Hey everybody, welcome back to another Gorks talk and I hope
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So there's a lot more videos that are shorter, brief,
probably in time, but they give you a bit of an update.
Of what's happening, what I'm doing, what projects I'm working
on, all that kind of stuff, so. There will be more planned for
probably not this week, probably next week.
I would say probably do with advance here request as well as
I'm still progressing with painting up some some of the
baddies of the dungeons that the guys will be encountering First
off and probably some stuff I've got in the mail and that kind of
stuff as well. I'm working on the Sylvan.
What else that'll be? That'll be like an actual full
video at the end. That's the Sylvan Spearman that
I'm working on now. So I'm painting those at the
moment. I will do something like an
Empire update so the Empire army that I'm painting at the moment
for the gathering of mighty painters, you know where I'm up
to with. That.
The units have painted. For it the.
The stuff I've painted before that prior to the challenge and
you know what the Empire army looks like at this stage kind of
thing, those kind of videos, they're fun.
And then they, they don't take an enormous amount of time for
me to do. And it gives you just something,
you know, I really would like to go back to doing videos every
two to three days if I can, either with my first White Dwarf
issue, which we did a couple of those and I really enjoyed doing
those with fellow patrons Nick and George.
And we covered their first issues of their first White
Dwarf. But I think George's issue, that
wasn't his first, but I think maybe his favorite.
And I'm I'm totally cool with that.
If like this, if there's a favorite white dwarf of yours,
it's not your first and you want to cover it with me, please get
in touch. I want to do as many of those as
I possibly can. I really enjoy doing those.
A lot with everybody and and I always learn stuff.
I've always learned stuff because there's there's like a
advance request quest. In one of the issues, I think
it's 135 that Nick had and Nick and Nick actually surprisingly
said, I don't really know if this would be a really
interesting issue to cover, but I found it really good because
I've actually got the issue here, but I just never really
got around to to looking at it. So going through them with
people allows me as well just to just to absorb what's in the
issue itself. Maybe I can clean something up
there. I think, wow, that's something I
didn't actually know or there's part of the history that I
didn't realize. There's always something in the
news section there. I think George pointed that out
that you sort of you sort of skipped over those when you had
them and you really want to get a good stuff like the game
stuff, the the miniature from every let every metal.
Oh, I said Eddie LED heavy metal pages and all that kind of
thing. And you sort of just skip all
the other stuff going back. You really, you really pick up a
lot of. Great history from the time of
the studio, especially during the Ansel areas Ansel era.
Where, you know, games are still in development or they had like
certain ideas that were sort of toying around with and it sort
of evolved later on, as we all now know now.
Through other games they released, so really enjoyed that
a lot. So yeah, if you have a first
White dwarf, I'd really love to do that with you guys.
Or if you have a favorite White Dwarf that you will have to
cover with me. That's equally as good.
So I look forward to doing those.
With you in the future. So shout out, we'll shout out,
we'll call out to James Weatherall.
So I think James and I, we're going to plan to do one in
January. Just haven't got around to doing
it. I just cannot believe it's, it's
now February. So we're screaming along in 2025
already. So every month counts.
I'd like to get at least two to three out a month if I can.
If not. More.
One a week would be fantastic. Now, there's certainly enough
white balls out there to to go through those with you all, so
let's see what we can do for that.
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Me, myself and Doctor Spork have been talking about covering the
Weimar 40,000 painting guide from the 90s, that Mike McVeigh
was part of those things. And I really like it.
I actually picked it up as part of the White Dwarf bundle, but a
couple of years ago, not expecting to get it.
And I really, really liked it. I sort of glanced over and
thought, Oh yeah, that that's pretty cool.
And, and sort of put it, put it down, put it away in the
bookshelf. And then when I really looked at
it, I thought, wow, that's, that's, it's a really
comprehensive guide. It's got some wonderful Rogue
Trader models in it. Not really second edition stuff.
It was kind of really early on, like the Imperial Guard.
All are all sort of the plastic Rogue Trader models, all the
metal commissars and, and even the cavalry mounted models as
well. So you've got all those models
in there and like really early Tyranid, just Jean still a
tyranny plastics, you know, the very early stuff.
The Chaos was the same as well, very early Chaos models.
