Cult Of Games XLBS: What Is Your Tabletop “Comfort Game”?
September 5, 2021 by avernos
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It’s the XLBS Show……………Happy Sunday Fellow CoGs! Well DONE @johnlyons nice paint on those MECHs. There really are soooo very very many paint schemes to chose from. BTW…..we called the ‘Urban MECH’ the “angry trashcan”. @brennon When folks see me doing a hobby but don’t understand what it is I’m doing and they ask, I answer, “It’s an Art Project”, and they say, “Oh”, and they nod and pretend they see it and walk away. No one wants to be seen as Not being enlightened! 🙂 You my-friend are doing an excellent job on bringing NEW life to those LotR… Read more »
first….yes
Err… No!
Beware the Dennis/templar007 on a Sunday, he has the knack of pressing ‘post’ on his lengthy but welcomed musings milliseconds before a glory-grabber like you or me can complete our attempts.;-)
Btw Gerry, on a Sunday we’re Coggers, not just mere Otters! (Autocorrect changing coggers to doggers almost led to an awkward post)
Happy Sunday! I could do with a bit of comfort. Teething one year old has me up at 5 am, so , silver lining – let’s be havin’ ya XLBS!
I share your pain but my 5am starts are kitten related. 5am every morning it’s Disco time, let me sing you the song of my people human….get a cat they said, it’ll be fun they said…I hope you get to recharge and the teething passes sooner rather than later for the little one ?
Happy Sunday!
It’s only the XLBS show!! Lovely way to spend a wet Sunday afternoon. Thanks all.
We, here in Kansas, have had an exceptionally large amount of rain this weekend as well!
Australia? or New Zealand? Here in Ireland it’s a wet morning 😀
It’s always greener on the other side I guess. It’s desert heat here in Malta. I wish I was up there ‘dancing in the rain’ with you lot.
Happy Sunday all. Great to see John so stoked about his battle tech and he’s done some cracking work in a week. Also great looking LOR from Ben. II completely agree that being part of a supportive and positive community group is just great. I love painting 6mm, I can get an army done in no time and I get that sweep of scale for black powder period. I was ready to deep dive into a new period with the Foreign Legion. Sourced the minis (gringo do a nice set for Vietnam black flags and french colonials) looked up the… Read more »
Comfort games for me would be Confrontation (the good old one 3.5 – NOT the prepainted shit) and Crimson Skies (Again the good old FASA one from 1998/1999 NOT the Clix one) unfortunately both of those are pretty much OOP for decades (you can still get miniatures, but rules sets and stuff are really hard to come by. So it is hard to get new players involved 🙁
So for Crimson Skies, that is a little bit filled by Aeronautica Imperialis. but nothing can replace Confrontation for me.
have you seen Confrontation Club and the work they’ve been doing?
Yepp 🙂 downloaded it a while ago and am sharing the links actively as well 🙂 I’m glad it starts to pick up again, there is also cadwallon.com for miniatures (actually legal in Ukraine as they obtained the forms) and the guys in the USA who do the confrontation continuum stuff 🙂
Recently someone did STLs for the Crimson skies planes from the original game box, freely available on Thingiverse as well, and you can still buy the metal planes from Ral Partha (although without their little plastic propellers and not n the original blisters)
Okay, John you’ve convinced me to LOOK at Battletech again. Currently printing Bay 1 from BATTLETECH by HBS.
Going to make a miniature Diorama of my mechs from the game. MW5 is Now d/l…(jumps into fire)
Hi CoGz.
An John ods on plastic crack?
Gerry is The QC King.
Some great hobby today from the team and the community, great job everyone!
I have to admit I don’t have a comfort game I come back to as I don’t really play very much.
Battletech II was great on P.S.
Happy Sunday! Welcome to Battletech @johnlyons ! Great looking Vau Galaxy mechs! The Peregrines are the best looking Galaxy in Jade Falcon Touman, IMHO.
There is another game in development that seems massive and that it could tie in nicely with Napoleonic Russian horror themes, Coven: The Dark Fantasy Game, https://www.facebook.com/groups/intothecauldron A miniatures game filled to the brim with Slavic horrors, witches and hardened Cossack style men. Supposedly coming to Kickstarter this year.
Great show guys.
@brennon lovely work on the LotRs characters. It brought back a lot of great memories. Such a great game, such a great setting. It really was some of GWs greatest work.
I still get that buzz from Mordheim and Warmaster. Warhammer will always be my greatest love but I just don’t get the time to play it. Morheim is fast and we can play 2-3 games in the same amount of time as a Warhammer game.
My comfort game has always been Warhammer Warbands, all the fun of fantasy mass battle at smaller points and a Hero progression that allowed me to customize and create stories about their journeys through the lands of the Empire
Gerry is one of the blue Wizards?
40k is my comfort game , had great times playing it as a young adult with my best friend. Sadly he passed away early this year. But I reamber those times with great fondness
@john so I hear pink tartan is a thing….
Sorry should have been @johnlyons
Congrats to the button winner’s.
Lol a great show and ending guy’s.
I told John ‘and now it begins’.
I wasn’t kidding he has got it bad, bringing back memories of my own entry to the game 35 years ago, and the beginnings of my own Mercenary Regiment as it grew fom Lance to Company to Battalion. The clans were just a glimmer in the designers eyes as we all got ready for the 4th Succession Wars.
Right!!? This last year has the old companies dusting off and the engines of the dropships warming.
So @johnlyons are you getting Warren or Justin in to help with the printer.or are you going to just wing it was the instruction manual?
All I’m saying, the best stuff I’ve found for stripping minis is Koraclean for plastics and pvc cleaner solvent for metals, both strip so quickly.