The Weekender: Off to Spain & Evolving Your Gaming Table
April 26, 2014 by dignity
Warren and Lloyd are jetting off to Spain to visit the guys over at Infinity, but in the meantime get ready as we are waiting for a super secret announcement this Sunday! Today we have a chat about our hobby time this week including; fan made rules for Spartacus (coming soon), Warren's find going to a local car boot sale, and finally, Lloyd still working like crazy to get all the cool stuff we filmed at Salute out the door!
Yup and I meant HG Wells 😉 duh!
Just as a quick update were setting off to the FicZone venue now, so will let you guys see what’s happening next week!
Proper stoked for your FicZone coverage, just got into Infinity recently and scrabbling around for as much info as poss, gawd bless your Infinity week vids.
Happy travels matey.
great show! had a look on the prince august site, and yes they still sell starter sets, but couldnt see that specific one, this is the closest I could find
http://shop.princeaugust.ie/casting-starter-kits/budget-starter-kits/napoleonic-wars-budget-starter-kit/
on a different note these guys do the old warzone plastics, 80 (8 sculpts) guys for 25 quid, could be handy for your chaos as cultists, or as imperial guard (or whatever they are called these days)
I use those old Warzone minis for Traitor guard and they always get compliments, though they were even more of a bargain when I bought them 3 years ago, £15 for 80! They are a very hard plastic that means you have to use superglue and they are a little tough to cut for conversions, but on the plus side the thin details like bayonets are strong and not as bendy. Even though they are old minis they look OK with GW weapons and alongside GW ones, just a little more true-scale, like forgeworld humans.
Was there an announcement of the Dropzone artwork contest?
Watch the end of the show 😉
That’s what I get for asking before finishing the vid.
Sod the Salute and the FicZone coverage… When’s the bloody Deadzone game coming out ya bunch of buggering buggers?
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Scorchio!
You should be fine casting 60% lead minis. I had my JR Hartley moment when I found a copy of Slaves to Darkness in a second-hand bookstore back in the mid 90s. I was at school and too poor to buy it when it was available at retail and thought I might have missed my chance forever.
For anyone concerned about the lead, there’s actually lead-free casting metal available, but they are more suited for larger(40 mm, 54 mm)figures and may require some venting of the moulds to get all the details right.
Nice to see that Prince August kit. I started casting miniatures when I was about 10 and now I’m 35 and still do it from time to time. Maybe it’ll be too much work casting a whole army, but I can’t see why not do it for small skirmish games. For example there’s a 25 mm fantasy range that could be used for that.
Here are some orcs from that range: http://i57.tinypic.com/4tkll5.jpg
Try http://io9.com/5916534/during-world-war-i-fake-trees-for-snipers-would-pop-up-overnight
Yes iron trees for snipers in WW1 with pictures
Sod planes, would rather go in a cage with a bear for a wrestle lol
To add to the barbed wire rules chat. You would need rules for the different deployment of wire.
For instance WWI British trenches were on the whole offensive. The wire was layed out in a low lattice pattern which was designed to only slow troops down, as our own troops had to step through it as they went OTT.
The German trenches as the war moved were more defensive, the wire was deployed to be almost impenetrable and laid out so it would funnel the advancing enemy into kill zones.
We then shelled the German wire, thinking the explosions would break the wire up. It just threw it about, tangled it up and made it even worse!
The problem with the British shelling the German Wire especially in 1916 is that they didnt have enough heavy artillery to shift the stakes and the majority of shells they used were shrapnel which would never have cut the barbed wire as they wanted
Talking of car boot sales I got HeroQuest for £2 (complete) from a charity shop 😀
Stabby and Cutty. Probably the funniest descriptions I have every heard for barbed wire and razorwire. Evolving terrain: fire a load of artillery into a forest and you get fallen trees, shattered stumps, lots of tangled pieces and maybe even a forest on fire (napalm anyone?) Artillery fired at roads, bridges and buildings – of course it should cause damage and degradation – bridges damaged by airstrikes might be passible for infantry but not vehicles; The depth and weight of rubble should reflect the size and type of building that was hit – so a 2 up 2 down house… Read more »
@warzan My father had a kit exactly like that in the early 90’s. From memory there was a mail order sheet inside the box. Have you opened it yet?
