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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. The Chronic Command is proud to be sponsored by Scott at Black Arrow Minis. Scott has a range of second hand miniatures from several manufacturers which include Citadel, Grenadier, Ralph Arthur, Battletech and many
more. Collections that I enjoy pouring over are the old Perry Empire, Ally Morrison's Marauder Dwarves, and the old metal models for Epic Space Marine. So go take a look today and head over to Scott's website at www.blackarrowminis.com. We're also going to cover other publications from Games Workshop. 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
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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.