Apparently the monolith has now disappeared…

RIP David Prowse AKA the green cross code man/Darth Vader.

Strictly come warring! Watch wargemers weep as Phil Tufnell gets glitter on their hussars!

I first encountered BoW on TV so it is a very useful media for widening awareness and should increase participation, which is no bad thing. If wargaming is destined for a new TV show it will be interesting to see what they come up with. Something like the Great Model Railway Challenge should be easy enough and would show the range of talents in the hobby; 3D print the scenery, build and paint the table, build and paint the minis and then wargame with them. Having a game at the end is loads better than watching some trains not quite make it round a slightly shonky layout. I’m not sure where we are getting the extremes of emotion and tears from as they are compulsory on this type of show. Perhaps, you could add the right level emotion by feeding the losing team’s models into a woodchipper at the end?

Happy Sunday. Thanks for the golden button the gem in silver Vallejo metal colour with warp lightning on top with heavy build on bottom so lots of reflection from sliver.

I’m glad its wargaming documentary that is going to shown as watching other people play games either on you tube or in person is not very interesting

Warrens mic/sound cutting in and out is getting worse with every episode.

My idea, for what it is worth…

Each episode is based around a piece of well liked TV/movie, so:
* Band of Brothers
* Game of Thrones
* Lord of the Rings

Pick an actor from the work and they accompany the host through this journey of “From screen to TableTop”. The actor’s character is a model that will appear on the tabletop.

So we are really seeing this through the actor’s eyes.

Building of armies and terrain is treated like a DIY show – the viewer sees the highlights but not the full work. The actor gets to drop in with the host at important points.

Intercut with relevant still pictures and action scenes from the episode/movie.

The refight features the actor using the figure of their character at an important point of the battle scene. The host talks them through what they need to do, decisions to make, dice to role, what they need to score to succeed, etc. And then the outcome, followed by a quick debrief.

An example would be:
Show = Band of Brothers,
Actor = Damian Lewis,
Refight = the taking of the 88 gun,
Use Bolt Action rules and figures.

Could possibly include directors – that’s how you’d get Jackson involved.

To really show off the figures and terrain on the Tabletop, use a periscope on the tabletop to feed into the camera.

00:00 Oh, we start with a live stream from the annual club meeting?
00:40 Forty seconds in and @avernos already laughing tears… I’m scared!
02:00 a bag of hair for Justin…. tell him it’s pubes.
03:30 “not bad” @brennon ? It’s terrible! But then again, Gerry will love it…
05:40 Utha… good one @lloyd …
07:00 Bansky is an alien! @warzan is on to something!
09:00 Ben going full tin foil hat now XD
14:30 Pimple TV …. all full circle.. wargames are 14 again… XD
15:00 Warrens audio is a bit too high.
17:00 poor Ben
18:00 CoG Radio is Christmas music only? I’m out. Nope. Not having that. Sorry Warren but I can’t stand Christmas tunes for the most part.
27:30 What the hell…. Train vs WW II? how did we get here?! oO
31:30 “Dangermouse of historical people” … I’m lost… this is a “people who grew up with the BBC” episode… But I know Richard Hammond… the car crashing dude.
45:00 the word “palatable” pops up all the time… but I think that would kill it. Normies still wouldn’t be interested and “real” war gamers would be “na, that’s boring”. I can’t see myself watching this. (Especially I don’t get BBC TV here XD)
46:30 Drone pictures on the tabletop: another reason metal minis are superior! They stay where they are!
52:00 David Dickinson … who? What? This is so confusing…
55:00 A documentary …. yes please. Something more serious. Like “The Toys That Made Us”.
57:00 Moist of Lipwick!
59:00 “The Toys That Made Us” but in miniature wargaming! That’s what I want!
1:02:00 GÜLDEN KNÖPFE
1:10:00 Convoluted stories on Warhammer? how can that be? 😉
1:14:00 Hero Kwest? Never heard of her *grumbles in German*
1:18:00 BOOBIES!
1:21:30 EXTRAS! Three is the number and the number is three…. *g*

This show was… different… at least for a German XD

HAPPY SUNDAY…..

