became a mess of carnage. Obviously nothing wrong with that, but it basically came down to a massive hammer meeting a massive anvil, and not that much in the way of tactics. We keep saying we’ll take over our living room with a much bigger than… Read more »
Personally I would love the Halo: fall of reach in a boot camp stylee! I’m sure Spartan would be up for it. Mahoosive fleets knocking the heck out of each other. Think what you could do if they launch the ground battles this year combine the two, medium orbit carnage plus Spartans shredding covenant at landing sites. Awesome, all happening simultaneously, with a custom com’s deck to control if, when and how layers of command communicate.
Happy Sunday! Very happy as just got two Saga starter armies, rules etc.for my birthday!!
Wow Justin. Awesome colour scheme for the Scylla! Looking forward to seeing them based.
Now, if you’d only filled those gaps on the joins…
But you’ve come a long way since you first showed off your early attempts, good stuff!
Re Mega X-WIng… how about setting up as effectively a series of orbits about a planet. One side has to penetrate through to the surface through a series of scenarios (didnt someone want that lake battle from the new film?) The really big ships play in the outer rings deploying landing parties with escorts… and maybe the defenders have to get a VIP to escape the planet to live another day…
The other arena which lends itself to a mass battle would be WW1; pick a battle along a series of trenches and commemorate the 100th anniversay?