Weekender XLBS: Did The Vikings Make It To Mexico?
December 4, 2016 by dignity
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Ha ha! First! 😀
Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday! I like the idea of the subscription for a quarterly miniature for painting.. Given how lax (and rubbish) I am at painting, I’d probably never submit one, but I’d certainly sign up!
@ beast of war . if you guys really want original beast of war mini for the community we need to talk
Did Warren say that Mexico is in South America? It is in North America, but I may has misheard. 🙂
Sorry my bad!
I wasnt entirely sure where all these cultures are located 🙂
But very happy to learn though!
Ahh, I see your confusion. Mexio is a country, not a culture. I’m gonna miss not having a Weekender next week!
I believe the strip of land that connects North and South America is called Central America, or I’m sure it was in the Atlas I had in school
I believe it is called Central America, but it’s part of the North America continent 😉
There’s a comic Captain Mesoamerica from a Parallel Earth – he got zombified
Will it still be after the wall is built ? 🙂
Happy Sunday!
@ warzen if you are interested in an original sculpt for beast of war mini for the community we need to talk..
Happy Sunday!
I am considering the gaming options… Like Ragnar Lothbruk vs Lizardmen!?!? 😉 The Mayans lived in the Yucatan peninsula -which is the bit of modern Mexico that sticks out into the Gulf of Mexico separating it from the Caribbean sea, close to the frolic. Navigationally I wonder whether the ancient mariners would have used the tropic to venture and explore in the summer. Even with a flat earth belief the high point of the sun on its arc across the sky would have provided a reliable aid. Who’s to say sub-Saharan merchant/adventurers wouldn’t have tried this before following what we… Read more »
Fascinating!!!
Love the idea of vikings vs lizard men!!!
@brennon @coxjul pick a rule set for this guys, saga, aos or something else?
With the new Matt Damon film coming out your going to have material for fantasy v historic soon as well. The oriental army miniature ranges have been expanding recently and with the Bushido/4ground conflab I hope we see some more Hollywood inspired ‘out of the box’ scenarios people have a go at.
Bloody spell checker! “Frolic” == Tropic
…and what was happening in The Long Ships? – I watched this as a kid.
Sidney Poitier was a Moor with a torture slide :-O
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f8u9YAR_kA
Swords against armour – that’s for the movies. Anyone who wanted to do damage took a good mace/blugeoning weapon such as a hefty rock on a stick – if it’s sharp too then even better.
Agility and skill could often defeat cumbersome heavy armour.
And mud, saw in interesting documentary about Agincourt that showed in all likelihood those armoured would have struggled to move around the battlespace due to.their footwear and the conditions on the day. Had a quick look and managed to find the video. It’s worth a watch and raises some interesting questions.
https://youtu.be/LVuVtP_xepU
@34:45 “Tan-Genital” Ben ?!? Warren’s clearly rubbing off on you – actually that doesn’t come out right either.
Sounds like someone needs to put their loin cloth on in the sun or at least slap some factor 50 on it.
I think you meant “tangential”.
Ummm… Are we still doing phrasing? 😉
Yup…that’s the one, bloody genitals 😉
The other cultural source that “Tales from the loop” taps into for me is the Scandinavian fascination with Trolls lumbering around the empty forests and tundra etc.
If you haven’t seen the 2010 Norwegian film “Troll Hunter” then find it and watch it – in the dark on a cold wintry night with a gale brewing outside.
Doh – listen through the article before commenting!
Great minds think alike mate eh lol
How long until BoW2.0 allows us to edit &/or delete posts? 😉
Lol
It would not surprise me in the slightest to learn that Vikings did make it to Mexico, and even down into South America.Hell, we already know that they were amongst the most gifted race of sailors in human history, their exploits only surpassed (from what I have read anyway) by the Polynesian peoples who colonised islands across the Pacific. And people forget that the likes of obsidian and flint can take incredibly sharp edges. Might not be as hard wearing as an edge of bronze, iron or steel, but If you know the skillset for knapping and have the base… Read more »
I must have a go at knapping some of these days. Working stone could be very theroputic!
I’d be up for the quarterly painting. Would be cool to have a random challenge even couple of months.
I would totally be on board for a subscription based painting competition. If it takes off it should also be quite easy to expand it with different themed challenges to really push the painting experience.
Oh man, Psycho-Pass is a brilliant example there. Word of warning – the first season is great, but Season 2 is kindof a mess outside of progressing the individual character arcs. The movie is pretty great though as a return to form that asks some interesting, difficult questions as the Sybeal System is exported for the first time outside of Japan (Season 2 had a different writer, hence the “issues”)…. Season 1 was on Netflix but subtitled is available via Crunchyroll (you can get sign up for a free account and watch it) and dubbed is on Funimation Now (may… Read more »
whole-heartedly agree on Psycho-Pass.
Also @warzan it is pounced Dav-ith I am sure I am not doing it the best in my videos but after third time well…
Maybe we should give Warran a bunch of Welsh names to see how well he does with those. ;). Fairly sure half the reason Welsh words are spelt the way they are is as revenge against the English for nicking all the vowels in Scrabble 😛
cornish is the real “revenge” celtic language…
To be fair, even most Welsh folks look at my name ago “Do what?”
