Weekender XLBS: Time Commanders Returns & Armored Core Comes To Kickstarter
July 31, 2016 by dignity
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Happy Sunday
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@dignity @brennon Nice work on your Warmachine and Hordes miniatures guys! I look forward to seeing some WM/H battle reports from you.
Thanks @iplay40k – looking forward to painting the rest of the Trollbloods I have and then getting in some more practise games.
The giant looks more Runequest/Glorantha than D&D
Oops that should really have said ‘reminds me more of…’
Yes can see it in the big rubble
I would buy that sarissa terrain and use it for Fallout minis. ^^
Happy Sunday!!
There’s a painted preview of the giant on the gf9 site… http://www.gf9-dnd.com/miniatures/tabid/86/entryid/314/Default.aspx
Limited to 1500?
Ruth Wilson (Luther tv series) is in that time commanders clip.
Haha yes! When I was watching through it again a few months ago I recognised her!
I will reserve judgement on the pulposaurus Conan Rise of the Monters until more info is out, the first go around they had on Kickstarter was distinctly underwhelming.
Wow, that was a lot of things like that and stuff like that
Snap Nerd Test:
Has anyone else spotted the Luther Link? Cryptic answers below only so as not to spoil it for others.
Damn – took too long to post – toshkein got in there…
Happy Sunday..
The Star trek trailer was TEST footage, put together in 5 days for Comic con, That why the quality of the cgi is so low, Also the ship design is not locked down and they have not said when the show is set, the ship looks like its post Enterprise but their are element from later time periods as well
Aye, like a design ‘sketch’ 🙂
Certainly good to know – as early footage it got me excited for more Star Trek on TV more than anything.
The films are great but it would be good to see it go episodic again too.
Great show, quite interested in the armoured core but i’m with Lloyd, if everyone is taking their own turns when ever they like how does it not descend into chaos? I would like to see a play through video at some point.
On the robust terrain front I liked the adobe building but I was waiting for that to land on Justin’s mini’s
Joey Berry is going to be on the BBC 🙂
@dignity your Cygnar and Khador starter sets look awesome man 🙂
@brennon An AoS points game? I cannot wait.
Aye it was fun – need to try and get more games in and see what it’s like with other armies. Might crack out the old Dwarfs to see how they fare.
Justin…
Nice to see the Warmachine moving on,
Loyd NO TRAINS man.
Purple was a very expensive dye, @lloyd, that’s why it’s traditionally associated with royalty. Your average legionnaire wouldn’t be in purple. As for what they did wear, as tends to be the case the evidence is very limited, and much is made of very little. I believe there are fragments of red tunics which survive, red was a cheap dye, and it was a common colour for military uniforms, the Spartans and their red cloaks being a famous example, so red is what we get depicted.
I remember reading about some tunics being depicted on some funerary relics. The colours were probably faded but I think a brownish red was mentioned ( l looked this up and it’s a colour that would come from the madder root/ Rubia plant and was very common in the Old world and was used as a red dye up until the 19th century) After that unbleached linen would probably a very common colour for tunics. After that…who knows. There are some mentions of Romano British sailors in the 3rd century dying their tunics go match the colour of the sea but that could lead to bud to green or anything in between
Blue to green
Aye, blue sails so they could intercept Saxons and Irish 🙂
I think Augustus give Agrippa a special blue uniform/flag after Actium (?)
Aye, Tyrian Purple was restricted to those with aristocratic privilege/special imperial office.
Trajan had purple sails on his bling war-galley 🙂
Yogscast already did Fantasy Time commanders
NSFW
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3XZNMGhpynPBgiB0kyaoa6jD4vBdOkwV
Loved Time Commander before but that video is something else!! Awesome, subscribed straight away!!
Yeah it was a good watch – would be nice to see them do it again.
“Did you have a gaming day or did you have tea party?”
Wait, there’s a difference?
Happy Sunday!
You guys really have to do the Time Commanders thing! It’d be awesome! Apply now.
Okay .. to my knowledge we’ve never had Time Commanders in Australia (which is odd because we usually get a lot of the BBC stuff) BUT you three have to enter , really , it would be great
I love the “but what if we’re shite at it?” from Lloyd 😀
Yeah … but that’d be half the fun =D
Like most computer games, I’d not heard of Armored Core. The idea of porting an RTS game to the tabletop sounds fascinating though. I’ll definitely have a look.
