Weekender XLBS: Inspiring The Unimaginative
August 4, 2019 by crew
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Happy Sunday Brothers and Sisters of CoG!
It’s the XLBS Show.
Who had time for hobby this week? Who sacrificed all their free time for the Giant 40k Table build?
Kick back and unwind with our CoG leaders as they regale us with stories of mischief and hobby time adventures.
Remember… Keep it Simple, Keep it Stupid!…..(well, that’s what Brother Lloyd says!)
I really like those ‘Objective Markers’!
Maybe someday they’ll be in the store for CoG members to purchase.
I’m really glad you like them @templar007 it’s been an interesting learning experience putting them all together.
I’m in this morning checking and touch wood we are nearly half way through printing them 🙂
I wonder if this paper found at Amazon would work for the linen banner?
https://www.amazon.com/Heavyweight-White-Linen-Textured-Cardstock/dp/B01EG3ZWMC/ref=sr_1_9?keywords=linen+paper+texture&qid=1564901639&s=gateway&sr=8-9
Next Hobby Weekend = AoS or Warcry
Of course, I’d never say no to Blood and Plunder as well!
(who am I kidding, whatever it is I’ll most likely join in with another Digital Ticket)
Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday All!!!
Sorry this posted late the button pushing squirrel slept in!
Oh…..I really need to look into getting a button-pushing squirrel! 🙂
Do you mean Gerry?
The only problem/issue I would have with the 40k tables you’ve built is that there not big enough.
lol you just love busting our balls @torros lol
Big is always better! I don’t like games where units start within range of each other
Doesn’t matter how big you build the table the basilisk has a maximum range of 20 feet… unless they’ve retconned it
That would lead to another moan about artillery being on table in games. I just like a bit of manoeuvring room
Good morning and happy sunday!
I think it can be hard to tell how hard a table will be to play on if you haven’t seen the table in real live.
Sometimes it can be hard to play on some tables if there are buildings/ruins that are low so that is hard to place your minis in. But there are ways around that. And now you have more buildings that you can remove the roofs of.
Morning all, just listening to @warzan rant. Is it that some Wargamers are control freaks and like the order they can instill on their downtime and going EPIC or realistic just destroys this for them. Am fairly certain games with command challenges have died or not reached their full potential because Fred cannot move all of his troops in turn x cos he fluffed the roll and while this may be realistic, it might follow the historical fact, Fred get miffed.
I do find it very hard to engage with a ruleset where your troops do everything you want every turn.
Agreed – I really like Blucher by Sam Mustafa where you opponent knows your “allowance” but you dont
I think that’s more a matter of how those mechanics are represented.
A bad dice roll sucks, because you can’t do anything to change it.
Add a minimal bit of player agency and that moment of your units not doing the thing you want becomes a little less annoying.
Plus for some people the randomness of the to-hit/damage rolls is more than enough uncontrolled chaos as is, because having your expensive/pretty elite units miss the precious few shots makes them feel useless.
For flags could you not just create decals to put on the paper then paint over the decal?
I agree with the lack of imagination but I would even go further with my rant especially when it comes to vegetation on the table. There are more sci-fi and fantasy looking plants in my garden than there are on most fantasy and sci-fi tables. To go a step further, a typical fantasy table is a few Tudor buildings and trees – it is fantasy let your imagination run wild! I do have a real soft spot for Gothic architecture in 40K though but again alien worlds, lets go mad!
Loving Gerry’s Americans. Very nice work and subtle way of making units identifiable. I’m being a little less subtle with my German infantry – each platoon with have the same colour of flowers – pink platoon, yellow platoon etc!
Would it be worth talking to a local print shop about flegs? They can already print on cotton t-shirts, would they be able to print on something that would suit your needs. While it is nice to do things inhouse, they are the guys with the specialist equipment and knowledge.