So yeah, I really like it because it's kind of like that,
you know, you sort of looking at really all the older editions of
miniatures for Rogue Trader, but painted in that sort of later
sort of red period style. So yeah, that's a really nice
book and I really look forward to covering that with Doctor
Spork, I think next week. We're going to do that soon.
Anyhow, I found APDF online. I've downloaded that.
So we're all ready to roll. He's going to work out exactly
what segments he wants to cover in the in the in the book.
It probably won't be a page by page account of the book, but it
might be just this section I really like because of sort of
thing, you know? And yes, I really look forward
to covering that with him. And as you've probably picked up
on the the videos and stuff like that, yes, there's a lot more
old hammer themed videos in here.
Advance here request being one And and the I'm working on the
Adeptus Titanicus, the codex Titanicus, the advanced rules
for the one that's on Patreon now, but this will be like 1
edited for YouTube. So I'm working on that at the
moment and that should be out on the weekend.
I hope. Speaking of the weekend, I'll be
going to see Max this time because Max's son really wanted
to see my son. I hope Max wants to see me.
I hope that's the case. We seem to go on really well
together. And he said, you know what, what
game you want to play. And I said, you know, I said
I'm, I'm pretty easygoing. You know, we can play Man of War
because he's got a lot of Man of War stuff as well.
We could do one of the Renaissance, of course, or just,
and you say a bad board game. I said, yeah, they're great.
So I'm assuming he was thinking about Space Hulk, but which I
don't mind playing. He's got all the 1st edition
models. He's got every single variant of
every type, every known load out of every model in the entire
game. Apparently I haven't seen it, so
I need to have a look at it. Maybe I'll get it.
Maybe I'll get a chance to do a sort of video looking at Max's
collection. Because apparently what he's
told me is that he's got one pristine copy and one copy that
he plays with. So of everything he's has.
So he's got 1 pristine in shrink wrap, Man of War and one Man of
War set that he opened that he uses for gaming and that kind of
thing. So I'd like to see he's got a
massive walk in wardrobe or like a wardrobe type thing, storage
storage cabinet there in his room.
So we didn't have a chance last time to dig through that.
So hopefully this time we might have some time to do that.
But he suggested habit we play the Horus Heresy board game and
that's the chit encounter strategy board game series that
Jervis Johnson and maybe Andy Chambers worked with him on
those. But I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty
sure they're all Jervis Johnson games.
And I haven't played that one before.
I played Armageddon. I think that's why that's the
set I bought back in the 90s. This Horace Harris is released
in 1993. Of course, it's all about the
you know about Horace and the Emperor.
Horace is storming the Imperial Imperial Palace to confront the
Emperor in that classic. The classic Adrian Smith artwork
depicts that very moment with Sanguinius and all that kind of
thing. So that's where we're going to,
we're going to play it. I really hope to film it.
It seems to have picked up quite a few comments on YouTube when I
post it up on the on the on the community section or post
section or whatever it is on there.
If you're a subscriber, you'll see all those posts when I post
something up like pictures and that kind of thing.
But yeah, it seemed like got a lot of good, good traction.
There were people interested in looking at it.
Like I said, I've never played it.
I've got the rules now. He sent me a copy of the PDF,
the rule book I've got. Even the Wellington was up on
the weekend. He got me looking at this bloody
AI thing, ChatGPT thing. So I've been I've been using
chat. GPT to tell me the rules and
stuff like that as I'm painting because I haven't got much time
to read. But I'll, I'll definitely, it's
not a complicated game. And I like the, I like the idea
that you've got like the strategy cars, you've got event
cards and strategy cards, I think.
And Armageddon has the same. I remember those and I know Ed
and many sides he covered. I'm pretty sure he covered
Armageddon on his channel. Need to go back and check that
again. But basically you're just,
you're just dealing with little counters and the counters have
numbers on it for the units and the unit strength will be
depicted on like on the counter. So Space Marines and that, you
know, you've got Imperial Guard units and obviously cow Space
Marines and Chaos cultists and your demons and all that kind of
stuff. And I believe you roll the dice
when you want to attack something and you add that to
your attack factor, right? I would say I need to look into
it as again, I'm sort of just glossing over the rules.