Good show guys. The giant just does look like a scaled up 28mm model. The leather would not like that for a start. It would take more cow hides stitched together to get areas that large and it would have to be shown in the model. The proportions should be slightly different to the normal sized guy as well. The laws of physics are different with bigger models. Anyway, I digress.
Your Warmachine stuff looks great. I am looking forward to seeing how it evolves. I currently have the Menoth battle box and was very happy with what I got in it.
Re the Storm Giant , DD doesn’t need models! Its ROLEPLAYING not tabletop.
Some people like playing with models when they play D&D – it just helps them visualise things and they get to paint their heroes up 🙂
I don’t use miniatures; we just have a little white board where we sketch out the battlefields when it comes to combat.
Miniatures were fun though BUT it does lead to people deviating towards ‘tactical’ placement and all sorts rather than just going for it.
“born from an egg on a mountain top”. ben journey to the west is considered a classic of Chinese literature , shame on you.
comicon chat was awesome . wonder women looks very cool .
dr strange , learning magic from monks on a mountain top. wait is this journey to the west again.
I hang my head in shame! It will be neat to see if Knight Models pick up the new movie likenesses of these DC and Marvel films/shows to make models for their games – could be fun!
Happy Sunday!
There NEEDS to be a Beasts Of War team on Time Commanders, make it happen, guys.
So much time spent talking SDCC trailers. Could have at least tied it in with the related miniatures games. Sorry but it feels like the XLBS really isn’t worth the watch anymore.
@darthshader We talked about wargaming, miniatures and hobby projects for a total of 1hour 9min and comic con trailers (which is once a year) for 15min.
And most of the trailers are about movies you can pick up miniatures for to boot.
@lloyd, definitely looking forward to the Adobe buildings hobby lab. Given there versatility in terms of fitting across multiple game sand time periods surprised there are not more out there to buy. The Forevround ones are nice but the scale is a bit small for me, certainly for Dust. So please make sure that one gets aired soon! 🙂
All if you are interested in Roman period stuff there was a discussion about historical fiction a while balcony. I really enjoyed the Uhtred Cornwell books and also his take on Arthur but have recently been reading the Emperor series charting Caesar from boy to Dictattor by Conn Iggulden and they have been really good.
@crispypete I think you will like the size of it.
Wargames Illustrated did a Roman Empire vs Han China feature
and all the Romans had blue uniforms. They said there was evidence that Trajan’s Legions wore blue (?) But I think the main reason was because the Han Chinese had red and black uniforms.
White undyed linen might have been popular (?)
@grimcrazy – Cool, Wargames Illustrated has allot in it about Romans this month too, will need to take a look.
there is a ‘brown pants’ joke in there somewhere…
Oh crap, totally missed that lol
Awesome!
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/trajan-column/index.html
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=trajan%27s+column+colour&view=detailv2&&id=714884ABC9FE727D46FE680C4AF90BFB15C1BAA1&selectedIndex=21&ccid=x0mQqvGM&simid=608027603391351725&thid=OIP.Mc74990aaf18c7b66b85c7df93e03e9deo0&ajaxhist=0
but where’s the metallic paint? 🙂
When I worked for Game, we had someone come in asking for Rome Total War, he asked if the game has a particular battle in it, I told them I didn’t know and asked why? The chap said that he had been on Time Commanders and played that battle and lost. I said “I watched you in that, you were rubbish!”. Needless to say we did’t get the sale.
Flaming Bagpipes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Op1Mng4oY
The glitter attack is probably Andrew Lincoln’s attempt to get back at Norman Reedus for this confetti in his cars air con trick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo5FBv-wn40
Happy monday (yeah i know, but finally had some sun during my time off, so i went whale watching and star gazing!)!
Time commanders, wow, i saw 1 or 2 épisodes back in the days on the BBC canada… was not to much impressed! But there were some good lol moments…
I’m with you Justin, i’d go back and play Armored Core 1 and 2!
If Undercity is on a 3×3 grid, it would be perfect for the new Deadzone industrial terrain, with spinning fans, steam pipes, belching engines and conveyor belts.
back in the land of the living i.e. have internet access. That was few great days gaming, lots of sweeties and destruction. thanks lads @lloyd @dignity
that terrain Lloyd made is excellent, we spent ages throwing it about, had a blast 🙂
great show guys cant wait to see you on time commanders.