Pointless Views: Gaps In History
January 17, 2020 by crew
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Mornin’.
Can please someone give me a definition of what a “slow grow league” is?
a league (needs atleast 3 folk according to lloyd) that erm… grows slowly 🙂
do they can watch anything on internet or they have to imagine it to grow slowly?
A group of players decide to play a game. Let’s take SW as an example.
The standard game is 800 points.
So by the end of a set time they want to have their forces fully painted.
Month 1 maybe they aim to paint 250 points.
Month 2 another 250 pts and play a skirmish
Month 3 300 points painted and now they can play their first full game.
That’s the idea a slow build up to playing a new army
ah, thank you Great Wookie Of Knowledge 🙂
serious hat on
it’s a little contest a group of folk run to get into a new game or aspect of a game
there are a set of challenges both hobby and games that allows the players to slowly build up armies and learn the game and hobby together.
the milestones (50pt list 100pt list for example) unlock achievements etc
basically a structured journey into a game that a group can take together.
sometimes officially support and sometimes just made up by a group 🙂
people within the league have agreed to build their game up slowly, it may be a points value of figures every month, three months, year etc (getting very slow) or maybe based on milestones play first game buy £25.00 worth of models, Win first Game +£25.00, Painted all my Miniatures +£50.00. so you build your collection slowly and everyone is building at the same rate more or less
You’re all calling it the wrong name…. “mutunus tunenus” Humbug! Call it:
COG FIGHT
And get some betting systems on it.
Also: Mounted Cocks are a great countermeasure for Warhammer Daemonettes.
just gotta be careful of the mounted cocks breath weapon effects……..
Creativity is an interesting beast.
A blank piece of paper can be a intimidating thing.
Writing an essay is considered by some easier when given a topic and some constraints.
But too many constraints can be a hinderance to acts of creation….
A happy median is probably the best bet.
Interesting discussion. From my part of view I do a lot of American revolution games and if I worried that the facings on the redcoats aren’t right for a particular battle I’d never get a game done. I was amazed when I discovered the diversity in American uniforms during the war and I don’t worry now about being a hundred percent accurate because most of the time it’s impossible to know if we are
You definitely need to have those archers in the Mutinus Tutinus army list because they spend all of their battles on their backs. 😛 😛 😛
The whole “fighting in the shade” thing takes on a whole new meaning with MT because the “arrows” blocking out the sun creates quite a sticky situation.
lol
I think the idea of us being able to run our own Slow Grow Leagues without having to torture the crew to set it up or run it is an excellent idea. Big thumbs up to an alternate way to view the projects as well… All the latest updates in a stream would be a hit with me.
The skyclad army needs some warmachines, a SpunkWagon and JizzCannons… I’ve other ideas but public decency is going to keep them locked away in my mind…
he he he The MT army is like being 12 years old again lol
Minus the spots and permanent hard on!
Sorry, Warren. This dick joke has gone too long. Justin, Stay strong!
Do you think if it was shorter it would be easier on him? 😉
*train slams into tunnel!*
‘NICE’ is trade marked!!!! feckers!!!!
will get my tinfoli hat out
They were saying it in lower case so their fine
For the crusades it should be noted is that the Islamic forces also fought each other and was one of the reasons Sal-adin came to power in Egypt.
There were also crusades in Spain and in the Baltic regions
One Crusade never actually made in to Constantinople and ended forming the country that is now Rumania
One Crusade that set out from the area that is now Germany got as far as the local town, murdered all the Jews there and went home
Best of all the Mongols were involved as well
ok, now inspired to get my finger out and get back into my FoW Germans
Ah lads that was a good one.
Crusades started and end – 1095 – 1492
Well there you go 200 years.
lol
Rounding down?
I meant to mention earlier but there is a ton of information available on the Crusades from the Islamic point of view If you want to look at a similar period to the crusades have a look at the Hundred Years War in Gascony and a later period of the Thirty Years war. Both follow a similar theme of many many skirmishes and battles long forgotten to history, with changes of allegiance every 5 minutes and three of the power houses in the case of the Thirty Years War of Spain,France and the Netherlands with the mighty Ottoman empire on… Read more »
For the Skyclad army, it could make for an interesting Hobby lab for John to do?
For the General, surely you’d want a chariot pulled by a team of mutinus tutinous
I would give the mutunus tunenus a go but it would have to wait till I finish painting my house ?
I’m up for the rootin’ tootin’ mutun’ tutun’ challenge!
Your need for a pasty white primer has highlighted a gap in the market. Does anyone do Irish Flesh paint?
I think it’s called Skellybob bone
I would offer to help on Mutunus Tunenus I almost bought the model. They do need cock riders on them though, I was going to sculp reigns and some kind of saddle on them. Get some string dip it into PVA and give them a nice under mane. Grim dark paintjob and these would look fantastic!
Oh and as for the project system. I have started to use Instagram for posting some pictures but I couldn’t just have my site set to projects. I would like to try and drive anyone back to OTT but my projects page you need to be logged into view this. I would like to be able to link this to outside sources.
let me look into this mate
Slow grow leagues would be great.
And has Lloyd’s wife called in her “trim your beard” voucher?
@warzan my friend I thought you were a Napoleonic expert. The Russian Life Guards stripped naked and charged across a freezing cold River during the invasion of Russia. There’s even artwork https://www.pinterest.cl/pin/517210338447203560/
The official reason for the sack of Constantinople was the massacre of the Latins (50,000 dead the rest sold as slaves in the 1080s). Remember the Byzantines were schismatics not Catholics.
The Rothschilds being Jewish also probably had a bit to do with them not Crusading.
I am happy to take in all @dignity cocks gyus and play with it, stroke it with my brush and @warzan I will make you watch dude 😀
here’s your logo @warzan
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/152114267863-0-1/s-l1000.jpg
in terms of gaps of history there is also an interesting theory (taken with a pinch of salt i’m sure) about Roman soldiers ending up in ancient china which basically extends the influence and areas for gaming the world over whilst still having some historical basis. https://www.warhistoryonline.com/ancient-history/romans-china-lost-legions-carrhae.html is what I could find on it on the web, I think i actually first heard about it from a novel I read when I was younger, i’ll see if I can dig out the name also vikings versus native americans…..saga eat your heart out! and for one off the wall….what did happen… Read more »
nice one guys.
go for of Justin.