Cult Of Games XLBS: Mysteries Revealed & Warmaster; So Small It Was Overlooked?
May 10, 2020 by avernos
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Happy Sunday!!
It’s the XLBS Show! Happy Sunday CoG brothers and sisters!!! @lloyd talking about his Carthaginians for Clash of Spears has me excited. It’s always good to hear about Clash of Spears! When he tells us about the benefit of inks I’m all ears seeing as how I just today, (well Saturday), dished out $180 for 22 INKS because Gerry had spoke of them when painting the OTT Crisis Protocol miniatures. I’m eager to get into using them on more then just MCP. On a side note, I am enjoying reading through a copy of “WRG: De Bellis Antiquitatis (DBA) Ancients… Read more »
Reading DBA?. Gave you got a headache yet?
@templar007 I will be playing a Clash game at 13:00 BST which I believe is 8:00 EST, it will be played through Zoom with one of the writers moving the men around. If you are up and about you’re welcome to come watch.
where is the meeting?
it will be on Zoom, not sure how it’s going to be showing off yet
I’ll tune in if you have a link! ??
@avernos – We run online games for the community all the time. I certainly missed this one, but I would love to tune in to someone else’s game as well (i.e., hang out while someone ELSE does all the work!) 😀 😀 😀 If there’s ever a schedule or an announcement for this, please let me know, I’d tune in for sure.
@templar007 @oriskany @tacticalgenius @torros, we had some technical issues so we started about an hour later than expected and Alvaro wasn’t streaming it, I think a few friends watched from the gallery. But I did record it and it’s going up on youtube at the moment. If there are others in the future I will definitely give people a heads up now we seem to have ironed out some wrinkles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWVt5mYO5uQ
Sounds great definitely let me know about anything in the future I would be keen on seeing that
Epic, @avernos . Yeah, we know all about the technical hurdles for this kind of thing. 🙁 So no pressure. But if your crew runs anything in the future let us know. 😀
Clash ON!
@brennon Very jealous you getting those RP minis
This guy does some nice videos on simple techniques to get stuff on the table and they look great as well. This one is stormtroopers
https://youtu.be/d2mJLTwKm1M
Cheers for the link – will have a good look. And yes, I am very lucky!
And your address is….?
@brennon Theres also these chaps who I dont think are on that list
https://www.centimetrewarriors.com/shop
Awesome, thank you
I too now hate @brennon for getting those awesome Ral Partha boxes!!
@lloyd. How can you be so cheerful building those plastics . I was crying the tears of the damned after doing 2 of them and that was with me leaving off all the stupid fiddly bits
I’ve done more!!! 🙂
Great game Warmaster. Happy days painting it in the GW store with Steve and Gerry and them getting annoyed when some smelly oik came in wanting to know about 40k
Anyway heres an an almost complete list of 10mm fantasy manufacturers
http://blog.siarom.net/p/sourcing-10mm.html
If you want to know more there are couple of really good 10mm Facebook pages. This one in particular is nice as it deals with 10mm fantasy
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1776977859208547/?ref=share
More links to dive in and explore!
May 10, 1940 marked the beginning of what was undoubtedly the most successful German operation of World War II. Viewed in this light, it can in some ways be regarded as the war’s darkest day. Eighty years ago TODAY, an invasion began that would see no less than four nations crushed beneath the tyranny of the Third Reich. A fifth allied army would be routed and virtually destroyed, in some ways never to fully recover. This offensive would conquer most of Western Europe with stunning speed, establish the Wehrmacht’s aura of battlefield invincibility, and put Britain on the strategic back… Read more »
And yet … when you look at the details of some of those initial ‘crushing’ victories things aren’t so black & white.
Yes … the Germans ‘won’ in about 5 days (technically 8 because Zeeland would hold on ’till the 18th).
The Queen + her government escaped, which was sort of the main objective when taking The Hague.
The lost personell and material were to have a significant effect on the battle of Crete.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Grebbeberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Zeeland
Thanks for stopping by the stream, @limburger! 😀
it was fun.
If only timezones were not such a mismatch, but that’s life.
Happy Sunday from Down Under.
Somewhere in amidst my hobby cave, I’ve got the Forgotten Realms Heroes (badly in need of re-basing). Looking forward to seeing how you paint yours Ben, so I can see if my early painting skills still do it in this more modern age. I’ll see if I can dig them out and post some photos…..
I’ve already done the base coats for Drizzt and layered on a wash. Time to tackle the highlights now
Happy Sunday!
Lloyd’s demi-T-shirt does solve the problem of loose,flappy, un-tucked clothing catching on and knocking over items on the tabletop as you reach across… providing there aren’t any loose, flappy un-tucked bellies to do the same.
Maybe Ben’s come across a new weapon for dungeon delving?
A sword that can stab around corners?
Good point @coxjul “un-tucked clothing catching on and knocking over items”
Lol, yeah. Thunderfoot, the ultimate authoritative source. It’s ducks, and the pilots are idiots.
