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The D6 Generation

D6GLC: Book 24 - Miniatures Primer

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4.8613 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2012

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Craig and Russ discuss the options and basics on how to get into miniature war gaming.

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0:00.0

For the last three years, between recording segments of the D6 generation,

0:09.6

Russ, Craig, and Raff have had various conversations that have spanned the interests of Gamerdom worldwide.

0:18.2

This is one of those conversations.

0:22.5

D6G, the Lost Chapters.

0:31.2

Welcome back to Dunkin' Donuts here with Craig and myself. It's a little bit empty in Dunkin' Donuts tonight. I'm not going to lie to you. It's because of the New Year's resolutions, right? Everybody's out there. Oh, that's true. We couldn't get anybody to come into Dunkin' Donuts with us because of New Year's resolutions. Right. Well, I'm only having that one of those little flatbread things with a little turkey and a milk.

0:55.8

I'm not even having my usual donut and coffee. Trying to be good. You know, it'll last for a month, but I'll try. Well, it's always good to start anyway. Better to start than never have started at all. Right. You know, well, if you just figure if you kind of get started the first quarter of the year and lose little bit of weight and gain it back in the second half of the year.

0:51.9

At least you're maintaining net net.

0:53.7

Well, I lost a crap If you kind of get started the first quarter of the year and lose a little bit of weight and gain it back in the second half of the year, at least you're maintaining net net.

1:12.2

Right.

1:12.8

Well, I lost a crap ton of weight at the end of the year, so I'm trying to maintain right now. Nice. Good job. But you know what? I'm having a donut anyway. There you go. Have a jelly. Yeah. I hate jelly donuts. Well, you know. I always hate it, jelly donuts.

1:08.3

Wow, they're tasty.

1:09.1

I like, you know, the apple jelly in the inside with the apple cinnamon on the outside?

1:11.8

Oh, it was pretty good.

1:12.4

No, no're tasty. I like, you know, the apple jelly in the inside with the apple cinnamon on the outside? No, no, it doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. I've always hated jelly donuts. Cream filled donuts, maybe. Like a Boston cream? Like a nice, like a nice Boston cream, something like that. That's more like an Eclare, really, than a... It really is, really. All right, well, you know, we had so much fun chatting with Owen last episode about miniatures. And then people have been asking us for a while about these concept of primer or primer, if you will, Primer episodes on different topics. And we did RPG Primer a while ago with Ross. We thought it'd be kind of fun, cricket and I'd sit down and do a little miniature gaming primer. What kind of... And we asked Rief to join us, but Rave is off playing Star Wars. Yes, he had to go craft something in Star Wars or something. So we thought it'd be kind of fun to talk about, you know, just what... It's a very, of all the things we talk about in this show, miniature gaming has to be the most intimidating. It's just such a, a huge endeavor to get into. There's so many aspects to it. So we thought we'd try to take a little bit of time here and go through what do you got to do and how do you get involved with it and maybe some sort of ease your steps

2:34.9

sort of like put your toe in the water,

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if you will, miniature painting.

2:38.5

So first thing I want to talk a little bit about

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is the sort of the different aspects

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and the depth of the hobby.

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What makes it different from all these other types of gaming?

2:48.1

Like you might look at

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like Battles of Westrose or one of those games and say,

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