Weekender XLBS: The Ben-isode – Lord of the Rings, Age Of Sigmar & More
June 28, 2015 by warzan
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Happy Sunday!
Clan Hamilton
“Through”
Dark Ages are roughly the 6th to 13th centuries.
That’s the ooold definition. Modern historians either restrict the term to the early middle ages (which means approximately the period they talk about in the XLBS), or avoid it entirely as being misleading.
That period was only really dark for the west, so it’s not a very commonly used term anymore (not to mention that even for the west it wasn’t really all that dark, after all, life expectancy for people was higher)
If you were one of tutees I would mark you down for the term ‘Dark Ages’ 😛
The Gordon Clan. Happy Sunday guys, a welcome surprise.
Happy Sunday
MacIntyre, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_MacIntyre
My maternal great grandmother’s family, a Scottish clan with the motto “through adversity”
Family stories were that we had moved from Argyll in Scotland to Ulster in NI and then back again.
In a weird twist, my paternal grandmother owned a lodge in Cladich, near Oban and Inverary, which is renowned for being almost entirely inhabited by MacIntryes!!!
Happy Sunday!! Woot surprise XLBS!
Clan Douglas. (The Black Douglas’)
“James The Good” Douglas fought along side Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn.
William Douglas was murdered by James 2nd in Stirling Castle.
Archibald Douglas was a Regent of Scotland.
There were some very dark moments of nastiness too, but all families have a little drama.
The motto is “Jamais Arriere” – Never Behind.
Never been sure whether this means never retreat, never be last, always lead, but think my mums family ancestry fascinating.
Clan Kerr, Wardens of the Middle March. Been love/hate with you Douglas’s, also neighbours of the Johnstone of the Western March (bloody nutters, wouldn’t listen when we told them not to attack Carlisle then wondered why the English sent a humungous retaliatory force). Our branch is in Derbyshire now but only come down recently, my parents are both Scots… Serro sed serrio, late but in earnest – we had a habit of turning up just at the right time and declaring for the winning side hehe. Legend has it we were formed from a pair of brothers from Bergen, Norway… Read more »
It’s a love thing.
As long as there’s no Percy blood in you we’ll let bygones be bygones.
Sadly the habit of the times and the region was to raid either side of the border.
We did seem to be a sucker for following fashion that way. 🙂
Happy Sunday!
Sad to see the Hobbit dropped although obviously not a surprise. I’d imagine the low sales and no further movies out weighed the cost for a further license extension. Loved the game system but GW never really, for me, created a buzz around the Hobbit the entire promotion of core game was very tired.
Clan Buchanan
“Clan Buchanan can trace its chiefly line back to Anselan O Kyan who was of the clan Ó Catháin, provincial king of north Ulster (and had his seat in Limavady, Co. Londonderry) who landed in Argyll in 1016.”
So we’re from up your way before going to Scotland!
Fact-checking: The Varangians fought for the Byzantine emperors. Charlemagne was not one of them.
indeedy. Recruited a lot of English into their ranks after 1066, so many in fact the area around Trebizond was nearly renamed Nova Anglia
I <3 the Hobbit, it's actually still pretty huge here in Australia, we have a great FB group here too.
Several members of the Hubbbard clan have researched the family history over the years, here are some of the highlights. Some say that we’re descendants of King Hubba The first mention of the name Hubbard is reference to the Bishop Hubbard of Munich in around 840AD A Thomas Hubbard was knighted in Crecy in the 14th Century There is a letter between Wellington and Cornwallis where they discuss a Lt. Hubbard, who Wellington stated was steady in battle bty habitually swayed in the wind… Great Uncle Bert was a Spitfire pilot during the Battle of Britain Those are some of… Read more »
Awesome as a relative of old ‘L Ron’ you probably have a natural curiosity about all thing volcano 😉
Actually I don’t but one of my brothers did when he was younger lol
Happy Sunday!
GoT-tabletop wargame is basically Historical-minis for troops.
I´d however really like a company to do individual characters from the TV-series in 28mm. Knight Models mayhaps? 🙂
Dark Sword Miniatures have a stunning line of GoT miniatures.
Excellent Weekender!!!
Loads of fun subject matter and logical looks at rumours.
I have loved the look of Saga myself but never got into it.
Looking forward to some coverage of rules and ways into the game.
The Perry plastic dark age minis look excellent and work out very cost effective.
I think Saga could do with a conventional starter set to get people involved more.
Swap your Bolt Action French farm houses for some Dark Age churches and your terrain is sorted.
Nice surprise to find this great start to Sunday. On annual lads gaming weekend. Just setting up for a massive 6mm Waterloo game we have been planning for the last three years for 200 anniversary.
Ohhhh!!! Please post pics!
Just saw your request. Have some pics but they do not do the game justice. Will see what the rest of the guys have and pick some. We have been gaming for 30+ years and general consensus was this was probably the most tensely epic game we have run. Stunning, brutal on both sides, allied victory with a real twist.
Yay. A Sunday surprise!
A surprise XLBS!!! Just for me! Brings a tear to the eye.
Happy Sunday!
Or should I say Happy SAGA!
Dark ages are really from the fall of the Roman Empire to about the time of the Battle of Hastings. Although the term is used less and less these days by historians.
As for interesting ancestory – dads side Sir James Brunlees, who was knighted by Queen Victoria for his work on the Mersey rail tunnel and was a founding member of the original Channel Tunnel Company
mums side there is a family tale that we are related to Clementina Walkinshaw, who mothered the children of and some say married Charles Edward Stuart ( Bonnie Prince Charlie )
much of it is to do with the idea that after Rome, everything was crap which should rightfully be disregarded these days, whether it’s the Moors in Andalusia with the great library at Corduba, the Ostrogoths eventually breaking up and forming the beginnings of the Italian states and the growth of universities in Italy, the great administrative machinery of the Holy Roman Empire, hell, even the Danes – look at Denmark just before the viking age and they were a centralised, incredibly well organised country. Single national army and navy, strong government, massive public works whether it was round forts,… Read more »
Happy Sunday! I was very happy to see the weekender today. Great show, get Ben to be on the show more he did a good job. Looking forward to the Saga coverage I’ve been thinking about getting into that game as well.
The disgust on Justins face at 31:35!!
Happy Sunday, a really nice surprise to have a weekender show as well this weekend to watch, cheers for the extra effort to the team and great to put another face to a name Ben.
Clan O’Hanlon. I believe we hail from somewhere near the border twixt north and south.
Still confused about all these Warhammer rumours. There seems to be a lot of contradictory stuff in the ether – ain’t it always the way, I suppose.
Someone should just kidnap and interrogate a high-ranking GW employee and let the world know!
Happy Sundayyyyy