Cult Of Games XLBS: Fill Your Hobby With Warren’s Balls & Lloyd’s Holes!
April 19, 2020 by avernos
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Bit Early isnt it?
Never too early for a Guinness 🙂
What day is it?I don’t even know anymore
Use the Weekender to keep track!
Gawds. I know days are hard right now but I was convinced it was Saturday 😮
Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday to one and all.
This weekend i’ve mostly been rooting around websites in a ” Not Salute ” purchasing frenzy ( even under a lockdown the wallet feels the fear ).Hotfooting it to me are various pieces for SPQR,Frostgrave and SAGA ( Age of Fantasy with a little magic ).
@warzan You might find some interesting stuff in this lot
https://www.shop.scotiagrendel.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=221_222_250
@torros that was the range I was going to suggest too
wow another timewarp of malaise and its xlbs
thankyou guys….bless you and your family in these times
I know why it takes @lloyd to paint anything. A photo after every brushstroke is not conducive to speed painting
Though I was wondering if you ran all his photos through an animation program would we get a little stop motion film out of it all
WTF….Have you had @dignity trawling the internet while powered up on energy drinks and PLASTIC crack.
As I can’t decide I’m going to pick 3 Battles
Battle of Gaugamela 331bc Persians vs Macedonians
Battle of Tours 732 AD Franks and Burgundians vs Arab
Battle of Qadesh around 1274 BC Egypt vs Hittites
Happy Sunday!
@warzan if you’d like we can jump on Tabletop Simulator and try out your game to keep making progress in the quarantine.
The Battle will take a bit of thinking but I’ll leave this comment now so I don’t have to go through a million pages to find it again
Mongols v China
it’s pronounced chynnna
Chinnner yeah, got it 😀
I remembered it was Sunday, as got a joint of meat out to defrost, plus I have a daily what day is it mantra(even when at work).
Happy Sunday!
PS. Sorry @warzan.
happy Sunday everyone
I am back and everything is better.
even did hobby (good distraction).
my wife has done the covid test and is free from the little monsters ?.
I found Lloyd’s hobby very inspiring ?
good day from me and cuckoo from the parrot he’s back with the cuckoo sound ? better than the ambulance sound he’s doing lately ?
Welcome back mate – really glad you guys are doing better.
@warzan also here is a list of minis with a picture you might find something to use
http://www.randomplatypus.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=595
plastic butt cracks?
Do I really want to watch this episode…
yes, well of course *g*
Great photo journey Lloyd, don’t listen to the heathens you keep up the great work. Recreation of historical battle with Wofun style flats . . . The problem with a lot of the big well known battles is that I started thinking about how yeah wouldn’t it be great to do Waterloo, Hastings, Canae, but then my mind started thinking about how much more awesome it’d be with proper figures in 28mm, an unachievable task but then I saw a youtube vid a few years back of a guy who had painted, in 6mm mind you, 250,000 figures for Waterloo so the ridiculous can be done, taken him something like 20 years so far but regardless it’s not impossible. I think I would use it as an opportunity to explore something I would never ordinarily consider looking at, some of the ACW battles like Gettysburg were pretty ridiculous in size, or get out of my western centred mindset and recreate some Asian conflicts, 3 kingdoms perhaps . . . I believe it’s a somewhat mythical war/battle but I’m sure I heard of a conflict that had 100,000,000 combatants and now I shall spend the rest of the day in a series of fruitless internet searches trying to confirm what I believe to be true.
an American guy? I think I saw that myself insane commitment to a single task. The problem with Waterloo say in 28mm as the guys in Edinburgh showed it takes a university hall to set it up. The alternative is to go the other way and play it on a ground scale that fits into your house and use 28s but then you’ll only have a few minis to represent hundreds
Great show guys, thinking of getting MEG for the 15mm bits I’ve got, nice overview by Gerry so very helpful. Need to figure out the best approach as I hear theres a new version on the way.
