Weekender XLBS: Hobby Time & Old School Warhammer Questing!
February 8, 2015 by lloyd
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Happy Sunday!
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happy sunda ytoo
Happy Sunday ! From the Land down under! Having seen (a few weeks ago) Lloyd give Justine and John hard times for their terrain layout, I would love to see Lloyd do a series of hobby labs where he takes a 4×4 or 3×3 piece of board and each fortnight take it to a finished gaming table, from planning with pen and paper through to weathering, buildings and the little touches that bring it to life. Each fortnight he could demonstrate the techniques used and then list the materials he will be using in the next episode so we can… Read more »
I would even love a ‘build some terrain’ boot camp at some point.
I hate to correct Justin (ok, who am I kidding? – I love correcting people :p) but aerial reconnaissance in the First World War was extremely useful and paid attention to by the top brass. Even in 1914 they spotted the German advance during ‘the race to the coast’, and by 1917 the had British refused the Pope’s proposal of an Easter Truce as it would interrupt photo-reconnaissance missions.
only major difference in the opening stages of the first world war was that whilst Germany and France had seen the potential of aerial reconnaissance (had had begun formulating the beginnings of what would become the respective airforces at a later time) the Brits in 1914 were relying on civilian flying clubs, painting everything green and supplying the pilots with elephant guns! War Office actually began requisitioning elephant guns from the private collections of aristocrats for the use of the Royal Flying Corps as we hadn’t really been developing our aerial capacity at that point. Good idea, but no-one really… Read more »
Happy Sunday!!
Happy Sunday to everyone!
Happy Sunday Folks. Wow y’all made me go and dig up my old Warhammer Quest, Hero quest, and Advance Hero Quest boxed sets full of dust but playable. the fun I had with these games as a kid/adult . Love the show thanks for the entertainment .
Happy Sunday,well it will be when I’ve made up more of the 10 boxes of PSC Late German army I’m starting for FoW. Only one distraction permitted, and that’s this video!
I knew nothing about Warhammer Quest, being as it appeared during my great wargaming hiatus, but seriously?!
Looking at that stuff makes me think that it was one of the greatest products that GW ever did. Dropping it does seem like the greatest travesty they’ve committed. Not revisiting it looks like the height of stupid business decisions, but I suppose that the company knows what it’s doing…
Here’s hoping that Mantic can produce something as good (or better) when Dungeon Saga arrives.
Having play tested Dungeon Saga in mantic towers yesterday I can say 100% it’s shaping up to be as good as WHQ ever was -I can’t wait to get the finished game now!
Now I know where I recognised the footsore style from Musketeer!
That by it self is saying that they will be of a quality
AVBCW is one of the games that is on the list for taking a closer look
Indeed, smaller in the gaps mini companies are very useful for those quirky rulesets.
Happy Sunday! What a great show. Warren’s love for WQ shines through and I could not agree more. Owning and enjoying a copy of that box is about as near to pure hobby joy as you can get. For me it was Necromunda – purely for the ability to create a unique subterranean sci-fi wild west from the rich background, plethora of content and scenarios produced and the lovely range of minis. This period was the pinnacle of GW for me as a producer of the finest games and worlds – not just minis. Thanks for taking me back there… Read more »
Happy Sunday!
I agree Warren, GW should do another Warhammer Quest, with a massive box full of goodies and all the rules.
Being able to use the miniatures for warhammer wargaming, rpg and warhammer quest would be a clever move
Justin really needs to get out more if he hasn’t seen pigs that size! Bloody ‘city folk’ ; )
PIGS
It was the Wipers Gazette if I remember correctly.
Wipers Times. the BBC made a docu-drama on it recently.
Soft strong and thoroughly aborbant
Happy Sunday. .. really good show. I now also feel old… As @warzan said that War hammer Quest was a way into the war hammer world. My introduction was through Warhammer Fantasy Role play. Same principle but all dice and sheets, no mini’s. Nice to see the VBCW mentioned in the miniatures, I have actually used Bolt Action to play VBCW just to tie together two topics. I will say though for me the thing that got me into VBCW was the total tongue in cheek aspect about it. Knowing one of the guys that came up with the concept… Read more »
it’s a great idea VBCW, and has a great cult-like following. who knows, maybe BoW could do maybe a one-off piece on it once the Bolt Action coverage has gone out?
Great show, kinda makes me want to crack out my warhammer quest – Although I have to say I preferred advanced heroquest – D12 system worked better for me. Although master of puppets is going on now.
Great to see Ches on the show and justifiably mocking nickelback. Really nice range of minis – love the skrealings – does anyone know which book contains their battleboard for saga?
Warhammer Quest was my favourite of GW’s many Specialist games back in the day, and it’s frequently the game i play with my old university crew when we meet up. Hell, if nothing else the variety of expansion Hero packs could just change the whole game: Warrior Priests, Nobles, questing Knights, Slayers, Wardancers, Rangers, Chaos Warriors, Pit Fighters & Witch Hunters, they all brought something unique to the table with their own unique character booklets that gave them a whole new set of options for the roleplaying element of the game. I always thought though that Quest would be a… Read more »
‘Shepherd Wars!’ with Justin! 🙂
could you do so game play videos of warhammer quest and maybe a review of hero quest , advanced hero quest and warhammer quest comparing them to each other and maybe newer games too .
funny how lloyds trees are immune to all the bombs…
Great show, any views on the current Steam game of Warhammer Quest?. I like it as you can do a quick dungeon crawl to use up a spare 10 minutes or so.
I’ve recently ordered some of the Footsore Irish to start a Dux Bellorum faction (i’m probably going to base them in a way so I can play other games as well with them). They have not arrived yet (probably due to Ches being in Northern Ireland). Fairly excited to see them. I’ll probably be using their early and late Saxon range as well for Dux Bellorum and perhaps some Lion Rampart 1066 fun!
A hobby lab on roads would be good. I’m sort of stuck on a cheap convenient way to do it.
Hugely impressed with Footsore. That pipedream Perry Saracen army for Lion Rampant and C&C is in danger of turning into a pipedream Footsore Saracen army for Lion Rampant and C&C.
Re: Bolt Action boot camp, could you let us know the proposed dates, so that some of us can book the time off work? Warhammer Quest! That takes me back! As a teenager I played so much of this with one of my best friends, controlling 2 heroes each. Inspired by my skaven collection and Bill King short stories, I made a huge sewer system series of boards for the game. I agree it’s crazy that GW didn’t / don’t rerelease the game. A modern version with new plastic miniatures would be amazing. You could have a variety of heroes… Read more »
May 22nd-24th.
Cool, thanks!
On the subject of Romano-British, fantasy-ish ‘gaming in the gaps’ so to speak, anyone ever read Bernard Cornwell’s Warlord trilogy? Follows a young Saxon boy called Derfel (who later becomes the venerated Saint Derfel in Medieval Welsh lore) who’s adopted by Merlin, is brought up as a Brit and becomes one of Arthur’s lieutenants. British kingdoms still kicking the crap out of each other, all the while it’s distracting them from dealing with the constant waves of Saxon migrants landing on the east coast. Arthur and his companions trying to forge an alliance against the coming onslaught 🙂 good read!
Yeah loved that series and have always wanted to try and recreate the characters in an army. If I remember right, gripping beast even do a set of “wolf tail warriors” that seem to be based on the description of Derfels’ own warriors.
That’s a reminder. I’ve read two out of three. I’ve another book to buy.