Weekender XLBS: Hobby Time & BoW Boot Camp Green Light?
January 25, 2015 by lloyd
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Happy Sunday!
The Boot Camp sounds amazing and very reasonably priced too. Just the thing to get into Dropzone Commander
Happy Sunday guys, the boot camp sounds good, and alot cheaper than I was expecting! Id probably stay the Sunday night for ease of travel. But I’m sure one of you guys could put me up for the night 😉 speaking of putting up, you guys staying with me again for salute?
That would be great Dave
1) Can you spare the room?
2) you sure Mrs Dave won’t mind?
Will chat to you Monday about this 🙂
Warren, so your blanking my offer 🙁
I’m like a 15 minute drive for Salute, with plenty of space for you and the gang.
The boot camp sounds good, it’s a reasonable price.
I shall give you a shout on Monday too 🙂
We don’t know who’s going or travel plans yet so will have to sort all of that first 🙂
cool speak to Monday I’ll be back from work at 18:30
No offence mate, I basically offered a year in advance lol
no offence taken Dave but I had also offered before Salute last year
Careful guys, you are making my other half giggle here 😉
And yes I’ve explained that it’s only about the miniatures 😉
Don’t worry, I hear it’s personality that counts rather than size…
We could always do an Olympics style bidding system to host BOW 😉
Probably wind up staying in Qatar if you do that lol
And yes @warzan its already agreed, and I’ve arranged a bigger place for us all to stay at. My parents have offered there house up in sacrifice for salute, so this time we will have a couple of spare rooms and two beds for you guys to fight over. Also about a 15 minute drive from salute as you know because we stopped by their house when we picked up the extension lead for salute. And even if the shite hit the fan, you can still all stay at the Dartford studio 😉
hey @deaddave if you need a place to crash i have spare rooms at my place 🙂
Sweet @dignity that would be much appreciated!
…and still no chance to watch on my android tablet. 🙁
Try it now 🙂
I watch every week on my android tablet no bother
You saved my weekend! Thanks a lot.
I like the sound of the Boot Camp.
If I wasn’t on the other side of the world I’d be very tempted to join in.
You might want to think about a rulebook as part of the Starter Army package.
I’ve just had a look at the entry on the Hawk Wargames site for the PHR plastic starter and it only mentions a Reference Sheet for the army.
As you get further back in time with your historical gaming, the problem of making sure your guys are equipped properly diminishes. A Greek hoplite has a spear and shield. Even if you by a multi-part plastic kit instead of one piece metal minis, it’s hard to go wrong. As for someone starting out who wants something easy to get into (and who isn’t concerned about which period they want to game), go with SAGA. Buy a pre-made 4pt warband and you’re golden.
I where about to say SAGA for ease of picking up and go.
Ok watched the first few min’s if Lloyd is doing the US in BA then you are going to have everyone ganging up against Justin…ok I know that’s nothing unusual but surely 3 Allies an 1 Axis player is going to be boring? Surely Lloyd should go Japanese or Italian?
I’ll give a tentative yes. The only thing stopping me from giving a definite yes right now is making sure I can afford the whole trip. That aside, bagsy PHR :p
@warzan if you want quick easy entry into historical. .then go DBA in 15 mm all armies are based in a standard way and many min’s companies do sell armies in a DBA format. Plus you can then expand to using other DBx rules or a system like Fields of Glory.
For Bootcamp travel options: what if I come over in a dingy? I’d be landing somewhere on the (hopefully) east coast of (hopefully) Northern Ireland…
Those bootcamps sound like awesome value
The boot camp sounds like a goer, though personally I wouldn’t attend the Dropzone one as the game doesn’t appeal to me, but I’d definately be interested in any future ones.
I’m looking forward to following the progress of your army building for Bolt Action. I’m in the process of planning mine, and realising I’ve got a lot of converting to do especially with the infantry to fit out a Chinese army. Though the great thing the Chinese government bought arms and armour from many countries, so I can have a bits and pieces from every other faction.
That’s a great idea! Will work for both sides too, the Maoists and the Nationalists – have you seen the Mongol Infantry set from Fireforge Games? Be tempted to see if you could convert them into WW2 Mongolians/Manchurians 🙂
Happy Sunday,
You can count me in for the hobby boot camp and i would like the extra night stay on Sunday and i will fly home Monday.
