You should get a promter an you can just read it out like they do with the news @warzan
A great show again by the way.

Happy Sunday folks!
A really want to play sooooo many different games when able.
A Bilion suns
Gamma Wolves
Rangers of Shadow Deep
Godtear
Conquest
Kings of war
The skirmish versions of the two above
Warlords of Erewhon
Warhammer underworlds

Also too many boardgames to mention.

I almost forgot the Alien RPG which I got for Christmas.

Them Malifaux minis can be a real nightmare to put together but definitely worth it as they are some of the coolest models around.

Sunday, happy.

00:00 REMAIN INDOORS!
00:03 What the heck is “K Y Jelly”? Oo And do I really want to know?!
00:40 Dirty matrecces are gone… did they walk out by themselves?
02:40 @warzan is becoming a dwarf… digging all around the place… beware of Balrogs. I’m sure you can find one in Irland 😉
04:10 “Who’s strangleing the cat” Good question there….
09:20 Igor Stravinsky is Jeff Goldblum!
13:40 Warren the wizz0rd
19:40 jettison all your friends! Hit da red button!
22:00 Free: “I’d like to play an RPG” *dozen of CoGs raising their hands to volunteer*
28:00 Meeting other CoGs? Great. Meeting other people? Naaaaaaaaaaah!
40:00 Whisky in a jar….
41:20 radioactive pebbles!
44:36 Edit failed XD
46:45 Warren getting on Justin again, Free squealing because of arachnophobia. What is going on?! oO
49:40 Pop goes the weasel.
1:04:00 Metal dwarves! @brennon showing it all!
1:08:00 put her not on the spot? But how will she learn? XD
1:14:00 put it in! PUT IT IN!
1:18:00 patch deployed
1:22:00 Clean your springs!

And this concludes another Sunday… now where is my coffee?

My first Saturday job was on a market in Lancashire. The fruit stall guy would always take round any good spiders he came across in the banana boxes.

Another great XLBS I am feeling much like you do @warzan possibly even more so. I feel at the moment it’s going to be a long time before I go to a tourney, con or even a club. The event has really made me re-evaluate my hobby and now gaming has gone from being the main thing to just a minor insignificance, looking back at my gaming pre covid I’ve realised that I got more enjoyment from the procastrination than the actual game

happy Sunday all.

I am desperate to play some Kings of War, its been like a year and from this year I wanna try Clash of Spears. We actually were about to do a clash session when the event occurred so it’d be nice to get around to it. Might force me to finish their bloody shields!

Happy Sunday! I’m looking forward to more Joan of Arc being played. The depth of it provides so much tactical gameplay and a lot of replayability.

I want to kill something, be it Orc Maurder or whatever. Being locked up for over a year there is no spring cleans to do. Many games painted for late summer……

Spring Cleaning … might need to finish my Mortal God’s Athenians. So want to do a Mars attacks army now.

I’m looking forward to running an Old School Essential in person RPG campaign. In addition I finished painting most of my Judge Dredd Miniature game and Dead Man’s hand. I can’t wait to play those with someone face to face.

Sounds like Warren has Covid Stockholm syndrome.

@dignity you’re being a bit shortsighted about that mouse. The mouse obviously had enough sense to move into your house where the hawks and other predators can’t get it. If you put it outside, you just undermined its survival strategy, you have got blood on your hands sunshine. How often have you done this?

I have to agree with Warren:

I’m looking forward to getting back with friends and picking up where we left off on games (roleplaying, Kill Team, Aeronautica Imperialis) maybe adding some new things in that we have been working on over lockdown… but the idea of going to a game night at the local with Johnny and Jill Public still seems kind of off putting.

Maybe once I get my second vaccine and things are looking up in the summer? But not actually that appealing at the moment.

