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Cult Of Games XLBS: What Are Your Tabletop Gaming Regrets?
July 3, 2022 by avernos
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It’s the XLBS Show……Happy Sunday Fellow CoGs!
I love my ‘Blood and Steel’ hardback book! Very nice and another win from ‘Firelock Games’!
@avernos I placed all my ‘Blood and Valor’ tokens and miniatures that I ordered into the same box. I know it’s a fuzzy concept and I’m not completely buying into it yet. But I can walks straight to the shelf that has that stuff. 🙂
Happy Sunday!
My greatest hobby regret is AoS and putting round bases on my fantasy battles miniatures. I don’t regret the minis, just the bases and AoS rules.
A close second is buying every edition of 40K after 3rd
Amen sir. It was when GW told us to swap bases I left the building. They had already given me a rough ride for a few years, then that.
‘Spin on it G Dubbs’?
Happy Sunday,
the day of Jesus and Petey! Remember that both fought the devil. one just had the impossible task of marrying his daughter.
So many regrets, but I’d say the biggest is probably Soul Wars…
The undead are very fragile and stormcast are a tedious army to paint… fantasy space marines… boring.
Happy Sunday!
Regrets, I’ve had a few, but then again… make that “Myth”, obtained through the various Kickstarters. Too much stuff for too much money that never quite overcame early quality issues with the rules and cards. Still got shrink-wrapped expansions.
@brennon Don’t worry . One day a Terrahawks skirmish game will appear and with all those destiny dice you won’t need to buy anything for it. Swings and roundabouts really
The regret getting rid of list is endless
Hey guys
The Download podcast link is missing thus week. ?
its deliberate, there was an issue with getting it uploaded. The guys are going to look at it next week when they’re back at work and see if it can be fixed
One regret can be explained with one fear, the fear of missing out. It leads me to buy more heavily into a system than I want to ‘just in case it’s more expensive later, doesn’t exist anymore, is better than I’ve got, everyone else is doing it……’.
Kickstarters are a nightmare for this. GW are bastards for this with every release. Have I ever missed out on something that wasn’t around later or another print run made? No.
Have I finished and explored everything I already enjoy? No, so why would I be missing out if I add ‘stuff’ to an increasing pile of never touched it?
The only true regret of lost treasure, my poster I won at GW when I was 8 years old. Big A1 art print of Warhammer 5th Ed box art. I have missed that badger for many a moon.
Regrets? Getting caught up in a couple of over hyped Kickstarter campaigns and spending too much money on stuff that has gathered dust ever since. I just don’t look at KS anymore.
Selling a painted Eldar army (or Space Elves as they were originally), I started out with the original range from Rogue Trader, even copied the colour scheme from the rule book; blue armour, yellow and black tiger stripe helmets and green guns. Did four squads, then when Jess Goodwin reinvented the range I had another six squads in an assortment of colours. Really enjoyed that army, haven’t played 40K for years, but I wish I still owned that army.
Oh, and being a master procrastinator and a flakey butterfly who can’t finish all the projects I’ve started.
Sunday… the day of rest and I know my place… last again! It’s brilliant and so reassuring… ??
“What’s done, cannot be undone.” William Shakespeare – Macbeth
Having said that the Talisman re-release under FF Games has some of the worst miniatures ever, which don’t even inspire me to paint… wish I still had my original GW Talisman Minis, because they simply are too expensive now to replace via eBay – testing my FOMO even with such exorbitant prices. I can resist because there are more important things in life such as food, clothes, heating and fuel…
Ultimately… as the great Jimi Hendrix said…
“I don’t have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might’ve unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.”
Happy Sunday!
Biggest regrets:
Backing Legends of Fabled Realms by 4Ground to the tune of over £700! I’m just glad that I won the BOW contest, run during the KS campaign, to at least get a play test copy and some of the minis!
Tomb Raider CCG, yes despite my best judgement I splurged tons of cash on it and never played it, I finally gave it away after failing to sell it on Ebay for 99p!
Close equal third would be Flintloque amd Mythic Battles Pantheon. I jumped in big time with Flintloque and actually got the folks at my then local store, Dungeons and Starships in Birmingham to pre-order all the new releases for me every month for the best part of 2 years! I’m glad I didn’t sell everything though as I can now use some for The Silver Bayonet. MBP was, like Ben, just a FOMO moment of weakness but I went all in!
Getting rid of stuff regrets: pretty much all the painted mini’s I have sold but especially the fully painted Earth and Mimbari Babylon 5 fleets, both Fleet Action and Standard B5 Wars scale!
poor B5
looking forward to the reboot?
Anytime one of my beloved Scifi shows gets a reboot I get nervous! ?
Could be great, or could be trash. Sometimes I vote on the side of, “Leave well enough alone”.
Big thumbs up to that!
Lots of trepidation about it, I hope its going to be fantastic but do have a feeling of dread too!