As fas as we can tell and maybe @avernos might confirm that the new just has some slight rule changes from the previous edition
as I said in disco, from what I know the new edition is the old edition with this years errata in it. So there will be slight changes, not to rules but to results like they have done every year for the last 3. the 7 pages of Pacto will also be included, which just tells you to half everything and round up if you want to play quicker battles in a smaller space. I think the grand game is in it, but I have never bothered looking at the rules for that as MeG runs in 2-3 hours and I don’t need a game to take twice as long and achieve more or less the same result. Beyond that we’ll have to wait for the 3rd May for the release day
Happy Sunday fellow Cultists, Glory to you on the Day of COG ???
Thank you for the Golden Button. It really does give me a boost. Especially during isolation. The basing for the Brewers had the odd swamp tuft to show it was the unkempt pitch of the drunkard Brewers and the Masons have white flowers and the odd bits of flint on the basing just to theme the teams even on the bases. ?
The big battle i would love to play would be The Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro from the Napoleonic Peninsular Campaign. The bloody hand to hand fighting in the village itself really cemented the reputation of highland regiments being frighteningly brutal and effective in hand to hand combat. Then there was a beautiful display of good drill saving lives, as regiments of British forces expertly retreated in good order into a stronger position whilst the French harried and pursued them. Forming square, forming line, retreating, stopping and supporting neighbouring regiments, the out numbered British cavalry charging and feint charging the French to stop them from disrupting the retreat. It all seemed so professional and impressive that the battle really left an impact on me.
Well done @dugthefug1644
one great battle for me would have to be naseby in the english civil war
I’d love to see the Alamo fought through using Wofun. Not only could it be done while show casing the whole of a Wofun Texan war range more or less, that’s so so lovely, it could also include the Sarissa Alamo Kickstarter giving them a bit of promotion and love as well during theses lean times. The Alamo may not have the sweeping scale of Waterloo or the classic epic narrative of Thermopylae but it could be fought complete man for man with a reasonably sized playing area over a decent and not overly long number of turns. Saying that would be great to see Thermopylae or Waterloo. A Cracking plan.
Before you commission a CoG tartan you should commission the Royal Collage of Heraldry to create a CoG coat of arms. ?
@warzan : you really should get one of these to go with your balls 😉 – https://heresyminiatures.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=113&products_id=347
I had to look into the Royal College of Heraldry and the costs involved…….
“As of 1 January 2020 the fees payable upon a personal grant of arms and crest are £6,600, a similar grant to an impersonal but non-profit making body, £13,725, and to a commercial company, £20,450.”
@templar007 That’s cheaper than I thought it would be
Happy Sunday…I think…not to sure any more…don’t worry I have a mask on while I type so you all are safe.
Recreating one battle…. hmm…. battling crippling hobby fatigue… except the uHH I don’t get anything done at the moment
Got my breakfast ready to roll! May the fun begin!
Really good show. I may have already painted some tartan, Gerry, but not on the miniature you want me to paint tartan on, Gerry, nor will I paint tartan on the yellow cloak, Gerry, so you can go meet my friend, Gwen, Gerry!
Battle of the Boyne. I’ll play King James and Gerry can be King Billy.
Happy Sunday! I not wearing pants!
Happy Sunday!
I’d maybe go for American civil war with the WoFun stuff. The period interests me gaming wise, but not mass painting. For Napoleonics I’m lucky enough to be part of a group with enough 15mm minies between us to recreate most Napoleonic battles in a reasonable scale.
Think with Wofun figs it would be Gettysburg, as always wwanted to do ACW, but project that necer ever got started.
Yorktown for me but maybe more of a world view would be Stalingrad.
Very entertaining show this week guys. Think it could be madness creeping in….
Happy Sunday
Warren’s balls are magnificent.
It’s the XLBS Show. Good Morning CoG’s!
