Cult Of Games XLBS: Times Our Hobby Went VERY Wrong!
August 17, 2025 by crew
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In the Long Ago I’d say my issue was purchasing heavily for White Wolf’s Changeling line. This was great as an idea but nobody else cared to play. All the books that I later had to part with due to moving repeatedly. Right now it seems to be the same with SAGA. I seem to also be the singular interest for the game as I meet with a group that is deeply entrenched in Kings of War.
@avernos I believe that Thistle&Rose have the Grendel stuff
Yeah but the last time I looked it was a faff to order
@avernos. Was that in the old scout hut in N’Ards? I can see the whole image in my head
That’s the bunny.
We played a lot of Johnny Reb 2 in that hut with Steve Keating
but what if hobby went so wrong it became right again ? 😉
I remember my first attempt at using an airbrush …back when Imperial Guard were still called that and they had their first plastic kit.
It was one of those Revell airbrush kits with the can of air.
Let’s just say the imperial guard were blobbed with paint.
In hindsight it was not the right kind of paint to use (it came with the airbrush kit) and as this was pre-internet there was no real info on how to use it properly..
Absolute chaos. I love it and im only 3 minutes in
Everyone knows the Visigoths were the ones with the fluorescent jackets, easy to differentiate.
It might be the sleep deprivation talking, but this made me properly belly laugh!
Dark souls, believed the hype and after an inordinate amount of time it eventually tipped up, we played two games and it has been sat gathering dust ever since. The figures will eventually come in handy for DnD or something else similar but they reside at the back of a stack of board games on top of a wardrobe.
Soooo many expansions were purchased 😩😳😆
I went all in for the DS kickstarter. I sold the lot on eBay and made my money back. There’s a lot of collectors out there.
Another fantastic editing job this week; Saviour of Hearing XD
In terms of hobby gone wrong:
Played two games of 8th edition 40k with the same person and he had such a net-list, min/max army and style of play that I just sold off the lot.
How Bolt Action is played around here is bad, at least going back to 2nd edition. The community of players pride themselves on playing it Rules As Written and like to tell you that any time they play people from elsewhere in the country, people don’t like playing against them. No thanks!
I was super excited to paint up my Legions Imperialis when it came out. Lined up my first game but, being the socially awkward person that I am, was so nervous that I barely slept, couldn’t keep the rules in my head and the whole thing feels like a fever dream at this point. Came home, put the army in their storage case and there they have stayed since. The other several thousand points of minis are still on sprues in the box. I keep meaning to get them out and lining up another game or two. The opponent was lovely, it is entirely a me problem.
Happy Sunday.
There’s been a few, from buying into Warmachine 2nd edition, playing one game and selling everything, to picking up Warlord’s SPQR. Sometimes I’ve escaped with only buying the rulebook and nothing else before deciding that the game wasn’t for me (or I didn’t have time to fit one more game into my hobby production line).
It may shock many that back in the day when Mordheim first came out my group, the four of us, bounced hard off the game after only a few plays. We all thought it was just a poor man’s Necromunda (which we all loved). I guess we just weren’t ready for it at the time.
Hairy Sunday!
00:00 Hobby never goes wrong! Hobby always does exactly what it wants. Never too early or too late either. Carry On
00:20 Fifteen years? XD
01:00 Nice edit!
22:45 @dignity you and me mate, we need a shrubbery for on top
30:45 Oh noes! Political Satire!
37:45 Page 3 – I got that reference!
45:40 Headshot!
1:01:00 Blob!
1:21:00 a bang joe? 8)
So far, knock on wood, nothing I got into went wrong. Ok, so the company that made Star Wars Pocketmodels went bust but the game still lives (kind of)
happy Sunday……