Weekender XLBS: AT-ATs Take Shape For Big Salute Hoth Game!
March 1, 2015 by warzan
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Happy Candlelight Sunday
Happy Sunday!!
No, John is trying to paint At-Ats, your busy changing John’s work. LOL. I was waiting for someone to ring a bell…
“And in this corner with the light At-Ats Lloyd “The Shader”, and in this corner with his dark At-Ats Warren “The Imperial”.
My thought was John and Dave had that look of two kids stuck in a car with the Battling Bickersons.
Google has some great ideas for relationship councillors in your area. 🙂
Late comer to the AT-AT debate: In the video cuts the one one the left looks awesome. Lighter base color of the AT-AT is probably more movie-faithful, and easier to get contrast WITHIN the AT-AT. However, if you make them too light, they will offer no contrast against the board, which I assume will be mostly white with all that ice and snow. Then again, these will be so large that the second contrast question probably won’t matter,
Timed the ending just about perfe…
I think Tony Soprano got killed at the end of the episode…
Okay, THAT was funny.
“Do-o-on’t stop . . . be-lieeeeevin’ . . .” [CUT TO BLACK]
There was a fair few of those card packs available, I can’t remember the specific sets but they definitely existed!
As well as the Chaos deck I can remember 40K, Dwarves, and Goblins. There were probably more.
Still got two sets, a 40k one and one for epic.
Man o war had a set
Monsters
Warriors
I don’t know about the 40k sets but there were 4 for Warhammer. Chaos as shown here in red. Goblinoids in Green, Heroes in blue and Monsters and Demons in yellow. I remeber playing this on the school bus back in 89′-90′. After a while we had some many people playing we had to combine decks. The different decks even scaled Goblinoids being weakest, then heroes, chaos and finally monsters being the strongest. Everynody wanted the Balrog.
John’s look during the great AT-AT debate was something between “god help me they’re going to make me change it aren’t they” and “see…see…I told you guys (the viewers).” LOL!!
happy sunday 😀
Well, I like Lloyds AT ATs but I also like Warrens AT ATs. But which is best..?
There’s only one way to find out…
FIGHT!!
Hooking the cloth over the table sounds good. Something along the lines of big eyelets and bungie cords should do the trick.
Also…
As well as doing it when you say “Stompa.” Is John going to twitch whenever you say “AT AT” from now on..?
Lol
Well there was only 1 stompa, there’s 5 AT-AT so it will be interesting – can’t wait to see it all together at Salute!
Oh aye. I think it’s going to make for a very impressive and imposing site.. 🙂
Missing out on seeing this, this possibly being the last Salute and me never having been before. Means I’m even more upset that I can’t go this year like I wanted to. 🙁
Site..? Should be sight. Bloomin stupid phone.
This will be my first salute and It will be such a shame if it’s my last. Great final edit to the programme by the way.
Yeah they had a space marine deck as well
Did you really need to waste 15 minutes of this arguing? That is not what I subscribed for!
If you want to have a meaningful debate on the different approaches to painting the AT-AT’s you should do two and compare them.
If we were gonna get our passion on about one thing this year, it was gonna be the hoth AT-ATs – do not underestimate the power of the force 😉
Really? I thought the arguing was some of the most entertaining content, its like wargamming with Jeremy Kyle lol
lol – i’d hopped for more like American Chopper than Jeremy Kyle 🙂
Grow some beards and ill accept American Chopper 😉
I agree @jamjarst, not worth the money.
Loved the show.
Having watched the AT AT argument I have nothing but sympathy for Warren and Lloyds parents.How you must have suffered.
@Warzan maybe try the Mat O War Green from Antenocitis Wokshop?
I think that will be our fallback. It’s not just as nice as the grass fabric, but basically indestructible!
If you do go for Mat of War go the extra and ask them to send it rolled. Its a bugger trying to iron them creases out.
As a side note yo can also get Mat o War from the Hobby Den in Co-Kildare
http://www.thehobbyden.com
The news on Salute came as part of a column in WSS on the issues facing the UK convention scene. Here are the relevant quotes –
“Even the monolith that is Salute in London is under threat; this will be the last one at the Excel Centre. Who knows if a suitable replacement will be found?”
“The current issue with the future of Salute is the cost of hiring London’s cavernous Excel Centre is becoming prohibitive.”
To reiterate what I said on the forum post; there is no evidence that the sky is falling in yet, just the possibility that a suitable venue may not be found.
There is a drawback to it primarily being a traders fair, if price goes up, less traders go (although I would personally be pretty disappointed if a trader pulled out – depending on the rise of course) less traders means less reason to attend.
Perhaps a rethink of the entire offering is needed, start to take it towards a GenCon type format.
Salute won’t be the same with out the trip in the DLR – full of wargamers and the marathon crowd, we always play the guess which one they are going to game
That is a great shame about Salute… Look forward to seeing your updates on this and of course notification that i’ve won $30 to spend on resin/plastic :o)
Have a fab day one and all
Man, Combat Cards. Now there’s a blast from the past. Pretty sure I had a set of their Space Marine cards once upon a time. That wonderful time when GW was making so many varied games – Trolls in the Pantry anyone?
Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber …… Ding Ding Round 2.
You missed the candles for valentines day by a few days
@warzan have you looked at http://www.terrainmat.com
That was a hilarious insight into John’s week! Poor man 🙂
Have you tried the FAT mats from Frontline Gaming. They are awesome. Might be worth a look for your tables for Boot Camp? Happy Sunday!
I lol’d at the end
i remember the cards, in fact I was working in a GW store at the time! Another good episode guys especially enjoyed the painting of AT ATs discussion. I love the passion that this hobby brings out in people.
FAITH does look interesting but is looking to barely reach its funding as of this morning… Love to see you guys do a discussion on the impact of Kickstarter both from the positive and the negative angles.
Have you considered a hello kitty style AT AT? Even the empire must have had an equality policy somewhere….plus would scare the crap out of any rebel forces.