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Cult Of Games XLBS: How Would YOU Create The Perfect Wargaming Campaign Weekend?
January 19, 2025 by avernos
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Happy Sunday Backstagers, CoGs and OTTers!
Last year my gaming group used the Milton Bradley board game ‘Shogun’ to be the campaign system for our Pike and Shot samurai battles. It worked ok for about 5 rounds when the campaign petered out. There was one assassination attempt that was done via Test of honour. I’m told it was both fun and very thematiuc.
Personally I wouldn’t mind try something similar with the War of the Rings board game and GW’s Middle Earth Strategy Game.
Happy Sunday Mr H
Was all the Monty Python stuff delivered attached to a length of creeper so it would be suitable to be carried by two swallows?
If you don’t like Monty Python then watching the episodes re done in German should reinforce your dislike
Back in the day the BBC didn’t really do pilot episodes so the BBC would just give promising writers money and tell them to go and make 6 episodes
Are they European or African swallows?
Happy Sunday COGz an OTTers 👍😁👍
Nice fuzzy pictures Gerry ?👍
It was Hungarian vs Rumania cold war The worst part of the massive weekend campaign was me balancing on top of a 6 foot step ladder with a VHS camcorder to shoot the aerial recon bits . This recon led to wrong bridges being destroyed etc. All good fun with 30 players and 10 6×4 tables
So every day is Xmas in Gerry world ✨🌎💥✨
They would have a fit if it is shown nowadays Gerry 🤔
You can get the Black Adder series on the movie Hub app @avernos 👍✨👍
And Babylon 5 💥
thankfully I am replete with video tapes of both, but it’s a good shout for the poor unfortunates who don’t have them.
You/they can get it on your phone it didn’t work for the tablet Gerry 👍
Another great Weekender guys. Thanks for covering the Project.
Big +1 for the Bootcamp/Campaign idea, I always enjoyed watching the buildup and weekend coverage.
The Warlord Epic Boxes might be a neat way to do it. You could do Waterloo with the historical Battalion at 1:1 if you had about 10 players a side, let the Studio guys be the Prussians. You’ve got Qatre Bras for the Saturday. Even better would be the Pike and Shotte box, even if you split it between two people for cost reasons you still get some nice forces and battles of the time didn’t need to be huge. I’d recommend the Baroque rules over Pike and Shotte itself though. Half the big box gives you a very nice 600 Point force each for the English Civil War, give people the option for some Covenanters if they want that box instead and you’ll have a some different forces.
I also think it would be cool to showcase some alternative Sci-Fi rules that people could use their 40K minis for. I know a lot of my local scene, myself included, haven’t played 40K in years but we all enjoy the Lore and minis, maybe do a poll or something to decide on the ruleset and run a Might Empires style campaign weekend.
The Mighty Empires (I think the 40K version was called Planetstrike which would need work to be converted to a new game system but wouldn’t be very hard) would also be a cool way for us left at home to participate, we could be moving the armies around on the tiles at night setting up battles for the next day “If you take X then move on Y, take X at all costs/don’t push X too hard it’s a feint” sort of thing. I think that would be a good way to give some publicity to a more overshadowed game while also not requiring people to build an army on the weekend.
I’ll be in the discord keen to see where this goes.
Fab show guy’s 👍
I’m 2 minuets and 52 seconds in and damn you Jerry I need this game 😂
the art in the book is stunning as well, if you’re a python fan and a roleplayer it’s pretty much a required buy
Hairy Sunday
First I read “perfect wargaming companies” and I thought “nobody can do that. impossible! way to many variables!”.
Then I read “perfect wargaming campaigns” and I laughed and laughed and I screamed from the top of my lungs: Do not go there! That way only madness lies! NO MORTAL CAN DO THAT!
00:00 But first, coffee.
00:18 Staging the back.
03:00 Gesundheit
05:00 That looks so lovely. Your brother really love you. Well done you.
06:50 Dice of AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
12:00 let other people touch your RPG?
13:35 Not seen Monty Python? Those people exist?! oO
21:00 ACW! Shaaaay! Grey! Shaaaaay.
