Cult Of Games XLBS: What Game Are You Most Thankful For?
November 27, 2022 by avernos
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It’s the XLBS Show…………….Happy Sunday Fellow CoGs!
Thanks guys totally unexpected to see my little project on the weekender.
Gerry was right in that he mentioned I have a habit of stalling projects because I can’t find a single mini or something like that and this one stalled because I was having troubling finding bases.
The British got their first M7 Priests (about 80-90) just in time for Second El Alamein.
I plan on making this a more Australian force by dropping the Priests, Grants and Churchills and including more Crusaders and Infantry but that’s after I finish the Germans.
sure I have some photos of them at Alamein in a book I’ve got.
I would have to thank Advanced Dungeons and Dragons for getting me into RPG’s and Call of Cthulhu for exposing me to a wider range of games.
But without a childhood devoted to card games and chess I probably wouldn’t me that into games.
Honourable mention to the ZX Spectrum as without that computer I would not have met the people that introduced me to AD&D.
Prowarm from ebay or amazon, if you are in UK.
Just one game I was thankful for? I can’t pin it to one. D&D 2nd ed. opened the door for RPGs and the follow on into 3.5. L5R and 7th Sea from Alderac are fond memories and intronto roll/keep. Changeling and VtM from White Wolf were great for a truly new experience in their World of Darkness and another dice engine/success system.
For minis I have Mordheim to be thankful for as my first game of figure based combat. I then had some of my best fun plugging away with orks in Blood Bowl. I’m now thankful for Saga Age of Magic as I can do as much insanity as I imagine in building reasonably sized armies according to my imagination.
@brennon Wouldn’t pillars from a wedding supplier for cakes be easier than foam?
Check out Pendrakens dungeon terrain as well
Happy Sunday.
For me it’s probably going to be SPQR. I know the game isn’t very good and I fine more problems with it every time I play, but it’s the game that got me back into the hobby in early 2020.
Before then for around 15 years I was playing Fantasy and 40k but I wasn’t painting and the interest wasn’t really there any more. I just kept my armies so I could join in with friends. I was really quite board with 40k but SPQR was something different, and got me painting miniatures again. It made me look at other games out there, got me into Moonstone and made me pick up Frostgrave.
…and Frostgrave is my other big game I’m thankful for. It cemented my new found revival for the hobby, caused me to buy many new miniatures, introduced me to solo gaming (just when the lockdown was in full effect) and made me really look into small scale skirmish games which I love. It’s also a very good game.
Games I’m grateful for….well Donald Featherstone rules that got me rolling my first dice (Still not sure how a mixed Roman and Ancient British defeated The third reich) then probably Runquest and for brother allowing me to play which reignited an interest in gaming again
More recently probably Command Decision for bringing 6mm into my life and Fire and Fury for introducing rolling for activations and playing games in the grand scale
You’ve awakened such nostalgia in me. Yes, ‘Wargames’, perhaps my favourite, well, most influential wargames book. I can still conjure up the picture of the ancient battle in the book with Tony Bath’s flats.
I wish I hadn’t lost my copy.
The only old book from that era I’ve got is, IIRC, ‘Battlegaming’ by, I think Terence Wise. For some reason, as I was trying to recall the author, Charles Wesencraft came into my mind, which I know is wrong. All I can remember of his rules is that they required basing, which was fairly unheard off in my (limited) wargaming circle.
It’s like eating yourself – do you disappear or double in size? Things that keep me awake.
Hi COGz an OTTers.
I’m most thankful for bloodbowl as it was the first GW game I got into and I played it with a lad from school which started a friendship that continues today 30 years later to the point he was my best man. We never played bloodbowl again but we bonded over that first clumsy game.
Terrain Shay make an prime some terrain for the win practice.
Try B&M an if you’re cutting rough sections get a solderer an change the tool for a loop of wire Ben, Guy’s.
Rebuilding is optional.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=35-fjDEiLlM
Dollhouse part shops are great for doors, Windows, (pillars,)(or cake suppliers).
Agreed, @brennon check the cake section when you’re in hobbycraft.