What about a tiny fighty men boot camp – World War Zero would be cool if it is still on the horizon or you could be brave and let @torros pick the scale? 🙂
I’ve been looking at 3mm ancients again and am going to try painting them with inks
I look forward to seeing that, though I do think 10mm is going to be my bottom limit of scales I would attempt.
I’ve never tried it before. I did make Moussaka from scratch for the first time yesterday so I think I’m on a roll for trying new things
First though is some 10mm TB line medieval knights
Those Knights do look lovely. I like Moussaka, aubergine is very underrated, disappointed I didn’t get an invite 😉
Got some stuff to do before i watch the show.Just wanted to say i can definitely see @warzan as the Willy Wonka of BoW / OTT.
And how could i forget…Happy Sunday one and all.
If Warren is Willy Wonka, who are his Oompa Loompas?
@lloyd and @dracs …Maybe Manny,Max and Savannah ( i hope my spelling is correct ? ) too ?
As I can/would be a critical and negative bugger at times, I feel I should say a few nice words about the OTT store and the service provided.
I’ve made a couple of orders and they have been packed and sent very quickly. As they are sent Royal Mail they have always arrived in good shape – I think I am very lucky as we seem to have nice postmen and women in our area which helps! The Love Hearts are also a nice touch, I look for them first before looking for the toys. I can imagine that Warren has kissed each packet as they get put into the box – but I usually eat them before I put that image in my head 🙂
Great show and great rant! I don’t credit myself with very much imagination but it is for that reason that I love all the weird and wonderful places you guys take me to via your crazy builds. The feature tables at Warhammer World couldn’t really be used for tournaments either but people travel from all over the world to play on them because of the immersion factor. Your apocalypse table is on another level.
I think we just have to accept that whatever you say or do on the internet, no matter how bulletproof in its logic, there will always be a vocal minority who will claim you’ve just broken into their house and pissed on their kids.
Really grinds my gears and often makes me not want to contribute to online discussions outside of this community…
I’d love a Fallout hobby weekend. Would love to see what you guys come up with for that setting!
I second your comment @darkdanegan about, “feature tables at Warhammer World couldn’t really be used for tournaments either but people travel from all over the world to play on them because of the immersion factor”.
People are traveling from several different places to the OTT studio to enjoy their hobby and those tables are fantastic! If I were in studio, I’d love the fact that I could place my finished models down on the table and photograph the heck out of them in those different settings. (and then pull them quickly to avoid receiving an Alpha Strike from a low imagination min/max player)
Before I start I still have an open invite to anyone wanting to learn 3D Design with a Free program (Google Sketch Up although any Open Source program can work) just send me a PM. Anything from learning to create to learning to just rescale/manipulate Objects.
40K Fifth Edition is by far the best. People are so spoiled now with so much dedicated Terrain and every single rule having to be force fed to them via Facebook and Warhammer Community. No people can just min max armies with 3 bare minimum detachments so they can get enough CP’s to run Smash Captains that just table people Turn 2. Any game that encourages you to min max an army to make a single model able to take out half an army is a broken game as far as I’m concerned.
“Oh but my monstrous Baneblade can’t fit there” Well guess you’re going to have to *GASP* Use Infantry to take objectives in an urban environment! How Bizarre! Guess what anywhere your giant tanks can go my infantry will get slaughtered. Again *GASP* it’s almost like you’re supposed to actually BALANCE YOUR FORCE and not just Min-Max everything!
The only tournaments I ever play in are Bolt Action tournaments which are run by people’s I’ve know for 5 years and who actually run “Event” Style Tournaments rather than “Tournament” style Tournaments. I don’t care if my list auto loses Game 2 because of the list I’m taking I just want to be in an event where everyone is relaxed and there to tell stories.
Wait until you guys see the surprise, I still don’t believe it’s real 🙂
I’ll have a go at banners but I think the actual printing process might be the issue with them not the design. Trying to support a lot of folds will involve a fair bit of playing with thickness and frequency.
Maybe I’ll find out how to liveStream on my YouTube Channel and I’ll do an hour or two for all the Australian/NZ guys in the Morning/US Afternoon.
