Weekender XLBS: Surviving An Asteroid Apocalypse!
February 10, 2019 by lloyd
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FIRST BABY !!!! YEAH!!!!!! In your face other seekers of FIRSTitude !!!! …. Oh and have a Happy Sunday!!! seriously I mean it … I can afford to be magnamanous
happy sunday mate
Thanks Gerry have a good Sunday matie.
Well done mate. You FIRSTed that like a pro!
Thanks mate …. I feel it is important to make the effort 😀
Happy Sunday folks
Sorry we are late, we were just getting dried off 😉
And in Ireland that takes a while. ??
Happy Sunday….. Am I first? There had better not be Cassowaries.
Sorry mate … you are top 5 though … 😉
Well, at least there’s no Cassowaries
absolutely mate .. the bloody things terrify me
So……………Happy Sunday fellow Backstagers! How would I survive a massive asteroid crashing into the planet? Well, seeing as I work for a company that is 650 ft underground I guess if it hits while I’m at work then I’ll be just fine. We have food and water and all the other essentials to survive for quite a long time. I have taken a few bits of gaming material underground so I wouldn’t go into withdrawals too quickly. But I’d miss the rest of my collection. Oh, and I’d miss my wife too! (good thing she doesn’t spend time on this… Read more »
priorities good to see
happy Sunday folks
Happy Sunday!
Armageddon? So are we finally discussiing Brexit? … Only joking… Not getting drawn into pointless arguments on that topic on this forum!
My big box of HATE (cmon) landed this week. Been wondering what tabletop games the minis could be used in. Already considered Kings of War… Just added Saga Fantasy. Any other ideas?
@Avernos – have you considered whether the forthcoming Joan of Arc 15mm based figures could be repurposed into miniSaga armies and do you reckon early 15 century H8ndred years war is within Saga’s capabilities as a ruleset?
If not then it’s screaming out for someone to adapt some battle-boards. Shame now I didn’t take the pledge…
it would certainly handle it, and who knows we may see it with a new universe book down the line. Battleboard wise it may be possible to use two current ones from elsewhere. Or the generic fantasy version may have something that works.
I don’t believe I’m writing this but… Justin’s mostly right about the GW store. Their whole business model is that it’s more than just a retail stock outlet, it’s ‘an experience’. The recruitment, hobby support and gaming space elements are what the stores are about; if they were just a stock outlet they’d be online only by now.
I agree @CoxJul. I look at those stores as loss leaders. recruit, teach, indoctrinate. Why else put a Warhammer store in a NZ university town, we have a cathedral so it is technically a city, with the population of around 110,000 plus 20,000 students?
I don’t know, but i wouldn’t be surprised if you are both right. The stores are certainly adverts, and i would think that they produce a hefty amount of online sales, in part because they draw people into the hobby as a habit rather than just as a sporadic few purchases. That said, i wonder for how much longer people will actually ‘go to the shops’ at all in the UK, USA and EU ( each of which have their different shopping cultures and subcultures )? There is a city centre relatively near me that has survived much better than… Read more »
@warzan, how can you say that sat next to @lloyd?
I think we’d be more like Pugwash than Flanders
Tell Loyd that FDM printers can make lego blocks that snap together perfectly so he won’t have much in the way of tolerance problems if his dimensions were right.
@lloyd check out the self adhesive range first magnets do…
http://www.first4magnets.com/self-adhesive-c88
Ideal for bottom of movement trays, possibly as the insert too
@warzan I’ve just realised listening to this mornings show that Justin is Beasts version of Karl Pilkington lol
Does that make @warzan Ricky and @avernos Stephen?
I certainly have the height
That is absolute brilliance @warhammergrimace .
Love the smaller saga Gerry
It’s not small enough!
15mm poser scale 😉
cheers, I’m going to start updating the project log once I have 4 points (a basic introductary Saga warband) completed I’m going to swap to the saracens. Then go back and add 2 points to each and so on until I have all 10 points completed. Hopefully I will get a game or two on camera with @Lloyd maybe at each level 4, 6, 8 and then grand battle 10 points. Although I’ve cleverly not asked him yet.
