Weekender XLBS: Star Wars Hype & Colonies On The Moon?!
April 21, 2019 by lloyd
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Happy Sunday everyone!
Happy Sunday Backstagers!
A Space Themed XLBS is just what the doctor ordered.
Speaking of Space Fleets, I actually found a bag yesterday with some models from the 90s games, Space Fleet.
Rise of Skywalker… After the big Ewok party in Return of the Jedi, Luke gets drunk and gets very affectionate with a bunch of Ewoks – so loads of Ewok Jedi Knights are on the Forest Moon of Endor. They sense Ray on Endor and fly down to see her and then go on to dominate the Christmas toy market as kids go mad for Ewok Jedi. Think I’ll avoid the movie now.
You should have mentioned the central role played by Jar Jar in teaching the Ewoks how to dance in a then contemporary style!
Force sensitive ewoks, I was handed one as one shot with the West End system long ago but this makes perfect sense as to how it happened.
Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday everyone. Building out the Falklands campaign in the “Naval Command” system, and getting ready for some British vs. French Darkstar action later this afternoon with @damon . 😀
Happy Sunday all! Looking forward to this one!
Great Show Guys. Did some measuring and the moon is about 90mm Across while the blip thing is only 5mm. So the blip is 1/18th the diameter of the moon, bit of Google searching and the moon is 3,474km in diameter, divide that by 18 and we get 193km. There is absolutely no way we here on Earth have a 190+ Kilometer Space Craft and keep in kind that since it’s behind the moon it’s even bigger than that. @warzan is right about keeping secrets. Bletchley Park (where they cracked Enigma in WWII) was kept secret for decades, The Firs… Read more »
Star Wars is still good classic pulp scifi and as Gerry has said it’s laser swords and pew pew guns in the grand tradition of the Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers film serials of the 30’s and 40’s. Darth Vader is just a reimagined Killer Kane isn’t he?
For anyone with an interest in learning to 3D Model please send me a PM. So far three people have expressed some interest in taking part in some basic tutorials/ a basic tutorial please let me know. All the software is free, the tutorials are free, I want nothing in return but to help the community learn to 3D Model and with 3D Printing on our horizon I think it’s going to be invaluable knowledge for us in the hobby. I am incredibly flexible so don’t worry about your timezone or availability, if you can only do it at 2am… Read more »
https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1380286/
FOr those interested in how the bases turned out
Gerry, This is canon about Sith Ghosts https://youtu.be/DoOwyGyVsSA Also one of the rumors is Rey is a clone from Lukes Hand from Bespin created by Sheev Palpatine. Before everyone gets happy here is the quote from KK about the old republic. Speaking with MTV News’ Josh Horowitz at Star Wars Celebration, Lucasfilm head honcho Kathleen Kennedy cut straight to the point like a lightsaber through butter when asked if they were developing any projects around Knights of the Old Republic. “You know, we talk about that all the time,” Kennedy said. “Yes, we are developing something to look at.” also,… Read more »
More information here
https://screenrant.com/star-wars-obi-wan-tv-show-disney-plus/
The looking at the old republic might just be the Rule of Two similar to the legends novel series Star Wars: Darth Bane
Here is the info about the Rogue One show
On November 8, 2018, it was announced that a live-action prequel series was officially in development and set to go on Disney’s upcoming streaming service, Disney+. The series will take place before the events in Rogue One and will focus on Cassain Andor with Diego Luna to reprise the role.
Great show.
For the Giant Skeleton. You probably have the Myth skeleton boss. The one where four skeleton’s are carrying a big one.
https://mellis1644.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/myth-undead-the-big-guys/
or from Green Horde zombie dragon
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cmon/zombicide-green-horde/posts/2010203
Will have a look.
The Skeleton boss is a bit campy, but I think would look awesome smashing through another army/force.
Zombicide Black Plague and Green Horde have several models that might interest you.
It may be mentioned further in the comments but Mierce miniatures do a number of Epic Giant Skeletons.. one in particular has a platform on his shoulders that carries skeleton bowmen.. they are pricey but well worth a look.. https://mierce-miniatures.com/index.php?act=pro&pre=mrm_dkl_jut_wht_mbs_802_000
It’s obviously too late for the show but the Grenadier range is sold by http://www.mirliton.it and I love it all
Cool, might be a place to get some skelly cav 🙂
Ben, I backed this on KS for Norse
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/800873007/svilland-a-norse-mythology-themed-campaign-setting
Or alternatively go for a dedicated system like Fate of the Norns: Ragnarok?
