Cult Of Games XLBS: Where Is Your Hobby Happy Place?
May 29, 2022 by avernos
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Happy Sunday! Shortest XLBS ever? Love the Assassins creed project but that Moonstone project could tempt me to give that game a look!
Where’s the Saga? I may have to do some Saga hobby in the hope is gets mentioned.
The painting is the most relaxing for me. I get into a happy place. I love the prep and planning for a new project, but the painting is where my Zen zone is.
I have a picture like Gerry did, drawn for every Warhammer (especially Dogs of War), KoW and ancients army I’ve ever built.
I honestly cannot praise Moonstone enough. The game is great and full of fun, quirky mechanics, and the minis are absolutely gorgeous!
Happy Sunday!
Definitely without the research of the game universe I couldn’t get into the mood for anything related to the hobby. And a good, well developed background story just makes the game so much more alive. That’s why BattleTech is still among my top favourite games/universes. Same goes for Dropzone and Dropfleet Commander universe.
And yes @avernos – ripping the supports from the 3D print is REALLY satisfying…
Happy Sunday,
i hope you guys have a good one. Please dont forget to hit an old person and also watch the Greatest Movie ever Made.
You seem to big a big fan of Slade @brennon What is your favourite cuppa soup flavour?
I think of my Loverman and watch the Greatest movie ever made. then i go off to dream land
Master and commander is a great film, enjoy it every time I watch it. I think my happy hobby place has to be my garden with the paints out – with a mug of tea. It’s quiet, relaxing and as long as I pay the cat some attention now and then it’s become areal sanctuary
‘theres a rent, in the skoi’.
‘ooright Gladys, poot a mask on, its toime for the Caaaarnevol.’
Happy Sunday!
I think you’ll find that Slade came from Wolverhampton not Birmingham! That’s used up both my list of facts about Slade and Wolverhampton…
Don’t think there are any more
Back in the Wargames Mongrol Days myself and Kevin were nicknamed the Slade Possie by a Londoner.
Happy Sunday!
Relaxation in wargaming.
Similar to Gerry, the whole range of activities in the hobby is what I spend my free time on. And I spend my free time on it because it entertains and relaxes me. That said I guess I find the painting most relaxing. Though… In an odd way… Painting has also been so engaging that I have ended up in a flow and gone to bed two or three hours later than I intended. So is it really relaxing if it is stimulating and engrossing? Maybe not understanding what relaxation equates to or means to me is a bad sign. Lol.
To avoid hobby fatigue and to avoid that chore feeling I follow my hobby whims to try and keep the whole experience relaxing? So I try to set out basic goals and prioritize my next few tasks, but allow myself some freedom to be creative in and around those tasks. E.g. Allowing myself to dive into a terrain idea that comes to me in a game system I am painting minis for, especially if something about the current batch of minis I built hasn’t inspired me to paint them yet. I feel that I am still hitting that overall goal of playing in that system by making the terrain, even though deep down I know I technically can’t play any sooner until those next few minis are painted.
List building for big battle games like 40k is one of my most chore adjacent tasks in the hobby for me. I don’t enjoy the maths or the focus on synergies and winning and probabilities of dice rolls and complicated special rules.
List building in a skirmish game like Rangers of Shadow Deep on the other hand, naming characters, picking abilities on the back of the game lore I just read rather than what’s optimal to win, or better still, getting lost in a short backstory for one of my miniatures… That’s truly relaxing and enriching to me.
Great show.
Hope you have a great Games Expo.
Luv Dug.
Happy Sunda….. 39 minutes? And then a week without? I already fell symptoms of withdrawal!
Coffee at the ready, go!
00:21 Newsflash: Ben killed by Pascal
00:50 Pascal!
02:00 Now I need to look up what “Peaky Blinders” is…
03:30 @bexx? Never read that name in forum. Why not? Come to the forum! 😉
07:00 Waldorf and Stadler… my heroes
08:00 Ass Creed *giggles*
11:30 I haven’t seen any game in person lately… but that’s mostly on me.