Terminator game was my regret…the minis were kack, the rules were absolutely abysmal and wasn’t worth the money it was being sold for. It’s the WORSE game I’ve ever bought and a complete waste of time and money.
Talking of card games my teen was introduced to MTG by a friend at school, so we’ve just started playing. I use to play the game between 94-2000, but I sold all my cards a few years back so I’m back on that slippery slope lol
I bought Terminator for £7 and I was had.
Woop woop woop it’s the XLBS Show.
Is Gerry the Master !?!??
Ben is the HOGFATHER.?
Look at the shiny shiny goodies Free stay away from the shiny shiny goodies.!?! Lol.
Gerry’s 40k books are 7th , I didn’t play that version I was on a long hobby break at the time. the last edition of 40k I played was 6th. I only returned to the hobby at the start of 8th edition
6th was the last edition of 40K I played and never returned, though I occasionally play Kill Team (1st Ed)
Ironically 8th edition with the hard reset of the indexes was a pretty good play environment. Once it began to bloat and groan under its own weight again it bacame trash, like 7th was with the bonkers formations locked away in supplements before it.
I’m good at doing that with PC game’s seeing it an thinking Ooh nice an buy it play for a few weeks ago I can’t get into the game an fling it in the corner thinkin that six’ty quid well spent NOT.
Nice one guy’s.
Gerry in Scandawegia are they doing a new trollhunter film.?
Morning Cogs.
I think I’ve had several weekends planned for me, which is good. Saves me the hassle
Happy Sunday Cogs! Gaming regrets, I’ve got a few but then again too few to mention, I did what I had to do,I saw it through without exemption… most of mine are board game related too. Nothing too offensive and thankfully most have been able to be sold on since. There were two with minis that were awful but I kept the minis and chucked the rest when I realised no one wanted them.
Don’t really have any regrets about miniatures games but I have bought and sold quite a lot of them over the years. Having a very limited budget for hobby most of the time, I try not to be precious about what stays or goes. I think the only thing I regret was selling my fully painted SSU Dust army but that’s because it was the army I was most proud of the paint job on. I like to think that someone else is getting use out of minis I wasn’t but I know in my heart that every mini I’ve ever sold probably ended up in the grey mountain somewhere else
Great topic this week. No regrets here. I’ve only ever spent what I could afford as I’ve set a hobby budget for years now, and although my better judgement has been affected by shiny syndrome on more than one occasion I’ve enjoyed most games and miniatures bought. I’ve never regretted selling anything on either. I think about how much joy they are bringing to their next owner (especially if they got a bargain) and then that money is always reinvested in whatever I’ve moved on to. Mythic Battles: Pantheon was pretty bad for FOMO but I’ve painted my whole all-in collection and still enjoy the game which gets wheeled out from time to time. I steered well clear of MB:Ragnarok though, too similar to what I already have.
Hobby should be about joy not regret – let’s have that as a topic at some point too please 🙂
Gaming Regret? Golem Arcana .. It was a tabletop game, but it used an app. Sucks when they stopped the app, and decided to do pc games. I loved playing the game, and picked up so many figs for it. The worst part is that was my Big purchase at my first Gencon convention. So a warning, do not pick up a miniature game system that requires an app to play. It was so sad.
Happy Sunday.
Hobby regrets include War Machine which I got for a very short amount of time before realising it wasn’t the game for me so I sold it and my all in pledge of Dark Souls the board game, which I again sold because the gameplay had too many problems. Also I had a collection of Dragon Dice years ago which I never actually played a game of.
There’s probably many more but those are the ones that spring easily to mind.
As for what I regret getting rid of there’s an absolutely shed load of stuff, like the original Warhammer Quest, the Dragon Masters board game, various Warhammer Fantasy armies over the years and too many books, novels and miniatures to go into.
@fcostin there’s a way to handle CCG’s which a friend of mine did back in Uni (mid-2000’s). Step 1: be a millionaire. Step 2: contact a wholesaler and get them to ship you consecutive booster boxes to give you an entire production run. That guarantees you at least 4 of each card. Step 3: pay a student to sort through the cards to give you your deck of 4 of each card, then sell the rest on e-bay.
At that time that cost about £8,000 per release and there were 4 releases per year. It stopped working when they introduced rare foils, as the number of boxes you needed to buy to guarantee getting 4 of each foil went up considerably.
@brennon I also regret the Mythic kickstarters. I went all-in on both Conan and Mythic Battles Pantheon. In both cases I told myself I would like them as painting projects if nothing else. Both sets took about a year each to paint – which I did enjoy the challenge of. The games are also ok to play. I played through the Conan campaign once with some club mates and I played a few games of Patheon. But the sheer shelf space taken up is huge. I’ve avoided backing any games again. In fact I did back the Monster Hunter game all-in, but as soon as it arrived I sold it on e-bay as I didn’t want to get into it.
