Cult Of Games XLBS: From Gloom To Boom! Igniting Your Hobby Passion
May 21, 2023 by lloyd
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Happy Sunday CoGs and OTTers!
On the discussion, my gaming group pick 4-6 games per year to play. Each game will be played for roughly 3 months. We get to pick a genre, a game, a scale and then a faction. So, to use Saga for an example, you pick 28mm, Dark Age, Vikings. Each player (there’s usually 7 of us) has 3 months to collect, build and paint 8pts of models and 3 terrain pieces over the next 3 months BEFORE we start playing. The person making the pick of genre, game and scale also has to produce the campaign map and rules. This way we all get hyped up with ideas conversions and lore before we start playing. So for instance we started 2023 playing Saga, Age of Magic whilst we were preparing for Kill Team. We started playing Kill Team in April whilst we have been preparing for Epic Pike and Shot (7 years War). We start Pike and Shot in July whilst we prepare for Blood and Plunder and so on. I paint very fast but some of the group need every day of those 3 months to get their army ready. The advantahe with this is we don’t over commit and people always play with at least some painted minis. I know that a few of the guys used the low model count of Kill Team to get a head start on their Pike and Shot stuff.
Doing it this way has been a great way for us to group motivate AND keep our hobby fresh.
Sounds like a surefire way to keep the tempo up 🙂
I love that, of course I’d need to make more friends but otherwise it’s a solid set up
I think we all need to see photos and an in depth analysis of Fireforge figures (preferably from the Livonian crusade) on or perhaps even beside railway platforms
Don’t tempt him!
Your lack of Leshen disturbs me.
I’m sure it’ll be back…and in greater numbers
Hi XLBSers I see John’s his happy excited self.
BNAG! That’s bang out of order.
(Tim Vine 2014)
Very good sir…
Are you sure their not just faraway @lloyd .?
No they Will have new round basses @lloyd .
Is that not the point of army’s to stop war’s?
Happy Sunday I completely get what John is taking about with his armies, my team Yankee 82nd airborn is getting built upon the rapid reaction force set up which looks great rather than a more playable combat team. My warploque force is the same based around a albionican garrison and halfling colony. I had even thought about using the new push of pike epic to create a early colonial American army but I’ve put this on the back burner of my wish list as I pursue a Soviet descent force ready for team Yankee to head north into Norway later this year. Added to my already substantial Soviet force I’m still planning a Soviet market garden / fiord too far campaign. I’d also like to take advantage of the reissue of the Nam range to pick up some Americans to proxy as Republic of Korea troops while I’m pretty sure I can get away with Israeli infantry as South African troops to maybe take a turn into Cold War Africa to face off against some Cubans. On top of this I can still hear the sultry call of brigade models imperial skies range, especially with the new colonial fleets.
Gerry didn’t get figures for gaming what kind off insanity is going wrong with the world if that happened.?
it occasionally happens
Great show guy’s.
During this fantasy talk I can’t stop thinking about David Gemell. I mean surely that’d be a perfect miniature range right?
I ran a 24 hour Legend warhammer game at my club years ago, that was fun.
Weapons of war. @avernos.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_That_Made_Britain
A video on archers.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Xwx12ekSU
Great show, Mike Loades is awesome and always enthusiastic
Indeed.
Happy Sunday.
Quite often what sparks a project for me is seeing a miniature range I haven’t come across before. This happened last year when I fell in love with the Artizan Designs goblin miniatures and trolls, and I ended up buying one of each of them and have since painted them all. Recently it’s the Wealdgeist range of wood elves and dryads from Conquest Games, where I’ve since bought one of everything.
The old world will be the same as Warhammer fantasy apart from anything that is good and fun will be culled from it because anything good or fun is illegal in the eyes of GW.
@lloyd My Order of Heimdallr army is technically build as a Bretonnia army but then based on medieval Scandinavia. The models are mostly from Fireforge Games. You can have a look at my project here: https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1401206/?order=asc
What really gets me into wanting to work on a hobby project is the lore behind it, being historical or fantasy. As long as I enjoy learning about it, it tends to end up in a project.
That’s a great project and army.
I just happen to be rummaging through my FireForge and Oathmark sprues at the moment and yes that includes Scandinavian, to have a go at kitbashing a new Fantasy army 🙂
John: hands on with WW2. You’re never going to get that with an orc. Unless you LARP at least.
Happy 5th birthday BoW 2.0! 8)
00:00 Creeeeaaaam
04:45 Best hangout ever!
07:00 Shameless self plug
09:30 Welcome to reality @lloyd XD
11:00 I’ve been through the desert on a horse with no name *sings*
12:00 Shields up Mr Zulu!
15:00 Hobby tax deluxe
18:20 Time is a bad thing… it flies by
19:30 Sir Eeyore John the reluctant.
21:00 Lloyd is on fire today… or on drugs
22:15 Why is Bolt Action great right now? I don’t understand. Couldn’t be because some video on the internet?
24:00 a sudden book appears
25:30 Do a crusade!
29:00 Didn’t anyone take pictures on how p&s worked? XD
33:00 All the “obsessive” research people do. Is that mandatory for historical? Or does it just come with it? Maybe that’s why they don’t peak my interest that much
35:45 Paint something? How?!
38:00 Books, for the kids, are the paper things that work without batteries and swiping is a manual task
43:15 Other people putting ideas in your head should be illegal!
44:15 More coffee!
48:30 nobody ever gets distracted… SQUIRREL!
53:00 Battered and bruised – oh my
58:45 40k and books… does that compute?
59:55 ComSpot I
1:03:00 He has a mouth and he must scream
1:07:50 ComSpot II
1:08:00 *white noise*
1:12:12 Kaaaaneeedaaaaaa!
1:17:45 ComSpot III
1:20:20 Horny
1:25:30 THE WAAAAAAAAAR!
Good night!
Great not synopsis lol
Inspiration is a triple edged sword. With doing research there are so many rabbit holes to find new tangents for insight true danger exists for hobby butterflies. It’s a good thing hobby bumblebees exist to help temper distraction with discipline (says the man who then was “inspired” to look at Narn camo patterns). Back to my fantasy Arabs!
Happy Sunday, loved the show lads, some times i am wonder if John does though, any way Inspiration i find can just come from anywhere for me, i see a picture a new mini range and well of i go or even a set of rules.
I don’t know if he enjoys it, endures perhaps?
Distinct armies not elves and dwarves.. should try Game of Thrones … Got-cmon- the armies are nice and unique, and have nice flavor. A great game as well.
Yeah A Song Of Ice & Fire is certainly way up there. I’ve come around to the rules now after being initially put off by them. Great looking armies too since it’s CMON sculpts.
ASOIAF is a great game with a solid miniature range. The rules are well thought through and the army lists are balanced enough that the game is ideal for tournament and garage-gaming. If ASOIAF has a failing it’s that they haven’t got themed lists, any penalties for mixing units (like having Lannister’s using their abilities on allied Boltan units) which can make it feel slanted to ‘hard-core’ combo/’gotcha!’ moments. It also lacks a campaign system for narrative or legacy play.
Due to real-life commitments, I ended up taking a fairly lengthy hiatus from the hobby. It’s actually sculpting that’s reignited my passion. I’m currently working on my first scratch-built miniature. Once it’s finished I’ll probably share the WIP photos on the forum.
Gerry got a black belt in prequel memes haha