I’d give your stream a watch! ??
I feel like, (AND I MIGHT BE WRONG THIS IS JUST MY OPIONION) that the people who complain about the tables or campaigns might be the highly competitive tournament style players, people who dont like having a disadvatage somewhere. So with the deployment issue mentioned, it could be because they wouldnt be able to get their best units, into the best positions .
Does that make sense? again, i could be wrong
The rant was delicious but far to civil. I certainly would have been more explicit ?
Flags and banners are a bit of a conundrum. After some experimenting I decided to stick to paper prints (no 3D effect) and pva with all the folds, creases and weathering done by myself.
Brother Lloyd’s banners look to cartoonish and not grimdark enough for me I’m afraid.
I’m really excited about the BA Korea day and am hoping I’ll get permission from my good lady to spend another weekend in Ireland.
In terms of other hobby weekends or boot camps I would be interested in anything modern like Spectre Operations. Or a Vietnam/ Huê based thing now there are not one but two excellent new ranges of minis released.
For many years I also supported a SAGA event.
SPQR seems to take off nicely and I like the idea of ancient warband skirmishing which makes Mortal Gods and Gangs of Rome come to mind as well just like Test of Honour (2nd edition out now).
Something different would be a naval wargame like Warlord’s upcoming Black Seas or the WW1 based new Heart of Leviathan (google it!).
I had a look at Heart of Leviathan and it doesn’t look like the type of naval game that would be for me
Lol. Hardly surprising matey…the ships are far too big! ?
It was the recommended playing area of 3×3 that puzzled me
It definitely looks more like a board game with miniatures than a wargame. I like the aesthetic of the models a lot tho and hope they will become available separately at some point.
Watching the show and my wife walked in just as @warzan was talking about the next hobby weekend ideas and she heard two of her favourite words: “Harry Potter”. So, consider that one vote from her to that as an idea… and I never thought I would say this, but if it means me and the Mrs can come over to join you fine fellows for a weekend of hobby goodness… I’ll vote for Harry Potter as well…. now I need to take a shower after saying that. 😛
Great show guys as always.
Could you print on fabric for banners?
Note to self, listen before posting cos it will prob be said!
Happy Sunday!
What?! There are 40k players who wouldn’t want to play on those tables? I just can’t understand…
I get the point of tournament tables, I even understand 2D terrain Warmachine tourney guys use (although the tables don’t look like wargaming to me) and all that. But I dare to say that no one got into 40k or any other miniature game purely for the joy of competitive gaming — no, you got in because your favourite faction looks amazing and the miniatures are amazing. No one in their right mind spends that kind of money on gaming tokens only, you must think the models look cool. And where does your models look coolest, on flippin’ EPIC TABLES. And how come those tables cannot be used for competitive gaming as well? Adjust deployment zones and objectives, go alpha-strike you heart out. Wasn’t balanced? Play it the other way!
I’m right there with you @guillotine when you say, “No one in their right mind spends that kind of money on gaming tokens only”.
We do this hobby because our models look super cool when set up on a well done terrain filled table!
Also, your bit about ‘Warmachine’ tournament tables with 2D terrain……..I came very close to traveling to the ‘Lock & Load’ event. But first I watched some videos from the previous year’s event and was dumbfounded at the sight of all the flat 2D tables! Gorgeous minis and terrible tables! I saved my money and just built more armies instead of traveling and spending money on a trip that would leave me feeling like I was ripped off at the event by folks that have lost sight of the purpose of buying and building minis! The serious tourney players could just as easily use cardboard cutout 2D miniatures and play the same game. But then the company wouldn’t make any money on selling models then would they…
I’ll stop ranting…………?
Regarding banners; could you perhaps print a banner on transfer sheets and then put it on that Japanese paper? In addition, use transfer solvents to get that painted on look?
