Weekender XLBS: Skulls Galore In Age Of Sigmar & Homebrew World Of Tanks Rules
August 30, 2015 by lloyd
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Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday ! good morning folks.
Full hard-on?
@lloyd Regarding cobbles: get a lolly stick and put some nails through it, then you can emboss multiple lines in the cardboard at once.
That new AOS scenery is pretty awful and expensive in my opinion. I know you said it has a very 40k feel but that really means it fits in with the Chaos and Sigmarite models as it’s also been said they have a 40k feel about them too. With sets like this out there (see the link) and the sort of money available you could put together some great castle themed sets.
http://www.gamewire.belloflostsouls.net/tabletop-workshop-large-castle-set-now-available-2/
I personally like the new GW skull castle but I agree with everything else you say. That Tabletop Workshop castle is great too. I wonder if part of GW’s thinking is that it’s another example of IP protection. They have competitors producing ‘castle-looking’ castles that are suitable for use in medieval fantasy settings. But no one else is producing anything like this (so far as i’m aware), so they (think they) can charge whatever they like.
@lloyd have you looked at Flames of Tanks, it’s very close to a game you are talking about.
Try the link and download the rules http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=4192
As for scale I like 20mm as its a good mix of size and detail. Good luck which ever way you decide to go.
Not a WHFB player, so AoS not on radar. But it does look very 40k and know Blood Angel players are using parts to do true scale marines.
The scenery kits for AoS are 40k, but wouldn’t be playing that price for them. I don’t think AoS is going to survive and fingers crossed it doesn’t drag 40k down with it.
We do need roads and access to A3 or A4 printer not an issue.
Great show guys.
Happy Sunday everybody….. @lloyd really like the ‘pigment’ weathering on your SSU it’s a simple and effective technique and very realistic having spent many a hot summer in Germany that’s how the heavy summer dust used to run into the panels and cracks after a summer rain shower, in fact i’m sure some of the photo’s i sent to @johnlyons show this? plus i think it would translate down to 15mm you just have to clean it up a bit more…..simples!…. and i believe @piers who does beautiful 1/72 ‘god’s scale’ wargaming pieces uses a lot of pigments on his… Read more »
Great Post @bluesun2517
This might be the most sensible thing I’ve read on the whole “nutter” subject.
I have friends and family that have suffered with mental health issues and I fully understand the whole topic better than most, but to confuse a discussion on a game with anything to do with real life or real issues……is in itself insane!!!
I agree that everything now seems to cause offence, but if there is no malice or intention I feel that everyone offended should just calmed down.
Great show guys…….as usual!
A large amount of people today thrive in victimhood and finding offense in nothing. As if feeling offended by nothing will kill them or shattertheir existence.
Nutter…the word makes me think of peanutbutter and squirrels. Peanutbuttersquirrel sandwhich?
A large amount of people also fall back on trying to ridicule opinions they don’t agree with, as you have just done.
I refer you to Wheaton’s Law: “Don’t be a dick”.
” but to confuse a discussion on a game with anything to do with real life or real issues……is in itself insane!!!” So you have no line over which you think a) there are themes that boardgames shouldn’t touch, and b) that shouldn’t be discussed on the Weekender? In the interests of good taste I won’t suggest ‘real life issues’ that are in no way appropriate for being the subject of a boardgame, but I think most people would think they exist. The only question becomes where do you draw the line. As we’re all different then our lines are… Read more »
@redben absolutely correct 🙂 And as we learned here to some of us those lines are not so obvious and in the heat of ‘creating content’ can be totally lost on us. And there is certainly discussion to be had on the matter and here in the comments is a good place to start. I only take exception to ‘context’ being removed and words and themes that were not even alluded to (never mind discussed) effectively being placed in the mouths of the lads, as I think that is unfair 🙂 Words, meaning and context come as a package and… Read more »
Since it’s already being discussed here, and I didn’t feel like wading in “front stage”, I would like to say, I wasn’t offended by anything the guys said about that game. I would say I find the game itself a bit distasteful, and I always feel a bit disappointed when I see the same sorts of ideas about madness trotted out over and over again. I don’t think it deals sensitively with real human suffering. But the game is just picking up and running with something which is already very much a common theme in the horror genre. Mental illness… Read more »
@warzan: Discussion is of course a two-way street (if not more so). You have the right to discuss every bit as much as anyone else. The two areas best avoided are ‘it’s just a game’ for the reasons outlined above, and suggesting that the other party has chosen to be upset, rather than acknowledging that they found it upsetting. I confess that this is somewhat of a blindspot for me. I didn’t pay a lot of attention to the segment as it wasn’t a game that interested me, but nor did it raise any red flags for me either and… Read more »
Out of interest, if someone said “That guy’s a nutter” would you think they meant he was a peanut butter squirrel?