12:30 Surprise!
13:30 DOH! XD
16:20 Rigging? What rigging? I can’t see any rigging…
19:00 List building? That’s… almost pure maths… we have computers for that!
24:00 Making a mess? oO
25:30 Please stop hitting the mic @fcostin *g*
26:30 FFFFFFFFOOOOOOGOOOOOOUUUUU!
29:00 Oh don’t you love the dread and downfall in his eyes when he starts to talk about 40k just after being so on fire about Battletech? Like someone pushed a puppy over a cliff.
38:45 My personal Zen State I usually get when building. Sadly most miniatures are done “so fast” and some are even horrible one piece casts. And when cats jump onto other peoples work stream. Hello Pascal, hello Marvin (Dr Faust)
Have fun at UKGE
Hello! Sorry for the hugely late entrance. I’m still figuring out what’s where on here (technology is not my forte lol).
No worries. I lure everybody to the forum XD
I shall have to dive in for sure.
Morning. When the sun is out and I can paint miniatures whilst sitting in the garden… I am relaxed and in a happy place. ?
And I’ll be off there now to continue with my Spring Clean Challenges! ?
I am a bit like Gerry. Everything except the gaming relaxes me.
I have to be careful what I put on on youtube, no overviews of kickstarter feedback or some guys playing a game that don’t know the rules and then break down the game of how bad it is but then it is not the hobby that riles me up.
Good show. What relaxes me, with a month old baby and a toddler in his terrible twos, is a quick dive into my hobby room, where I brush away the cobwebs before having a quick look at the glass showcase with armies and warbands in various stages of completion…
I SHALL RETURN
(That, and listening to the XLBS during a walk of course!)
Morning. All ready for next week.
Nice one Ben,List building is relaxing, forgotten how much fun it is. Tend to play more narrative type games these days so it tends to be more what looks fun than how useful it is. Closest I got was trying to pick an effective Light 2nd Line Clan force for my, Battletech Battle Report. Which was a bit hampered by the sheer choice of Mech Variants on Mech Factory.
Trying to max my Aradne Army or Infinity Code one to face my Combined Army which is a list based on what little I’ve got.
And yes I did used to draw diagrams in the day particularly for 4th Edition Ancients.
Happy XLBS Show Day COGz.
The tree stumps are like oldman willow that’s been sentenced to life imprisonment ?
Your tree is wrong Ben playing should be at the top as it’s least likely one to get to.
Surprise Just like the Ukrainian’s with tanks then ?
The enemy of my enemy is the cannon fodder? Ben.
My hobby time is looking for stuff I’ve stuck in a corner because I’ve had to stop for some reason an not getting any further because I have to stop again AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHH.
You should try rigging that’s therapeutic getting the tension right? @avernos .
A brilliant show Guy’s. I’m not sure if the Liverpool fan’s will agree with you Gerry ?
Happy Sunday.
A very tightly scripted episode.
Recently I’ve found painting miniatures while having an interview of a miniature painter on in the background is very relaxing to me. Time goes by and before I know it it’s either time to eat or my back is aching and in need of a stretch.
Our Gerry promoting the blindboy podcast.
Yert Gerry, Yert.
When I want to relax, I watch Klaus Kinski go nuclear on YouTube. DU DUMME SAU!!!
Happy Sunday…for me building and painting is my go to.
Short n sweet this week!
My happy place is definitely painting… Once I’ve got the scheme figured out. Sometimes finding the scheme or colours that look “right” can be stress inducing, and bring in analysis paralysis!
But once I get past that and the minis are ready to paint, I can easily lose hours
Hi guys! I’ve only just seen this, and I want to say a huge thank you for your lovely comments and for taking the time to look at my Moonstone project. I’m still figuring out everything on here (I’m awful with technology), but I hope to be an active member and make some new gaming buddies! I’ve been working on some more scenery pieces, and I’m making an unique house for each of my goblins, complete with cute little curtains lol.