Cult Of Games XLBS: What Is Your Tabletop “Comfort Game”?
September 5, 2021 by avernos
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It’s the XLBS Show……………Happy Sunday Fellow CoGs!
Well DONE @johnlyons nice paint on those MECHs. There really are soooo very very many paint schemes to chose from. BTW…..we called the ‘Urban MECH’ the “angry trashcan”.
@brennon When folks see me doing a hobby but don’t understand what it is I’m doing and they ask, I answer, “It’s an Art Project”, and they say, “Oh”, and they nod and pretend they see it and walk away. No one wants to be seen as Not being enlightened! 🙂 You my-friend are doing an excellent job on bringing NEW life to those LotR figures. I did a quick search for AI systems and found ‘Isildur’s Bane. Solitaire LotR rules hack’. I’ll be printing it out and having a long look at this and whatever other systems I can find. Like you, I’ve been planning to run through the Fellowship battles.
Well DONE to the Golden Button Winners. Nice work you lot!
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There are so many games that bring me comfort. It’s hard to choose one to call my all-time comfort game. But, if I had to pick, in RPGs it’s ‘D&D’ by TSR and ‘Ghostbusters(role-playing game)’ by West End Games, in hex and counters it’s ‘WarpWar’ from 1977, and for miniatures games……nope, I can’t pick just one. All the miniatures games that I have and still buy and build give me a lot of pleasure. I’ve been in ‘Infinity’ from the first edition, ‘Warmachine’ from the first edition, and Warhammer 40k from when it was ‘Rogue Traders’. Plus so many other games……
first….yes
Err… No!
Beware the Dennis/templar007 on a Sunday, he has the knack of pressing ‘post’ on his lengthy but welcomed musings milliseconds before a glory-grabber like you or me can complete our attempts.;-)
Btw Gerry, on a Sunday we’re Coggers, not just mere Otters! (Autocorrect changing coggers to doggers almost led to an awkward post)
Happy Sunday! I could do with a bit of comfort. Teething one year old has me up at 5 am, so , silver lining – let’s be havin’ ya XLBS!
I share your pain but my 5am starts are kitten related. 5am every morning it’s Disco time, let me sing you the song of my people human….get a cat they said, it’ll be fun they said…I hope you get to recharge and the teething passes sooner rather than later for the little one ?
Happy Sunday!
It’s only the XLBS show!! Lovely way to spend a wet Sunday afternoon. Thanks all.
We, here in Kansas, have had an exceptionally large amount of rain this weekend as well!
Australia? or New Zealand? Here in Ireland it’s a wet morning 😀
It’s always greener on the other side I guess. It’s desert heat here in Malta. I wish I was up there ‘dancing in the rain’ with you lot.
Happy Sunday all. Great to see John so stoked about his battle tech and he’s done some cracking work in a week. Also great looking LOR from Ben. II completely agree that being part of a supportive and positive community group is just great. I love painting 6mm, I can get an army done in no time and I get that sweep of scale for black powder period. I was ready to deep dive into a new period with the Foreign Legion. Sourced the minis (gringo do a nice set for Vietnam black flags and french colonials) looked up the history, got the uniform plates ready…and then came across Texan war minis from Boot Hill miniatures…so I’ve put the breaks on to work on some flames of war pile of shame while I decide to go Texas or Tonkin. I really like the Blood on the Snow project. I recently finished The Terror novel with the Franklin expedition hunted across the white wastes. It’s a dark read as you’d expect but very good. Director Scott Dickerson has approached Disney to make a stand alone ice planet horror within the Star Wars franchise. It would be a sci-fi nod to Mountains of madness and Carpenters The Thing. Doubt it will happen but great idea.
Comfort games for me would be Confrontation (the good old one 3.5 – NOT the prepainted shit) and Crimson Skies (Again the good old FASA one from 1998/1999 NOT the Clix one) unfortunately both of those are pretty much OOP for decades (you can still get miniatures, but rules sets and stuff are really hard to come by. So it is hard to get new players involved 🙁
So for Crimson Skies, that is a little bit filled by Aeronautica Imperialis. but nothing can replace Confrontation for me.
have you seen Confrontation Club and the work they’ve been doing?