I will now proceed to slam my head onto the table, repeatedly. Evil GM is evil, lol.
The media are extra dumb thogh.
An UFO is merely something the observer could not classify …
Combine that with someone who has been trained to recognise enemy vehicles instead of birds and they might make a mistake or two, which might have added to the reasons Pentagon wasn’t willing to release this kind of ‘evidence’.
Human vision is deceptively easy to trick.
I think if it had been aliens from another world they would have never released the film’s in the first place
Mister Tfoot also conveniently forgets that they captured these things not only with FLIR, but also on radar. He conveniently also doesn’t mention that these things rose from sea level to several thousand feet with incredible speed. These contacts also happened several years apart, with several different flight crews. But hey, it was totally birds.
His science made perfect sense, but then the UFO/conspiracy fans don’t want to hear that.
Second part in his UFO series, which kind of highlights how easy it is to present UFO evidence as evidence of alien activity :
https://youtu.be/3viYcYPRdu4
It also shows a UFO using an advanced cloaking device …
As I said, he does not mention the radar contacts, and dismisses the pilots as idiots or hoaxers. The rise from 0 to 28.000 feet is brushed over by him. Tfoot is very disingenuous and does the same thing he accuses those UFO guys of. There’s a reason he has only a 5% turnout from his subscriber base.
Where was my warning! Oh god! My eyes! MY EYES!
Happy Sunday everyone…
Another fine show gentlemen, and today is my birthday so taking it easy watching the show whilst enjoying a coffee in bed.
To entice more people to join Backstage, perhaps you should do more comps / giveaways that only COGS can win by watching and signing up for backstage.
Perhaps alternate between the Weekender and XLBS for giveaway comps..
Hope you are all doing well and staying safe, keep up the great work
Happy Birthday my good man. Enjoy your day
Happy “Another Rotation Around the Sun” Day!
Happy Sunday
Happy Sunday!
Gerry’s DM – well played, sir. Well played. 😀
She thanks you for your plaudits
Well, she deserves them for a cracking code that couldn’t be cracked. 🙂
I now got to go and bleach my eyes. we now know how to break Gerry.
There were games before Warmaster that used a roll to activate system. Fire and Fury springs to mind
I thought Lloyd would be hairier!
I think he must shave it!
Could be wax on,wax off type of situation
I think it might be Veet, I bet he likes the way it burns his nipples…
I’m more into clamps @noyjatat
Another great show.
Wow, Warmaster, what a blast from the past!
Lloyd, might save you some time – MMB click on a link. Boom! Open in new tab (should be your default behavior).
MMB – I really should.
Happy Sunday. I have some fond memories of Warmaster, I remember drooling over my White Dwarf at all the lovely pics. Small scale games are great fun and while it’s a bit daunting when they first arrive they are so easy to paint once you get the hang of it. Kalistra here in the UK do a great 10mm fantasy range for anyone wanting to give 10mm a try ?
https://www.kallistra.co.uk/index.php?page=19
Will add that the Kallista range are the exact same figures as the old Pendraken fantasy range which isnt the Warband range .Pendraken leased the range out ( or something like that) and Kallistra re moulded them on strips and re sold them
I didn’t know that, thanks ??
THX – The Audience is listening and flying popcorn and dentals…. jepp, it’s Sunday…. XD
Oh and the sticky note @avernos made 24h hours prior to the XLBS recording did survive… OSL.. a nightmare. Sorry @brennon for having you hearing that… Ben did a Ben and Gerry did take notes XD
Really great show, despite some of the fashion choices on display 🙂 I have quite a few of the Copplestone “Not Lord of the Rings” minis and they practically paints themselves, they are that well sculpted and cast. They really are loverly and I really must get back to painting them! At least there is little rush to get my Romans painted for Clash, though by the time we play, I’ll definitely have a Gallic force of some description painted as well. Must say I love the skin tone Lloyd has achieved. With a nice shield transfer they will look… Read more »
I won’t lie. I brought the Fellowship…they are on the way!
Yeah Lloyd, my belly pokes out the bottom of my t-shirts too. I don’t have any masks though.
🙂
Don’t look like a nun this week
Thank you – I do my best.
Great episode @avernos, @brennon & @lloyd. Loved all the hobby time stuff and the fashion tips!
But where was the parental warning for the last bit, that’s going to take some shifting from my mind ??
Sources as authoritative as the President of the US suggest injecting bleach. Perhaps worth a try? 🙂
@brucelea watch out for my full range coming soon!
Wait till you see the shorts.
How low can you go boys lol
Subdermal
The UFO is cold, tho. If you look at the instrumentation, it’s set to BHOT (black hot) – heat will be shown as black. And that flying thing is showing up bright white. So, stone cold. But birds might be cold(ish), what do I know.
Birds are slightly warmer than humans, I think 40C is about average.
@harpoon71 @robert – there’s a bit in the video about the bird temperature (basically it’s flying high so it’s surface temp is cold) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhAC2YiYHs