Being thankful I’ll go for Warmahordes as it was that that got me back into the hobby after a long hiatus. It’s inextricably linked to this site as it was watching Andy review people’s lists and other such vids showed me there was a world outside GW and minis not covered in skulls. I bought the Khador starter and the rest is history and my house being very full of wargame tat.
I’m also thankful for Shadows of Brimstone as it’s the only game I’m currently playing post-lockdown. I have a game later.
An Gerry has a stoke live on the show ?!?!
Space hulk for me started me down the plastic tunnel off shame.
Aliens the game.
@che If you use the airbrush once that means you’ve beaten Justin right?
Where did John go?…Was someone trying to buy a box of the Cadia figures in the shop and he had to rush off to rip it from their hands. I presume he was using the other 28 boxes instead of a chair this week in case someone tried to get them from him?
Yay John spooks the spider’s?
A fab show guy’s.
Happy Sunday, my game i would like to thank is BOLT ACTION and X- WING. Bolt Action for getting me back into miniature WW2 War-gaming from the collecting, painting and playing and X-wing just for the fun of aerial dogfights which i can just get out and play solo plus i can now play this with my grandson or a simple version of it as he is only 5.
D&D Basic, D&D Expert, AD&D, Judges Guild City State of the Invincible Overlord, World of Greyhawk, Waterdeep along side Dragon Magazine and early White Dwarf. Then onto Warhammer 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions. Then Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1st Edition, Shadowrun, Call of Cthulhu, Paranoia, Warhammer 40K. Then after a hiatus Mordheim, Warhammer 40K Kill Team, Pathfinder, Stargrave. Next up Pulp Adventures from Osprey…. Great memories throughout! ???
Happy Sunday,
what am i thankful for you ask?? I shouldnt even have to say it, but i will. GREATEST MOVIE EVER MADE.
See this is tricky for me, on one hand I’m thankful for Vampire the masquerade as its the first tabletop RPG I really got to play and made a load of good friends for, on the other hand with kings of war I got to paint and play with loads of goblins (which I love) and got to have a loads of games so its between the two.
I mean I played loads of kings of war with Gerry which is great (even if I am crap at it)
I would have to say 40K, but similar to Gerry, I am thankful that it’s there. In 2014 I was having a really tough time personally, struggling with a job that was burning me out, with no clear way out. I hadn’t gamed since being a teenager.
One day I was chatting to my brother and we were saying “remember when we were kids, and we played those games? (Hero Quest, Space Crusade, 40K, WFB) – its clearly still going – there’s a shop on the high street – wonder what’s changed?)
Quick google and the GW website was there…and then I saw necrons! And not only was it still there, there was a metric ton of third party online content. I binged YouTube with a discrete headphone in an ear while working and it totally saved me. It’s when I discovered Beasts of War and I never looked back. Just reigniting those childhood feelings of immersion in hobby was my way out. And that’s because of 40K which was there when I was a teenager, and it was there when I was an adult and really needed something positive.
I’ve only actually played 2 or 3 games of 40K since then, I’m more interested in other games, but I am ever grateful for it being there.
Happy Sunday (late)
02:00 6 weeks, 6 months…. what’s the difference.
07:00 Paint Shae as a French airbrush, right.
10:00 Inside out… noice!
12:30 They go and seek danger! Of course they are stupid!
24:00 magnetic balls? BALLS OF STEEL! @brennon when building with XPS take a look at the channel “Tabletop Workshop” for some nice middle earth buildings.
31:00 Puff, gone.
33:00 If that game was still in production I’d be in trouble.
35:40 Cloud Car
38:00 Shields up!
42:00 Tonks.
46:30 Who needs camo anyway?
51:00 Add a badger called Ben to your project!
52:30 Thankful? Why should I be thankful for something that is eating my time and money like candy? All bad evil stuff. [1]
55:00 The who now WHAT?! The world comes to an end? Is this the end times?! *gasp* *shock* *horror*
58:30 Do you need a shower now @avernos ? Or some beer?
1:01:00 In your heaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad… in your heaaaaaad!
1:03:00 Beer? Beer!
1:04:30 BT!
1:05:15 the cartoons are a war crime!
1:07:15 Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger…
1:12:30 Come out of things? Like… Brexit?
1:14:15 not telling! [1]
BYE!
