Weekender XLBS: Animal Adventuring & Board Gamers Becoming Wargamers
July 16, 2017 by dignity
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Happy Sunday …
Happy Sunday!
Az – I get it your excitable but can you dial it down from 11 to say 8 or 9 while presenting please? For the non Irish audience when your excited there is no audible break between words in your delivery.
Lol. We’ll have to investigate giving him a relaxing rub down before filming starts to see if it makes a difference 😉
Maybe presenting from a hot tub might help the presenters relax
Actually that’s a really bad idea. Forget I mentioned it
I can only imagine how they’d be making bubbles …………………
A waterproof Dobble has just been released plus I’m sure @Warzan wouldn’t mind me playing with his Ork sub…. relaxing hot tub plans formulating <3 Az
Az, keep doing what you are doing – the energy on the show is great!
Happy Sunday!!
A Sunday when I get to induct a couple of board gamers into the world of Malifaux 2e. I’ll soon turn them into full, ‘dribbling at the new shiny’, tabletop gamers!
If you’re into your Robot-wars and martial arts with weapons, another thing people might want to watch out for is UWM (Unified Weapon Master) which – thanks to the development of lightweight, sci-fi looking armour – will pit fighters with some bad-ass weapons against each other.
https://uwm.tv/about-us/
Sunday afternoon greetings from Down Under or more colloquially – G’day
Don’t worry about it, Justin. Pathfinder OP is designed to let you drop in and out to suit your schedule 🙂
I’d reply about longevity and the pace of releases, but I don’t want to scoop myself on something I’ll be posting on the site in the very near future…
Happy Sunday. Loved Az’s reaction to WWX it has always been a favourite of mine since it’s release and the fact he is so stoked about the new edition just proves that it is in good hands
Burrows and Badgers is a great game, and I love the miniatures. It reminds me of an old RPG called Bunnies and Burrows by Steve Jackson Games.
http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/bunnies/
The original bunnies and burrows was by FGU in the 70’s
Didn’t know that, only played the SJG version…its a fun game to play…
It came out a about a year after D&D. It was the first RPG to allow the players to have skill sets like hunting,watching etc
I’m currently purchsing anthromorphic minis from Bushido and other ranges for an Asian flavoured warband for the other half to play. I’ll then flavour the rules so she play. Her leader is a Panda, so will be painted up like Kung Fu Panda lol
Happy Sunday everyone 🙂 Az
@Dignity those Sumo wrestling robots were freaking amazing! The speed some of them can build up and the little programmed tactics for dodges and baiting charges was great to see 🙂 Az
Hearing Az reminds me of when my missus is pissed with me and listing my short comings (she’s a NI native). Gave me some conflicting feelings….
He reminded me of an old student who use to drink one of those large energy drinks at lunch time. He’d cone back to lesson just like Az lol…..I was waiting for him to start bouncing around the studio lol
Happy Sunday everyone. Great show guys, love the enthusiasm, was great to watch while I hobby. I would love to see some more of you guys battle reports, let’s see Az’s Tau facing off against @dignity Deathguard, eh?
Happy Sunday everyone
Not much to add, except…I absolutely adore those badgers Ben painted. They look so cute and dangerous at the same time.
Oh..and i would love to see Romain paint the Beowulf figure. How much is it? I would seriously consider donating it to him, if we could get painting tutorials (yes! chest hairs!) on that one.
Thank you – I’ve painted up three more of the characters over the weekend, utterly addicted to them!
Is there anywhere we can see them? I’m so extremely tempted to get a range of these critters myself.
have to agree with Az on x-wing FFG really aren’t taking advantage of the games potential. I know it’s super popular, and with good reason, but it could be so much more. I want to see scenario and mission packs that let me play out the classic moments. the trench run is a must and I just don’t understand why there isn’t a official scenario pack or even better a starter set. scenario A coming out of hyper space and playing out the approach to the death star. avoiding Turbo laser fire while fighting your way past swarms of tie… Read more »
As a huge X-Wing fan who owns almost all the models and many duplicates I thought I would respond. X-Wing is mostly a competitive miniatures game. It has a ton of meta and a ton of strategy. This is how it is mostly played. However, if you want to play casual, there are print-n-play scenarios either from fans or FFG. First off, FFG does have several official scenarios and they are included with many of the larger ships. These ships are called Epic. They have currently released as part of Wave XI for the CROC Epic ship a scenario that… Read more »
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great show guys, for you JUSTIN if you can’t get chance to play pathfinder here is a great channel that may help you get into the universe or at least you can enjoy some of the game content:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAHL1B-xfgehZHlFnO4X5rw
Good evening one and all, hope you all had a wonderful Sunday. I`m loving the Warpath Vehicles for the “Space Dwarves”, just a pity i have`t kept up with warpath for a few year`s. On the other hand if i sell of some hobby i don`t require anymore, i could re-start up my space Dwarves again. Now the Tile Based 3D Terrain For X-Wing, is one of the best boards i have seen in a long time (3D board that is). I would love to back this, but the price tag for the board alone (even at the bottom level)… Read more »
starting at around 25 minutes, video stops every 2-3 minutes… decided to stop it for today…
hi @duster – did you try it on another device?
Hapy sunday to you guys and thank you all for the kind words regarding my Death guards. Now I just have to keep going posting 🙂
How is your army going Justin (@dignity)?
Great Sunday show guys! Not into X-Wing, but that terrain makes it tempting.
I find the boardgamer moving more into wargaming an interesting topic as i am finding myself going the other direction. I have a lot of miniatures for quite a number of games ( warmahordes, 40k, guild ball, bushido, helldorado, vor, dropzone, bloodbowl, dread ball, konflikt 47, relic knights, infinity) I enjoy playing games the most followed by building miniatures and the least enjoyable aspect is painting. So the much lower prep time needed for board games is very appealing along with a lot of diverse themes and a much broader range of game mechanisms to enjoy. Curious to how many… Read more »
I’ve always played both, but the balance in recent years has swung quite heavily away from minis to board and card games. Not by design, it’s just that’s what I get to play, and it is in part because it’s much easier to play them, and hence I’m much more likely to get games of those in as opposed to minis games.
Mini games can only be played with those who also have a passion for that mini game. Board games have a broader audience and the setup, play and put away is a lot easier. Even a heavy Euro is easier to play than some of the miniature rulesets.
The Kickstarter issue creating a snack culture is very true. I’ve had this conversation before on wether or not this is a good thing for the industry, as well as kickstarter being good or bad per say. On the one hand its allowed small companies to get a product off the ground. Yet because if this the market has become swamped, with many of those disappearing once the KS has ended. I’ve bought a couple that failed once they hit the shelves and then trying to get a game locally becomes an issue. Its a double edged sword, on the… Read more »