1) Does it look 40K? – Yes, though maybe that’s the point.
2) Are many people going to buy it? – No, though you don’t need it to play the game. Some people will buy it and that’ll be enough given its price.
Yeah it looks like a “boutique” kit. Or something to games shops to buy and put in the window in a diorama.
It actually reminds me of the demon world in Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. My advice? Take healing potions.
Easy way out for roads…. Lemax village sets makes a vinyl cobblestone, brick, and large stone sheet. Simply cut into the size you want and paint it up. I like to adhere it to mdf for stability but that adds weight.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51G20bkmKnL.jpg
For dirt roads I used house shingles cut to size and painted. Works good but again a large set adds up weight when stored. For light weight roads my buddies used cork sheets. Used the stone texture paint on them and looks great.
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/76uHUegaRKlsvM9vr2ZWwtMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink
Textured MDF board roads. Looks good and durable. Con.. heavy when all stacked together.
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/uDH3bA70euDa5mfYnwVTg9MTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink
Happy Sunday!
The proportion of those half-track figures looks completely wrong, they look far too big to me; or maybe It’s my 15mm PSC version I’m comparing with that’s wrong.
@dignity, the Convergence battle engine was released in plastic earlier this year, and the new colossals will be in plastic.
Here’s some sprues – http://s651.photobucket.com/user/Dahlvash/media/9155c6bc-3c7a-4d82-8ad7-eb85367c0d6e.png.html
@lloyd I have a massive printer i can use in a3 so this would be awesome for me, screw everbody else.
Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday
Most printers in the uk are a4 and coloured if you spend the money on the ink.
The grim fort is very grim and the price tag is over the top for what you get. No one could justify spending so much on just a single terrain piece. GW think before you price would be a good mantra to take on board.
Looking forward to seeing what you guys will come up with for Tanks of War 3D.
Sod the small scales tho, I’ll be playing in my garden with 1/56s!!!
Enjoy your BH 😎
‘Tanks of War’.. Lol. it’s WAR OF TANKS!
Sorry. Still suffering from the after effect of the lobotomy..
Happy sunday!- I have something to share with you guys, I print a lot of stuff in colour and here in UK HP is doing deal when you buy a printer and a account sort of thing, you pay monthly ( my deal is 100 pages for 3,75) and your ink cartridge is send to you when your is running out. In this way I print a lot of rulebooks that are available for free, army list and terrain on thick paper ( like infinity containers). if you not gonna print your 100 pages what ever is left its just… Read more »
That HP ink sounds like a good deal, as long as you’re printing a lot in colour. Do they do it for their A3 printers too?
WOLF OF TANKS..err work of tanks of course.
I’m going over to Kickstarter and pledge myself as a stretch goal…
Printed roads sounds like a good idea. My only reservation is the cost in ink. Perhaps you could explore printing on grey paper that way, you would need far less ink but you would not be able to have any very light hi lights.
That’s an ingenious idea. Light grey paper might work well enough to provide highlights, but grey enough to reduce the amount of ink used. The other option is to used a darker grey with less shading, so using even less ink, and then adding freehand highlights with a white pencil.
It’s an option that I’d like to see explored in a Hobbylab. Paraphrasing @warzan: “cheaper is better”.
The lemax stuff looks pretty good. I’m not sure how much of the range will be easily available in the UK. Most of the retailers within 100k of London look to be garden centres.
Really like the World of Tanks miniatures game idea….The idea of tokens brings to mind the X-Wing miniatures game, particularly the maneuver dial. You could set it to such moves like going hull down, firing smoke and pulling back, move-shoot-move, and so forth. When concealed you could have a chit that rests on top of the dial that you reveal. You could also have tank crew cards, variable on quality along with historic tank commanders like Pool or Wittman or even Oddball. 🙂
Ok, so google fu employed……
http://www.christmasatdawsons.co.uk/lemax/product.asp?pid=34918
Happy Sunday God Bless Everyone
For the “World of Tanks TTG” I would probably prefer to use my Flames of War tanks and terrain. Just because it is already there and ready to use, may be buy some more vehicles 🙂 Besides the price that is one of the main issues I have with those new GW terrain tiles. They can only be used for one special scenario and their design is so unique it is almost impossible to combine them with other buildings and still look cool as a whole table. For my own gaming table I want buildings which can be used in… Read more »