[unofficial weekender] Another settlement needs your help!

[sundancer 43265xp 1]

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First time visitor to OTT? Then please introduce yourself in the New Member Thread and look around in the Project System. Then come back and read on…

https://www.beastsofwar.com/forums/topic/introduce-yourselves-new-member-thread/

https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/

Read all of this before you start as it will save you any trouble later.

First thing you must do is make your “pledge”. It can be anything gaming related, big or small, and you don’t even have to finish it. No, in here, happiness is the road. Have fun doing whatever it is, but it is not a race. Accompany your work with pictures or we might think you are do something sinister and just using us for cover.

You are also presented with a few questions. It is to get the conversation started. Try and keep your answers ‘conversational’, no text speak, and certainly no “basically”. This is how we all get to know each other better. While you are here feel free to tell us a story, show a picture, joke, tales of love or woe, or just add your own little bit. This is the whole point…in here it is just us.

If you have never taken part before we may bark and bite, but we also like a cuddle! It is all done in the best possible taste and it is character building. feel free to give as good as you get.

A few other things to note: NO RELIGION & NO POLITICS! Glasgow pub rules are in effect. If you need to make a better point then it is fine, but don’t take the piss. And always keep it civil. This includes no philosophy, no home computer culture wars.

Play plenty of music to go with your work. Loud and through proper speakers. Write us a playlist of things we might not have heard before.

Now, after all of that there is only one ‘real’ rule in here and it cannot be broken: NO DICKS! (Exceptions may be made for little fighting men with little plastic/resin/metal wieners)

And don’t forget the highlights of the weekend: The Weekender on Friday and XLBS on Sunday. And the little show that is the unofficial Hobby Hangout over at twitch.tv

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Question of the week:

• Video games. The good ones and zeros. Do you enjoy them and how many are related to our tabletop hobby?

And now back to the show.

[sundancer 43265xp 1]

Pledge: same as last week – paint tiny 10mm minis

Answer: Yes, I do. If they grab me. But when they grab me – oh boy. Fallout 4 600+ hours, Skyrim 550+ hours, Battletech 270+ hours and uncounted number of hours on games not being on steam (Dawn Of War for example) Later two both very much adjacent to the hobby. And then I played X-Com Enemy Unknown, nice turn based skirmisher. Mutant Year Zero also nice.

And so many unplayed Humble Bundle purchases still waiting to be played.

Music!

[pagan8thParticipant 12318xp 1]

Pledge. Paint more Afrika Korps.

I have Blood Bowl 3 and Necromunda. The latter was a bit disappointing, but OK.

Played loads of blood Bowl, but it’s therapy to cripple other players. Pity the ‘computer brain’ is so stupid (the two letter abbreviation for computer brain was banned by @sundancer)

Sunk 400 hours into Baldurs Gate 3 with multiple playthroughs.

That’s pretty much it that matches my hobby although I do have some that are classed as rpg like Horizon Zero Dawn and Assassins Creed Odyssey (100% on both of those).

[sundancer 43265xp 1]

How could I forget Blood Bowl. That was a nice edition to video games as well.

[grantinvanman 2394xp 1]

Pledge: continue painting Necrons… I’m now over 100 minis painted for 2025!
I also have been picked up by a big historical company to paint one of their ranges, and I get to start on that project this week! Can’t say who, yet…

Video games: I actually only play … Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 3, the old one. I only play solo, not online. It’s literally when I just want to shoot stuff. Guns in Canada are almost impossible to go to shoot now, and this vaguely satisfies my itch.

Music:

[danlee 22472xp 2]

This weeks pledge is to continue with my roknauts (I checked the spelling this time). Last week had quite a few unusual evening events that disrupted my usual painting time.

 

• Video games. The good ones and zeros. Do you enjoy them and how many are related to our tabletop hobby? – I’ve always been a big PC gamer. Currently on the final mission of Nexus the Jupiter Incident, which is a 20 year old space ship RTS which has been brilliant. Good story, interesting missions, deep mechanics. My Fallout 4 time is 976 hours. Dawn of War 1 and 2 are probably the best hobby related games I played. These days the lines start to blur, with board game and table top war games coming out for PC games, and vice versa.

[limburger 21856xp 1]

And in the category of (video)games I won’t ever start playing unless I’m sure I can play until I am done : Civilization

That game literally has me going “one more turn” from  start to finish.
I do play on the lowest possible difficulty setting, because what I really want is to crush my enemies and hear the lamentations of their women. It does suck that nukes have been removed from the latest iterations of the series. In Civ 1 you could actually use them and turn enemy capitals to dust (which also caused a lot of fallout that you had to clean up).