I notice it's quite a lot more, it's a lot more in depth than
that. And Max has done some solo plays
by himself. So he's getting a good handle
the rules. I'll make sure I'll have a good
handle the rules before I go down there so that we can just
get straight straight into it, hopefully crack out a couple of
games. I don't see why not.
So it shouldn't take an enormous amount of time to play.
But yeah, really looking forward to that and and of course
catching up with Max and and. Checking out Ultramarines now
talked about Ultra Means a few times.
You're probably wondering what it is.
Ultra Means is also a board game.
I hope to film that on the day when I'm down there.
Just go through the stuff he's got there.
He's had to reproduce some of some of the contents himself
because he'll short a few cards and being a graphic designer, he
can knock those up in in Photoshop and then print them
out on card and that kind of thing.
So apparently he's reproduced all the missing components.
But he hasn't got all the miniatures painted.
So I'm going to talk to Max about that.
If we can do some kind of exchange where he's got a ton of
Titans for Epic that I don't have.
I really like a few Reaver Titans and a couple of Warhand
Titans and maybe another couple of Warhand Titans or whatever.
Sorry, War Titans. So I'm going to talk to Max
about doing some kind of negotiation about, you know,
trading those four painting services and I might just knock
out those four. There's 4 squads of five.
There's like a captain heavy balter guy and three other
scouts. And I never painted my original
set when I had ultra rings back in the day.
I never got to paint it. I was just too intimidated by
the models, although beautiful. And yeah, they'll just way too,
you know, at that stage, I was really just just beginning to
paint and learn how to paint. So I was just never, never
confident about painting them. I would love that chance again.
To do it, paint all the miniatures and then film the
film house playing it. I think it'd be great even with
the kids having Leo and his son playing it with us together.
Because you've got 4. It's a four player game because
you've got 4 squads of different marines, got all terrains, Blood
Angels, Space Wolves and Dark Angels and they will have to go
into the space Hulk and collect resources and bring it back to
their base base camp and you're basically just fighting against
each other. Think of it like a simulation
kind of thing, like a training simulation for the for the
scouts. I think that's kind of the
premise of it. And you've got these event cards
you can play on other players. So like maybe a Jean stealer?
Pops out one of the the hatches or through the ceiling and grabs
them and attacks them. Or you've got like spit like
certain grenades like this plasma grenades, or you've got
like a stasis grenade. You can freeze people in time.
You got a Hellfire ammunition for your heavy bolter.
And of course, all the attacks are made with dice in that are
dropped into a tray and they're like this hit miss grid on there
and then whatever dice falls into the hits with a number on
it. So if you're like 6 on a hit
kind of thing, you know you've got successes that way.
It's a really fun game. It's really easy to play.
We played loads of games back in high school and everybody I
introduce it to, they really loved it.
So it was really good fun. Now told me that board games I
had the guys up here for our games day last weekend.
So that was Nick, the good friends Nick Wellington and
Justin because Justin was in town.
So whenever, whenever Justin can get it get a chance to come over
from Hong Kong to Japan, we always try to do something
together. So I suggest, how about you come
up to my place and we can play some games and he'd sleep over
and you know, we can just relax and and do it that way, which
thank then thanks to Nick. Thanks so much for driving the
guys up. I really appreciate it, mate.
Every time you do that as as it's not, it's not close.
It's not too far, but it's not close.
And and I hope you've had a great time.
If I had a great time and I'm sure the other guys did too.
Certainly lots of laughs. Along the in the in the in the
weekend. We we first played a big game of
will have a renaissance. Well, it's big for me anyway.
It was 3000 points aside and it was drafting not not as many as
models as it didn't look as many models as we'd had last time the
last year, but maybe that's for the best.
And we tried we tried to reduce the amount of terrain items are
on the table too. We had, I think it's called
capture the relic. I think it's called the the
mission. We rolled up the scenario.
So there's a relic right in the center of the board and who was
close to it? Who can dominate that relic or
contested. You know, you win the win half
the victory points, in this case 1500 points.
And it was Justin and hit Justin wanted to play the Orton
goblins. So Justin and Nick played
together. I think Justin played as a the
slaughterer and Nick had Grom the paunch and it was me in
Wellington playing the Empire. I really wanted to play Empire
too, because it was something just different.
