Weekender XLBS: Gerry Shows His Stones & What Keeps You Building An Army?
March 24, 2019 by lloyd
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Happy Sunday!!!
Happy Sunday Backstagers!
Happy Sunday, congratulations on the prize matey 🙂
Thanks! I’m been bragging to my fellow gamers that if they were on OTT on a regular basis then they could win something too. 😋
Future Wash is a marvellous substance It has so many wonderful uses
the future’s bright 🙂
It even come in an orange bottle now lol
I have to wear shades. 😉
Happy Sunday
Happy Sunday one and all!
Just a quick “hello” to say I’ll be live streaming today at 7PM GMT on the Sitrep Twitch Channel, hopefully playtesting new vehicles in Valor & Victory: expanded to 1982 Lebanon. We have Israeli M113 Zeldas (troops transports and gun IFVs) along with Palestinian technicals (with DShK 12.7mm HMG and ZU-23-2 twin autocannon).
Hope to see some of you there, to see how these new units work!
https://www.twitch.tv/sitreppodcast/
Happy gaming, everyone!
Hopefully I’ll be up and watching.
I’m a giant M113 Fanboy so I’ll set my alarm now.
I’ll set a reminder on my phone and try and catch this.
Hopefully I’ll be back home from my second drive about here in Kansas, photographing small Western Train Stations for my ‘Dead Man’s Hand’ table build.
Thanks to everyone who stopped by! That was a great stream! I was only going to stream for an hour or so, turned into 3:45:00! I will be “off the radar” next week due to EOQ at work, but i really hope to be back starting on April 6 for some live games, either Valor & Victory Lebanon, Vietnam, Panzer Leader WW2, Panzer Leader Lebanon, Panzer Leader Gulf War 1991, or of course Darkstar!
Thanks for walking us through V&V and spending that much time with us.
Looking foreword to Jennifer’s ‘Live – Modern Miniatures Wargaming Cooking Show!’ 👍😉
Happy Sunday everyone!
Happy Sunday!
Large armies seem to be a thing of the past for me now, well at least starting any new ones. I have a 40k one I’ve been trying to sell for a while; my Beastmen and various LOTR aren’t going anywhere as the prevalence of new open model rulesets shall breathe new life into them.
As for those potential armies still in the form of sprues… I shall be retiring eventually and at that point with plenty of time on my hands I’ll probably get around to moving the boxes somewhere else ;~)
lol
In terms of smaller forces for skirmish games I do get inspiration from playing legacy, escalation campaigns; for example starting off Infinity with 50 points and adding 50 points each round. Also a good way to get other members up and running with a new game for them
At some point you know you want to plan adding a 70-90 point Tag so you have to leave some points in the bank the previous round.
Sometimes I’m adding models already in my collection, painted; but often this a great excuse to treat yourself to some new models for which you have time and motivation to get table ready.
oh I’m all for that, it was the “I’ll probably get around to moving the boxes somewhere else ;~)” that almost had me snorting coffee over my screen 😛
Happy Sunday lads and ladies. Looking forward to Saga talk or anything Dark Ages really. I’ll settle for Saga terrain.
I like to think of terrain as 60% of the game, the minis being the last 40%. It’s always there even when your warband is dying or gone. A good table really makes it.
@lloyd you didn’t really subject your poor wife to that abomination of a movie did you? The History is actually not too bad but those effects are garbage. My Third Most important Battle in History (Number 2 is Tours and Number One is Milvian Bridge). Fun Fact Napoleon eventually became the owner of King Sobieski’s Sword and gave it to his son in his will but I’m not sure what happened to it after that (His son died without an heir in his early 20’s).
I lost it at Knightfall and stopped watching after it was pointed out to me that I was yelling at the TV more than I was watching it. Really a Templar is going to throw everything away for some woman? Imagine you have $20 Million in the bank, a very comfortable house, a guaranteed income that meant you’d never go bankrupt and could live comfortably for the rest of your life and your children’s lives. Now you give all that up to serve God. You take Holy Oaths of Poverty, Chastity and Obedience and give up all your money, land and titles, never have children and your family dies with you. Then some Damsel in a skirt come along and you think “Eh you know what I gave up a lot to do this and if I screw it up I’m going to be in serious trouble but why not?” You had to be an Aristocrat of some stripe to be a proper Knight Templar, this isn’t the Nights Watch.
Really liking the terrain guys.
All my non-historical armies have stories. Heck even the minis I just did for @laughingboy s Competition have stories. https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1365678/
My Star Wars Legion are Urban Fighters with an established Story.
My Counts as Imperial Guard that I haven’t even finished yet have a giant pile of story, rnak structure, Regimental/Planet History and even explanations of how a Percussion Cap Looking Rifle can be an Assault Rifle.
My Greek Style Vampire Counts are the one I’m most proud of. The Vampire has a story, the area he “lives” in has a story, his army has a story, his mentor has a story, every character in the army has a story and every unit has it’s own specific reason for not being what it “should” be. Rather than Skeletal Black Knights he uses Heavily Armoured Humans (Warlord Games Sarmatian Cataphracts
?v=1397473712) that want to become Vampires, but he has a flaw that he inherited from his mentor that makes it incredibly hard for him to make Vampires and most of them end up as Vargheists.
Happy Sunday guys
@avernos lovely work on that scenery buddy you have really brought them to life. Are you going to leave them there or look into moss and lichen techniques as well?
@lloyd if you want a shine on the ice maybe using a masked area or all of it, you could try clear plastic lacquer or maybe even Halfords clear coat spray. It may end up too reflective but it is a cheap try.