I liked the modern Xcom series, but boy did it take ages to finish that one and survive the final stage. The turn-based combat was fun, but the overall campaign had difficulty spikes that were no fun at all. Especially the first ‘terror’ mission.

I do have to admit that it’s been more than a year since I’ve played a game that was fun from start to finish. Cyberpunk 2077 definitely fit that bill. It had just enough downtime between story missions that it didn’t become a grind. I haven’t started ‘Phantom liberty’ yet, because I am kind of ‘done’ with the game myself. They did change the core mechanics quite a bit in a recent patch, so maybe there’s a chance I play again in the future if I can get the add-on for free and/or I’m bored enough that I want to play again.

The Forza-series (used to be) fun as it was a mix of open world and racing. However it kind of lost it’s magic through the years. I think the biggest loss was the complete lack of engine damage. In the first iterations you could overrev the engine at the start and damage it …

The biggest issue is that I’ve just don’t have the time to play huge games with long campaigns any more. It’s kind of why I didn’t finish Witcher 3 and why I haven’t even gotten Baldurs’ Gate 3. I’m also not a fan of combat as a means of progressing through a roleplaying game. I prefer to have alternate options of solving encounters.

Last week I kind of predicted that I would do f*ck all for hobby despite having an entire week to myself.
Tomorrow I’m visiting my nephew as the kid had his birthday this week. And monday it’s back to work for me.

ooh … just remembered that next weekend is one of the two tabletop gaming conventions I can visit.
So there’s definitely something to do. Not sure what hobby I can do, but I can definitely wait for some kickstarter to arrive (Port Royal is still en route despite not having tracking updates for a week …).

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Happy Sunday.

Long running video games are nice but I find it hard to get back in at the last save game when the mechanics are to complicated. Like in games like Horizon Zero Dawn. So many controller buttons to remember XD

Speaking of Kickstarter: at the time of writing I’ve gotten 11 (eleven!) Emails going

Two days left to back The Walking Dead™, Worms™ & More Board Game Advent Calendars

Feels a bit excessive XD And since I haven’t backed anything from Mantic before it can’t be mails coming through there. Plus the KS app also went berzerg with reminders. XD

Another lazy Sunday. Haven’t done much other than XLBS and Forums XD

 

[pagan8thParticipant 12318xp 2]

Busy a busy day. Painting a few minatures for tonights RPG session. Shopping. Gardening. Reading for tonights game. Making notes. Sunny and warm.

[limburger 21856xp 1]

@sundancer that’s kind of why I never finish games like The Witcher series if I take a break from playing.
It’s just so damn hard to get back into the flow again.

It’s also why I didn’t get into Red Dead Redemption 2 despite having finished the first one.

What passed for a ‘tutorial’ was relying on pop-up windows that were gone before I even understood the mechanic they tried to explain. As a result I probably would have to start a new game instead of trying to continue the old save.

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I played a game of ‘colt express’ with my nephews and niece today. Despite supposed simplicity of the game it took my nephew ages to explain how the game worked. I’m pretty sure we got stuff wrong anyway, but that I don’t mind as we did have fun once we got going.

It also made me wonder how the heck I’m ever going to explain even a medium complex game to these kids (the youngest is 15 … so it’s not like it should have been hard for them).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_Express

Looks like the rule we got wrong was that punching a player also sends them to the next carriage.

 

[sundancer 43265xp 0]

@pagan8th  Shopping?  On a Sunday? Stores are all closed! XD

Monday. Started grand. Very foggy and I forgot my office and bicycle keys. The cleaning lady let me in and my bike now sits in my office for today XD

How foggy was my way to work? Yes.

[pagan8thParticipant 12318xp 1]

@sundancer they are open on Sunday in UK. Most supermarkets 10am to 4pm.

[grantinvanman 2394xp 0]

@sundancer only Germany closes on Sundays now. Canada has been opening for like 30 years. I do remember no Sunday shopping though.

Also was disappointed when I had an 8 hour stopover in Frankfurt once, on a Sunday, and was going to go into the city – only to be told just churches were open. Loooooooooong day at the airport.

[sundancer 43265xp 0]

Well cafes, cinemas and restaurants are open. But everybody else has a nice day off 😉

[pagan8thParticipant 12318xp 0]

Royal Mail deliver parcels 7 days a week now, but only Tracked 24 on a sunday. Amazon are 7 days a week.

Most bank holidays the supermarkets are open. I think the only days that they are closed is Xmas Day and Easter Sunday.

There is no day of rest anymore.

Anyway… to quote Han Solo… “Boring conversation anyway!” 🙂

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