And I'm glad, I'm really glad I did it because I had all the
cavalry. I was the cavalry commander this
time. So we had and because
Wellington's got quite an extensive range of Empire
models, so he brought his stuff. Thanks.
Thanks again. Well, there for that.
And so we I I took a big unit. I'm not a big unit, but like 10,
I think it was 10 or 12. That would have been 10, would
have been 10 White Knights of the White Wolf.
I did have 12 all together because I had my Magnus the
Pious and the Supreme Patriarch in the Knights Panther unit
because he had ten of those. So I had 12 all together so.
That gave me an extra rank, which is good.
I had two groups of five pistol ears.
And I also had a unit of rice guard and I think they were also
10 from memory. It could have been 12.
A bit vague on that now, but anyhow.
That that was basically it. We had two volley guns and then
Wellness was in contract command of all the state troops, so he
had Rice Guard. On foot, he had some big, like a
big end of the 40 Halpadiz I think they were, and a few
warrior priests, because you have warrior priests and
Renaissance, which basically make them stubborn, which make
him quite tough and I think that.
Was it from memory and the New York Goblin side?
We have, you know, obviously the two characters plus just just
the usual regular array of of models that I have in my
collection basically. So it was the all boys and the
the ball boys was there were there as well.
I can't remember seeing the ball boys do anything, maybe because
they ran away. I think they ran away.
Anyway, I won't spoil the details, I'll have to edit that
at some point. I'm still just need to do the
adapters Titanicus video first. Once that's out and and off the
editor, then I can import the other videos on my phone.
And do that, I hope, I hope to do that by the end of the week.
And so that's all on the computer safe and sound.
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now back to the show. But aside from the great warmer
fantasy game we played again, I'll edit that and upload it
sometime next week sometime. We also because.
In the evening. After you played the big game,
when we're going to play next. So Nick suggests how we play
advance your request. I said, yeah, that's bad.
That'd be good. So because we had, you know, 4/4
of us and we can all play together.
A lot of the other games are just like, you know, one-on-one
virtual type games. But we played yeah, cooperative
cooperatively playing 3 adventurers and had Nick is
playing the the GM. So I've never actually played.
Advance here requests As a player I've always been running
the games or doing it solo, so it was really nice just just to
relax and just play as a character.
So I took the wizard because I don't think anybody wanted to
take the wizard. And I thought I'll just take the
wizard because. You know you.
You. That that napalm spell just you
know that he can do that that one trick pony thing because
once once he gets in hand in combat, it's all over for him
unless you roll up his stats independently and like you know,
just. And you just get lucky and you
get like a really high toughness and really high intelligence.
You know he's going to be We just use the the basic stats
that came with the game. So I was a wizard.
Wellington was the dwarf. Yeah, and and then Justin took
the took the Paladin night type guy, Heinrich.
And because at the beginning, because we started generating
the dungeon as you normally do, and we use some scaling models I
add here to represent them, and we're actually doing the
shattered amulet. We're going to do that together,
which would be nice. So every time we get together,
yeah, we'll play another session of that.
We finish the first the first dungeon together.
So it was like. 333 levels. And then there Justin said, Oh,
you know, this is easy. You know what?
What do you talk about, Josh? You said it was really hard.
And I said, mate, well, just wait, wait, wait till you get to
it, mate, because we're using the, we're using the the monster
matrix matrixes from the shattered amulet.
And I know if you roll high, you're going to get, you know,
just tons and tons of. Scaven to deal with and
generally escape and have 3 wounds each and a toughness of
about 7. So on AD 12 you need to roll at
least seven or more and then you got to do that three times to
just eliminate 1 Scaven basically.
And so we got to the quit. We found the quest room pretty
easily because we're using the the standard base base rules,
which is much better than the the other tear in the dark
systems I find. And yeah.
And then of course, Heinrich died and his hench men died.
Because we had all had a hench men each as well.
So Justin didn't find it too easy after all.
So to respawn with a with a elf and a henchman that came down to
the dungeon later to join the party, which is probably a
better option because he's really good at at he's really
good in combat. And he's good at, he's got, he's
got a bow, so he can he can do the missile far as well.
