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Offline vtsaogames

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Re: King & Conqueror - BBC
« Reply #15 on: August 07, 2025, 02:00:11 AM »
At least no one is using rapid-fire catapults with flaming missiles that explode. Count yer lucky stars.  ;)
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Offline Funkmachine7

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Re: King & Conqueror - BBC
« Reply #16 on: August 19, 2025, 11:31:43 PM »
Mud, floppy cheap leather vests and the gray "historical" fillter.

I dont mid odd an totaly a histoical costumeing but just bit the bullet an use a fantasy setting.
That way you can have a sequal or three, and we dont all know the plot.

Offline Captain Blood

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Re: King & Conqueror - BBC
« Reply #17 on: August 21, 2025, 07:30:19 PM »
Right...
I've removed all the politics shit.
Please don't come here and do that again. Take your strong opinions and plaster them somewhere more appropriate - like most of the rest of the internet.
This is a site for model soldiers and wargaming.
Please check out the forum rules if you don't understand.

Offline gregmita

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Re: King & Conqueror - BBC
« Reply #18 on: August 21, 2025, 08:21:12 PM »
Ugh..
This thing has basically every single bad "Medieval" movie trope.

Mud, floppy cheap leather vests and the gray "historical" fillter.

I dont mid odd an totaly a histoical costumeing but just bit the bullet an use a fantasy setting.
That way you can have a sequal or three, and we dont all know the plot.

Offline Harry Faversham

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Re: King & Conqueror - BBC
« Reply #19 on: August 24, 2025, 02:41:34 PM »
Just binge watched the first three episodes, verdict...
a very, very poor man's Game of Thrones.
 :?
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Offline Ninefingers

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Re: King & Conqueror - BBC
« Reply #20 on: August 24, 2025, 10:22:26 PM »
Just binge watched the first three episodes, verdict...
a very, very poor man's Game of Thrones.
 :?

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Offline Mammoth miniatures

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Re: King & Conqueror - BBC
« Reply #21 on: August 24, 2025, 10:23:06 PM »
The bots I've seen look like someone wanted to cash in on the popularity of game of thrones 10 years ago, but the project was shelved and has now been pulled out to fill a scheduling gap. Even to my very indifferent eye the costumes look wrong and cheap.

I know technicolour is a technical impossibility these days, but I really wish someone would break the mould and make a proper brightly coloured historical epic , so at the very least you don't feel like you're watching a bunch of indistinct grey and brown shapes making angry love through a fierce fog cloud.

Offline Wilgut Spleens

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Re: King & Conqueror - BBC
« Reply #22 on: August 25, 2025, 11:58:05 AM »
As predicted,total bollocks
I have a bad case of prescient nostalgia. The future's not what it used to be.

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Offline Fytzer

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Re: King & Conqueror - BBC
« Reply #23 on: August 25, 2025, 01:27:02 PM »
I for one thoroughly enjoyed the shot in the opening battle scene when a man wearing a full mail hauberk and leather on top has a spear put straight through his leather, mail and ribcage, and then out the other side!

Really sets the tone!

Offline Cholmondely Percival IV

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Re: King & Conqueror - BBC
« Reply #24 on: August 25, 2025, 02:03:48 PM »
I trust that one went back to Primark.

Offline charla51

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Re: King & Conqueror - BBC
« Reply #25 on: August 25, 2025, 08:56:45 PM »
An historical fantasy based on a few facts.

Offline Rick

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Re: King & Conqueror - BBC
« Reply #26 on: August 25, 2025, 10:50:10 PM »
An historical fantasy based on a few facts.
A very few facts - they could have used more but went for 'feelz' not facts. I've not seen it and the reviews I've seen make me damn glad I haven't - 'this too shall pass' very much like a big load of manure!

Offline Inkpaduta

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Re: King & Conqueror - BBC
« Reply #27 on: August 26, 2025, 01:56:35 AM »
So what I am hearing is you guys liked it and hope for a sequel? :D

Offline Knight-Captain Tyr

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Re: King & Conqueror - BBC
« Reply #28 on: August 26, 2025, 04:03:51 PM »
So what I am hearing is you guys liked it and hope for a sequel? :D

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Offline Wilgut Spleens

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Re: King & Conqueror - BBC
« Reply #29 on: August 27, 2025, 04:38:37 PM »
It is reassuring that the telly watching public and the critics don't like it anymore than us gamers...

 

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