Yepp 🙂 downloaded it a while ago and am sharing the links actively as well 🙂 I’m glad it starts to pick up again, there is also cadwallon.com for miniatures (actually legal in Ukraine as they obtained the forms) and the guys in the USA who do the confrontation continuum stuff 🙂
Recently someone did STLs for the Crimson skies planes from the original game box, freely available on Thingiverse as well, and you can still buy the metal planes from Ral Partha (although without their little plastic propellers and not n the original blisters)
Okay, John you’ve convinced me to LOOK at Battletech again. Currently printing Bay 1 from BATTLETECH by HBS.
Going to make a miniature Diorama of my mechs from the game. MW5 is Now d/l…(jumps into fire)
Hi CoGz.
An John ods on plastic crack?
Gerry is The QC King.
Some great hobby today from the team and the community, great job everyone!
I have to admit I don’t have a comfort game I come back to as I don’t really play very much.
Battletech II was great on P.S.
Happy Sunday! Welcome to Battletech @johnlyons ! Great looking Vau Galaxy mechs! The Peregrines are the best looking Galaxy in Jade Falcon Touman, IMHO.
There is another game in development that seems massive and that it could tie in nicely with Napoleonic Russian horror themes, Coven: The Dark Fantasy Game, https://www.facebook.com/groups/intothecauldron A miniatures game filled to the brim with Slavic horrors, witches and hardened Cossack style men. Supposedly coming to Kickstarter this year.
Great show guys.
@brennon lovely work on the LotRs characters. It brought back a lot of great memories. Such a great game, such a great setting. It really was some of GWs greatest work.
I still get that buzz from Mordheim and Warmaster. Warhammer will always be my greatest love but I just don’t get the time to play it. Morheim is fast and we can play 2-3 games in the same amount of time as a Warhammer game.
My comfort game has always been Warhammer Warbands, all the fun of fantasy mass battle at smaller points and a Hero progression that allowed me to customize and create stories about their journeys through the lands of the Empire
Gerry is one of the blue Wizards?
40k is my comfort game , had great times playing it as a young adult with my best friend. Sadly he passed away early this year. But I reamber those times with great fondness
@john so I hear pink tartan is a thing….
Sorry should have been @johnlyons
Congrats to the button winner’s.
Lol a great show and ending guy’s.
I told John ‘and now it begins’.
I wasn’t kidding he has got it bad, bringing back memories of my own entry to the game 35 years ago, and the beginnings of my own Mercenary Regiment as it grew fom Lance to Company to Battalion. The clans were just a glimmer in the designers eyes as we all got ready for the 4th Succession Wars.
Right!!? This last year has the old companies dusting off and the engines of the dropships warming.
So @johnlyons are you getting Warren or Justin in to help with the printer.or are you going to just wing it was the instruction manual?
All I’m saying, the best stuff I’ve found for stripping minis is Koraclean for plastics and pvc cleaner solvent for metals, both strip so quickly.
Happy Sunday.
I remember The Prophecy, I’ve watched all 3 of them. They were fairly low budget but very cool.
Congratulations to the 3 well deserved golden buttons.
you have catching up to do there are four films 😉
Looks like there are five movies in total according to Wikipedia.
“ The film spawned four direct-to-video sequels: The Prophecy II (1998), The Ascent (2000), Uprising (2005) and Forsaken (2005).”
To be honest it was so long ago I’d probably have to watch the first three again before watching the last two. Hmm, that’s not a bad idea ?
oh wow a fifth truly I am blessed
happy sunday,
I would just like to say Sunday is the best day to watch the Greatest MOvie ever MAde.
I’m like Ben my comfort game is Lord of the Rings.. I still have a large collection of metals and plastic I’m slowly working through painting wise. I have a few waiting to go onto the painting table as I write.
Perfect stuff 🙂
Ya know, I never thought I’d see BattleTech in OTT – OH MAN! This world has been my favorite game for decades, totally for the fluff. This is exciting to see!! Go to it John! looking forward to seeing your own adventures!
I’m waiting for the Battletech Bootcamp!
I will fly across the pond for that one!! 🙂
A Battletech Bootcamp is something I am very interested in attending. Count me in for sure. Make it happen OTT Team.