We did talk. About, you know, fighting from
indoor ways. I really don't like that.
I find it something that's an element of the game, which if
anything, if I can criticize in any way, I think that's one of
the things I I just dislike about it is that you'd sort of
just it it forces you to fight in the doorway and you you never
sort of get into the room and if you.
Do like you know, and I encourage, I think I encourage.
Justin to do it. You know, be.
Brave get in there and and you know, fight your way through it.
And of course he died because you just you'd get overrun and
unless everyone goes in there, like all of unless you have like
space to because you've got like these death zones.
So if you enter a death zone of an enemy and you've got to stop
and then you've got to fight them.
Well, you don't have to fight them, but you know, you got to
do something, but you just can't move.
So you just can't move past your own guys.
You can't move past the enemy. So it makes that movement a
little bit difficult and and here request.
Is kind of the opposite. You can move freely through
your, your, your, your heroes, your other heroes, unless they
object to it, which I don't know why, but you can move through
them. You can move, you can move
around the monsters and that kind of thing.
So it gives a lot more freedom, tactical freedom, I think.
And I think advance your request, you know, for it's for
the reasons why he's done. I know why he's done that.
But because of the doorway being only one section wide, one
square wide, it just creates these these these bottlenecks
where, you know, you're just fighting for the door.
And you say, OK, well, if I go in, the chance I'm going to die.
But if. But if I just stay in the
doorway and I just hack them from here and they just pile in,
you know, unless, unless the GM purposely keeps them back.
And we talked that with with Nick as well.
They have range fire weapons that the monsters bring see the
escape and have slings, which there's rules for in in one of
the quests we have a profile with, I think, scavenged slaves
with with slings. You know, in this adventure
making down, they have orcs with bows and goblins with bows.
So at least it adds an extra dimension to the to the enemy
monsters, because otherwise it's all just hand hand combat.
I want to introduce like spellcasters and stuff for the
orcs as well, things like that. So you've got some range combat
potential. So it forces that.
It forces the heroes in rather than then always beings the
monsters being sucked into that doorway chokehold where they
just get hacked to pieces. Now, what happened to we had
like wandering monsters As the GM pulls out those dungeon
counters, you can bring one string 1 ring monsters in from
another section. So you've got like then coming
in from another, another section.
So it, it sort of breaks that up.
So you have, you've got, you've got, you know, you've got 222
areas of monsters coming in from different sides.
You've got to change up how you sort of approach that.
And that sort of came up in our, both of our games actually,
which was cool. In fact, this, I think the third
one we did when we found the quest room and we found 2 quest
rooms. So one was the quest room 1 was
a lair, so that brews quite a lot of extra scathing.
And I think Nick could also in doing so, roll up another
specialist type of scathing. So we'd like we saw a globe idea
and plagues and. Appearance, I think, which are
deadly, absolutely deadly in advance your request.
You know that they'll kill you if if they if they hit you when
those poison globes, you're you're dead unless you got like
fate points and that's that sort of stuff.
So yeah, a lot of fun, loads of laughs.
I think the guys really, really enjoyed it because I love board
games. You know, that's how I started
in all of this stars. You know, I've always played
board games. I've always loved that.
Always loved the tactile feel of cards and moving things on a
board and seeing that 33 dimensionality of that sort of
thing. You know, I've always enjoyed
it. And we started talking about in
the next day on Sunday, we started talking about board
games. And, you know, I said, I said to
Nick, you know, are we going to, you know, run through the second
dungeon of the, of the Shattered amulet or whatever we're
playing? And he said, oh, and then I
think, well, and Wellington wasn't too keen on it because he
thought, can we just play something a little bit, you
know, quicker or something that takes less time.
So I started running off a few names and I said, oh, we've got
Talisman. And Justin said, what's
Talisman? I said, you ever played
Talisman? And he said no.
And I said, OK, well we're definitely playing Talisman
then. So off I went, grabbed, grabbed
my second edition of Talisman, which I bought when I was about
16 or 17 and absolutely love Talisman.
Love it with a group, group of guys playing that or girls or
whoever. My mom would play it, my sister
would play it, I had students playing it at school when I work
there. It's just one of those games
that you've always got to. I think everyone has to
experience it and I think there's some people, some people
don't like it because of the randomness, because it's all
completely random. You have really no control of
anything and you just got to hope for the best basically.