@brennon great book sir loved Sturm. Also, glad you’re going back and picking up the Dark Elf trilogy one of my personal favourites. Dragonlance Tales may be your next purchase though if you enjoy the Chronicles, it is a heap load of short stories based around a lot of the characters from Chronicles.
@dignity good to see you back buddy.
cheers matey, the yellow patches are lichen, I’m toying with some blended turf for moss on the ruins along with some more tufts, but I don’t want to go over board as they’re just quick scenery pieces.
Happy Sunday!
Another great wee show.
@lloyd and @avernos Claymore Castings and Antediluvian Miniatures are awesome. Claymore have some new English archers coming out soon, which are possibly the nicest archers I have ever seen. My wallet asks you not to mention these companies on the show too often as I have too many unfinished projects at the moment…
@lloyd great idea for the frozen water effect. Perhaps a light gloss varnish would help give it a little sparkle. I must give it a try at some stage. One idea I have for snow is I find a lot of snow products to be very flat, and am thinking of adding a small amount of glittering to see if I can get it to have a little sparkle… Might be an idea.
Also that antislip thing from Lidl looks a good job, must have a wee peek in there next week.
check out https://www.precisioniceandsnow.com/ I have their snow effects and it’s fantastic, a little pricey so I also use Woodland Scenics snow flock, which I think is the best on the market outside of Precision’s stuff.
Build up with the Woodlands and then a dusting of the sparkly stuff over the top.
@avernos I picked up three sets of the Vallejo Paints like the wood ones and are great and easy to use.
The sets I have are
MERDC Camo Colors – https://acrylicosvallejo.com/en/producto/hobby/sets/afv/merdc-camo-colors-71202-es/
US Modern Desert Colors – https://acrylicosvallejo.com/en/producto/hobby/sets/afv/us-modern-desert-colors-71209-es/
Wheels & Tracks – https://acrylicosvallejo.com/en/producto/hobby/sets/afv/wheels-tracks-71213-es/
The Templar movie Gerry’s taking about is one of the Arn movies. Apparently there are several, including a TV series. It’s based on the books written by Jan Guillou.
https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0347188/?ref_=m_ttfcd_wr1
that’s the one, didn’t realise they’d made a series as well, I’ll be watching that this week.
Great show all! Gerry, your Simpsons reference was class! Love it! Also those stone walls turned out amazing totally life like!
Interesting bit of chat about the building of armies, I myself tend to build my forces around how I see my army working, or building around a particular unit or model that I love the look of! I dont think I’ve ever been one for spam, or min maxing units to give myself a competitive advantage! For me my enjoyment comes from the narrative side and theatrics that I envision during the game, while trying to provide my opponent with an enjoyable game too!
HAPPY Sunday! And I really like those models of the Scotts, and Jerry great work on the stone buildings. Lloyd, don’t worry about too much over your experiments on making grass lands, I just happy this was an episode with no Burrows and Badgers (we don’t need no stinking Badgers). I wear a prosthetic on my left leg and on occasion the security makes me take it off an hop through the x-ray machine. The snide comments from others in line who are witnessing this border on the X rated and sometimes make me really laugh.
I’m shocked Ben didn’t see how good an idea that the grass would be for B&B.
Lovely looking terrain @avernos I think its time i make myself a project list, to actuely get more of my stuff done ;D but the fields Lloyed been building looks fantastic aswell
Building army list, I usally choose what I like modelwise or lore wise in 40k, scifi, and fantasy. In Bolt Action i try to built a historical themed army.
I enjoyed Knightfall and looking forward to series 2 especially as Luke Skywalker himself Mark Hamill is in the second series as a Templar trainer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIp1HInSTTE
52.22.@caesar ” comic come to life “……
It’s uncanny
Happy Sunday all.
Happy sunday folks! 🙂
All my armies are based/themed around a story or fluff from the various background books. Once I have a setting and theme it’s very easy to start building armies to fit that….. and then keep going… until your house is full… @gerry understands 😉
Some examples of my armies:
Horus Heresy:
– Iron Warriors are the loyalists from the Invasion of Paramar from Book 3, lots of infantry squads, armour support and flyers.
– Death Guard started life as Istvaan III loyalists, but soon became Istvaan III traitors when the proper DG units where released, mainly infantry with a few tanks.
– Ultramarines are based on the final battle at the starport from Know No Fear, infantry hunkered down in the ruins with heavy armour support, no fast-moving units.
– Thousand Sons are an armoured column from the Battle of Tizca in Book 7, every squad mounted in a Land Raider, bike squad and flyer as fast support, couple of tanks to back up the infantry.
40K (Pre-8th):
Minotaurs are from the Battle of Amarah Prime from Imperial Armour 12: Fall of Orpheus – the 1st and 4th Companies.
Bolt Action:
Eastern-front Germans ~autumn 1944 were from a FoW source book (damned if I can remember the unit now though!)
Of course, the obligatory 101st Airborne from Operation Market Garden / Battle of the Bulge
Star Wars Legion:
Imperial Hoth-based force – Veers, lots for snow troopers, E-Webs and an AT-ST
Oh, and G’man and Hellblasters… yeah that’s just horrible. One of the final games of 8th I played before I quit 40K was against Calgar, Lt and 10 Hellblasters. They just deleted every unit they looked at in a turn with re-rolls for days… no fun at all.
@avernos broke @dignity at 1.41.
I never touched him!
” Slam them together…Now Kiss ” i believe is enough evidence for a Hobby Court charge of breaking @dignity .
oh yeah I forgot about that 😀
I won’t.That’s going to stay with me for a while….
I really love those medieval demons.
@brennon I hope you enjoy Dragonlance, I love it and have ALL of the books, the modules and the campaign setting material 🙂
Certainly looking forward to it!