Weekender XLBS: Crusading With Tiny Fighting Men!
January 19, 2020 by crew
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Happy Sunday,
I like the idea of physical golden button award!, but I would prefer an actual button-like award or large coin or medal.
Somthing like this in essence (not necessarily form) – https://www.etsy.com/listing/679154803/italian-coin-collection-italian-lira?ref=landingpage_similar_listing_top-1
Best regards,
NR
I’d get a pin!
Happy Sunday!!
Sorry I’m late, I was finishing Season 4 of The Expanse with the wife and well… y’know…priorities. 🙂
Just finished Season 3 – I hope Season 4 is just as good!
I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. People continue to be The Worst. 🙂
Happy Sunday COGS, Golden Button – if I would won I would say pass on physical reward as I would have no space for it.
@warzan, you should look at the ingredients of those liquorice coins. I believe you’ll find salmiak, or ammonium chloride. Yummy.
We can’t it’s all in danish..also I’ve eaten them all 🙂
Salmiak is Proper Foreign though. Your guarantee of salty joy!
For rulesets for the crusades you could use Gerrys Liquorice to simulate the seige.To represent each day of the seige each player eats a handful of Liquorice and the last person to get dysentery wins
I did read some where recently of a Crusades version of Lion rampant coming out. I think it’s a fan version but will have army lists specifically for the crusades
I think the walls need to be higher. At the seige of Jerusalem the crusaders after dismantling boats and scouring the country found enough wood for 2 50 foot tall seige towers
Not a fan version. It’s being written in conjunction with the university of Edinburgh. I spoke to the professor at salute last year about it.
Oh ok. I only saw the cover art and some blurb on it
should be out for Salute
Beetroot @avernos – the moomin black liquirice was garlic, vinegar, chili and beetroot. It was the best for sure
Everything but the beetroot sounds amazing!
Happy Sunday!
Personally, if I was fortunate enough to be awarded a Golden Button, the Kudos and online badge is almost sufficient, but I’d also expect to be showered with lots of small golden gifts… no idea what we’d call that though.
Good morning CoG’ers! Fantastic show gentlemen, as always you brighten my Sunday’s with your positivity and humour and area a joy to watch whilst I hobby. I would love a Golden Button physical award, especially if it is personalised somehow, it would be something that would have pride of place in my hobby space.
I am really enjoying Gerry’s hobby progress updates, I really like the Mantic Ogre army and am really enjoying seeing his progress, please can we have a KoW battle report? (Yes, I will keep asking until we get one!) Have a great day everyone.
That sounds educational and sexy. I approve.
Double Castle Wall @Warzan
Liquorice is amazeballs. Also meant to be good for your stomach… though maybe not in the qualities that Gerry has been eating.
I ate it in those quantities once in the olden days. Lodger and his missus came home and I had to excuse myself.
Ok for rules for Warren . How about a conversion of the old Standard Games Outremer/Cry Havoc ruleset. Troops are either fresh/wounded or dead. Game was really quick to play
You know there is something about walls and siege towers that really gets my juices flowing,… the ‘only flower of my heart” believes that it is because I have this as a metaphor for my love life ….(honestly that woman!!) in reality it is becasuse I love David Gemmel’s “Legend”
I shall not live to see Geddon
The wall of Death… well named as it turns out ….I love that book
…. but in all seriousness if you do live to see Geddon, Abbott Avernos, whatever you do, DON’T fall back to the keep.
On the subject of physical golden buttons.
I know some people like having things like that but I for one would rather use the space to put more of my minis.
I am also not posting my photos with the idea of getting any prices anyway.
Gerry stick with the original rules for Necromunda, the “new” ones are a complete mess. Not only are there 7 Hardback books to buy for the rules, there’s over 200 gang tactics cards (although these are OOP, but if your opponent has them and you don’t he has a great advantage over the 7 to 8 cards GW has made available as a PDF). The new gangs have massive balance issues (notably the Van Saar gang that’s so overpowered even Van Saar players are admitting the rules for them are broken), GW proofreading gets worse (to the point where they… Read more »
Happy Sunday folks, another good show to watch. Very interesting for the crusades but I ain’t got a clue for rule sets so I can’t help there, but I am interested in how you figure it out.
@warzan a quick search on Google shows that between 1000ad to 1200ad six sided dice were certainly around for gaming. Playing cards from China and Asia were a set of 21 cards with the number variations from a 2d6 roll the modern playing card layout of 4 suits and face cards seems to be a thing from 1300-1400s so a bit later.
If you really want to know my feelings on 3D printing, ask Gerry or Paul… while Warren may have missed by 3D printing rant yesterday at OTT headquarters, they didn’t – got it out of my system so didn’t quite “lose my shit” this morning watching the show…
But remember everytime you 3D print something another greenstuff puppy gets crushed by your fancy, modern bullshit 🙂
What ever your rant was I probably agree. In 5 years I have no doubt people will be saying 3d printing? That was so last decade?! ‘xxxx’ will change gaming
I hate greenstuff puppies … so this makes me want to get a 3D printer even more 😀
(am I evil ? ;-))
Happy Sunday all!
I too like the idea of a physical Golden Button award! Perhaps only available around the end of year awards time as then you only need to worry about making them at one certain time. Would certainly be very cool to hang on the wall around hobby areas or game rooms!
Right back to painting 🙂
What? Sunday already?
Help Justin out lads STOP FKN SWEARING!
Did Justin just give up on editing out the swearing? Not that it bothers me but I saw several arm waves that didn’t correlate to any beeping be used (ok maybe one arm wave). Great to see Warrens excitement for this crusades game, but sadly all I feel when looking at it is “wouldn’t that just look better in 28mm”, I’ve just never been able to reprogram my brain to approach a smaller scale, I know all the arguments for it I just don’t feel anything for it. There’s still too many Necromunda books for sure, but I think that… Read more »
I think that the reward is a nice idea but not for me. It might be worth putting a survey into the next cog release to get an opinion poll out there. I think they would be great for the yearly awards to maybe use them for the top three Golden Buttons fo the year though. It would give them much more prestige.
@warzan I would love to come and play with your 15mm bits buddy, I may need to borrow your painting glasses though 🙂
I think the golden button thing is find the way it is. Nice and casual.Shouldnt be a competition with physical prizes
Yup.
Happy Sunday! Warhammer Ancient Battles and Lord of the Rings have some siege rulesets I believe…been a long time since I looked at any. Classic Hack and DBMM perhaps, Tactica Medieval if you can find it. I imagine Gerry has access to most since he pointed me to a clean copy of WAB. @Warzan Might I ask, where did the magnificent walls come from? You printed those at your shop? I have some more fantasy medieval walls and such…but for a crusader siege those are incredible. The whole table is glorious…but you might need a few more war machines, Warren.… Read more »