[1] Well, to a more serious answer: Warhammer Epic 40k would be the reason I got into the hobby. Because I saw tiny pictures in a White Dwarf ages ago. But really thankful: I think that goes to Star Wars: Pocket Models, X-Wing and Legion in equal parts because I really enjoyed every minute with them. Other games I like, but those I love.
I’m thankful for Ago Of Sigmar. Since going to Uni and getting back into gaming I had played Warhammer Fantasy exclusively, not branching into anything else for fear of spreading myself too thin. Then Age of Sigmar came out and was so unplayable it forced me to branch out.
I’m grateful for Panzer Blitz by Avalon Hill. It was the first wargame I ever played way back in the mid 70s. After college I stopped playing wargames and didn’t get back in until I played the Space Marine video game. That video game first introduced me to Warhammer 40k which lead me to my current FLGS and my local gaming group and I’m grateful for that. Now 40k per se didn’t do much for me but it lead to Dropzone Commander and the majority of my current gaming group. During the beginning of the lockdown I was grateful to have hobby to work on. It definitely helped with my sanity. So, yeah, I’m grateful for a lot of things, but mostly I’m grateful for all of you guys in the gaming community both in person and in the virtual world.
Gerry is correct , War Hammer is a game I am thankful for because of what Gerry said . Without War Hammer we would not have all these other games and game companies.
Necromunda (1995) is my favorite game but with out War Hammer no Necromunda, no 40K , no Warlord Games , and no Warlord means no Test of Honour ( I love Samurai) .
I never got into War Hammer I loved the Science Fiction side and with out it I would have never got into Historical Wargaming.
So I too am thankful for War Hammer because of everything that came from it later on down the road.
I too am thankful for Warhammer. LotR, KoW and Saga are all better rule sets BUT Warhammer got me into miniature gaming and turned me into a wargamer. It was my first shot of hobby-heroin and I’ve been ‘chasing the dragon’ ever since. Eight editions later and I can honestly say I would have done another 8. AoS has crap background and I miss ‘ranks and flanks’. I love KoW BUT I miss the Old World fluff and flavour.
Well the Crimson Skies models was a blast from the past, and many will be not suprised that I have a tool box full of painted ones, and a box full of unpainted blisters ( a lot of the stuff initially shown on project) Interesting paint jobs , using WW2 schemes, though WW2 might not happen in that timeline, if I remember rightly the break up of the U.S. had been a boon to the British who become the world powerhouse again , and have actually increased their military post ww2 with the new pennies.
It will be no surprise that my game of inspiration , is Battletech, been playing it on and off since about 1983, was there for the 1st launch of the Clans back in the day. It was this game that gave our group for the semi role-playing campaign.
Another would be the Board Game come miniatures , then back to Board game Panzer which had tank data cards the pre date Flames of War.
D’nD not so much for the game itself but the fact it launched in many ways all the role playing games so popular today.
I want to thank Battle Systems for their Village Set because I don’t have to paint it! 😀
Yeah, they have a BF sale going on. (:
Dunno if I can post images here, so here’s the WIP thread where I painted the edges. 😛
https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/99834-battle-systems-fantasy-village-set-painting-the-edges/
Thank you for the Golden Button, I am flattered that my random project of whatever I put my hands on in any order was chosen.
@avernos, I will do my best to get a Crimson Skies Battle Report up, just because you asked.
@scribbs, Love the freehand ancient shield, scrolling through your project there is some really nice stuff in there. I was already fighting a losing battle over ordering some Burrows and Badgers figures and your pictures my just have pushed me into hitting that ‘Buy Button’ Doh.
@elessar, Big fan of using smaller figures on larger footprint bases and you have done some great looking bases. I love how you have kept the texture in the middle and almost framed each unit. They look great individually but on mass they look phenomenal.
Great show as always team.
Like Gerry, I would say Warhammer I should be most grateful for. I bought the 1st Edition but didn’t really play it until 2nd edition. It was my Gateway into gaming. Also, Battletech when I first laid hands on it in 1987. We used to play it during lunch breaks at school. A lot has changed since then, I don’t play GW stuff much to be honest, despite owning a bit, but my love of Battletech has never faded.