So I thought we'll just introduce it and see what people
think. Wellington knew what it was.
Nick hadn't played for a very long time, I hadn't played for a
long time, so it was nicer to break it out and just play the
base game. Justin immediately said.
Oh, I love the artwork, which is.
One of one of the things I. Love about second editions, All
that Gary Chalk. Artwork on it.
It's really full of character and lovely color, and it really
gives you the essence. Of.
Well, it's pre, it's pre Ansel Games Workshop.
This is like Livingston Jackson era.
So this is going way back, way back in the in the company's
history where this became a big thing.
You know, it's still going today.
There's still got another got another edition out recently,
haven't they? Games Workshop brought out one
with Avalon Hill, I think it was.
I painted the miniatures for for a mate of mine, Jack, here in
Japan, actually all PVC miniatures, which weren't too
bad. Truth be told, they were
actually quite nice models. I have to contact him to see if
he's actually played a game yet with them, so I know he's really
looking forward to those. So I hope Jack put a.
Game in with the guys recently. But yeah, you know, Talisman
has, has stood the test of time through generations and they, I
think they're just every time they're coming out with a new
one, like they've got like a Kingdom Kingdom Hearts version
of Talisman. I think they'd come up with a
Batman version of Talisman as well.
So they've had a few spin offs and I think they've they've lent
the license to different companies to make like reskin it
in different, different ways. There's a, there's a computer
version of it as well as one you can download on your app.
My phone, I tried it. I didn't really like it so much.
I don't particularly like digital board games.
You know, I'm always feeling I'm getting screwed over by the dice
rolls. I'd much rather screw myself
over with the dice roll than have the computer screw me over
the dice roll. And I tried that, I think the
last time I played that was with the Leo in hospital actually was
just totally bored out of my out of my skull when you know, in
bed or trying to sleep or whatever and trying to play it
and I just didn't like it. But you know, it's free, you can
download it, you can play with friends online.
It's, it's, it's a great way just to access it if you've
never played Talisman and to get like a feel of what it's like.
But we played that and Justin loved it.
So I think we're going to play that again for sure again in the
future. I think he draw the, he drew the
sorceress. We always like to do the.
When you get a character, you do that at random.
So no one has like a particular bias about, you know, which is
the best because some characters are pretty powerful and some not
that powerful, you know, have pretty fairly weak skills and
that kind of thing. So he drew the sorceress, Nick
drew the warrior, and I got the minstrel, which I wasn't too
overwhelmed about. And Wellington, he got the, what
did he have? Assassin.
That's right. So, and I think some of these
characters are from the dungeon set because I've got the dungeon
expansion too. And I'm kicking myself that I
never bought all of the expansions now back in the day
because yeah, they're really hard to find complete and
they're, I think they're relatively expensive now.
But I'd love to get the city expansion.
And I had a chance to get the Dragons expansion from a guy in
Australia, had the box set all on punch and everything.
I wish I grabbed it now, but here you go.
Maybe one day. If I can, if I'm lucky.
I'll find some extra expansions for second edition to to
explore. But yeah, we we really enjoyed
it. I did manage to reach the crown
command and and I think the guys just thought.
This is going to take. Forever Because like you know,
Wellington was after a short game.
Well, I think it went for about 3 hours and and we just got to
the point where we're going to have lunch and they had to go
home relatively relatively early in the afternoon.
So I think they just conceded to say, yeah, OK, you know, let's
call it that was called the game.
And so yes, the chronic command is with me for now.
Let's see who can snatch it off off me next time.
But yes, it brings back lots of good memories, lots of good
memories playing Talisman. So I really enjoyed it.
If you've never tried it, then I know that Matt would talk to
Madness Planet Turbo. Yesterday was Robert Turbo TV.
He hadn't. He has never tried it.
So we thought of ways of doing that remotely and I think the
only thing you really need the cards would be nice because even
if I'm drawing the cards. You've got to have a record of
the objects and I objects and follows that you have as well.
So either you write that on a piece of paper, or you have
printouts of the cards in front of you.
If you have a set of Talisman that's that's easy, just draw
the cars out and do it that way. So we'll have to explore how to
play that remotely and see if that will actually work or not.