Happy Sunday!
i’d subscribe to miniatures painting. I need get painting.
In regards to the black knight, it kinda sounds like a drone that’s been sent ahead of an invasion fleet. It’s doing recon that being sent back to the fleet. It pops up every now and then because it’s updating the advancing fleet on technological developments, changes in geology and geo political changes. The civilisation the drone belongs to may be several hundreds years away in terms of travelling distance. The black knight is the advance party gathering vital intelligence for the invasion fleet that’s following behind it. That’s one outlandish theory, it’d deffo make a good jumping off point… Read more »
I thought Black Knight might be a survey satellite – like the cloaked station in Star Trek Insurrection…
or a spy platform/orbiting modem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw41pJtU6eY
Most of the other Alien bases on earth are under the poles or in the deep ocean. There is a circular Alien Spacecraft parked in the Baltic Ocean. Its even older than the Black Knight.
But every time salvage crews/international science teams get near it their equipment shorts out 🙂
Vikings vs. Azteks vs. Mayans that could be a great campaign, with the Vikings being with out reinforcements, but having veterans warriors and steel weaponry.
Could even start with some low level magic.
Pegasos = the original Greek name Pegasus = the Latinised version of the name It’s a 2nd declension noun in both langauges, so if there was a plural of Pegasos (which there isn’t) it would be *Pegasoi, and if there was a plural of Pegasus (which I’m not aware of) it would be *Pegasi. The asterisk denotes the word does not exist. When a noun travels fully-formed between langauges, then it’s acceptable to pluralise it either in the original language or the new language. For example, codex in English can be pluralised as codexes (English) or codices (Latin). Or forum… Read more »
romans go home
I’d be up for having a go at the mini painting subscription thing. Ss long as I could afford it of course!
If battlefield technology becomes advanced enough that firearms/munitions can recognize and differentiate between friend and foe future battles will become almost entirely fought by hackers. Why send out troops when you can make the other side shoot themselves with their own smart weapons.
I expect its only a matter of time before our drone fleets start getting hacked. Unfortunately in the case of modern drones the most likely result of a hack would be to make the drones fire on innocent civilian targets to make the drones owners out to be vicious murderers.
+1 There’s also the issue of civilians getting caught in a war zone; how would ‘smart’ weapons recognise them? I doubt they’d have the luxury of carrying an IFF transmitter or having some signifying feature the weapon could pick up on, so the ‘smart’ weapon would have to be programmed to log anyone without such IFF/features as a non-com, in which case, why would the enemy use theirs when they could turn it off/wear a disguise/etc and attack with conventional firearms with your retaliation being hamstrung as your weapons lock up thinking your facing non-coms. Also, also, such a system… Read more »
Boot Camp incoming 🙂
Warren – The Champions RPG from Hero Games is in its 6th edition. I played back in high school back in the mid 80s, and it was a ton of fun, making your own heroes and teaming up with friends, and fighting Either Villians from Hero’s source books or those our GM created. The Hero System has always been based on a point buy system, and was just a ton of fun.
Great show guys. Yes I’m very keen for the painting competition, loved the first one and would really enjoy participating.
On another point which I’ve been meaning to “raise” for some time now….@Warzan we should have a sweepstake on the number of sexual innuendos you have per show. Maybe we could then have a sweepstake on the number of times Justin picks up on them… Always makes for a good laugh during the show …. keep it up… excuse the pun
I really like the idea of the community quarterly painting. The upcoming Boot camp has inspired me to put some paint onto my UCM and this would continue in that vein. I think a good method of doing it would be to vary the models themes into 4 types e.g. fantasy/sci-fi/historical/other. This will potentially take some of us out of our comfort zones where we only ever paint certain models because we can do that skin tone really well. I would like an addition though and that would be a single mini for the BoW awards sent in plenty of… Read more »
Count me in for the painting sub!
Vikings in Mexico..? As plausible as Romans in China I suppose.
Never heard of a Black Knight in space but if it’s indeed an alien device intercepting signals from earth I’m not sure if it’s gonna come back after this years events. 😉
Black Knight might be a big modem waiting to highjack our machines when we get to a sufficient drone/automatic war-machine tech level 🙁
I like to think Black Knight might shoot lasers at Asteroids coming to close to earth…
…or the world-modem waiting to upload and transfer human souls to the next ‘player-level’ after we die…
That’s why we should defiantly not mess about with it – you have to assume that the high tech alien/future human civilisation that placed it there could have destroyed primitive mankind long ago…
About the discovery of America, I had class mate who was interested in all things strange and hard to explain. One time we were taking about who first discovered America because one other student had heard the story about the Vikings that you mention here. That first student said that there are signs that the Egyptians might have been going to America as well because they found things in some tombs that could only be found in America at that time. I have never researched it so I don’t know if it is actually true or not. @warzan I like… Read more »