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Cult Of Games XLBS: The World War I Wargame Every History Fan Should Be Playing?
February 15, 2026 by avernos
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Happy Sunday CoGs OTTers and of course, Backstagers!
Still such a shame Renegade Miniatures stopped producing and selling miniatures. Their WW1 range was beautiful.
Agreed, and they were oh so cheap too
Ah yes, all the pixelated love for Gerry weeks after Giftmas. I’m not sure if you should share it. As for the second half of the craziness, its in customs along with the wrongness for Shay, Justin, and John. I received Warren’s stuff back after doing a couple donuts back and forth over the pond. All will be set right asap.
maybe you should fly them over in person next time 😉
(and I really want to know what’s so wrong with them that they have to be pixellated or held by the perverts at customs.)
Do the rules cater for the lack of supplies the Germans were suffering in 1918 and the stopping of German advances during Operation Michael as troops raided British supply depots?
I’m sure when John and Gerry do their deep dive they’ll find out
morning all!!!
ooo so if Ben can count his little strip of minis as individual….can i count my 6 bases of 13.5mm Romans as 180 minis? even though i only need to paint about a 3rd of each strip??? That would certainly pump my numbers up as its been a very slow month this month
I stand by this so yes, you have my approval
My first ww1 army was from great war miniatures for the warhammer historical great war book. Bit like playing guard armies for 40k but it had a lot of scenarios and campaigns in the over the top supplement which covered the western front for the whole war. Blood and valor is ok but a bit tournament style for me. I’ll pick up 1918 and give it a go
Happy Sunday….
so … great war miniatures don’t sell miniatures that are great for war ?
who’d have thought that 😉
Morning everyone! Well lookout, the yank is invading NI! Wife and I just bought a house in Cookstown!
Great news, when do you expect to be moving? We’ll have to make sure to include you in our unofficial otter boot camps, next one is 10mm samurai @Oct/Nov. Safe travels
Sunday!
00:00 I know what’s in the boxes! Partially at least XD
03:00 1918? That’s a long time ago.
30:00 “Got trouble at home” XD
44:22 Step on it!
48:00 Dear game system. Can you show us where he touched you?
50:00 Never had wedding cake. Not on my wedding at least
1:19:00 bye
Love? I do not love my games. I love the joy they can bring me by playing, building and painting. But I do not love them. Because they don’t love me back. They just want my money. Like some person on the streets selling their goods.
Amazing stuff for 1918m any historians around who can tell me why the germans worshipped Shrek? Many thanks.
My only question to Gerry is, with all your gaming mistresses how do you have time to star in Mackenize Crook’s new sitcom and grow Homunculi to foretell the future 🧐😁
My aim is to now have Gerry/Michael on the next cover, gazing into a jar of homunculi
I’m very much enjoying Midgard as a system and at 300pts per side it plays nice and quickly too. Doubtless I’ll have my head turned by something else very soon. A miniature a day has been my target every year for many years now. I’ve mostly made it too. And no, @brennon I don’t count an 8mm figure as “one”. That is so I don’t end up having to apply the Gimli counting system and spend days on a mumakil or other huge model and have to count that as “one” too. “One” by my reckoning is the equivalent of a single 28mm miniature in painting effort. That said I also count 28mm cavalry as “one” but that’s because I find horses easy to paint so they aren’t much more effort than an infantryman. But by all means, you do you on the counting 🙂
Yay XLBS COGz 👍
Good show guy’s 👍
Looking forward to the deep dive into 1918. I’ve been using the old Warhammer Ancients WW1 rules, but I am not enamoured with them. This set does look rather promising.
Currently loving Burrows and Badgers, I think it’s more because of the Campaign side of it that I love. I don’t know if I would just play standalone games and get the same level of enjoyment from it, if I’m totally honest. There is something about the element of building up a warband and the extra tension when making injury rolls that I enjoy. I guess it is a bit like how I see Blood Bowl, great as a league, just okay for one-offs.
I am looking forward to getting into Trench Crusade and Fallout Factions, but again, I think that is because of the campaign element. I probably need to intersperse campaign games with other things.
Bit late viewing but…
Interested in hearing Ben’s thgoughts on Conan RPG.
I have run my mates through 1 sesion. First sesh I’d ref’d in 20 years.
So much fun, so easy on the book work, just focus on the story and run.