21:35 *GASP* They grow up so fast. *wipes away a tear of pride* @shayott
25:00 sooo are we only getting told about Shay doing hobby or will there be pictures? PIC OR IT DIDN’T HAPPEN!
32:10 Never let them put clothes on you you don’t like!
37:00 Back on telly? Put it on the interwebs for all to see!
49:00 @brennon and LotR? Weird concept.
1:02:00 Shay-Spotting. Kicking our toys? @avernos you where complaining about “your” victory had been stolen! While we won fair and square!
1:04:00 giving how old most of us are, the houses are already challenged! In more than one way.
1:12:00 Don’t cut that!
1:14:30 Manhole covers @brennon
1:18:00 All the rigging
1:24:00 All hail coffee!
BUY MÖRCH!
“Stand by to Fire Mrs Nesbitt!”
How not to be seen
Well talking of a narrative weekend.
In April a few of us backstage bods are getting together to do just that, based around Operation Market Garden using Chain of Command ☺️
Happy Sunday.
I loved A Game of War and Time Commanders. I remember rewatching Game of War over and over on my VHS recording of it back in the day.
As for weekend campaigns I still like the idea of using the Time Bandits minis from Northumbrian Tin Soldier and jumping from table to table at a historical wargames show.
HAPPY SUNDAY….
Python RPG looks a hoot, though you can absolutely play any RPG for laughs. Back in school I was crying with laughter through Moria in MERP.
Fun fact: one contestant of Time Commanders was Ruth Wilson who went on to become and actual actress on the telly. She appeared in a few game shows in those days.
Happy Sunday!
Happy weekend! I’ve had the Hyde Wargaming Campaigns book for a while with the idea that reading it would inspire me to action the way that Armies & Legions & Hordes does for army painting. Maybe this year I’ll get to it XD
Thanks for the butt-butt-ding @brennon – all the minis are from Brother Vinni. @grantinvanman pointed out that they have the full set in a bundle these days. Well worth the money, they’re really nice resins.
@avernos what was the video you were talking about???
@brennon Brother Vinni does a complete set of Turtles, April, Shredder, a few ninjas, etc.
He even has an 18+ version of April 😉
I remember an article in I think wargames illustrated where they used GoPro cameras for the generals to have a miniature eye view of the battle field who had to write orders and got map updates on paper as well – that would be do able for an event I think…
Man, I loved those old ‘Wargames Shows.’ Some of the commanders used to fail in epic proportions which was hilarious.
I always thought that War of the Roses would make a good narrative campaign as you could add some level of diplomacy to it so you could never be certain if your ally in one game would stay your ally. It would also be good to do BattleTech with an element of diplomacy. I think the idea of having that Game of Thrones element, almost like a separate game running alongside, alliances being made and broken and a hidden level of subterfuge would be amazing.
Thanks for the Golden Button, very unexpected, and congratulations to the other winners. Have an awesome week everyone.
Well to make the perfect campaign I’d firstly have Rome built……
I would like to do this grand strategy shenanigans. lets do it Gerry lets do it now
@avernos Cracking episode, the Lardies do some pretty good campaign supplements for Sharp Practice ‘Bastards’ and Pint Sized campaigns. There is an alter of freedom website with some FREE camapigns, the sites called 6mmwargaming or somesuch though, but AoE campaign seach will get you to it if you don’t know it already.
In Ben’s LotR campaign, you could also keep the ring bearer’s presence hidden from the good guys too. Leave it up to the player / GM whether or not to reveal themselves to their local ally…
I watched Terminator, the Sarah Conor Chronicles a few years ago and it struck me that it would be great to run a pair of games. One set in the present, with Sarah, John, a reprogrammed terminator and a few members of the Resistance who’ve been sent back in time vs some terminators who’ve been sent back by skynet to carry out assassinations of people who will become future John Connor’s senior commanders, etc. And the other game would be set post-Judgement day, with the resistance trying to break into Skynet to reach the time machine.
If Future Resistance do well, then can send additional reinforcements back in time. If ‘present day’ John, Sarah, etc. do well, they can secrete caches of weapons for the future Resistance to find and utilise.
I think it’d be a lot of fun!