Cult Of Games XLBS: What Are Your Tabletop Gaming Regrets?
July 3, 2022 by avernos
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It’s the XLBS Show……Happy Sunday Fellow CoGs!
I love my ‘Blood and Steel’ hardback book! Very nice and another win from ‘Firelock Games’!
@avernos I placed all my ‘Blood and Valor’ tokens and miniatures that I ordered into the same box. I know it’s a fuzzy concept and I’m not completely buying into it yet. But I can walks straight to the shelf that has that stuff. 🙂
Happy Sunday!
My greatest hobby regret is AoS and putting round bases on my fantasy battles miniatures. I don’t regret the minis, just the bases and AoS rules.
A close second is buying every edition of 40K after 3rd
Amen sir. It was when GW told us to swap bases I left the building. They had already given me a rough ride for a few years, then that.
‘Spin on it G Dubbs’?
Happy Sunday,
the day of Jesus and Petey! Remember that both fought the devil. one just had the impossible task of marrying his daughter.
So many regrets, but I’d say the biggest is probably Soul Wars…
The undead are very fragile and stormcast are a tedious army to paint… fantasy space marines… boring.
Happy Sunday!
Regrets, I’ve had a few, but then again… make that “Myth”, obtained through the various Kickstarters. Too much stuff for too much money that never quite overcame early quality issues with the rules and cards. Still got shrink-wrapped expansions.
@brennon Don’t worry . One day a Terrahawks skirmish game will appear and with all those destiny dice you won’t need to buy anything for it. Swings and roundabouts really
The regret getting rid of list is endless
Hey guys
The Download podcast link is missing thus week. ?
its deliberate, there was an issue with getting it uploaded. The guys are going to look at it next week when they’re back at work and see if it can be fixed
One regret can be explained with one fear, the fear of missing out. It leads me to buy more heavily into a system than I want to ‘just in case it’s more expensive later, doesn’t exist anymore, is better than I’ve got, everyone else is doing it……’. Kickstarters are a nightmare for this. GW are bastards for this with every release. Have I ever missed out on something that wasn’t around later or another print run made? No. Have I finished and explored everything I already enjoy? No, so why would I be missing out if I add ‘stuff’ to… Read more »
Regrets? Getting caught up in a couple of over hyped Kickstarter campaigns and spending too much money on stuff that has gathered dust ever since. I just don’t look at KS anymore. Selling a painted Eldar army (or Space Elves as they were originally), I started out with the original range from Rogue Trader, even copied the colour scheme from the rule book; blue armour, yellow and black tiger stripe helmets and green guns. Did four squads, then when Jess Goodwin reinvented the range I had another six squads in an assortment of colours. Really enjoyed that army, haven’t played… Read more »
Sunday… the day of rest and I know my place… last again! It’s brilliant and so reassuring… ??
“What’s done, cannot be undone.” William Shakespeare – Macbeth Having said that the Talisman re-release under FF Games has some of the worst miniatures ever, which don’t even inspire me to paint… wish I still had my original GW Talisman Minis, because they simply are too expensive now to replace via eBay – testing my FOMO even with such exorbitant prices. I can resist because there are more important things in life such as food, clothes, heating and fuel… Ultimately… as the great Jimi Hendrix said… “I don’t have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I… Read more »
Happy Sunday! Biggest regrets: Backing Legends of Fabled Realms by 4Ground to the tune of over £700! I’m just glad that I won the BOW contest, run during the KS campaign, to at least get a play test copy and some of the minis! Tomb Raider CCG, yes despite my best judgement I splurged tons of cash on it and never played it, I finally gave it away after failing to sell it on Ebay for 99p! Close equal third would be Flintloque amd Mythic Battles Pantheon. I jumped in big time with Flintloque and actually got the folks at… Read more »
poor B5
looking forward to the reboot?
Anytime one of my beloved Scifi shows gets a reboot I get nervous! ?
Could be great, or could be trash. Sometimes I vote on the side of, “Leave well enough alone”.
Big thumbs up to that!
Lots of trepidation about it, I hope its going to be fantastic but do have a feeling of dread too!
Terminator game was my regret…the minis were kack, the rules were absolutely abysmal and wasn’t worth the money it was being sold for. It’s the WORSE game I’ve ever bought and a complete waste of time and money.
Talking of card games my teen was introduced to MTG by a friend at school, so we’ve just started playing. I use to play the game between 94-2000, but I sold all my cards a few years back so I’m back on that slippery slope lol
I bought Terminator for £7 and I was had.
Woop woop woop it’s the XLBS Show.
Is Gerry the Master !?!??
Ben is the HOGFATHER.?
Look at the shiny shiny goodies Free stay away from the shiny shiny goodies.!?! Lol.
Gerry’s 40k books are 7th , I didn’t play that version I was on a long hobby break at the time. the last edition of 40k I played was 6th. I only returned to the hobby at the start of 8th edition
6th was the last edition of 40K I played and never returned, though I occasionally play Kill Team (1st Ed)
Ironically 8th edition with the hard reset of the indexes was a pretty good play environment. Once it began to bloat and groan under its own weight again it bacame trash, like 7th was with the bonkers formations locked away in supplements before it.
I’m good at doing that with PC game’s seeing it an thinking Ooh nice an buy it play for a few weeks ago I can’t get into the game an fling it in the corner thinkin that six’ty quid well spent NOT.
Nice one guy’s.
Gerry in Scandawegia are they doing a new trollhunter film.?
Morning Cogs.
I think I’ve had several weekends planned for me, which is good. Saves me the hassle
Happy Sunday Cogs! Gaming regrets, I’ve got a few but then again too few to mention, I did what I had to do,I saw it through without exemption… most of mine are board game related too. Nothing too offensive and thankfully most have been able to be sold on since. There were two with minis that were awful but I kept the minis and chucked the rest when I realised no one wanted them. Don’t really have any regrets about miniatures games but I have bought and sold quite a lot of them over the years. Having a very limited… Read more »
Great topic this week. No regrets here. I’ve only ever spent what I could afford as I’ve set a hobby budget for years now, and although my better judgement has been affected by shiny syndrome on more than one occasion I’ve enjoyed most games and miniatures bought. I’ve never regretted selling anything on either. I think about how much joy they are bringing to their next owner (especially if they got a bargain) and then that money is always reinvested in whatever I’ve moved on to. Mythic Battles: Pantheon was pretty bad for FOMO but I’ve painted my whole all-in… Read more »
Gaming Regret? Golem Arcana .. It was a tabletop game, but it used an app. Sucks when they stopped the app, and decided to do pc games. I loved playing the game, and picked up so many figs for it. The worst part is that was my Big purchase at my first Gencon convention. So a warning, do not pick up a miniature game system that requires an app to play. It was so sad.
Happy Sunday. Hobby regrets include War Machine which I got for a very short amount of time before realising it wasn’t the game for me so I sold it and my all in pledge of Dark Souls the board game, which I again sold because the gameplay had too many problems. Also I had a collection of Dragon Dice years ago which I never actually played a game of. There’s probably many more but those are the ones that spring easily to mind. As for what I regret getting rid of there’s an absolutely shed load of stuff, like the… Read more »
@fcostin there’s a way to handle CCG’s which a friend of mine did back in Uni (mid-2000’s). Step 1: be a millionaire. Step 2: contact a wholesaler and get them to ship you consecutive booster boxes to give you an entire production run. That guarantees you at least 4 of each card. Step 3: pay a student to sort through the cards to give you your deck of 4 of each card, then sell the rest on e-bay. At that time that cost about £8,000 per release and there were 4 releases per year. It stopped working when they introduced… Read more »