Happy late Sunday!
09:50 Not true! @brennon
10:00 The who what now? You’re knee deep in Danish right now!
11:00 Cold train, momin stones and RPG with miniatures… got it.
14:00 Beer!
20:00 BLOOD AND VALOUR…. what’s that? Squirrel!
21:30 Boris is too much for the Weekender… Boris should be in the XLBS
24:30 every demo game is better with bigger miniatures… at least for the spectators.
28:00 pigs dens?
33:50 Watching it all at once… idea!
39:00 Double dipping, double tripping. Also, don’t mind me. My mind is wandering.
40:40 “star battle games” but do they have the correct scale?
44:00 Golden Buttons will be NFTs!
47:00 Leshenshwish!
49:00 No Regörds! Well almost none. I usually tend to spend not so much money. Except that one time I went “all in” with the Star Wars TCG from FFG. Bought the core set and enough add ons to have 4 complete factions. Played it once. Now it’s sitting there…
59:30 Star Wars Destiny was… well it looked too much like a child’s toy to me. Never caught on with me.
1:03:00 Burn!
1:05:25 Huh? oO
1:13:00 Warhamster…
1:19:00 You’re all drunk and won’t remember next week.
1:20:00 humbug.
Nice show, I think. Also I’ve learned never to read the comments. It’s dangerous. People might putt links to G’Wullu in it.
Great show! My hobby regret is spending too much money on Reaper and Wizkids minis. Now they all live in my bits boxes and I can’t ever see a use case for them in the future. The details are just too soft and the plastics they use are super-squishy.
CMON’s Wrath of Kings was a glorious game – such a shame they turned their back on it.
Could definately relate to Ben and Free, this week, MTG and Babylon 5 and a short run with Destiny definately over time has taken collectively about 8 years from my doing any miniature related gaming. Definately one not to go back to, I’ve bought a few Keyforge when it first launched 4 years ago.
So think I’m over all that now, but in other news Ben totally nailed the 40k editions, the slipcase set is 7th, and the Index’s were the launch of 8th set, so while I may pick up a few codex if I ever want some background reading I’m out of that production line.
But there’s always hope with oldhammer, perhaps I’ll bring you some hope Gerry, after all Rebellions are bult on hope.
But only in the trailers
Or in the Projects…
My biggest gaming regret… gaming. 😛
Now, ask me what my biggest investing regret is. 😀
@brennon gets this week no-prize award for the funniest 10 mins with his regrets on buying Star Wards destiny…..
although I’m very much a Gerry when it comes to stuff I buy, I was laughing with you rather than at you at your frustration.
I do sometimes feel regret when I look at how much I’ve spent on we little fighting men , but even the ones I havent gamee with yet I’ve generally got enjoyment out of the research behind them and the painting and hobbying. I do see your point over Mythic Battles but I have played it a couple of times, and… I partly brought it for all the gorgeous models which will be painted at some point and used for other stuff (particularly the monsters )/
Regrets…..
Buying into Bardsung. Has not been out of the box yet.
@brennon I have lots of Star Wars Destiny, @avernos I have Wrath of Kings, I guess I’m just the worst.
I will never give another penny to CMON although as with Gerry find my WoK minis handy for other games systems, normally as Samurai in Warlords of Erewhon.
@fcostin I used to play quite a few CCGS – MtG, Vampire the eternal struggle (I still play this a bit to be fair as imo it’s the best multiplayer ccg that’s been made), Eve, Middle earth, Lord of the Rings by Decipher, Spoils plus many more. Nowadays if I want to scratch that CCG itch I will generally jump online into MTG arena, Gwent, Hearthstone for a few weeks. I wont spend anything on these games and generally my appetite for them will be satisfied after a few weeks play.
Great topic, if a little depressing.
Like Free, CCGs are my biggest regret. MECCG, Spellfire, 40KCCG, Game of Thrones CCG, Warcry, Magic, Tomb raider. Literally thousands of pounds. I enjoyed all of the games but I wish I had the wisdom to avoid the collecting side and focus on building 2 or 3 good decks for each and selling and flipping all the surplus. I have a full collectors set of the original 40KCCG and I am certain I couldn’t give it away now.
I backed both Mythic battles Pantheon and Gotham City Chronicles and they hold some regret for the fact that I have played them but not enough. I now only back these games when they have a solo mode built in. Assassin’s Creed for example or the new Oriental one Harakiri Blades of Honour. Luckily Gotham got a solo mode in the latest kickstarter so I might be able to recover some value from it.
As with you guys warganes I’ve rarely regretted but as with the CCGs I regret buying too much 40k without just focusing on a fixed army project and keeping within boundaries. I always do this now for games and sleep better for it.
Wrath of Kings and Dark Age both screwed over so hard by CMON. I can’t see how anyone trusts them to not do the same ASoIF.