Cult Of Games XLBS: What Game Are You Most Thankful For?
November 27, 2022 by avernos
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It’s the XLBS Show…………….Happy Sunday Fellow CoGs!
Thanks guys totally unexpected to see my little project on the weekender.
Gerry was right in that he mentioned I have a habit of stalling projects because I can’t find a single mini or something like that and this one stalled because I was having troubling finding bases.
The British got their first M7 Priests (about 80-90) just in time for Second El Alamein.
I plan on making this a more Australian force by dropping the Priests, Grants and Churchills and including more Crusaders and Infantry but that’s after I finish the Germans.
sure I have some photos of them at Alamein in a book I’ve got.
I would have to thank Advanced Dungeons and Dragons for getting me into RPG’s and Call of Cthulhu for exposing me to a wider range of games.
But without a childhood devoted to card games and chess I probably wouldn’t me that into games.
Honourable mention to the ZX Spectrum as without that computer I would not have met the people that introduced me to AD&D.
Prowarm from ebay or amazon, if you are in UK.
Just one game I was thankful for? I can’t pin it to one. D&D 2nd ed. opened the door for RPGs and the follow on into 3.5. L5R and 7th Sea from Alderac are fond memories and intronto roll/keep. Changeling and VtM from White Wolf were great for a truly new experience in their World of Darkness and another dice engine/success system. For minis I have Mordheim to be thankful for as my first game of figure based combat. I then had some of my best fun plugging away with orks in Blood Bowl. I’m now thankful for Saga Age… Read more »
@brennon Wouldn’t pillars from a wedding supplier for cakes be easier than foam?
Check out Pendrakens dungeon terrain as well
Happy Sunday. For me it’s probably going to be SPQR. I know the game isn’t very good and I fine more problems with it every time I play, but it’s the game that got me back into the hobby in early 2020. Before then for around 15 years I was playing Fantasy and 40k but I wasn’t painting and the interest wasn’t really there any more. I just kept my armies so I could join in with friends. I was really quite board with 40k but SPQR was something different, and got me painting miniatures again. It made me look… Read more »
Games I’m grateful for….well Donald Featherstone rules that got me rolling my first dice (Still not sure how a mixed Roman and Ancient British defeated The third reich) then probably Runquest and for brother allowing me to play which reignited an interest in gaming again
More recently probably Command Decision for bringing 6mm into my life and Fire and Fury for introducing rolling for activations and playing games in the grand scale
You’ve awakened such nostalgia in me. Yes, ‘Wargames’, perhaps my favourite, well, most influential wargames book. I can still conjure up the picture of the ancient battle in the book with Tony Bath’s flats. I wish I hadn’t lost my copy. The only old book from that era I’ve got is, IIRC, ‘Battlegaming’ by, I think Terence Wise. For some reason, as I was trying to recall the author, Charles Wesencraft came into my mind, which I know is wrong. All I can remember of his rules is that they required basing, which was fairly unheard off in my (limited)… Read more »
It’s like eating yourself – do you disappear or double in size? Things that keep me awake.
Hi COGz an OTTers.
I’m most thankful for bloodbowl as it was the first GW game I got into and I played it with a lad from school which started a friendship that continues today 30 years later to the point he was my best man. We never played bloodbowl again but we bonded over that first clumsy game.
Terrain Shay make an prime some terrain for the win practice.
Try B&M an if you’re cutting rough sections get a solderer an change the tool for a loop of wire Ben, Guy’s.
Rebuilding is optional.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=35-fjDEiLlM
Dollhouse part shops are great for doors, Windows, (pillars,)(or cake suppliers).
Agreed, @brennon check the cake section when you’re in hobbycraft.
Being thankful I’ll go for Warmahordes as it was that that got me back into the hobby after a long hiatus. It’s inextricably linked to this site as it was watching Andy review people’s lists and other such vids showed me there was a world outside GW and minis not covered in skulls. I bought the Khador starter and the rest is history and my house being very full of wargame tat.
I’m also thankful for Shadows of Brimstone as it’s the only game I’m currently playing post-lockdown. I have a game later.
An Gerry has a stoke live on the show ?!?!
Space hulk for me started me down the plastic tunnel off shame.
Aliens the game.
@che If you use the airbrush once that means you’ve beaten Justin right?
Where did John go?…Was someone trying to buy a box of the Cadia figures in the shop and he had to rush off to rip it from their hands. I presume he was using the other 28 boxes instead of a chair this week in case someone tried to get them from him?
Yay John spooks the spider’s?
A fab show guy’s.
Happy Sunday, my game i would like to thank is BOLT ACTION and X- WING. Bolt Action for getting me back into miniature WW2 War-gaming from the collecting, painting and playing and X-wing just for the fun of aerial dogfights which i can just get out and play solo plus i can now play this with my grandson or a simple version of it as he is only 5.
D&D Basic, D&D Expert, AD&D, Judges Guild City State of the Invincible Overlord, World of Greyhawk, Waterdeep along side Dragon Magazine and early White Dwarf. Then onto Warhammer 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions. Then Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1st Edition, Shadowrun, Call of Cthulhu, Paranoia, Warhammer 40K. Then after a hiatus Mordheim, Warhammer 40K Kill Team, Pathfinder, Stargrave. Next up Pulp Adventures from Osprey…. Great memories throughout! ???
Happy Sunday,
what am i thankful for you ask?? I shouldnt even have to say it, but i will. GREATEST MOVIE EVER MADE.
See this is tricky for me, on one hand I’m thankful for Vampire the masquerade as its the first tabletop RPG I really got to play and made a load of good friends for, on the other hand with kings of war I got to paint and play with loads of goblins (which I love) and got to have a loads of games so its between the two.
I mean I played loads of kings of war with Gerry which is great (even if I am crap at it)
I would have to say 40K, but similar to Gerry, I am thankful that it’s there. In 2014 I was having a really tough time personally, struggling with a job that was burning me out, with no clear way out. I hadn’t gamed since being a teenager. One day I was chatting to my brother and we were saying “remember when we were kids, and we played those games? (Hero Quest, Space Crusade, 40K, WFB) – its clearly still going – there’s a shop on the high street – wonder what’s changed?) Quick google and the GW website was there…and… Read more »