Or put your transfers on t-shirt materials and starch or PVA them? Air-brush on cloth anyone? New tech is not necessarily better tech. Staring at Jerry’s t-shirt should have been a big answer to your dilemma.
Warren please conquest for the next hobby weekend (although I’m buying to kit from you guys anyway)
Happy Sunday
happy Sunday.
People who don’t like the tables, it is simple DO NOT WATCH, or learn how to place and use models correctly for the conditions. this is called engaging brain.
what I would like to see is a wild west exodus boot camp, or konflikt 47. PLEASE.
I agree those of us who had to use our imagination in the 90’s don’t seem to mind the fog of war. I think the problem is with today’s information technology and that everyone has the information within a couple of clicks. Imagining things is no longer a thing.
I think it would be good to see cruel seas of blood red skies as hobbies for a weekend.
Happy Sunday, enjoyed watching the show, thanks very much.
Washi paper?
@warzan I was very impressed by the store. Warcry was unexpectedly on my doorstep even before I received an email saying it was coming. With regards to imagination I just think there are people who just cannot think outside the box. They have their uses but I find them horribly frustrating.
Happy Sunday everyone. Nice looking Objective Markers Lloyd, if you have any ideas for colours maybe you can press-gang the hobby weekend attendees into painting them more for you 🙂
I understand where you are coming from Warren but I think people these days tend to be more black and white and less grey in a lot of things. Even in conversation and knowing what you meant people will often correct someone rather than just let slide a miss spoken sentence.
Having fewer grey areas probably allows an increased level of comfort that the rules can be relied upon to answer and that takes away the need to interact with your opponent or get into a confrontation, even a non-aggressive one.
Maybe take this weekend as an opportunity to show all the gamers what can be achieved with imagination.
This weekend why not take this as a challenge to put together a stand-alone game with a set of rules brainstormed by the attendees and staff and play it out on the unplayable table. Maybe take those commenters who have put you into this place over the last 3 years and show them what can be achieved with a little imagination as you bear the banner of gaming in the gaps into the breach.
@avernos great job on the US force buddy, and nicely done decals. You should have gone a little more into how you get rid of the glossiness or I may have missed that bit, as you did a sterling job of that. Maybe in another update, you could.
As for a future hobby weekend, I would love to do Conquest but thin the range needs to be a little bigger for a nicer variety. I would suggest maybe a completely different tack instead of hobbying with models and scenery maybe hobby by gaming and for that, I would suggest a single company. Maybe a gaming company themed day ideally hosted by them, Mythic Games do some lovely miniatures for their games and have a great relationship with the team. How about a Mythic Games Hobby Weekend. We could get to try the various games and purchase products before and/or on the day. That would mean we could try a variety. Mythic Battles: Pantheon, Joan of Arc, Soloman Kane, Reichbusters and if the team from Mythic would be up for it may be a demo of Super Fantasy Brawl.
CMON theme could be another one with a whole heap of stuff on your shelves to choose from.
Also, I think in the run-up this would take some of the pressure off the OTT team while still giving great content. Especially if this new filming method works out well.
Anyway, I have Germans for the FoW slow grow league to paint. Have a great week everyone and for those attending the Hobby Weekend, I look forward to seeing you soon.
very simple, gloss coat and let dry
apply decal and let dry. (if it’s over a weird shape I use micro sol but otherwise don’t bother)
apply gloss coat and let dry.
At this stage any oil washes or pin washes as I have a gloss coat down. Other wise move straight to matt or satin varnish and you’re done.
Happy Sunday folks!
Think Gerry took the words straight out of my head regarding the rant 🙂
I’ve said it many times before (so apologies for recycling) 8th Ed 40k is at its core, a tournament ruleset. As a result, terrain rules are prescriptive instead of descriptive. The removal of most of the narrative elements of the game means everything now is defined by absolutes, every unit has to be exactly the right way and able to do everything exactly when and where you want it, the Fog of War elements have gone – Scatter dice, reserve rolls, deep strike mishaps etc.
