Weekender XLBS: Star Wars Lore Feedback & Hobby Workstation Pride!
March 11, 2018 by warzan
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Remember I’d love your feedback and thoughts on escalation and slow grow leagues 🙂
This is a stupid time to be awake but at least I can watch the XLBS show. Now if I can just get to the kettle in the dark I will be all set.
Happy Sunday all.
Happy Sunday from down under
Happy sunday!
*reads title*
work station pride… I’m sure I have a workstation under these empty glue bottles, random tools, bits of paper, scraps of card, chunks of foam and plastic offcuts….
Happy Saturday **yawn**, I mean Sunday morning! Finally ready for bed … but now I want to watch this! 😀
@oriskany I gotten to know that feeling too well
Rise and shine, the sun is already up here ^^
We’re just letting you it for awhile, while we catch up on a bit of sleep. 😉 😛 😉
Happy Sunday!!!
Those miniatures from CMON are absolutely lovely, when the review of them comes up I would be interested to know what they are made of and are they multipart, pre-assembled or single cast? On the Star Wars front and camoflauge. I would imagine units stationed on those planets would have their wargear adapted for that specific planet, snow troopers for example. A lot of the time in the movies we are seeing units that have not been long in system and usually that are reacting to Intel. The other thing much like the Warhammer 40k universe it is mainly the… Read more »
Awesome show. I’m a fan of slow grow leagues if the system can handle it. For example the Hobbit Battle Companies has got a few of my friends into the game because it’s essentially just The Hobbit with less minis. I’ve really enjoyed Battle Companies but it’s definitely an outlier. With 40K or Flames of War I personally prefer to just build my lists and buy what I can before I game with it. That being said my Anglo-Sudan War stuff is a slow grow project since the system works just as well at lower points. So I guess for… Read more »
The Heroforge minis are of a similar quality to Walking Dead, with this in mind you could easily do the whole team, grab a custom mat using Google Earth of the River House and give Lloyd a build project to make the petrol station, the courthouse and surf n turf as a setting. BoW Zombie Apocalypse, people could come on Sundays with their own characters and get involved or play team members as they do a food run during a post apocalyptic Boot Camp.
You forgot the ice cream van scenario
Happy Sunday!!
For some reason when I clicked on the hyperlink to this page on my tablet I was asked to choose between my broswer and a podcast player… Interesting!!
All Justin needs to do now is:
– convert his chair into a commode
– install a small fridge and microwave within reach
… and he’s set!
Escalation leagues can come in two forms: – escalation over a short time, for example a weekend tournament – escalation over a longer period, for example at a club where maybe you aim for a round every week or fortnight.. The benefit of it in a short tournament is that the smaller, earlier games can be got through quickly as the event builds to a climax with larger encounters. The issue is that players pretty much have to have all their pool of minis ready to go. The long format can be a very useful way of getting a group… Read more »
Happy Sunday,
Justin, you are so single lol. Fair play to you!
On slow grow leagues I have found that unbalanced army selections tied to pre-determined scenery layout, based on story driven segments or campaigns helps keep things interesting. A game that would really benefit from this is Star Wars Legion but this can easily be expanded to also include X-Wing as part of that. This would help massage the army list selection for the ground based games and army selection options based on what transports made planetfall. You could even move into the middle ground of these two games with a set up like your Endor one which Lloyd did, this… Read more »
Your Star Wars Legion game at this point would become that key objective side game leading to big game advantages. Something you guys have talked about across a number of gaming genres. At which point you can smile and shout to your heart’s content “The shield is down, the shield is down!”
@warzan this might help http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_of_Jakku
also http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Starkiller_Base
But the Bunker is in Ballymena!
Happy Mother’s Day all!
Won’t be able to watch this today as I will spend the day spoiling the missus 😎
The kids who were meant to help are still in bed..typical teenagers.
Well, time to serve breakfast.. 😉
@waran ref the battle of Jakku and the Super Star Destroyer, there’s some great stuff on the Jakku map of Battlefront (not BFII but the last one) where (if you can avoid getting your ass shot off) you can eventually see the SSD crash into the planet, and it’s a stunning visual. And ah yes, the Celestials, Centrepoint Station, and the Rakkataan Infinite Empire. the GFFA has some wonderfully gonzo stuff behind it. Whilst they are now classed as Legends I’d reccomend checking out three of the old Dark Horse comics series for more craziness – Dawn of the Jedi,… Read more »
Oh, and @warzan well chosen with the Republic Commando books. I ADORE them (and Hard Contact is the first)
For a Weekender I would be happy just Lloyd and Gerry chatting in the kitchen about gaming stuff or even just a podcast of it
That is understandable @torros and I would enjoy that too but 1, we’d need to have an @avernos available and 2, if we move the studios around @lloyd would be at the absolute center of all that work 🙂
Interesting . Lloyd always struck me as more of a facilitator ie sitting drinking tea while pointing at things that need done with a blackboard pointer
Morning all, I have posted the storage solution I use for projects in the hobby room thread. I also had a crack at the heroforge solution which I think is great, I went for the STL option to print from home and the result is well what you expect from a home printer but certainly ok for tabletop but won’t come close to what the big companies can do. I will post the results somewhere.
Have a great weekend
Escalation, journeyman, slow grow leagues?. I gave no idea what any of this means. Please explain
They all mean the same thing really. I’ll use Warmachines Journeyman as the example. You ‘d start the league with lists of say, 30 points, play all opponents at that level, then the next round of games could be 50 points and the final round of games at 75 points.
Cheers
Here is a modular workshop system helping you organise your hobby table
http://www.hobbyzone.pl/en/
Happy Sunday!
Great video again thanks guys.
For me, the original ‘tale of 4 gamers’ type scenario is the best way for a journeyman league to be structured.
That is, a basic starting point of a starter box or whatever applies to that particular game,and then a spending limit for each addition every month. It keeps everything balanced, spending restrictions work well if either straight amount of money or points. and its key to enabling the group to progress and learn together.
@warzan I hope reading the Republic Commando books will give you a new perspective on the Clone Wars, how Order 66 happened and how nobody saw it coming, including the Jedi.
Which one is best to read first mate?
Hard Contact is the first one in the series. Enjoy 😀
Oh and Order 66 (the fourth book in the series) seems to be missing but hopefully it is on a shelf somewhere in the office!
Great series. I’m finishing 501t now!!!
Be warned though the author had a falling out with them after the 501st novel and you have to go to a site that she did to get how she intended to wrap up the series.
I have not been to it yet as I don’t want a spoiler to ruin it for me. My buddy Drew told me about that.
Indeed. The short version is that there were many tiers of cannon under Lucas and a lower tier fact that is never overridden is cannonical only until something higher up the tiers says otherwise. I don’t think anyone ever got permission to create some Star Wars lore without being warned about this but maybe some professional courtesy got overlooked in this case? Who knows. I heard that after establishing so much Mandalorian lore in the books, Karen Traviss found out from a Clone Wars visual guide that Lucasfilm were going to do something totally different that invalidated what she had… Read more »
Love the riseng sun figures @dracs the tree would make a great oldman Willow for your hobbits game.