Cult Of Games XLBS: Can Family History Inspire Your Hobby?
February 20, 2022 by avernos
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Happy Sunday OTT’ers!
I’m from a family that has had someone fight in every branch of the military in every major conflict of the last 108 years. My wife’s family are German and they had serving members of the SS in the family. My father went to Vietnam and both of my grandfathers served in the British military in WWII despite one having been rebel in the Easter Rebellion in 1916. If I’m wargaming it, I don’t have a problem with playing any force in any conflict, I can divorce the game from the politics, but I have met a few people who… Read more »
Happy Sunday
happy sunday,
I hope all have a wonderful day except @Ben, I hope all the bad things happen to you. You know what youdid.
My evil knows no bounds
John’s Carrier-conversion is great. I’m always happy to see a scratch-build in what is called a hobby, but which has become far too consumeristic ‘thanks’ to the profileration of 3D-printing. I also liked the Challenger-tutorial, btw.
I don’t care for family histories. I’m inspired by ideas, not by some shared genes and passed-down, almost always embellished ‘history, aka lies.
Not a happy go lucky topic for this week but I’ll bite and add my thoughts. I’d probably delve into Vietnam and the history related to my dad. I don’t know much of what he went through but for bits and pieces. I’d like to know more because I know there’s probably not much time left on his clock and generally get to know a man that was in service almost all of my life until I left home and joined myself. It’ll be a hard one but I think being fully grown and a veteran myself might make the… Read more »
It’s always tough I agree. My Grandfather really didn’t like talking about the time he spent in India during World War II with the RAF. He gave us snippets but didn’t really go into it.
He did talk endlessly about the planes that he worked on like the Hurricane and the Lancaster Bombers. It was nice to see his engineering/carpentry passion come through there.
*Looks at Family History* “Georg Asmus SS Brigadefuhrer in charge of Krakow” yeah might give that one a miss.
In Australia a lot of guys get a WWII Australian force of some kind with a family connection. I had 31/51st which my Grandfather served with although I’ve since repainted them for the desert.
Really wonderful golden buttons this week. I have been loving the battle report uploads and the Lark Force project is really great. Fantastic work from everyone. Very much looking forward to future updates ?
@ands totally agree with you! Fantastic golden buttons. As @avernos recently said “great to have such talented buggers in the community (or words to that effect!) ??
My grandfather drove one of those carriers but I don’t know which model. Apparently the fumes from the engine knocked him out and he crashed. An American unit found him in a ditch.
Personally WW2 has been the closest to now time period I’ve gamed so far. I’ve taken an interest in reading about the Falklands a lot more recently after watching a Tea and Medals episode but I’m not yet at a point of exploring the period on the tabletop. For anyone who is interested in exploring their family history, check with your local libraries. Many of them have online subscriptions to the big name websites (Ancestry etc) which can be great starting points for your own exploration. Certainly within our service, we actually have a team to help people dig deeper… Read more »
Ww1, one great granddad was in the royal Somerset horse artillery. He was wounded on the Weston front. My other great grandad died at sea on the hms Goliath. Ww2 one granddad was unfit for service so worked on the land. The other was in the home guard. Later on my dad and his two brothers inlaws did national service. One in each of the three services. Army, navy (marines) and RAF. So I have plenty of stuff from ww1 to the Suez crisis I could potently pick from
Oh Kudos to Ben , we probably would have all thought, I has same thought at the size of table I had in Room at Vegas.
Really interesting and, personally, topical discussion this morning. I need to spend some time organising my comments lest it be a mass of waffle! As Mark Twain said “Sorry I wrote you a long letter, I didn’t have the time to write you a short one”!
In the meantime, if anyone has access to detail of the Queen’s Own Yorkshire Dragoons through the WWII North Africa campaign (over and above what is set out on Wikipedia) I’d be forever indebted to be pointed to it!