I honestly think the age of the narrative gamer (outside of historics) is in its twilight years as far as wargames go, as the tournament mindset takes hold in both terms of player mentality and rulesets. Go online and ask for any advice nowadays and you can guarantee someone will throw in an ITC/ETC definition of how it should be done, so newer players think this is the way it “must” be done and so they follow the same approach because thats what the internet told them.
I want those flags. Love them.
@warzan perhaps you can pm them and say what you think of their gaming?
Go Warren. People generally don’t play 40k with anywhere near enough terrain anyway. For many competitiveness outweighs immersion. An anathema to me.
Good morning everybody…. that’s a lot of cock talk today… COG! COG! I meant cog!… damn foreign languages! XD (Yes I’m immature… but I just turned 44 so I’m allowed to ;))
how did the tournament finish up for you then, burned them all and finished last? Or did someone steal away your glory?
No it was a glorious last place for the empire. See pictures in the project https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1421402/
Huzzah, saw the photos last night but couldn’t see if you had put your placing in there
**ding!** **ding!** **ding!** — many tournament players can’t handle and are inflexible to how terrain because their lists and how they min/max is very much dependent on having all the info. I know people who play as if it a tournament every week and everything else sucks!
I love the tables you guys create and wish there was someone local with the imagination to create some of your tables. I like showing up and having to puzzle out the terrain. Most people do not!
I believe the issue is it is more about winning then playing the game.
For 3D printing — Autodesk Fusion 360 and Blender — what I did was purchase video training on Udemy for both products and when I need to remember how to do something, I go back to the videos. Also, plenty of online YouTube videos. But yes, unless you do it all the time, it is hard to remember.
Sounds like Some people are playing games as if in a PC with all the lnvisable barriers games have their?
Great looking banners @lloyd
Don’t forget about the many millions of troop’s that die for flag’s over the millennia @warzan
@avernos my first rogue trader vehicle was an airfix chinook(?) painted up for my marines.
Do you know the difference between stalagmite and stalagtites? mite’s go up an tites come down Lol
Love the work on the tanks Gerry
Love the XLBS Guy’s keep them coming.
Lack of imagination is right. Please keep up the huge terrain projects! That is motivation and inspiration for the rest of us!
Great show this morning and happy Sunday! @warzan, I think you’re right, it is a lack of imagination on the part of some members of the community. That being said, it is a big hobby and different people will enjoy it different ways. The hobby is also big enough that everyone can enjoy it in the way they want. I love, love, love the 40k table the team is building, it screams 40k to me, where everything is huge and over the top (“More is more”, when it comes to terrain, especially in 40K).
GW hit the nail on the head when they started to include the 3 way’s to play sections in all their rulebooks. Before that, the community generally thought that the only way to play was to build a tournament legal ‘such and such’ point list. Which meant that new players couldn’t play at all until they were able to buy and build this arbitrary points level of army; now there is open play, put that new box set you just bought on the table and start rolling dice new player. It also meant that people who loved the background and wanted to make their own stories (like me) were shoe-horned in to making an army that was ‘most efficient’ and looked like everyone else’s army because that was the only way to play the game; now there is narrative play with fun missions to play where wackiness can ensue. And of course there is match play for the Justin’s of the world to find all rule loopholes and efficiencies to reap maximum benefit from the model’s they field.
What we need to keep in mind is there is no one way to play games and we all get different enjoyment out of this hobby. More importantly, I’ll never tell anyone how to have fun with their hobby; if someone wants to be total tournament min-max filth player (as Gerry would say) I say have at it, but I’ll gladly not play those people and move on to the type of games I want to play. I guess that would be my suggestion to you @warzan, instead of getting angry at the comments, just smile, nod, and know that the poster on the other end is playing a different kind of game than you’re playing with the terrain you’re building. They are not playing the game ‘wrong’ and neither are you.
Suggestions for Hobby weekend:
A) I’m sure @brennon will second this – Burrows and Badgers.