Talking of Ebay, I’d be interested in people’s views on this..
I put this up on Monday for a week, thinking it’s almost as well painted as the studio paint job (I painted it to compare myself to the GW studio job), and am suprised to have 0 bids, and only 1 watcher. Anyone any ideas why?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261459429058?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
Your pics are not good enough.. you need better close up pics. Also the model itself is not very dynamic.
In the new BF Italy books, there are units that lay barbed wire/terrain.
I guess I could be more obscure but I don’t have my book at hand. 😀
….’is a unit’? Don’t want the Grammar Stasi coming after me. (Two points for my use of Stasi)
DUDE!!!!…How great and dark and melodramatic would a set of rules made by Orson Wells would have been!!
H.G. Wells wrote in the preface for his “Little Wars” game in 1913 … (shamelessly copy/pasting here): “And if I might for a moment trumpet! How much better is this amiable miniature than the Real Thing! Here is a homeopathic remedy for the imaginative strategist. Here is the premeditation, the thrill, the strain of accumulating victory or disaster — and no smashed nor sanguinary bodies, no shattered fine buildings nor devastated country sides, no petty cruelties, none of that awful universal boredom and embitterment, that tiresome delay or stoppage or embarrassment of every gracious, bold, sweet, and charming thing, that… Read more »
I find it ironic that he calls actual combat “Great War,” and warns how nations should not do it, just a year before World War I breaks out … which of course many people remember as “The Great War.” Maybe Nicholas, George, and Wilhelm should have gotten together over a miniatures table instead, well … you know.
Enough of such ponderings. Back to the little painted toy soldiers! 😀
I feel compelled to link to “Imaginative Strategist,” a great wargames site (albeit not really a miniatures site), where I got the text for H. G. Wells’ “Little Wars” game.
http://www.imaginative-strategist.layfigures.com/
Check it out. Some great .pdf downloads for us (brace yourselves for shock) hex-and-counters people. 🙂
How to recreate WW1 in WH40k:
1. Use martyrs trench system.
2. Play Tau
3. Find enemy who plays guard
4. Firefight
A John Blanche paintjob would be worth more than the bare assembly (the same might be said for Klee or Hirst but they don’t have the same relationship to the subject). Although Prince August might be soft on details the range is enough to create a good portion of DBx units which had I known that at the time I might not have transitioned to 40k. Also look into food grade tin as it doesn’t go the way of old battletech. Add to that some 2 part hotcasting silicone and you’ve got a decent yet small homebrew kit. The primary… Read more »
If it was good, you dont remember.
@lloyd – I know that episode of Reginald Perrin, haha!
@warzan – The kilted loon who literlly gob-smacked you, was non other than John – Water745 on youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnTdaO6eM9xMeAxeFpUycQw Check his channel out. 🙂
My dad used to make his own tin soldiers. Mind you, he’s 76 later this year, so that was bleeding years ago for him! 😀
Does Justin’s knowledge of the world only begin after the year 2000? XD
Good show.
I could be wrong (again) but I saw/heard that the first barbed wire was standard farm wire from the US then the military started making more with the barbs closer together so it couldn’t be held in the gapes.
I love interactive terrain! My Primeval Abyssian ruleset will have rules for both extra-dimensional and inter-dimensional terrain, so weird anomolies and events can occur in-game due to the corrupt nature of the artificial universe it’s set in.
So is there an XLBS on Sunday – Warren normally plugs it at the end of the Weekender but didn’t this time.
Yup there sure is! It’s not very long tbh but were talking about next steps on the live stuff, which should please @cursed13 😉
I made those Prince August soldiers back in the day. The metal to make them was very very expensive. We had to visit building sites late in the evening when the workers had gone home to “Liberate” some roofing metal. I remember being chased out of a few places and running a lot slower than usual due to my pockets being full of lead 🙂
This vid brings back a few happy memories.
Warren seemed to like that kiss 😀
Warren quoting his other half is epic: “Awwww … you have your eyes closed!”
How romantic. 😀