3D printing getting faster and quicker and cheaper got printing your own minis?..Yet again my plan to get rich with a new book ‘ How to whittle your own 28mm armies’ has been foiled
2068??? I am dead then …( and GW will probably re-release squats that year just to spite me ) so I am sorry about my lack of concern. The increased number of meteorite strikes is largely because we have become better at detecting them, I remember being on a metorite fossicking trip to the Nullarbor Plain at uni and finding meteorites while not simple wasn’t thnat difficult either. We get hit all the time we are just becoming better at detecting it. “If we are lucky it hits the PACIFIC!!!!?!!!!!” WELL NOW WE KNOW THE LIE OF THE LAND DON”T… Read more »
Great show guys Stuck in a tiny ball bobbing on the ocean yeah no thanks. Late Crusader and Early Viking might be a little off but everything else is basically the same. Sure the Nobility got better gear and tactics evolved but the guys on foot still trudged about mostly in Padded Armour and Carrying Spears. The Early Crusaders were the late Viking Era armies so it probably all comes down to balancing the Battle Boards. Even in the Crusades book you get El Cid, the “Spanish” and the various North African Islamic Factions which are part of the Viking… Read more »
I don’t think you need a ’28mm’ type filter. Seems irrelevant to me
lmao
I was being sort of semi serious for once. If you take a battle like Shiloh theoretically you could end up with 11 different entries for all the scales including hex and counter that you can buy ACW figures for if everyone added it to the ‘battle bucket’
Happy Sunday. I’m not disagreeing with the direction about where the industry is headed. You’ve previously discussed that the GW stores are part of the closed eco system – the store gets them in and they play at the store GW games. If the stores close because we are all 3D printing and that part of closed eco system goes – what replaces it? It’s not going to be necessarily gaming clubs because they play other games so that opens the eco system. I don’t think the date system works – it works for historical but not for in general… Read more »
battle type is definately doable 🙂
How about a multi-faceted taxonomy with the following dimensions…
Universe (each has its own date system)
Date (hierarchical to include years, decades, centuries and eras)
Location (again hierarchical to include systems, planets, continents, areas, countries and towns)
That gives you a multidimensional time-space continuum within which to map any event, whether that be a moment in time or a whole war…
Maybe not… Unless you’ve got the budget for a couple of data-scientists to help out. 😉
“If we’re likely, it’ll hit the Pacific”????
Thanks a lot @warzan. If it does, say goodbye to my 3.79 pounds per month. (wink)
EDIT – PS: thanks for the shout out at the end… makes the death by tsunami via asteroid collision almost worth it…. Almost. (wink)
Dammit “lucky” not “likely”.
lol
Like watching 4 hillbillies talk about hunting deer..the way you dress..!!!!
Joan of arch 15mm will be perfect for Gerry’s 15mm saga. Plus it has terrain and fantasy models in it. So if you guys are getting a copy of Joan of arch into the studio, you and Lloyd will have to fight each other for it
we can split it between us 😉
There could be an issue with Justin’s underground shelter except debris falling on the exit. What if the water doesn’t recede enough then you are stuck underground under the water.
The Tsunami pod with GPS tracking sounds good if there will be other people to find you. I think it would be best to prepare for the worst and take into account that nobody will find you and you have to survive on your own.
could buy a second world war U boat… but being from the green isle i say weld some bath tubs together…
It’s a good job the yellow blanket has been sent before the party box was finished…
It’s always set to be open when you push back….
I live half way up a mountain, so…Happy Sunday!
@avernos I like what your doing for your Saga stuff with 15mm. Although that for me will have to wait for my JoA stuff to arrive 🙂 all my 15mm stuff is being based up for Mortum et Glorium, and round bases are just wrong for large scale Battles…lol
true, but my large scale battles are small scale skirmishes, they just look large. I have been toying with making 40mm square sabots that I can drop them into for playing LADLG