Happy Sunday!

Ah gentlemen, I share your taste in historians. I would add in Suzannah Lipscomb with her pierced nose and deadly households. We will need Hannah Fry to explain the maths of everything as well, of course.

Well that’s it now Warren and Lloyd have their own Imdb listings – film stars no less.

Happy Sunday.

Congrats to all the Golden Button winners – although I have to ask, is @irishdave a pro-painter? Damn that brushwork is stunning!

I think you need your own show on TV. A comedy show. As usual the show was great, just not long enough.

OTT’s whole business model, and that of several thousand YouTube channels, is filing people playing games and painting minis. What about this being on TV is so radical?

Best ending EVER!!!

I think any wargame tv show where they’re refighting a a battle needs Mike Loads as one of the historians on it, purely for the energy he brings.

I second Ben’s suggestion of trying the Gotrek AoS books/audio dramas; they’re enjoyable anyway, but if you’re ambivalent on AoS, then you’re going to get extra enjoyment out of Gotrek being a fellow old grognard and moaning about the new setting. I haven’t read/ listened to an abundance of AoS literature, but what little I have, I think part of the problem stems from them trying to cram in as many of their invented terms as possible to a far greater extent than with the WHFB and 40k/HH books, so if you’re not well versed in them it can be tricky to understand them (a couple years back I tried to read one AoS book and it felt like the stereotype how a ‘normie’ would feel trying to read general fantasy/sci-fi. I have no experience with Black Library’s children’s line, but maybe next time try the 40k ones @warzan ? Maybe those will be better? They’re read by David Tennant, so you and your kids shouldn’t have an issue with the narrator, so should be able to gauge whether it is BL writing that’s the issue or just the AoS setting.

No I’m Kurt Russell…..and so is my wife!

What an amazing discussion! About five years ago I was involved in a pitch for a TV show that initially was about wargaming.

The basic idea was there would be a team of three people – a historian, a game designer, and a terrain builder. The team would go and walk the battlefield (Normandy, Waterloo, Gettysburg, Marathon etc), talking about the troops involved, the decisions made, and how the terrain impacted the ebb and flow of the battle. This would be the first third/half of the show, and the rest of the show would flip back and forth between a small team that would design a game/rules that could help make or adapt a wargame that was specific to the battle, and a team building the table that would feature the key terrain elements of the actual battle. I think the “gaming” of the battle would only have been 5 minutes or so.

To the concept of “things that are static vs. things that are moving” I think that TV producers want to make things as simple and convenient and easy to consume. By the time they actually started shopping it around, the concept had moved from 28mm wargaming to 1/6th scale remote control vehicles and explosions. Suffice to say, it was not picked up.

To Warren’s thoughts on the Age of Sigmar stories and the hyperbole, I think there’s something very strange about the way the lore is presented in the army books. It feels that there’s a very “pulled-back, slightly out of focus, high fantasy” feel, where things are spoken of in vague amounts of time, with little real ability to connect with the characters because they are incredibly discardable.

Take care, guys, and have fun!

Warzan proves yet again that he is a man of culture with astute observation comparing Bettany Hughes and Danger Mouse… but I don’t think hyperbolic mean what you think it means (complete with Spanish accent)…go with pedantic. Uhhh… more laughs to be had thinking that perhaps it might be damn well interesting to throw a Celebrity Deathmatch style wargame together. The punishment… well death of course. As Eddie Izzard put it “Cake or Death”, that might not be a bad reward for winning. Each and every time battle commences open up with an Iron Chef type intro for the honorary dessert and fighting factions in the conflict with anti-climatic mentions of who’s in control of each side. Who really needs to know the name of the busty airhead who’ll be eliminated in the first game by the overconfident muppet who gets his in the fourth? It might just work. BBC America could become entertaining

Am I the only one who wants to see @warzan read Warhammer lore on camera? LoL

Do we know what the “big” TV news is yet?

I know I’m late with this, but what if the Monolith was an artpiece placed by aliens… 👽