The Weekender XLBS: DUST, Q-Con Fun & New WWII Film Fury!!!
June 29, 2014 by warzan
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Happy Sunday!!!!
Happy sunday guys.
As Warren eats the twinkie I can just imagine that running through his head is OMG so good, OMG so bad, OMG so good……
So glad to hear Warren talking about 6mm Napoleonics 🙂
Great show! Fury looks awesome.
Love these on a Sunday but the vid kept jumping on my iPad the sound was good just the picture kept stoping and jumping especly on the trailer
The file size is a good bit bigger now for the extra resolution etc
Needs a bit more time to download and buffer 🙂
Another great show, like the new format so I can skip the Warren “discovery” of historic battles. Bloody good news about the Perry Bro’s, I gave them heaps when they were in Aus a few years ago for the games day about working for GW as their obvious talent is wasted there. I loved their old mini’s and their work on the LOTR minis are some of my favourites. Glad to see the will pursue their own destiny now. Looking forward to their new works.
Oh dear justin got his twinky out….
The Perrys have left GW? And on that bombshell! If they can churn out a mini a day in their spare time imagine what they can do full-time. We’ll be buried in an avalanche of awesome minis! This might explain the upcoming the price rise on the army deals. If you’ve been thinking about buying some Perry stuff, now is a good time to do it. I’ve just picked up a boatload of ACW minis from them.
had a lot of buffering issues, took me 2 hours to watch 🙁 the loading bar was a good 30 seconds-1 min forward of the play but kept pausing. Quite annoying.
Good show though guys, I want to see a weekender from Johns with Sherman and guns 😀
What device?
I’ll have it looked into 🙂
Best of luck to Perrys. I’ve gotta agree that their talent was mostly wasted in GW and am really looking forward to their future releases.
Hi Guys another great show. The bagpiper was in the film was the Longest Day and the guy in the film was the real piper that took park on D-Day he played himself in the film.
as a matter of information the reason why the 95th didn’t go into square was because they are rifle troops, (skirmish troops). there job was to go forward and harass the enemy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_Royal_Rifle_Corps (my old regiment) If you want me to bore you with more history just ask.
Glad to hear you guys got to play a little Warzone. Justin, make sure you get a Death Egg for your Cybertronic force!
you mean the heavy walker?
That’s the one. I mean, sure, I could just call it the Eradicator Deathdroid but it’s always going to be the Death Egg to anyone familiar with the previous edition 😉
http://www.oocities.org/timessquare/dungeon/3400/eradicat.jpg
Granted it’s only going to be useful in the “Heavy” Organisation Chart so.. you will be forgiven if you decide to get a Scorpion instead. I hear it has a pop-up attack of doom.
Of dooooooooooom!
XLBS and coffee, I would not start a Sunday in any other way.
Thanks guys for a fantastic show.
I used to have the buffering issue but its grand now for whatever reson.
Im realy starting to like the Dust Walkers. Fury looks great.
I wasn’t at Q-Con this year as it’s been getting progressively worse and worse, this year my friend was telling me that there were no wargames, and very little rpgs. He also spent a lot of time talking to the Hawk wargames and Prodos guys, both told him it had been very quiet and also that on the 18th July Queens is holding a wargaming weekend. Considering that the Slayers are running both they fairly screwed over both companies. Neither of which reckon they can make it back in 2 weeks. It’s hard enough to get companies over here and… Read more »
I’m having a total nightmare trying to watch this. Runs beautifully until 35:43 and then breaks up (buffer bar far ahead). Tried on two different computers… same thing
I had roughly the same but change to Firefox and it where fine.
Watched the Waterloo movie yesterday and started listening to ‘La Victoire est a Nous!’ good show Warren!
Just wanted to write a few quick comments. Love your weekender and XLBS, its the reason Im a backstage member. lol Glad to see your journey back into 40K, like to see more Orky stuff! As for the historical, I love history. We are small men on the shoulders of the giants of history. The past should never be forgotten. But having retired from military service due to injuries sustained in combat, I must tell you its not a fun game to play for real. In my humble opinion, reenactments are a tool to better understand the first hand view… Read more »
I think that is a careful balance that needs to be considered in wargaming. Ultimately what goes on here is just a game but I’d hope everyone keeps some kind of perspective of what is being represented. If you’re interested Two Fat Lardies released one of their Specials recently which has a very well written introduction about just this topic. They feel that rather than cheapening their sacrifices wargaming these events helps us to remember the people who fought and how much they gave.
I had to reply to you, your comments are brilliant and one of the main reasons I do re-enactments. I think I gain more by being involved than the public who view them. Of course it’s not anywhere near as dangerous, although accidents happen, but the adrenaline hit you get when the shooting starts and then trying to remember where your supposed to be, whats going on and all your safety procedures it’s not hard to feel like you are getting a slight feeling of what you real soldiers do. On the point of being careful to call it a… Read more »
I really appreciate your comment. I am certainly able to change my views on the definition of “Hobby”. Passion implies an inherit attention to detail. To me that equals perspective and respect of Soldiers. Thank you.
@dtopping – just wanted to send a quick comment myself. As a veteran and retired police officer (early retirement) I have seen the horrors of combat myself whether as a Blackhawk crewchief / flight medic or as a police officer. I do not think anyone who participates in military re-enactments is doing it as mindless fun. These people do it with an intense sense of responsibility to maintain history for the next generation. They feel a desire to keep alive the sacrifices of those who have gone before them so we can hopefully learn from them. And, yes I do… Read more »
But i did get as far as the Bagpiper… could that be “mad” Jack Churchill?
“Mad” Jack Churchill (I believe) was the British officer who believed a true officer was not properly dressed without his sword, so assaulted Sword Beach using a Sword and a Longbow.
I also seem to remember he was captured by the Germans and held as a P.O.W, but kept alive and treated well as they believed he was related to the British P.M. (How true that is I am not 100% sure).
Hi Guys,
Also had issues watching. Video stuttered quite a bit but audio was fine. I’m on iPhone 5, up to date OS.
Cracking show though!
As m’learned Backstagers have said, huge news about the Perry brothers. Is this a BoW scoop?
Bill Millin was the piper who followed Lord Lovat off the landing craft on Sword Beach. Don’t know if it’s true but the Germans didn’t shoot at him as they thought it bad luck!
Btw lots of buffering issues on iPad
Glad you got the mini Justin! Seeing Romain paint it would be incredible! Warren, Rob from Prodos apologised for not giving you the book I passed to him for you and has said he will send it. I hope you get it at some point! Great show guys 🙂
its a really cool little mini and i think it deserves a paint up from romain just need to show it off to him and see if he likes it 🙂
Warren, please have a go at reading the Sharpe novels. They are sooo much better than the TV show. Bernard Cornwell is my favourite author by far. He does Viking/Saxon and 100 year war stuff too. Pretty much in every book he writes he takes an actual battle and tweaks the events to weave his characters though it. Then he explains what he changed in a little section at the end. He always puts you in the front line at where the pivotal events took place. These books gave me a whole new respect for the period.
I second that! Truly brilliant novels.