17.05: World, shattered…. :-/. Noooooooo! 😉

I empathise with your trepidation Warren. I miss the atmosphere of Salute, but with a year of social distancing and mask wearing and being diabetic and with lots of infirm and high risk people amongst my family, I can’t imagine attending an event with that many people crammed together all in one place again so soon. Even the queue seems like madness, let alone being elbow to elbow with people looking through bargain bins of clearance stock or brushing past people in tight formation negotiating the various stalls. I don’t recall getting con-flu, but can well imagine it being a concern. I can imagine that I will wear a mask long after the convention and requirement to use it has passed if I attended a large gathering or go on public transport in future, just because the common sense of protecting yourself that way has been so ingrained over the last year. That all said… I would still go to any events if I got a chance to meet any of the CoG members or BoW / OTT team. I think my desire to see some of you awesome people in person again would outweigh my other concerns and with some basic precautions and a new normal outlook, I would still attend.
I watch every weekender / XLBS and lots of content, streams and discord type interactions, but there’s nothing quite like the feeling of seeing the tasty boys in person out in the wild. Discussing the ancient Hobby Lab video on the garden wire/brush bristle trees approach and the flock shedding propensity of said trees with Brother Lloyd. I doubt we’ll be trying to kiss, lick or otherwise molest poor Justin, as had been the sport during previous Salutes as an odd challenge set many moons ago, but it would be great to reminisce about boot camps gone by with Captain Alpha Strike himself once again.
I could embarrass myself again in front of my son, getting star-struck with Christy Beall and stammering and thanking her for her painting videos as though she were a Hollywood starlet. Being humble (and not as world famous as I seemed to react towards her) she kindly thanked me for the heaped praise and smiled at my enthusiasm and allowed my overreaction to settle in, dawn on me naturally and for me to realise that I had come at this meeting at way too high of an energy. I un-holstered my natural English reservedness, (not so much a quick draw, more like the slow laboured draw of a man that has no intention of drawing the trigger) and shaked the nice ladies hand and asked that she keep up the good work, then toodle-pip I wandered off, with my son sporting a fun WTF type expression as we moved away from the Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy stall ASAP.
Obviously I miss Warren too and would love to meet Free and I would never have met some of the old regular guests on the show like Templar Brian, Big Ben, Cad, Mel, and people like Ronny, Alessio and John Stallard without the conventions and the bootcamps I’ve attended. Then there’s obviously the handful of Cog members that have given such a richness to my hobby and feeling of community here over time. The people that I have turned to for hobby advice and to revel in the shared love for all things OnTableTop that only we happy few can attest to and understand.
When I get to play games again at my local club I think there’s potential to play Bolt Action, Saga, Walking Dead, Frostgrave and Shadespire, maybe 40K even, but I think I look forward to a game of Walking Dead and Saga most. The Walking Dead was my first boot camp at BoW HQ and has always been so easy to find opponents for and have fun playing with. I want to see how bad my Irish army painted in lockdown will fair against those vicious Normans. Also my Japanese Bolt Action army painted this last year would be fun to play against some of my clubmates’ British Burma lists.
Almost got that codebuster, but not yet. Bear with me.
Big Luv from Dug.

@dignety you sweet child of summer – “very old from like the 90s” ….

I both really want to get back to gaming, but am really reluctant to do so while I feel like it could endanger others. Personally I’m in a pretty low risk category being under 40 with very average health.

The thought of mass gatherings are making me particularly uneasy. That change in a few months as the vaccine roll out continues but right now I’m trying not to think about it!

Once we can get back together I’m looking to play all the stuff I’ve been painting for the last year. Mostly picking up where I left off as I have been trying to focus on finishing projects over starting new ones.

Where is Sam these days? What’s he up to? I miss him!

Thanks for the golden button guys! Always an honour to be recognised for a job well done 😁.

Well done to the other guys too. Some fab work there.

Catching up with last weeks’ XLBS… 😉

Here in Croatia we only had maybe a month of lockdown, so my RPG group met regularly, once a week. Even when I had a fire in my living area of the house we still met once a week (moved the gaming table from the dining room to the kitchen). Now that the renovation of the living area is complete, the table is back, we are barbecuing every week (the weather is getting better and better) and roleplaying.

Wargaming and boardgaming is not back on the table but soon…

So there was almost no loss of gaming with friends in person.

Have to agree with Justin, really looking forward to conventions again.
Need to get my Spring Clean Challenge posted! My used Mumak I picked up!
@warzan my buddy Drew and I are doing our Shadow Deep Set in Middle Earth. Basically changing the names of places to Middle Earth names and using creatures from Middle Earth to represent different creatures! Having a blast as the two of us take Rohan Rangers through the campaign.
Great show everyone!