B) something completely different but which could be fun to watch – Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. Day 1 could be people building their character’s mini, then Day 2 the actual game is run (or games depending on how many people attend) and you live stream it ala Critical Role.
I think the problem with an rpg and Warren mentioned it today is that they will be turning the sound off this weekend for the live streams as there maybe inappropriate language
A hobby weekend that focuses on play rather then hobby and craft would leave the Digital Ticket holders out of the picture. Unless I’m missing something. YMMV. ?
Burrows and Badgers would be Awesome for a Hobby Weekend @lordofuzkulak!
Can you imagine the tables that Brother Lloyd and Warren could build for that!
It could focus on paint themes and basing for your armies AND on building terrain DURING the event.
So you go home at the end with painted minis and terrain pieces to put on your tabletop for instant gaming goodness! ?? I love this idea! It would work well for Digital Ticket holders as well, because they would be learning new or faster ways to do everything covered that weekend. IMHO
yes terrain projects to build along with, like Blue Peter’s Tracy Island. For those of you outside of the UK and Ireland Blue Peter was a children’s show that would have make along projects that they would tell you what you needed to gather to join in, the most famous of these was Tracy Island from the Thunderbirds tv show
In the past I used Maya and 3D Studio Max, along with AutoCAD. I haven’t used 3D software in awhile mainly because my work hasn’t required me to use any. I’m all for using free software, for anyone looking for a good powerful video editing software should check out Lightworks, it has some professional level tools, plus there’s a great set of tutorials on the website to learn the software.
https://www.lwks.com/
cool, will need to have a look at this 🙂
Banners
1) Resume linen paper or high cotton paper has the linen texture.
2) Iron on paper — you can create an iron on in ink jet then use a thick material you can find at a craft shop and then cut and sew the two pieces together — I was Boy Scout and one of the skills we learned was sewing if for no other reason to put on your badges
3) Look at what the model ship builders have done here –> https://modelshipworld.com/topic/89-making-cloth-flags/
Thanks for the link on the flags article! I’m bookmarking that for my Blood and Plunder ships. ??
I am apologetically a “play for fun” kind of person. I do play in tournaments and I usually lose but it really doesn’t matter to me. I don’t Min/Max anything.. I usually will put whatever I just painted into my lists. Imagination is still a thing,but people today are too overstimulated. I cannot even remember a time when I’ve been at a stoplight and someone isn’t on their phone.
I think Blood and Plunder would be fun
Next hobby weekend? BATTLETECH!
@redsarge What a cool idea!
@warzan please invite over a resident expert Ahem!
Well up till the end of Davion Civil War anyway.
Good morning and Happy Sunday brothers and sisters of The CoG. I would love to see a SAGA Age of Magic or Warlords of Erehwon weekend. Focusing on all the many different brands of miniatures you could use for a army buildout. That would be rad! I think I would have to take a trip across the pond for that! ???
I was thinking of these games myself. In fact why not run both at the same weekend
Happy Sunday, terrain is a thy friend on the table all commander’s know this, you automatically look at it and think how do i use it to my advantage
Oh yeah, next hobby weekend ideas
Flames of War / Team Yankee
Bolt Action
Star Wars Legion (Clone Wars)
I like to make my tables look interesting. If that means flooding the table with terrain so be it. One thing I can’t stand is random bits of wall, hedge or fence just floating in the middle of the battlefield to add a bit of token cover, join them up and make them look like they serve a purpose. No battlefield should be symmetrical in any way.
Another thing that annoys me is when some people say melee armies get gunned off the table, then you ask them how much terrain they’ve used and they say 4-6 pieces. There’s their f*****g problem. Try 12-20 pieces and see if that melee army survives getting across the board.
An interesting battlefield should not look like a map from a real time strategy game.
Happy Sunday… yeah I see the problem with tournament “mode” minded players every weekend in the club. You do have a cool and awesome table, but it isn´t tournament legal… *put scream here*
For the next Hobby Weekend, something like Gates of Antares or Mortal Gods would be cool.
