Cult Of Games XLBS: Wargaming On TV & Monoliths! Alien Proof!
November 29, 2020 by warzan
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Happy Sunday!
2nd isn’t bad. Happy sunday 2
It’s the XLBS SHow………..Happy Sunday fellow CoGs!
Wargaming on TV is already my main watching pleasure. First Beasts of War, then OTT, and now Weyland Yutani. Or, has that last one not happened quite yet?
So, was the opening of the show a recording of an OTT staff meeting? 🙂
Watching the OTT Team brainstorm really makes me smile!
America has no history??? WhistyTangoFoxtrot @brennon 🙁 hehe
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Well Done to all the Golden Button winners!
It’s an old joke but a good one.
Lol Warren is moving to Acheron (LV426)?
Anneka Rice with her wall of dice on the real life battlefield woukd be even more amazing
I do think it will be series based on the wargaming film but….
The potential of 12 30 minute episodes of 4 or so people arguing over period, ruleset and scale woukd be worth a watch
If people watch the Critical Roll rubbish they’ll watch anything
God Bless The Mighty Matt Mercer 😉
Have to ask – why is there so much hate for Critical Roll?
Happy Sunday!
Monolith appears at the same time scientists have been splicing genes into apes to increase their brain size? Coincidence? I don’t think this will end well.
Happy Sunday.
But this is tinged with a touch of sadness at learning David Prowse ( Darth Vader & The Green Cross Code Man ) has passed away at 85.
RIP Darth Farmer
Happy Sunday All ???
Now that I’ve watched the show, GW have broadcast games being played at Warhammer World for 40K tournament championships on Twitch and had commentators explaining the tactics and the rules of the models. People paid for that content. When I played competative Warhammer it was common for people to crowd around the top end tables and watch the game. Afterwards you’d be expected to answer questions from less experienced players about what you did and why you did it. I’ve seen the same thing happen for Magic the Gathering and Bolt Action, so why not other wargames? I’ve had a… Read more »
On the plus side of AoS Gotrek, there is something cathartic about him grousing about how much he prefers the Old World to the new Realms.
Plan out a 5ish year tv show Give each nation a celebrity leader who already games. Have them general the whole war with each season being a year and bring in normal people to atually fight the battles. Re-enact WWII but allow things to change based on the outcomes of the battles. Use different systems for different scales or types of combat. Gets a bit iffy when the celebrity playing Hitler starts to win and becomes a fan favourite though. Maybe skip WWII after all?
It shouldn’t be a custom game. Whatever is being played should be something the viewers can go out and get and try, otherwise whats the point? This should be used to bring new people in to the hobby.
Ok lets take a second to think about this 🙂
There are maybe 50 rule sets you could choose from… which one is ‘the hobby’?
Of those 50 rulesets exactly zero have been designed with TV in mind.
So perhaps a made for TV rules to give the appropriate flavour with folk then jumping into the game they like the look of is not such a bad idea? 🙂
Possibly, especially if they offer out the rules set as a free download while also pointing at the games that inspired it and have model ranges. The point would be giving new players a way in. Letting potential new players get interested in something they then cannot try seems unhelpful. As an example, if I was watching people play Flames of War and I wanted to try that but someone pointed me towards Bolt Action, I’m not convinced I’d buy in as its not the game I was after. (Or swap FoW for Star Wars Legion, and Bolt Action for… Read more »
That was live from the black Friday sales.
Happy XLBS folks.
It’s a warning device to tell the aliens earth is in quarantine we are the 21 century planet Murder?
Lady Gaga?
Council T.V.
5, 4, 3, 2, …, …. Happy Sunday!
Henry Hyde’s big news was indeed about Miniature Wargaming the Movie. It’s now streamable in Amazon Prime and Apple TV plus in USA.
Have to wait until Spring 2021 in the UK
I’ll watch it on Amazon Prime. ?
I don’t do Apple…….(I refuse to drink the Kool-Aid) ?
it’s worth the wait
Don’t forget the leather clad Alice Roberts guy’s.
Or
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I’m looking forward to the christmas supercut of all the pre-show countdown failures combined in to a massive 27 hour long argument
It would be quite the revelation I assure you heh
What’s that saying all the planning go’s out the window with the first contact with the enemy.
You could always tag on the miniature painting and scenery stuff a la “extra slice” from Bake Off.
I think that would be a cool idea 🙂
Weta miniatures?
Peter Jackson’s Weta.
https://www.moviefigures.co.uk/collections/weta-workshop
The Imperial Guard factor BS.
http://sepulchreofheroes.blogspot.com/2015/02/astra-miliwhat-youre-in-guard-son.html
More great button winner’s
Loved it Guy’s
Pretty sure I watched a Game of War about the Crimea, when it was on???
early 90s on channel 4, one series only mind you
Well folk are happy to watch paint dry with commentary and it’s called a DIY programme. So there there’s bound to be some out there willing to watch two grown men push toy soldiers around a table.
@lloyd noooo! Justin will do voodoo with your hair clippings!
Or clone me 🙂
Good luck with that. My money’s on voodoo!
Wargaming on the TV. Assuming you could actually get people to watch their TV’s I think it would easily work. Wargaming some Historical Battles would be far easier than trying to get someone up to speed on 40K in the five minutes of talking before the game starts. It would be really cool to do it in the Time Commanders style with sub commanders and a General, have three tables divided by screens but give the commanders a telescope that can see through them (Kind of like the WWII Submarine Training Screens). So you’re against the person in front of… Read more »