I really enjoy watching the boyz rib each other and laugh the whole time through. Good stuff, bottle that and share it with the world! (might have to put a warning label on the bottle though)
As far as a battle to reproduce…….I would go with the “Battle of Carrhae, 53 BCE”. the Roman’s lost this one but could have won if a few things went differently. I’m on a bit of an early Roman kick here lately so that’s the battle I’d go for. I’ve been looking at some smaller-scale stuff that could have happened around that battle by using ‘Clash of Spears’. I’ve found lots of Victrix minis but I’ve not decided on a source for buying my buildings and temples and such that I want to use for terrain on the tables. Or better yet maybe a source for 3D printable terrain.
My 3D printer has been idle for a couple of weeks as I finished printing two UBoot submarines, one in 28mm like @avernos has and one that I stumbled on which I printed at a larger scale and have set aside for my ‘UBoot Board Game’.
Happy Sunday … Ok the one battle I would love to recreate is Gettysburg and I intend to do this at some point ?
I admire Lloyds dedication to historical record keeping.
Happy Sunday COGS! The title of today’s show had me laughing really hard! Not sure if they make the mini’s/standees for this but I would love to do the Siege of Malta. Such an epic history effecting battle. Great show boys. Bay Area represent!
HAPPY SUNDAY…….
yay the XLBS.
what about Napoleon’s attack of Moscow ?
Agincourt for me please, showers of arrows, knights charging, terrain/conditions that plays a real part in the outcome, and the classic rivalry of the French against the English. Plus it would be very colourful!
If I could do any battle it would be the true Historical battle where Richard sharp took the French Eagle to restore the honour of a new company that lost the kings colours under the lacking leadership of sir henry simmerson.
I would love to game Jaddovill Congo. The Irish against the Belgins? Check out the Netflix film.
Awesome show. Especially enjoyed the crack around Lloyd’s project!
Battles id pick for each wofun range are
Gettysburg 1863 american civil war
Battle of Issus 333 BC antiquity
The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest roman
Nice choice with Teutoburg Forest. ??
But the question is, do you want to try to duplicate the destruction of three Roman legions and their auxiliaries or try to prevent their destruction?
Both would be fun and interesting,quite like to try and save them.
Yup, that’s what I’d be shooting for! ??
Kursk at scale… so… many.. tanks!
I cannot pin it down to one battle so I settled on four, like @torros.
the Battle of Blenheim, 7YW
the Battle of Naseby, ECW
the Battle of Salamanca, Nappies
and the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, AWI
I find i’m torn between Naseby and Gettysburg for recreating a battle with WoFun.
I have to dissapoint you regarding the anatomical corectness of the Ghengis Khan statue, Warren.
I know this, because I have been there. And inside the statues pedestal there is a museum. And from the museum you can take an elevator up through the horses tail and walk along a narrow staircase which leads straight through the great khans crotch and up the horses neck to a viewing platform atop the horse’s head. The view from that platform is phenomenal. Especially when you turn around and realize you just walked out of Ghengis Khan’s fly.
Also it is the biggest horseback statue in the world very very amazing. As is all of Mongolia.
And for Mongolian monsters you actually need to look at Mahakala and other tibet buddhist deities. Might be tricky to find mini’s for those though.
I can only imagine what the pictures in tibet buddhist temples must have seemed like to European travelers in Marco Polo’s time. To them those imagines statues must have seemed like they came straight from hell.
Also look up Mongolian Shamans. Your army will need proper shamans.
That 3d barbarian mini turned out really well, looking forward to printing one myself…just need to get myself a printer. Got plenty of free files to print now, just missing the main ingredient.
One battle would be the The Battle of Breed’s Hill (or Bunker Hill) as being able to build up the terrain and the men would feel like a lifetime otherwise.
anyone remember the liquitex ink that that they used?
I would love to see Agincourt, a real asymmetrical group of forces that you could conceivably do to scale.