Hi,
Good show, totally agree on the table point of view.
When it comes to flags, I have a limited experience, from what I know those types of cotton paper are really good for the task, however, you need inkjet printer. In case you’d want to employ 3d printing to the process, my recommendation would be actually print stencils. With whose I have good experience, you can (and you did) import any vector graphic to 3d modelling program and make separate stencil for each colour on your flag. As for 3d printing stencils, I simply print only one layer of plastic (max two in cases you prefer durability over flexibility). 3d printing flags themselves (designed in a way @warzan suggests) requires resin printer, I can’t see it work on any FDM.
In regard of 3d printing software, I use SketchUp for years. It is good program, but it’s non-commercial, free version is now only available as on-line, browser only and I don’t like it. That is why, recently I’ve decided to switch to Autodesk Fussion360. It is way more powerful software, but it has different philosophy than SkechUp which makes learning a bit tricky (lucky there are tons of how to videos on YT). Autodesk allows free use of the software for education and non-commercial use. Z Brush and Blender are much better in producing any organic shapes (compared to any CAD type programs mentioned before), but may sometimes be problematic in achieving watertight meshes which is vital for 3d printing.
Anyway, if you want to check some SketchUp designs you may see them in one of my projects here: https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1406879/ (BTW the DHL stencil used on one ot the containers there was also 3d printed with method described above).
I think your banners look great. Lloydy, don’t listen to that brother of yours that Warren fellow he has got no idea. lol
Fog of war huff lol. to make a good game Warren points don’t even matter, its the story and the tail that dose.
and yes hight dose matter Warren, if you can’t touch the top it’s too big, or like you’ve dun just get a bigger man;-)
Every time I see the table I just want to play on them more and more. I guess I can see hard core tournament players having issues with it, but it’s not a tournament is it it’s a hobby weekend. Hell I’ve gone and bought four sets of the Archon Studios terrain I didn’t really have the money for to try to start emulating it on my own tables :).
It would be great to see a Batman Miniatures Game hobby weekend. A fog machine would be perfect for creating a gritty Gotham City street scene.
For printing banners, have you considered printing on iron-on-decal-paper and ironing those onto actual fabric?
@warzan interesting Rant hence the message thumbs up, totally agree, think some look at me strange as I only really play narrative games (see https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1420327/). Problem everything coming out these days apart from a few publishers, is for Tournament style games to be played on a 4ft square table (dinner table) with 28mm figures who’s bullets/Arrows (for @avernos) fall out of the air at anything over table length.Now for me some of the interesting table entrys and deployment would get me thinking about a group of players attacking in the confined deployment with either a AI running the defenders, an umpire or single player.
For example for OTT gamers you all have a force of Marines where they have to co-operate and Gerry plays the defending force of his choice (with all his deviousness) for the rest of you to overcome. Gerry could award points for most players reaching objectives, most deviousness in return etc.
happy Sunday, good choice to go with Blender, it is now the most awesome software for free. they improved everything including the EEVEE render engine and the grease pencil that you can use now for 2D, but for modeling it is now much easier and more powerful. i
ve been using it for years, i tried Cinema 4D, it is good but ill stick with blender, you can do everything and anything with it.Oooo good to see a pack of #moonstone cards in the studio and used for the linen finish idea!
Hope you guys start covering moonstone as it’s an amazing game.
Turning the gaming table into a night club reminds me of something… They Might Be Giants – Man, It’s So Loud In Here
Yep they revamped the Game Club everyone is excited and confused.
HAPPY SUNDAY brothers cultists !!!!
I would love to attend to Kings of war hobby weekend, armies are to big for bootcamp but man, all weekend fantasy war! It would be worth to go just to see all ideas that peoples came up with with their armies !
about tables – less is simple? less is booring!!!
A Blood and Plunder Hobby Weekend would be grand! it would encourage me to paint the terrain and tons of minis I have?