Weekender XLBS: Dark Age Terrain Tips & New Flames Of War Edition Impressions
March 12, 2017 by brennon
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Happy Sunday
Happy Sunday!!
How come my FoW3 book hasn’t updated itself overnight?
What do you mean “it’s not like an app ” and I’ve got to go to my FLGS and physically pick one up?
What’s this world coming to? 😉
The Vought F4U Corsair made a whistling noise but not sure if that’s what you’re refering to. Awesome show as usual guys and I’m loving all the SAGA stuff especially the campaign. On the shields. As was said there are no rules. Kite shields began to pick up traction as warriors became more mounted but the round sheild never really went out of use. Some warriors would have symbols and some wouldn’t. Some would have rules on paint colours others would use what they could afford or might have just left their shields with the linen/leather facing. Remember shields get… Read more »
I am keeping the blogy thing updated, so you’ll find the ins and outs of the Beasts Saga here http://www.beastsofwar.com/groups/historical-games/forum/topic/saga-the-age-of-the-beast/?topic_page=1&num=15
Happy Sunday,
Normally I skip having to listen to myself, but I’m really glad I did the cut aways were hilarious @Lancorz great job matey 🙂
Hehe 🙂
the badguys from Dune are house Harkonen
And corrino and pretty much any one non artrrides and in later books its the guild of navigators, bene gessariat and the descendants of Paul, just ignore the pink and the brain abortion that is chapterhouse dune…
Happy Sunday (night) lads. Love Jerry and his Saga hobby updates. You blokes need to do a weekly update show the next campaign you run. So we can follow the trials and tribulations of not-Ivor the Avenger and the rock throwing Irishmen, get a feel of how you are spending you money…hell throw in a Match of the video. The man runs such a tight campaign it’d be great to get a regular dose though (I do follow and love the blog but, you know …more) @brennon Ignore the insults, you are a member of the true faith. A man… Read more »
House Ordos is only in the video games. it is never mentioned in any of the awsome books.
I have the tendency to put my brushes in my mouth, a habit that I have been unable to kick. @avernos and his description of how the hairs are plucked from rodent’s bottoms may have just helped me to stop!
Brings a whole new meaning to rat arsed…
I beginning to think we need a Saga series with Jerry…..looking at starting the game, running campaigns, linked with terrain making and maybe some historical background info…
Saga is one of those games I’d like to start playing, as I’m really interested in the Post Roman and Early Medieval periods. Especially in the UK, the changes that occurred during this time makes it a really interesting time period.
Myself and Gerry have been talking very informally about Crescent and the Cross in 10 or 15mm( 2 posts and a pm on BoW) as the battles would have been slight bigger with more men involved which could be an interesting project for Gerry to start with
sounds like the gauntlet has been cast down, should I pick it up…. I’m not saying that I’m currently scrolling through Pendraken’s website at the moment or anything but….
As much as I love Pendraken their range for the 3rd crusades is a little underwhelming
having had a scroll I think you’re right, I’m currently exploring 10mm to widen the pool, also I think it will work much better on the basing
but legio heroica do a great 15mm range. I should get samples
Legio would be my choice. LBMS does shields transfers for them as well
Great to see yet more Saga and @avernos !!
I really want to get back into this at some stage soon.
Also great to see Spectre getting a mention here..how grand would a Bootcamp for this be?!?!
Spectre would be a great choice for a bootcamp. A company with their own rules and figures, easy to customise and get into and loads of opportunities for interesting game boards and games.
Great XLBS.
Enjoyed spying Gerry’s erection and delving deep into Saga.
Should sheep worrying be part of a skirmish game?
Of course it should.
When in the Dark Ages, go dark. 🙂
Would love a Saga boot camp. Not sure I could afford another one, seeing as I will be at the Hobby weekend soon, but for Saga I might stump up again and take another trip.
Really love this site and this community.
Happy gaming.
those sheep are dynamite, in fact for one viking warlord the sheep inflicted the only casualty on Lee’s Irish.