I’ve been wanting to try Drop zone commander for a while now and this is to good an opportunity to miss out on.
P.s UCM for me.
Well I am definitely up for the Boot camp if I can get a flight from Luton Airport:-)
I can get a flights from Luton gets me into Belfast at 8.50am, 4.55pm, 7.10pm or 8.15pm…so it depends on the connections from Belfast to BoW whether I need to get get the early morning flight or the afternoon flight…lol
Oh and definitely has to be the Resistance for me..lol
I had assumed the Resistance wasn’t an option as they don’t have a plastic starter.
Never looked at that just read through the factions…but if I have to pay a bit more for them I don’t mind…lol
Like I say, I am just assuming 🙂
It sucks to live so far away otherwise I’d be there!! The boot camps sound like so much fun! Oh well when I win the lottery… LOL
Happy Sunday, Folks. Warren, buddy, pal, my friend I’m from the place that made chicken wings ( Buffalo Wings ) Buffalo New York. Man we have every type of wing, your little heart can ever want. Plus roast beef sandwiches on salted rolls. Real Pizza not the stuff ones that tastes like cardboard . One day y’all have to come here and really pig out , bars don’t close till 4am and man we have a ton of them. I would love to go to your boot camp but that weekend we have our family St. Pat’s day party ,… Read more »
I’m from across the border in Fort Erie! I always laugh when other places say they have the best Buffalo Wings…. they obviously never had them from Buffalo!
Warren, is there a way we can work a trip to Buffalo into our Salute schedule? I really want them wings.
Even though I don’ think I’ll be able to go due to work commitments 🙁 I think the boot camp idea sounds awesome and the price more than reasonable for what you get. 🙂
Bit gutted about it being Dropzone that I’ll be missing out on though as I would have loved to have had a go at that one. 🙁
I’ll have a look at the option from me flying from Kopenhagen and see if i can make it too you lot.
Happy Sunday! This boot camp weekends are a great idea. If I hadn’t already a great painters seminar on the same weekend I would have said yes for sure. So I hope you get enough participants for the first time so I can come to the second. 😉
I’ll do what i can do come so please hold on to a ticket for me and i will get in touch with you shortly about flights and such.
Great show guys. And a good price for boot camp. Sadly i have to pay around 430 £ just to fly to Ireland and back to Denmark again.
Anyway sounds like it could be an awesome weekend 😉
Boot camp sounds great =]
Might consider taking the ferry if it’d be cheaper.
Would love to do the bootcamp but sadly have health issues that prevent me from being able to travel on my own. -Fail-
Happy Sunday!
Im very interested in the boot camp weekend as i want to get into the gaming side of the hobby but slightly worried in that im a complete novice at painting and gaming.
If it means that i wont slow down the proceedings im up for it 🙂
It’s the Violator :). I wouldn’t worry about it. Plus, DzC minis are pretty easy to put together and paint.
Sounds like I’m in a very similar boat to you then matey! I’m an avid hobbyist and though I enjoy my painting I’m no great shake at it yet. Sadly I just don’t get the time and have the opportunity to game much (though I could try harder with the latter tbh!). Something like this would be a huge gateway for me to actually get my arse gaming within the hobby.
Aside from Romain and John, pretty much the whole BoW crew aren’t great at the painting and modelling. I personally take forever and a day to finish one miniature. So no it won’t be a problem. Anyway, its your weekend too, you’re aloud to go at your own pace. I promise Warren won’t be standing behind the painting tables cracking a whip… that costs extra.
It’s both the appeal of getting into DZC and the incentive of painting up an army quickly that appeals to me .. hope to really get a place:-)
The bootcamp does sound awesome, can you guys pencil me in? I would need to book the Friday off work and also make sure that I won’t bankrupt myself with the flights. If I was coming I would probably go for the ucm.
With regards to the fan fiction Friday, are there any issues with the IP for some of the game systems? Wouldn’t want you guys to get more cease and desist orders!
Bigphis is probably on to something here. Fiction on free part of site is probably ok. But if it’s in backstage, GW and others can say you are making folks pay for THEIR trademarked universes and characters.
Glad Lloyd will be repping the USA at the BoW gaming tables!