It’s the XLBS SHow………..Happy Sunday Fellow CoGs!

@avernos your going to make me want to get back to my ‘Hundred Kingdoms Army’ and then my wife is going to remember that I have not finished HER ‘Spires Army’ yet either! I don’t need to start a new Conquest army, but I do like those Dinos. (dang-it)

Welcome to the ‘Moonstone Table Building Club!’ @fcostin I’ve been trying to build up enough terrain to set up at least three tables at a time. Can’t wait for the NEW Moonstone stuff to arrive that I ordered on Kickstarter. I find myself wanting to add to my Moonstone tables with more Tabletop World terrain pieces. So very nice!

Well DONE to the Golden Button Champians. Very nice all!

As for the Topic of the Week……I could never choose just one miniatures game. So many games, so little time.
IMHO …. The most boring people I know are the ones that have only a single focus on whatever their subject is. They prattle on constantly the ONE SINGLE SUBJECT. How boring is that? I don’t mind visiting with a person like that for a short period of time, but soon I find myself in my head asking, “Do you really only have one focus”? Then I find myself looking for an exit from spending time with that individual. “Oh look, I’m late for a Root Canal Operation. Gotta GO”.

In the end………..Varity is the SPICE of Life! The SPICE must FLOW…….

good being first., feels good after many a moons away

Playing one game for 5 years?

Take me 5 years to make my mind up

I’d first spend decades just trying to find one genre I would play ‘forever’ …
So if I was to pick ‘one game to rule them all’ it would have to be a ruleset that is adaptable and flexible enough to cover whatever time period and scale I’d want to play.

I need variety.
I need an element of surprise so not every game is the same.
I might as well play chess forever … and that’s boring.

Happy Sunday!

Somewhere there’s a ruleset that allows you to play any genre at any scale from skirmish to mass ranks… I’ll pick that game!

Another take is: Isn’t that what most of us are doing? Trying out every game we can in the relentless, fruitless, doomed quest to find that perfect game system? (Note to GW Adherents – I don’t believe you’ll find it there, move on!)

Ok, downloading now.

But while I wait, in answer to the titular question. The answer is “none”. Because if I could only play one game I’d have long ago got bored and quit the hobby. Its the variety that keeps me entertained.

Happy Sunday! Another interesting topic. Whist these aren’t questions we should ever confront in reality, they can be a good thought experiment because it can reveal where you may want to consider spending more time and focus or may be even neglecting. The which aspect of the hobby would you choose was a tough one, and this is also tough. I have thought about narrowing my scope down to give me half a chance of finishing something and not getting distracted with every new thing. So I already have a shortlist.

Which one would I pick if I really had to? I think I’d go Fallout Wasteland Warfare for a number of reasons:
– I love the Fallout universe
– The game is great, and it’s also fantastic solo so I’m not tied to other players
– I do know people who would play it with me
– There won’t be a new video game in the next 5 years so this will keep me Fallouting until there is
– The models are great
– The game is well supported by Modiphius, plenty more to buy in the future
– It’s really scenario based so it won’t become a chewed-meat-meta game if played exclusively for a long time. SW:Legion was a close contender but I think this would happen to that game
– Despite me loving it, it keeps dropping down my priorities, it would actually be a bonus to have to focus on it.

So in some ways – bring it on. Shut that butterfly down!!

The more opportunity to play more and different games with new people or people you know is always better than trodding that same apology path. In my experience If your mates won’t play a new game find someone who will and I guarantee your have a bigger group of mates who do end up playing a new game. I love everything from tabletop to board games and I find that there’s always someone who wants to give something new a spin. I’m happy to cross games. I’m currently devouring Wars of Ozz and I’m happy to mix in my Warp minis as a faction and looking at Turnip28 as three games I can meld easily. So skirmish then rank and file games. A quick smash and grab game over some arc crystal or a March down the yellow brick road. I agree with Gerry, I like to keep my opportunities open and I love the osprey blue book series. Great hobby guys. Love the Raptors. Thank you for the entertainment this year, it’s been a tough one and the distraction and advice has been greatly appreciated. Wishing you All, COGs and OTTs a very merry Xmas I hope you get to enjoy and have a even better new year ahead.

happy sunday

have a good one and i hope your watching the greatest movie ever made

I started with GW and even then I wasn’t tied down to only 1 one of their games, I played both warhammer and warhammer40k and then later Lord of the rings just because the variate of setting. Rule wise the basics of the dice mechanics between WH and WH40k are similar so it wasn’t that hard to change between the systems. Then when GW started changing I started looking to other games and I think I will never just stay with only 1 game as several factors impact this. Some games you can play in an hour while others you need an afternoon and they are both fun to play. Plus I like all the information you get with some of these games, especially the historical games.
I have to be honest that hobby, price and space wise it might be better to concentrate on just 1 or few select number. But it can also be a relieve as when you are fed-up painting some specific model for one game you can go to an other from an other game, like sci-fi to Greek hoplites.

Just the one game. I don’t think I could pick one game for each genre or time period let alone just the one forever.
I have my favourites which make up the bulk of my gaming year but trying out new rule sets and utilizing old armies is a major part of the fun for me.

I’m with Gerry Kings of war , cos of the choice of different armies you can use. Because you can use what ever you have to hand to represent units.. you don’t even need minis ,simple base with unit name will do. Then you can buy what takes your fancy…no wasted time/money on things that you won’t play.

@avernos Trust me, having spent decades working in I.T., there are way worse things to stumble across in a browser history than “Naked Narns”. Naked Nans? Knackered Naans? Knackered Naked Nans??

