Weekender XLBS: Reskinning Your Tabletop Battles
October 20, 2019 by crew
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Happy Sunday Brothers and Sisters of CoG! 01010111 01100101 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01000011 01101111 01000111 00101100 00100000 01110111 01100101 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01110011 01110100 01110010 01101111 01101110 01100111 00100001 ******It’s the XLBS Show****** Grab your favorite drink, something to nibble, and get ready for the OTT crew to lay some gaming wisdom on us all! So, did we decide @warzan about doing some ‘Snail Mail version of CogitoLudos’? I don’t know about everyone else, but I’m getting really stoked for the Star Wars Hobby Weekend in December. I have my Digital Ticket for the Star Wars… Read more »
Happy Sunday!!!
Hi happy countdown to star wars weekend
Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday.
Didn’t the Romans have forts of some kind on the British Isles?
Or are forts significantly different from castles?
The Roman’s brought flatpack forts with them as well
“What did the Romans do for us”? Inspired Ikea!
One more reason to dislike Ikea/Romans … 😉
We had meatballs before the Romans!
Castles are also a Dedicated House, a Fort and a Status symbol all in one whereas the Romans built giant Military Camps that happened to be fortified.
Castles were a unique Feudal Age type of building
Justine here you go
25 KIlometer = 15.2 Miles
Warren you saw that program too, interesting stuff, everyone says German, but never bring up the German Mennonites Communities
The Castle is Itter Castle in Austria
Happy Sunday to you all
Can we get some close off dates for potential overseas Digital Ticket holders please?
It’s very helpful for procrastinators like myself to have a deadline to work to…
For the 40K Hobby Weekend I was just about to make an order to find out I was already too late.
Happy Sunday!
Can I get re-skinned please?
I loved the look Gerry gave Lloyd when Lloyd mentioned the Baron Wars – incidentally the backerkit for the Baron Wars KS should be out today!
I did some reading on The Anarchy this week as Lloyd had mentioned it on a news article. Really interesting.
Awesome show guys. Speaking of what happens to a dead King @warzan check out what happened to William the Conqueror. When he died everyone panicked and though civil war would break out so they literally left his corpse in the bed and fled to their castles to get ready. He was robbed, stripped naked and left lying on the floor until some wandering Knight found him and actually organised a burial. This was days later and he was bloated and wreaked. Then as they held the Funeral Mass a man came up and demanded money because he claimed to own… Read more »
Happy Sunday one and all.
Social media is a great platform,but at the same time it sucks balls.Every household should have a @dignity,even an alpha striker needs some love.
@avernos Castle Itter is the one.
As for the Hitler thing as far as I’m aware all the proof we have of him being dead is just “The Notorious Liars the Soviet Union said so”. I mean Eichmann managed to get away and he was massive. There’s a great YouTube series about hunting the Nazi’s on Youtube, from detailed year long deep cover ops to straight up murder the Israeli’s really took care of business back in the day.
The Russians at first found the Goebbels and had the bodies autopsies. It wasnt until a few days later they found what they believed was Hitlers body and according to SMERSH Hitlers dentist then identified the bridge work on the jaws. The Soviets say the rest of the body was washed into the Berlin sewers The jaw bones were then placed in a lined box and a female Russian soldier was told to guard them until the end of the Battle of Berlin. There discovery was kept a secret to everyone including Zhukov who wasnt informed until 20 years later… Read more »
I think the teeth and skull are still in Moscow, as recently a team of French experts were allowed access to them.
https://www.france24.com/en/20180519-hitler-definitely-died-1945-new-study-teeth
@avernos do you mean the Tuskegee Airmen (332nd) who were the fighter air unit.
The Spielberg and Hanks produced show is about the US 8th Airforce, the 8th suffered the heaviest losses in the war so it’s safe to assume that one shouldn’t get too attached to any characters particularly the sweet kid from Idaho who is looking forward to going home to his sweetheart, and the gruff older captain who keeps a photograph of his girl on the instrument panel.
I think he was talking about the 92nd Infantry Division I think they’re the only Black unit that actually large scale saw combat outside of the USAAF. Tuskegee would also be cool.
8th Airforce were total beasts I can’t wait to watch that, didn’t they take more than half of all USAAF losses in WWII?
The Nisei Regiment would also be cool if they want to do a Minority unit. Mostly Japanese or Japanese descended Americans they got a boatload of Medals for being insanely brave.