But it'd be nice if you can do that.
That'd be quite cool. But yeah, that was our that was
our weekend of of games and fun. And I didn't record those games
because I want to play games off off camera.
But I think I think we should do next time when we play Talisman,
we should. I will make a video of parts of
that game and then release it as a video because people may have
never played it. Like I said.
We've never seen it, especially second edition.
It's kind of a rare rarity nowadays.
I know some people got first edition Talisman with a
beautiful cover on it which looks amazing.
I actually prefer the first edition cover to the second
edition cover personally. But yeah, and 4th, 3rd edition
I've played as well. That's the, I think Ted's got
that copy with all the plastic miniatures.
And I played that a couple of times back in the 90s when
someone had it. That's a really, really
beautiful addition to, with all the Wayne England art on it
looks absolutely glorious. And they had all that.
They had the plastic drag and the actual tower.
And all the characters were represented in these, these nice
plastic miniatures. And there was a set here in
Japan and a man, I'm just kicking myself not to grab it.
Why didn't I grab it? Oh, there you go.
It was the just the base game of talent.
And I would just love to have that just as a just a just a
visual thing, you know. But yeah, and I think they
changed a little bit in the in the rules later, I think they
introduced fate points. Into third edition from memory
and like the gold coins were actually plastic gold coins from
memory as well. So they introduce different
kinds of components and stuff into it.
Make it bit more. Flashy and and less cardboardy,
I think, but the cards really beautiful.
Everything about that edition is really, really nice when I think
about it, So and I know. People like Jack who?
No, sorry. It's I think it's.
Tom has collected every single edition of Talisman so far, so
I'd love to go to his house one day and have a look at those.
It'd be lovely. That's one, one trip I need to
do because I painted a lot of miniatures with Tom and I think
I'm going to paint some more miniatures for Tom this year.
I think some more wood elves. So I'd love to make a trip down
to his place in Tokyo and go through his his wonderful
collection of old Hammer stuff there because I know he's got
the stuff that's way back into like third edition.
Wahama. So yeah, that'd be really good
to do. At some point this year.
But apart from that, guys, I've got quite a few things on the
table and painting some stuff for Khan effects for his chaos
army. So we're trying to wrap that up
so we can actually get that played and filmed and and on the
on the channel at some point before I send them back.
So I'm sure he's looking forward to getting his noble army back.
And I've got some other stuff here from confrontation I'm
doing for us, a Commission for my good Canadian friend Silvano.
And I've got the silver elves here for Nick that I'm painting
up and that'll be a video at some point in the future.
And I've also got some beautiful foundry miniatures for my friend
David in the States. I'm doing that as a Commission
for his steed and steal. I think that's the name of the
rule set. It's like a it's like a medieval
tournament style game that he kindly gifted me the book.
So in a hope that I will play it and he sent me later like this,
as in recently sent me the miniatures to paint up as a
Commission for him to to film and play it.
Not on the chronic command because I've separated the
content here. I've put all of my basically
everything else doesn't that doesn't fall into 90s games is
going to two other channels and some people know about it.
Some people. Some people just didn't.
Realize they were, they existed and.
And like, like Matt found out recently that I've got another
channel that's called Temple of the East, which is all dedicated
to confrontation. Everything confrontation related
goes to Temple of the East. Gameplay, miniature painting,
just chats. I do like this coffee and
confrontations thing which I just just chat and painting and
talk about stuff I'm working on commissions, personal stuff.
And I've also got another channel called.
Swords and sake, and I'll put those links in this video
description so you can go click on those and check them out.
You don't have to. You're not obligated to and at
all. I'm not asking for Subs or likes
or anything like that. I've purely put those there to
separate everything that's non GW into those channels.
So swords and sake handle Barons war test of honor.
This this swords and steel Commission guards of traders
toll, which is a game that's it's now on pre-order through
Gray for now games, which I'll definitely pick up the starter
set for my birthday is birthday present to myself because I've
been waiting for that because it's a beautiful looking set
that's like medieval fantasy with the the same aesthetics as
well. I'm a fantasy role play first
edition and Cadwellan which are two settings.
Which I really love and Gary Chalk is a.