@fcostin You’ve picked well with the Neptune 2. It’s amongst the easiest to assemble and I believe it has silent drivers for the stepper motors so the main noise levels will be from the fans (extruder and power supply) both of which can be replaced with silent versions if you wanted to at a later date. Honestly though, unless it’s at your elbow, chances are it won’t be any more noticeable than that of your PC. Also, the biggest plus for going with the Neptune 2 is that it should have a decent-sized online fan base to get dedicated advice and support from.

As to one game or many? I couldn’t restrict myself to just one game as I tend to play a couple but for extended periods and then swap out. For instance, I’ve just spent the past year playing Five Leagues from the Borderlands and Five Parsecs from Home. I did a couple of months of each (playing once/twice a week as both as a player and as a GM for someone else) and then swapping. I was using the none-playing time to print, build and paint the models and terrain for the game I wasn’t currently playing in preparation for the next one. Maybes I found it so much fun and less stressful because both systems are quite similar and so the ‘rule fog’ was less of an issue than jumping from say Burrows and Badgers to Saga. I also think it might be because the ‘Five X’ systems encourage narrative play and that kept the games going, even after the dice had stopped rolling and the table had been cleared.

Once again, well done Golden Button winners!

If I had to stick with one rule set for 5 years it would be Saga and I’d switch between the setting books. As you have a good range of periods from Ancient to Medieval, plus fantasy.

I’m planning to only play Saga for Ancients to Early Medieval anyway. I plan to pick up a number of the period setting expansions. I’ve Age of Invasions, then I plan to get Age of Hannibal so I can use my early Roman, Celtic and Greek armies.

Then the plan will be to pick up the Age of Crusades game for some proper medieval action.

I’m trying to narrow down my rule sets and genres. If I can a multi use like Saga all the better. I’m pretty much done with GW apart from War cry, Warhammer Underworld and Kill Team. All of the rest will be sold off.

This discussion has been going on for a while – in 1967 Brigadier Peter Young and Lt.-Colonel J.P. Lawford ended their classic book “Charge! or How to Play War Games” with “If you are enormously rich and have plenty of room, you may be tempted to build up war game Armies of several periods. This is enticing, but it is madness! We would commend you to choose your period, stick to it, read up the subject and get the atmosphere of the age. This is the most rewarding approach to a pastime which, while not lacking excitement, is decidely more agreeable than dropping atomic bombs on one another.”

This wasn’t entirely the mood of the time though – Don Featherstone was playing Medievals, English Civil War, French and Indian War, Napoleonics, American Civil War, Colonials and WWII back then.

Another veteran wargamer has gone down to one period – Charles S Grant said in one of his recent Refighting History books that he has disposed of his Napoleonic and Malburian armies and now restricts himself to the mid-18th century in 30 mm scale.

If I were to confine myself to one period and set of rules, it would probably be either horse and musket (7 Years War or Napoleonic) using Sharp Practice or WWII using Chain of Command. 13th century medievals would be tempting as well, especailly now I’ve received everything from the third Barons War Kickstarter.

Ooh yeah the XLBS SHOW.

Giant magpies an parrots Gerry?

Happy Sunday!

00:00 Play just one game for ever…. have to think about that
01:10 About what? Strictly who? oO You’re all having a stroke!
04:30 Next uHH is finger puppets! XD
07:00 Naked Narrn?
15:45 Neon coloured Megasaurs!
15:55 In a bar @lloyd… they hang out in bars!
17:30 F … lots of F pressed… *takes his tricorn of*
19:15 The cat just wanted to keep you safe from all the monsters @fcostin
20:00 Her chair is a screaky one XD
22:00 Black Friday is a scam
27:15 3D printed cat it is XD
31:30 “put them in Stargrave” … But it’s Star Wars!11!11!
34:30 I love me the movement tools from FFG/AMG…
37:30 Oh they do look so cute… sadly the game itself is a bit more on the expensive side.
44:30 There is a lot of papercraft terrain over at https://www.drivethrurpg.com/
50:00 PIZZA!
51:00 Send HELP! The team’s dying…
56:00 Burrows and Badgers… not, for example… SAGA?
58:00 See! An example!
1:05:00 Amen @brennon As well as X-Wing minis feel wrong in billions suns.
1:06:00 Saaaaaaaaaaaaagaaaaaaaaaaaa
1:16:00 “a pandemics worth” – too soon dude… too soon XD
1:19:00 Clip a part of the show and put it out there? hmm……

So playing just one game… no. Limit yourself to only 2 or three? Yes. But then again: shiny! XD

Final question: What’s that chemical on your shirt @lloyd ?

That Gray guy on the box looks very Tau?

Ooh the next free video how to make terrain from cat damaged tree’s?

Dino frog’s?

I think I’d go for blackpowder just because I could make my way through 200 years of historical. My version of the hobby is to collect as much as possible for a certain setting such as the Zulu war for example and then force my friends to play what I’ve collected. I’m not part of a club and the one time I looked at one it was all 40k and felt out of place and didn’t go back.

Robo rats for the win.

The stone building looks great.

Interesting question… one Miniatures game for 5 years, and I’d probably have to go Burrows and Badgers too.

Other contenders would be, Stargrave, Oathmark and Pike & Shot.

I get exactly where Gerry is coming from re 40k players not willing to even try another game, a lot tend to be very blinkered in their outlook and unwillingness to try other game systems

Our club used to be solely GW, but thankfully over the years a lot more games have become very popular, leading our club to be the first anywhere in the world to run tournaments for both Bolt Action as well as Burrows and Badgers, of which we are extremely proud