Cult Of Games XLBS: Illuminating Your Hobby & Celebrating Completed Projects
May 24, 2020 by avernos
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It’s the XLBS SHow! Happy Sunday fellow CoG’s!
(and the show begins with mirth and merriment)
I love the way the OTT Team gets along and feels so relaxed with one and another that they can mess with each other even when getting ready to film a show that ‘Millions’ will be watching! 🙂
Happy Sunday!!!
Happy Sunday!
From an ex boy scout and cadet who spotted Semaphore a mile off once he got around to Warren’s code last week… Definitely a try harder!
@warzan Cathars are generally believed to be a peaceful bunch. However there are some hooks for your setting. Where they disagreed with mainstream Christian’s is in their belief in two gods, one good and one evil. Want to tie it in some more? Catharism is believed to have originated in the Aremenia/Byzantine region. So your Rangers could be the Ottoman sent to restore balance which was lost when the french Cathars were purged and, evil forces disturbed by the Cathar’s beliefs have grown left uncontrolled. Region wise, think the East Pyrenees up through Carxassonne to Albi. Very hilly with lots… Read more »
@brendon, she’s not busty… ‘she’ has got to snuggle her nuts somewhere!
I think others in the class are being very cruel about your passion for small cuddly, furry animals. I’ll be having words with their parents about the Freudian undertones of them constantly going on about their ‘toy soldiers’, especially Warren’s about his belief that the smaller the better.
I think it’s adorable, just so long as to you grow out of it before big school… Oh… hang on!
@warzan Riddle solve btw
Great show guys. @warzan Hundred Years War, strap in brother. Rangers definitely existed they would have been called Yeomen and would have functioned sort of like the Rangers act with the Shire, they keep pests out of the woods, they hunt game, they keep the roads safe and they generally just keep the peace. I think you’re a tad off on your view of the Religion of the time. This is about a Century before Luther would shatter Christianity into tens of thousands of different factions. The whole “Bring on the End Times” is a much more Modern Evangelical idea… Read more »
Love it! – Ok so a rethink is in order based on this 🙂
The Cathar Crusade washt until the early 1200’s if I remember correctly and then your into Holy Blood and the Holy Grail Territory
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Blood_and_the_Holy_Grail
Further to the West from Gascony you have the massive forests round Limoge which are still there and if course with the Cathars your into the Languedoc region at the base of the Pyrenees so some nice hily and mountainous terrain for creatures to hide in
@torros thanks for the correction. I got it mixed up with the “People’s Crusade”. Joan of Arc comes at the end of the Hundred Years War in the early 1400’s so you’re properly in to the era of Full Plate and Shining Armour. There were plenty of Heretics and “Cults” still around by the time of Joan of Arc, the 15th-16th Century is the peak of Clerical nonsense where the Church basically lost control of it’s Clerics (thanks in part to Lazy Bishops and the Holy Roman Empire) and guys like Hus and Luther emerged so lots to work with.… Read more »
@elessar2590 I think I remember a few years go that dont think there was ever a peoples crusade. It was just propaganda that was announced from the pulpit and that if you couldn’t ho on the crusade yourself you could give money. That might be all wrong though and I’m thinking of something else
I’ve heard the same thing but the evidence is pretty overwhelming. Whether or not it can be called a crusade is a bit sketchy but three things aren’t. 1. They gathered in Central Europe where they Massacred a whole lot of Jews. 2. They Showed up outside Constantinople. 3. The Emperor sent them to Asia. All the stuff about fighting and leadership is a bit sketchy but there was a gathered group of people heading towards the Holy Land calling themselves Crusaders. Fight or Pay was more of a Slogan than a rule, for someone as insanely wealthy as a… Read more »
Happy Sunday Everyone! FYI RoSD Mission one text can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RuWlf4_t6Iel27CzMvCZSYuRiGKgkO6-oapQs2kBmUc/edit
With your talk of atmospheres in The Martian it reminds me I was reading the other day that the earths magnetic field is weakening especially between South Meruxa and Afica which could start to affect the orbits of satellites and space craft
Happy Sunday @warzan. Sorry but Code busters is solved this week (and I was first!!)
With the “Slouch hate up in combat” I will buy a carton of Beer to anyone who can find me pics of Australian Infantry (Not Support Weapons but actual Riflemen) in combat wearing any kind of slouch hat in the WWII Desert because I’ve not ever seen anyone wearing it beyond Crewed Weapons. That being said it didn’t stop me doing a Company of 28mm Aussies in slouch hats.
Best thing about Dave Graffam models is the layer options you get so you can make similar buildings all look different
That Sepia wash sounds like the Vallejo Black shade wash which is so black I’m convinced is made a liquid dark matter
Happy Sunday!
The ‘light Stick’. The greatest invention since the wheel!
Epic!
illuminate
lomos (flick and swish)
Easy there gandalf
Warren
For your game, use the spider bases from mythic battles set
Remember with soldering, the bigger the glob the better the job.
You’re barred. Get out 😉
Let the lunacy of XLBS begin.
Thank you Warren for activating google on my phone
Remember, it’s always listening…
Did the Templars get disbanded or did they just change their name @warzan
disbanded by Pope Clement V by the bull Vox in Excelso, although in Spain and Portugal they had successors and in Scotland the bull was never properly executed and there are tales that they continued merged with the hospitaller. But at that point you’re running into myth territory
There was only ever one execution in Britain and Scotland of The Templars
I’ll see if I can find the link about them changing their name and continuing in France/Spain I think.
Most of them joined Monastic orders or the Knights Hospitaller
Not the Spanish and Portuguese they had their own, hence my highlighting of them
you did indeed I mist that when I first watched the show.
I cant find the article I was thinking of.
In Spain the Knights Templar held out against the king’s troops in their castles. In the end they were found not guilty of heresy and under the protection of King James II they became part of the Order of Montessa which was affiliated to the Calatrava.
that could be the story I saw they changed their name to something? I know it wasn’t the hospitaller but I cant think what they changed to Montessa doesn’t ring a bell ether.
There were a lot of Minor Knightly Orders at the time. Knights of Santiago (St James) was pretty big in Spain is rumoured to have Templars join them. Remember something like 90% of the Templars were not Knights they were admin guys and servants, they were a Monastic Order taking vows of Poverty, Chastity and Obedience just like a Monk or Religious Priest would. While the Templars weren’t as bad as they were charge with they were still objectively Heretical and Pope Clement V did nothing wrong (okay he did a lot wrong, they shouldn’t have been killed maybe just… Read more »
The main heresy was that they believed Grand Master could give absolution
their main heresy was holding a boat load of cash when a french king was on his uppers and had the pope in his pocket.
Great work on your project Ben.
excellent episode guys. Happy Sunday
(53:00) I tried retarder in my paints. I lick my brush. I came out in hives. All over.
No retarder for me any more.
(56:00) put a drop of Milton in your water (a capful per litre is plenty) before adding to your wet palette – it helps stop that musty stink for a few weeks (it will still start to smell after a while if you’re not careful)
You should try some seasick Steve Guy’s.
I do love your halo hodylamp. @warzan
Lol you guy’s are losing it but don’t change a great thing.
(1:51:00) I hope you cleaned the tip afterwards! 😉
Your tip is shiny mate I rubbed it around on the little moist thingy 😉
No. Never do that. Use the sponge.