Yes you’re absolutely right it’s the 92nd, mostly served in Italy
As for the 8th yes they took just over a third of the casualties and about half the losses, I think that figure also includes the Pacific as well as European.
yeap the Harlem Hellfighters, spent more time and took more losses in the first world war than any other American unit on the frontline trenches.
I haven’t seen anything about the second world war, but since segregation was a thing I imagine there are african american units that would be worth focusing in on for a story
I think the US army deliberately made African American troops fetch and carry only
Yep the 92nd was basically the only Front Line Black unit.
I think I had this wrong as there was an independent tank battalion that was African American that won many citations and some AA units that won awards as well
Great show and an interesting topic.
Reskinning historical for Star Wars legion could be quite fun, how about either the battle at Isandlwana or Rorkes Drift. The Clone troopers are acting as the British and the Droid army is playing as the Zulus.
For Rorkes Drift you could setup a remote outpost on the outer rim where mineral mining is required by both sides. Think of the characters you could use, Commanders Rex (my favourite), Cody and leading the force is of course Obi Wan Kenobi. For the Separatists, Count Dukoo and General Grievous leading the mighty horde.
@warzan, if you’re scummy, then in the words of Jabba, “you’re our kind of scum”
I get the feeling BoW has just reached that size where it’s attracting the haters… I have no cure
Happy Sunday!
@avernos Regarding the airborne uniforms. If I have my historical facts right, the 101st were issued the new uniforms right after Normandy, but the 82nd kept the M1942 longer. At least some of them were still using it even at Market Garden.
I was pretty sure all airborne had been requipped by Market Garden, although I could be wrong. Unlike the regular army who seemed to have received replacements piecemeal
Ref re-skinning and a Star Wars version of Rourkes Drift, there was a story from the old Dark Horse Empire series that had an Imperial ground force slowly ground down by the native populace – quite well done and was one of the better examples of adding some depth to the Empire. Otherwise I’m already picturing a take on the St Nazzaire Operation Chariot raid: In the wake of the defeat at Hoth a Rebel Specforce company plans to remind The Empire that the Rebellion is wounded but not defeated, so launches a raid deep into the Core Systems, the… Read more »
How to roman forts feature in the whole no castles to billy debate? I thought they also came up with the whole flat pack fortifications as well?
@warzan I screwed up the Hobby Weekend Visitors Centre ticket by not adding the coupon code
@warzan As editor of a farming magazine I’ve been attacked online by millennial vegan mob, called a rapist enabler, murderer absolute all sorts simply because they don’t agree with farming. Most haven’t got a clue what they’re talking about, the minute you challenge them back you get blocked or they try to Twitter storm you. I don’t like the word snowflakes but by God most of them are they can dish it out but can’t take it. Most don’t understand the word debate, its like they’re shouting at you through social media and won’t listen to a reasoned debate on… Read more »
@warzan
The last invasion of the UK was in 1797 , when the French landed in Wales. it was called the battle of Fishguard
“The locals on the cliff included women wearing traditional Welsh costume which included a red whittle (shawl) and Welsh hat which, from a distance, some of the French mistook to be red coats and shako, thus believing them to be regular line infantry.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fishguard#targetText=The%20brief%20campaign%2C%20on%2022,the%20Society%20of%20United%20Irishmen.
https://youtu.be/kgG9CI0EruQ
https://youtu.be/SkZRQQoD4yc
@avernos damn and blast sir!
The battle of Castle Itter was the first thing I thought of for the Star Wars challenge, I was planning it in my head and then you said it.
Now I have to think of something else…
A possible series a games based on Vercors 1944 maybe interesting. The Germans were trying to break the Maquis in the mountains. They glider assaulted a vital villages with paratroopers who then had to hold on whilst German Mountain troops attacked the mountain passes to reach them and panzer grenadiers fought their way up a mountain road to get there.
@warzan You’re not the only one. I’ve seen that type of behaviour in a lot of websites (gaming and non-gaming) too. There are no arguments that make sense. There is no discussion. It’s just *beeps* shouting abuse and running away the moment anyone dares to challenge their point of view. It’s always the type of person that can only ever play the victim, nothing you do ever pleases them and yet they offer no solutions because that would mean they can’t play the victim. I’d label them Cartman-clones, but SJW (‘social justice warrior’) tends to be the default term which… Read more »