Big influence behind that. So I'm definitely going to pick
up that because I love Gray for now.
Game systems and how they play and they've got solo rules and
all that kind of stuff. So that will feature on that
Channel. So everything else basically,
that's not GW Gangster 90s or whatever.
Gangs Workshop just totally will be just put into those channels.
OK, so I'll leave those links there if you are interested.
I know some people like historical stuff, some people
don't, and that's totally cool. I mean, I'm not a big historical
player, you know that. But I do like my other.
I do like Test of Honor. I do like Baron's War, even I
hadn't had a game of it yet. I do like, I enjoy painting the
models. I love the the Paul Hicks
sculpts for those. There were different sort of
scale. These foundry miniatures are
just bloody beautiful. And I'm painting up some
townsfolk now and I've got some men about men at arms to do.
And of course the mounted Knights with their Lancers.
And yeah, I really look forward to, to actually playing.
I'm sure it's a really nice game.
And this, this sword and steed looks like a really fun
tournament game. You can play with up to, I think
4 players and you generate your knight, you roll up your stats,
I believe, or you choose one out of the book and you do these
different tournaments, events. So like you do archery and
obviously jousting and that kind of thing.
And I think you just accumulate experience or accumulate points
and obviously you'll be crowned as a champion of the event at
the end. I, I presume that.
So I've never, I haven't read the rule book.
I think Paul's got it now. I, I asked him if he wanted to
have a look through it, to just read it, to get like a, a grasp
of the rules and that kind of thing.
And maybe we can play it now. I've got the miniatures.
So as soon as I painted that, if Paul's willing to then I'll,
I'll, I'll give it a go with him and and run through some games.
They probably won't be filmed in the they may not be filmed in
the the current format. I'll have to see again.
It's it's all about time and everything's poured into the
crown command and the other channels as kind of just.
Very sort of. Once a month they might get
updated once a month. And they're really designed for
painting commissions. It's really like, OK, I'm a
painting Commission. This is this is the stuff I'm
working on now. So people get to see the
miniatures and. If if they're interested, they
can contact me through evil heavyled@gmail.com to get a
quote on a Commission. So it's sort of, it expands my
my. Portfolio a little bit if you
like and it just it broadens my. My viewership so that who people
who might be interested in historical stuff might say, hey,
you know, can you give me a quote on painting up my Saga war
band, for example, And someone might send me something for the
confrontation stuff. And I think, OK, well, like
Josh's painting, you know, can you give me a quote to do my
confrontation, war band, whatever.
So it just broadens my clientele.
That's really what they're for to, to generate some more
interest in, in some in clients and that kind of thing.
So like I said, you're not obligated to look at those sites
and check them out or comment or whatever.
But if you are interested, please have a.
Look, they're very simple, they're very old school.
Then there's nothing flashy, no great production value.
It's basically just click play record and then just upload and
that's it. That's that's all they are.
But that's it guys, I think that's the the sort of update I
really wanted to give you today. I can't really think of anything
else that comes to mind right now to talk about, which means
that we can leave it till the next Gork talk.
OK, but until then, I hope to catch you in the next splatter
nada. The splatter nada will be on or
I put up a poll. Looks like it's going to be on
Saturday, but maybe about May. It might be like your Saturday,
my Sunday, and it might be also Sunday and Monday.
So we might do 2 this weekend. Let's see how we go.
But if, if you can make it long and say hello, that'd be
wonderful. If you can't, no problem.
If you'd like to join the spider Netta, you're more than welcome
to, you know, it's, it's kind of an open thing.
I think someone mentioned, Oh, I can't join the spider Netta
because I'm not a patron. Well, you don't have to be a
patron to join the Spider Netta. It's an open format.
You can join and come in and say hello and come and paint with us
and have a chat with us. I'm really open to having as
many people on there as well as we can.
So if that would interest you, let me know.
I'll add you to our Facebook Messenger group and that'll I'll
upload the links and times when we're going to do a splatter
data and you can jump in and say hello.
All right guys. Well, until then, take care if
you do have a first, first white door, if you want to come and
talk to me about, please get in touch the Chronicle man,
podcast@gmail.com. And I look forward to hearing
from you then. But until then, guys, have a
great hobby week and I'll speak to you soon.