Weekender XLBS: Creating The Perfect Escalation League; Your Feedback & More!
March 25, 2018 by warzan
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First? If so, Yeah! 😀
Nice 🙂 …. congratulations on your “firstness”
AAAAGGGHH!! Sniped again 🙁 😉 🙂 🙂
Second is the first Loser 😛 *joking* Happy Sunday to you
Or the ‘first runner up’ as I’ve seen it written.
…. far too nice that particualr phrasing 😀
Happy Sunday!!!!!1!!!!one!!!!!
Happy Sunday, all. Almost 1:00 AM here. Super tired, heading to bed. Will watch this with morning coffee! 😀
Happy Sunday folks. my Star Wars Legion arrived so I’ll be painting some Saga while I watch. 😉
as far as points go the tournament level is 800 points, but the downloadable full rules give the army composition changes for playing at 1600 pts on a 6×4…or proper wargame as we like to call it
oh and @warzan they announced Han Solo and Rebel Commandos on Friday for your full Endor games….the Commando box includes a Mon Calamari..watch out Solo it’s a traaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap!
6×4?.. Dream big!. 8×5 minimum. How well I remember the days of scouting the for sale ads for unwanted and surprisingly cheap table tennis tables and wondering if there was some way of fitting into my Skoda to get it home
doesn’t it take forever to play 2mm on an 8×5 😉
No it just means you get more to play with! 😉
Happy Sunday everyone. I think keeping interest and your hobby moving along while playing escalation is tough these days with most people having limited time. I wonder if taking something that works in computer games and applying it to our hobby would work. Achievement bonuses are common in many computer games now. If you put a list together of achievements before the league started that give bonuses or add to your force you could help maintain league interest and motivate people’s hobby. Using the lock mechanisms Warren talked about and allowing to only unlock a certain number of achievements during… Read more »
wouldnt be hard to use the achievement system we use on warconsole for that, but would require some eyes to verify colour results etc.
Ref the Juggernaught @warzan : one shows up at the start of Rogue One transporting Jyn Erso to her days labour on the Imperial prison planet she is being held on. I don’t believe one appears in Rebels @dracs , but those retired Clone Troopers did use one of the Grand Army of the Republics AT-RT walkers, before upgrading to a captured AT-AT 😉
Basically, go watch Rebels. And Clone Wars. They’re great 😉
Happy Sunday!!
1 Luke, 30 rebel troopers, 2 AT-RTs, and a T-47 ready for priming… so today’s hobby is sorted!
Happy Sunday all! Good show, as always… The tail of four gamers / escalation league thing is very interesting, and I’d love to have a go at joining one for 40k or even maybe AoS. Perhaps its something we could sort out say for a once a month at the club @warzan ? Again for me narrative side is always more interesting, love the idea of building an army bit by bit and learning it as I go, the adding a bit each month allows for me to keep on top of it painting wise and at the end …… Read more »
Also @warzan I think you want to track down a copy of the old WEG Star Wars RPG Rebel Specforce Sourcebook. It’s loaded with detail on Rebel special forces units & bases, and the forces of the Imperial Army (those dudes piloting the AT-ST’s), the Imperial Navy, Imperial Security Bureau, & the Storm Trooper Legions (Storm Commandos, Rad Troopers, Sea Troopers, Sand Troopers and more). Oh, and a whole mess of transports and armoured vehicles….
The old Rebel Alliance and Imperial sourcebook are pretty much required reading for anyone Keen to geek out on Star Wars.
Happy sunday,@avernos better get a move on with the saga as i am sure lloyd will want a game of saga II ?
@warzan are you reliving your youth(soooo long ago) with the star wars leigon stuff.
Dont forget your kids as i am sure they want to play with the star wars toys as dad is so excited about them. That 20% discount is going to take a hammering lol
we’ve played a couple already, the first learning game was interesting as we were both learning the boards. For the second game I played the Irish and @Lloyd swapped to Byzzies, I got stomped on. Not sure how to make the Irish work, need to do more testing, at the moment they’re a glass hammer without the hammer aspect.
