XLBS: New Team Members, 40K Campaign & Return of Gamer Dad!
June 15, 2014 by dignity
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Remember if you have trouble watching this(The screen goes green etc) Go into your profile and in ‘account settings’ there is an option to default to the HTML5 player.
You can also turn ads off too while in there BTW 🙂
Actually having wrote that, I can’t seem to get it to play at all lol
Can someone confirm if it plays for them?
And yes it plays, just needed a refresh.
It does indeed play! Thanks for more early morning entertainment 🙂 Oh and I blame you lot for making me want to invest in Dust now :'(
No more green screen? This is an emotional day.
No more green screen! That is awesome, I was on the verge of cancelling my backstager purely because the last 2 months of XLBS have taken me about 6 hours per show to watch, sometimes restarting every 6 minutes.
This day, however, the screen at no point did green, and I am happy once more! Great show, got a 2 yr old girl and I’ve been wondering how to broach gaming with her when she’s older. The wife isn’t keen I don’t think, must convince otherwise……
You mean its not the Hulk standing in front of the camera?
Took me a while to solve the green screen! 🙂
Happy Sunday fella’s, if this big participation game happens for the 40k campaign ill have to bring my warhound along, every apocalypse game needs titans 🙂
And yeah, working for me.
Now its not working, where’s flowplayer gone? @warzan
@deaddave HTML5 will be our default player from here on, but… you can still get flow player by choosing ‘flash’ in your profile. I have set that as your default, can you test it now to see if its better for you?
Wooooo, back again lol
Happy Sunday but can’t get it to play on my tablet!!! Oh well I’ll have to watch on my computer later.
got it to play but it green screened at the 33 minute mark for some reason, right about when you said you had storage issues
I have tweaked your profile to use HTML 5 – give it a try now
Yep, no amount of refreshing his helping yet 🙁 was hoping to watch quietly before my daughters realise I’m awake and the Father’s Day chaos begins! Lol.
Off to Valhalla Wargames Show in Farnborough today – a great way to spend Father’s Day with my girls 😀
Made a tweak to your account, try that now.
Worked thank you. Will sort a pressie for you too via Rob from Prodos. Can’t just treat Justin now can I?
Why oh why is Flow player so crap. 🙁
keeps pausing forcing a refresh. Forcing me to start at the beginning again due to not being able to skip forward.
I have now set HTML5 as the default player, we will be addressing this with something more permanent soon
Thanks. Finally managed to watch it all the way through.
Great episode that I didn’t expect to enjoy as much as I actually did.
Gutted about not having one next week though. lol
Have refreshed a few times but still no cigar. Also can’t see anywhere in what I thought was account settings to default to HTML5 so I must be looking in the wrong place. 🙁
I’m guessing your looking under My Account -> Settings, which is where I went first, but it’s actually under…
My Account -> Profile -> Edit Profile -> Account Settings
Warren, Hasbro re-released this Crossbows and Catapults in 2007. For the release they had the most amazing gaming table to play the game. Rivers, trees and hills. Unfortunately when I sold the shop I didn’t keep the photos…..I did keep a full set. Tell me If you want photo’s. I played it as a kid in the early 80’s, around the same time castle greyskull and he-man was out. All my 5 Kids love playing this game. It is tokens everywhere when we play……. John, you need to study the pacific theatre, it was very strategic, and desperate for the… Read more »
I am aware of the in’s and out’s of the Pacific theater. But when looking at it in overview, it was a case of amphibious landings against a determined enemy who preferred ambush and surprise.
But, the Pacific doesn’t hold as much interest to me as I am not overly interested in mainly infantry and naval power.
That’s an amazing first wargame! She’ll remember it forever!
I remember my dad made up a game for me when I was a kid. You had to build a tower or a small city out of books and toys and he would do the same across the room.
Then you took turns throwing bouncy balls at one another’s base, trying to find and “destroy” the generator (a battery) which was hidden behind a building or something!
There was a lot of “ptchoo ptchoo” and rules were broken but it was amazing – deciding where to throw each precious ball!
For cool scenery in Australia, check out CNC workshop at http://www.miniaturescenery.com
They do a great range, and he has updated to a new laser.
Morning guys,
I got a frozen video @ 30mins, set to HTML 5 and restarted, all OK.
I 2nd the motion of John and his Normandy Narrations.
on the subject of kids and war-games, I got my eldest to to start playing SpaceHulk (same idea with activation usage) and then a couple of months back had their 1st game of Dropzone Commander. (aged 6+7)
Did we get the winners announced for the Wolsung Rulebooks?
Can I just wish all the Dads a happy fathers day 🙂
I’m heading out now to take the little ones to some bloody farm (open farm day here), when are we gonna get OPEN BATTLEFIELD DAY!!!! 😉
Definitely want to see the Normandy coverage. That naval and Viking stuff you mentioned sounds interesting too lol
Haha, Xbows and catapults is certainly a blast from the past! I recall seeing this on TV as a kid. Never got a copy though, hope you little one enjoys it as much as you will Warren. 😀
Watched it! (Well except the last 20 mins, but I’ll watch them later) fantastic show guys. Warren, if you want to explore the ‘gaps’ in the napoleonic era, and find more interest in the era as a whole, I can recommend the Sharpe series of books enough. I read them in chronological order rather than written order and once I got going couldn’t stop to the point I was scouring libraries all over the south for the next book every time. Brilliant, brilliant series.
yeeeeees!!!!!!! I can watch it.
On dust, I would get into it, but (and this is probably a problem for many) is space with ALL the other games I’ve got.
It might be no surprise, but I would love to see: WWX!!!!!!!!!! 😀 Warmachine as this gets very little coverage but is a big player in the market, Infinity is always welcome and shouldnt really need a nudge to get it on, Carnevale as it appeared so much fun with you and Sam, Malifaux now the new rules are out, Dystopian Legions would be cool as we never really see coverage from this range, What ever happened to Cutless? You guys put a lot of hard work into covering that game? How has it progressed since release? Some demos of… Read more »
http://www.wildwestexodusforum.com/download/file.php?id=697
Anyone else looking at those MDF buildings and thinking Eastern Front?
Damnit. Now I need Soviets.
That or Berlin
Berlin. With the Brits I already have. That’s a relief!
Holy S#!T @Broadside, I’m gunna be scarred for life from those PJ’s, let alone the rest of the photo. Please put a warning up before you do that again! I see your love of emoticons even goes to bed with you………..
@Mattgro
Hehe, worth the click then? Amy bought them for Xmas for me, its a duck onsie, because in Nottingham we use the phase E’up me duck, which means Hello, or as it derived from Ducas, meaning Duke or Dutchess. Every day is a school day. Hehe
But the hat made it cool
I use the pack system bags and they are amazing but I would love some more as just cant stop buying new mini’s
I’m interested in seeing Johns Normandy trip!
Hey, unfortunately I got some problems with this vid.
I can´t watch the vid on firefox, endless loading/buffering.
I can on the other hand watch it on chrome, and download the file and watch it with vlc from my hard drive.
Oh and i tried deactivating all my addons but that didn’t work either.
I hope someone can help me on that, don`t want to use chrome only for the backstage vids.
Oh, I also changed the settings to HTML5.
@edgemaster, we have changed some stuff can you test again please by going here: http://www.beastsofwar.com/backstage/video-playback/
Would love to see the John’s vids on Normandy.
Forgot to ask, did I miss your announcement of who won the Wolsung rulebook?