Really interesting topic this week. I did the Easter rising as a game once because my wife is Irish. The British players were a bit awkward at that one which is another point. Playing a game from history and feeling your the bad guys which may or may not be true. I’d love to do the Indian mutiny at some point. Lucknow I’d basically a city fight so you could do a lot of raids and breakthroughs
Ahoy Hoy Otters! Happy Sunday.
Funnily enough John, watched a documentary on Canadians Post Normandy, Yhey were involved in the diversionary attack on the Eastern Side of Waleraron Island( excuse spelling)
So Gerry has the hobby equivalent of Adam Savage’s cave ?
(except not as well organised … 😀 )
It the nutty OTTers XLBS SHOW.
Let the wookie win.?
Terrific show folks, thanks so much!
When I go deep on 40k lore, like with the Eisenhorn/Ravenor/Bequin saga, I find it hard to think about bringing any of those characters to a game. It’s like they’re too fleshed out or something for me to feel like I can do them justice in miniature.
I think the same thing applies to WW2 games for me – the more I know about a personality, the less confident I feel portraying them on the battlefield.
Was that not bigger to seat the gun crew and passengers john?
Yes and no. As all carriers were supposed to tow anti-tank guns. The Lloyd carrier being what I’d say was the most “fitting” for the role. But Universals did the same job. On top of carrying mortar teams, recon and command roles.
Really interesting discussion today, and I’ll keep my tuppence as brief as I can! My interest in WW2 has emerged ENTIRELY from Beasts of War / OTT. As a kid, WW2 history lessons scared the bejesus out of me, and a trip to a WW2 museum left me pretty traumatised. I just didn’t want to engage with it, and that lasted well into adulthood. Then, not too long ago, in my late 30s, I started to find the Enigma code-breaking stuff really interesting, and those barriers started to break down. But the thing that dissolved the barriers entirely, was the… Read more »
My late father was just in his teens when war broke out in Poland, he like so many others of that generation never went on about most of his experiences, but what he did divulge gave me just an inkling of the horrors of Nazi Occupation! He narrowly avoided being executed by the simple fact of running from a tram stop, he was sent to various work camps and till the end of his life had a phobia and nightmares about fleas and lice, he was in one of the Schweinfurt ball bearing factories when the Americans bombed there and… Read more »
We all have our red-lines we don’t cross. I don’t have any particular family links but, although my main FoW armies are German, I refuse to contemplate collecting or playing Waffen-SS (apart from getting the book). I can accept the standard German ‘Heer’ army were doing what any army would do for their country, and the vast majority were not involved in any war-crimes. Unlike the notorious Waffen-SS – the combat branch of the Nazi Party’s SS organisation.
Happy Sunday 00:00 No funny out-take? Oooooh… 01:30 cheating definitely ends gaming in some cases 04:30 @warzan and a hot tub? Is he going to stream no regularly? 07:30 Hold on! @johnlyons , is that a FlashGitz shirt? XD 08:15 Uuuuhh… @brennon ! Naughty! XD 09:15 “Nobody is going to know” except us 20:30 Bolt Action vibrations? oO 24:40 “Guards armour” … is this still Bolt Action or is this 40k? XD 27:00 first Ben does a bad comment on a wounded soldier and then kills a medic!? oO 32:00 Penpainters! 36:00 And now for something completely different 46:00 Is… Read more »
it is a Flash Gitz t-shirt 😉
I’m in awe of that kitbash. It’s way more ambitious than anything I’d attempt. Outstanding work!
My family has a long history of serving in the British forces. I served in?the Gulf War, my father in the Falkands. Several family members served in WW2 which included a great uncle who was a Spitfire pilot, grandad in the Navy another in the commandos who also served in Korea. I also have an uncle who served with the French Foreign Legion and was a mercenary in Africa (though not many family members talk about him). In fact there is a letter from Wellington to Cornwallis which mentions a family member. They’re talking about this individual who was an… Read more »