My Revell X-Wing didn’t survive quite so intact..
I found a quick repaint was just that bit better. I am sure John’s level of weathering may be just fine though.
I also picked up the TIE equivalent model. The scale of that one (despite being labelled as the same – both supposedly 1:57 if memory serves). It suffered a similar fate!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BguWf2hgQh_/
Ohhhh lovely job! They look ace!
My Revell X-Wing didn’t survive quite so intact..
I found a quick repaint was just that bit better. I am sure John’s level of weathering may be just fine though.
I also picked up the TIE equivalent model. The scale of that one (despite being labelled as the same – both supposedly 1:57 if memory serves) is better – spot on in fact. It suffered a similar fate though!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BguWf2hgQh_/
In the Rebels Cartoon, the clones including Captain Rex live in this AT-TE
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/All_Terrain_Tactical_Enforcer
You can one of those on the same scale as the AT-AT on eBay.
For a game based on a rebel base could you do something like space hulk and have the players playing the Imperials and the rebels moving like the genestealers with random blips like in the original game ie run by the umpire
Happy Sunday! I got so much Star Wars Legion painted while watching.
I’m off to hunting those Revell kits now.
hard not to find those revell kits, but they are a scale onto their own…
Revell also do a 1:40 ARC-170 that looks pretty good scale wise, and it makes a great objective for Legion. Imagine a Jedi being pursued by the Empire through the Dandoran system in the months after the end of the Revenge of the Sith. He shakes off most of his pursuers but neither the Jedi nor the Clone pilots pursuing him are ever seen again and their fate is unknown; A few years later, a transport pilot logs seeing what he thought was an ARC-170 hidden in some old ruins on Dandoran and it doesn’t take long for both the… Read more »
Is that a lookout on your Juggernaut or are you just pleased to see me?
Just to mention about the Infinity escalation league discussed in my comment; there are scenarios (unofficial Recon), loot tables (N3 rules), guidance on xp rewards etc. in various places and that part of the fun was blending these different resources into a format that worked well for the particular group. That said, Infinity was a system that had the flexibility to build on – it won’t work with every system. As mentioned, there was an RPG aspect in terms of a storyline and developing a few characters. Locks are easy to have in terms of permitted unit types, but then… Read more »
@warzan I had a random idea when you mntioned kidnapping community members. Crowdsource your hobby. Next time you want to build a BoW army from scratch you could put a call out to the community for volunteers to head down to their FLGS and pick up models you assign to us. We then paint them and base them to the scheme of your choosing and then post them in to you. You could get a full army fully painted in a month ready for an event AND have John slaving away on either a centerpiece or a whole second army.… Read more »
Haha! That really made my day, thanks guys. When I took the pics I did think ‘oh, remember Lloyd likes the backs’ so i spun them round. Gave me a real laugh when you started calling him in, and he actually arrived, then the pic of the backs showed up lol. Any time I’m giving myself a hard time over the hobby I’m going to replay this moment. Happy Sunday!
I love it when you bullshit, that is what this show is about for me.
I would be a smart move to start at a low point for tournaments armies and then rising it when more is released.
Interested by Warzan’s comment early on re polycement on star wars legion miniatures. I was led to believe this glue wouldn’t work on the star wars miniatures, which is leaving me with the difficult decision about whether to let my kids loose with super glue. Has anyone tried polycement? What was your experience?
the Legion models are two different types, the infantry require superglue as they’re a pvc type of plastic. The vehicles are abs hard plastic and polycement does the job. In short you’ll need both, or at the least superglue
Fab, thanks for clarifying @avernos 🙂
Happy Sunday all.
I agree with Sam’s point of gradually adding game rules over a couple of play throughs.
I use this method when getting new players to learn Dust 1947.
I find it helps avoid that ‘I’m overwhelmed’ feeling that everyone (myself included) gets when facing a new game.
Ignore them Justin – your Jar Jar impression is pretty good!
I actually agree with this! 😀
I thought so too, to me it was bang on!