Read “The Broken Sword” by Poul Anderson. It is essentially Saga Age of Magic the Novel. Set in Dark Ages Britain but featuring battles between elves, dwarves, trolls, frost giants…
On the basing aegument
#1 I have too much stuff to paint to rebase anything
#2 As I play King’s of War and 8th edition whfb I still need to movement tray certain models so what I do is assemble fantasy figures on round bases of the appropriate size. Sally 4th do round 20mm mdf bases. This is what I’d use for your elf army.
For slot filling in bases I use acrylic filler (decorators calk) as it’s insanely cheap.
From my space ship orbiting from behind the moon, Happy Sunday! (Really, I’m sitting in a house in Pennsylvania but don’t tell Warren. Let him think this is from a spaceship 🙂
Morning all. Ah the new Sunday tradition. Watching Ben lose the will to live. How long can he last. Great xlbs as always
he knew the risks
It is my greatest struggle…
You should sit there and read a book and see if they notice
Happy Easter everyone.
I remember when Fantasy Flight Games declared that the Warhammer Fantasy RolePlay 3rd edition product range was ‘complete’. It was obviously newspeak for ‘abandoned’. Episode IX feels like that.
although in the case of WFRP 3rd the world let out a sigh of relief that no more of that shite would be vomited forth ^^
Quite.
Happy (Easter) Sunday all
As @warzan said, the music from Star Wars just takes me back to my younger years and the inner kid in me gets all excited, very much looking forward to December. It was my birthday last friday when the trailer was released, wife wasn’t impressed when I said “best birthday present ever!” 😀
Happy Sunday folks.
For the love of all that’s holy and your own sanity,3D print them with spaces for coins lads.
Had a comment typed out but the website glitches so had to reload the page and copy&paste ate the comment, now I can’t remember what I was going to say, so can only comment on what I watched after the reload. ? When did Justin cosplay as Gollum? Think we need pictures. ? What’s wrong with uniformity in fantasy armies? I agree for something like greenskins that they’re not going to have uniforms tailored for the army, but something like dwarves, elves or humans with a standing army are going to have uniforms; at most you might get slightly differing… Read more »
hey @lordofuzkulak
I think about a skelly army moving across a land and raising new troops as it goes. So they wouldn’t have armor of one particular faction/city etc.
For me it’s just become a personal preference to reduce uniformity across an army. Absolutely people can paint as they please but I like the idea of changing the shades of a colour scheme. Not everyone is going to end up with the same shade of blue or red. After all there clothing may not have been made at the same time, can be dirty or sun bleached etc.
Might have been worth mentioning that in the vid as it came across as you being angry about there generally being any uniformity in a fantasy army and specifically that there’s zero reasons for any skellie army to have any uniformity whatsoever and that it was impossible for any skeleton to have bat-themed wargear. When it comes to mass battle games, as I said, the spellcaster would be raising mass graves, not the odd body here and there (you’d have to be a rather pitiful necromancer to be doing that, not to mention that’d be impractical to amass an army… Read more »
Thanks @warzan the box of smugness was indeed cut with the k40 and took about 45 minutes of cutting including the engrave and longer to put it together. I decided to try the k40 whisperer again after what you said. I didn’t give you an informed opinion of the software on last weeks comment as I fell out with it fairly quickly. ( didn’t know completely what I was doing at that point, despite using these in the past but that would be 20 years ago.) Shame but completely understandable about your decision on the laser cutter. Most of the… Read more »
In keeping with today’s space theme … Here is a quick peek at the Darkstar live game set to begin in about half an hour (1700 GMT, 21 April). If anyone is interested in spectating or participating, send me a PM and I’ll send the link to the web conference. Hope to see some of you there, and Happy Sunday! Meanwhile, to weigh in on today’s conspiracy … I must reveal that yes, that moon footage is real. It’s just from 500 years in the future. I’m not sure how it got slipped back in time like this, but the… Read more »
@warzan @justin — take a look at this KS. These guys are looking for people to help promote their 3D products. The company makes a product called Glooped! Glooped is a glue and a paint. The Paint already does the smoothing and the glue is made for PLA. Worth a look, may want to contact them https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1672378622/glooped