1st corp do a complete flock in resin
http://1stcorps.co.uk/product/dark-ageearly-medieval-villagers01/
Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday
Well thats it… I have bitten the bullet Saga and a Warband is on the way… I blame @avernos @dignity @lloyd and @brennon oh well “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes”
@dignity must have reversed the polarity on that carrying case. 😀
I’d vote for a Dune 2 tabletop game. I’ve spent an entire sweltering summer playing the video game when I was a kid. Rocket turrets and sonic tanks everywhere!
those dwarves are stunning, the standard of sculpts these days continues to blow me away.
really enjoying the saga stuff, it’s great to see you fellas get into more detail with a system your all enjoying. I like the seeing new game systems and the new hotness but you can lose that immersion you get from truly investing in a setting. it’s all about the narrative and immersion.
Happy Sunday guys. Lloyd, for stringing those bows, look for something called EZ-Line. It’s an elastic polymer thread with about 700% stretch and comes in a variety of colours and widths. Scale modellers use it for ship rigging, Aeroplane rigging and aerial wires, overhead electrical/telephone cables, etc
Cool @elaric will check it out 🙂
The dwarves are ok but they are always low down on my list when the comes to fantasy . When it comes to gaming with them they always fall a little bit short in playability and when it come to lore etc they will never be able reach the same heights as the other races
That was a bit of a low blow there. I suppose talking about dwarfs it was too much to hope that it would raise my expectations though
Ahahaha ^^ I’ve got the same idea of the dice tower when I saw this incredible watch tower!
Well done!
(anyway, Happy Sunday to all!)
As @elessar2590 says, the Japanese called the Vought F4U Corsair (probably the baddest ass fighter of World War II, sorry Spitfire and Mustang 🙂 ) the “Whistling Death” – but not sure if that’s a coincidence with what Justin’s talking about. Awesome German DAK armor by @madgolem ! The DAK armor I brought to the boot camp pre-built and painted was Zvezda as well. You did a great job on these. I can attest tanks like these are deceptively tough to do (they look very simple with just sand-yellow and some dark grays) – but it’s actually quite challenging to… Read more »
Jim…… http://domsdecals.com/epages/81fc44d0-907b-42a4-9f72-8d3238c7e6b2.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/81fc44d0-907b-42a4-9f72-8d3238c7e6b2/Categories/ecee596a242de13b779391cdaa2c528d/626718a950291b0596e8d22dee80c8ba
Thanks, @torros . I’m actually good on DAK decals since @brucelea totally hooked me up at the boot camp (along with a great USMC custom dice). 😀 Hopefully @madgolem can get these if he still needs them for his DAK force (although winning a Golden Button is probably a good indicator that they’re pretty awesome as they are)! 😀
SAGA ground into Dust and beardy dwarves . Sorry, I looked at that KS and where was the female options of which you spoke? The female dwarf in the banner looked a lot meaner than the craggy curmudgeons throughout the rest. And, maybe, that wasn’t the dwarf falling off the war pig, that was a style of dismount. After all, a pig can’t get much lower so that the rider could reach the ground with those stubby legs, so they roll to the side and the rider can just step off.
There’s a true objective for SAGA: sheeps and cows. Chickens, too. Round ’em, move ’em out, Rawhide!
Thanks for the mention, @lloyd! Yes, I did have a Hurricane IID, Stuka, and Messerschmitt BF-109E at the Boot Camp in desert colors. However, I would be remiss not to mention that so did @davebpg (Stuka and LendLease P40 Warhawk, I believe), in true 1:100 scale, and these were the ones that actually saw combat on the Boot Camp tables. 😀 And finally ~ Great interview segment with @bothi ! This is a really great guy to meet in person (even if he was they guy who finally knocked me out of the Sunday mega-game … hey, many others tried… Read more »
Thanks for the kind words @oriskany . It was a great game (or both even at that) and it was a pleasure to meet you too. Glad I could show you some of the most enjoyable aspects of the game. And it get’s even better when you start creating your own more complex scenarios to reimagine historical battles.
happy sunday ! please ban Ben from next weekender if her will mention dwarfs again !
Still very interested in the potential of Saga rules and GW LoTR minis. Seems the army size is similar, also most LoTR armies have a version of elite, standard, and conscript troops. Would mostly just require that you identify a Saga faction with tactics similar to those of your LoTR faction,
Look no further. Here you can find more SAGA terrain for Viking + more on the way.
http://www.zenterrain.com/en_US/p/Norse-Hut/198