Happy Sunday!
I am with a lot of the Old guard…did not expect to see Battletech on OTT.
Started on the Wargames journey with Battletech……then played Warhammer fantasy then 40k.
Warhammer fantasy is my comfort tabletop wargame but D&D is my comfort game over and above all others.
Happy Sunday!
00:00 I thought licking stuff is Justins job?
00:45 Battletech?
04:00 Catalyst smelled that John went into BT and has decided to do more XD
05:30 TARTAN!
07:55 mould lines! OH NOES!
14:11 buy used books of BT now before John gobbles them up!
21:00 I tried cutting terrain like that with my hotwire cutter…. it’s harder then it looks XD
27:00 Way of the exploding mace
30:00 It’s not a bubble… It’s a comfy XXL bed!
31:00 Dwarves? LotR? 😉
38:00 Details? Who is that? FOUR THICK COATS!
42:45 That’s exactly what I said to Ben… not enough arrows!
50:30 shiiiiny!
55:00 We need a video challenge! Everybody do “barum” on “coke” XD
58:00 Dobbyliske of Omnation!
1:03:00 Quirky? No BT? SHAME!
1:12:00 the disappearing legions….
1:19:00 Warjack…off… pictures in my head! XD
1:21:30 all this 3D printing… sounds like heresy to me
1:25:00 entless puns!
And it’s Monday in three hours… dang….
Happy Sunday this show has arrived just in time.I have been thinking for a while now what games do i really enjoy.Looking at board games i have etc. Being a solo gamer this can be a bit restrictive but now with co-op games and solo rules not so much, so i thought what games do i love to play and model and collect for. So for me it is WW2 bolt action i love all things WW2 the history the models plus.I have now started to collect the new Primaris/Necrons range to use them in a future type bolt action game and use dreadnoughts which i love to model using the Bolt action tank rules. So i am now in the process off getting rid off my board games due them just sitting in there boxes and not being played.
@johnlyons excellent paint job and I found this and might be useful http://www.masterunitlist.info/
Talk of comfort games reminds me oddly of one of the recurring lines in the film Hot Fuzz. “Now, My Perfect Sunday….”
My comfort game would be Mantic’s Walking Dead. I have terrain, mats and plenty of painted minis to choose from to give me a nice looking game and it has always been easy to find opponents. I still haven’t evolved into playing the Call to Arms version. It’s still a fun game to hobby around, as even now I still have zombies and survivors to paint and picked up more minis in their last sale.
I guess Saga is my other go to, but slightly harder to find opponents for locally and I still haven’t learnt the battle boards well enough to play a smooth competitive game with anyone. That’s all on me. The game is fine, but for some reason I haven’t sat down and pondered properly on how to get the best out of any one faction and do the reading and get the best advice. Saga warbands have been a joy to collect and paint, but Walking Dead is so easy to teach and the game throws your best laid plans asunder because the events and threat tracker dynamic create chaos at some point every game and usually to all the players.
Great show. Great Golden Buttons. Cheers for a happy Sunday.
I did take a massive beating in that third game of KoW 😀 But I had so much fun getting whipped of the table. I think that says a lot about the game system (and your opponent). Even when all was lost I was laughing so hard of my snake eyes and the stupid amount of 6’s Gerr rolled.
Love Battletech! Used to play it and the Mechwarrior RPG all the time in the 80’s and 90’s. Another memory was playing in the Battletech battle pods as well. They were a blast.
Thanks for another fun show folks!
I’d have to say my comfort game has always been zero and first edition Dungeons and Dragons. As much as I love to paint minis and build terrain so that all my role playing games are a bit skirmish game, theater of the mind, pencil and paper, 3d6 six times in a row as Crom intended will always be my happy space.
A more recent entry into the category would have to be Kings of War as I just love a good Ranks and Flanks game.
I have many game systems, but for me Moonstone is my comfort and go to game. It just hits all the right elements for me, small model count, lots of list variety and play styles, unique mechanics and quick play time.
This was great, I got four of my relic Terminators, that I’m going to use as my Deathwing Command Squad assembled.
It also reminds me that I should start a project in the system for the terrain I’m planning on painting this weekend.