Battleground Wargames Show

First show I've visited in a while and I probably wouldnt have gone if I hadn't arranged to see Lance from Galloping major . A small show with are parking and free entry , a couple of smaller traders that you dont see at other shows so made a nice change but nothing to make me want to go again , my purchases consisted of a few packs from Lance to help finish some units off ,some characters and one of his new packs of markers , some nice spanish guerillas from Eagle and of course a few bases from warbases ,a long way to go to spend lass that a £100 but we visited afew other places so worthwhile .

Partizan -has my opinion of shows changed

Ive not been to a wargames show for a while and had no intention of going to any more until I purchased some bits off a wargames forum and the seller offered to post or meet at Partizan ,so I thought a visit to partizan might make a nice change .I had a look on the Partizan website forprice and times it turned out the stated price was wrong .  On arrival there seemed to be bit of a mess with parking and some heated comments were being made ,with my previous career of event management I know that if you want to organise parking you need to have traffic marshalls on site and there were none for the wargames show but there were some organising things for another show in a nearby  building . Entry was pretty quick and I recieved a free figure which is a nice female which will fit into  any victorian era game although she is actually a german revolutionary ..Once inside we move around the show fairly easily I stopped at the wargames illustrated stand with the intention to buy a couple of their figures but a rather ignorant chap was stood in front of them talking to his mate , I asked if I could get through and he turned and stared at me then carried on has before ,so I tried reaching past him and each time I did he huffed and turned and gave me a dirty look ,eventually I gave in and told him what I thought of him and walked away without buying ,Im sure WI wont miss my tenner though . we had a look at another couple of stands but saw nothing to interest me ,long gone are the days of impluse buys and bags full of stuff I will never paint .I found the chap selling the items I mentioned and had a little chat before walking around the show ,The items purchased were Warlords Cruel Seas ,which I know had a really bad press due to the huge amount of mistakes in the rule book but these appear to have been corrected and David Manley has put out some great house rules which apparently make the game really good ,but the ships are really nice and I got them at afantastic price so Im happy . I purchased a single pack of figures from crooked dice as I do like to support Karl , the pack I bought I will actually use for Spectre operations rather than any 7tv games . My last purchase was some walls from the Tree Fellers ,these will appear in afew different games but are intended as aproper cattle krall for my Rorkes Drift games . John who went with me forced himself into buying afew items but after buying a very expensive sandwhich we both walked away from the show after an hour feeling let down, again gone are the days when I spent hours at a show and as we left chap who had just turned up was shouting about the parking chaos as a lot of people were leaving and were driving around trying to get out . The show seemed busy and there were quite a few nice looking games , a lot of the stalls we couldnt decide if the items they were selling were new or second hand ,the prices said new but the boxes said second hand ?also we noticed a lot of the doors had been opened by traders as ventilation and people were entering in large number and I only saw 1 trader a very galent elderly lady attempt to stop them . John said he wouldnt bother again and I have to agree .

Mt cruel seas purchase ,whish I had them posted now 

The Galent Rosa Luxembourg ,must find out who she was 

Walls with Miss Luxembourg 

crooked dice reinforcments for my Spectre Africans

wednesday night gaming -Cursus Honorum 11

Went to Sheffield wargames Society gameless last night but on arriving was offered the chance by John Armatys to take part in the dry run of wargames developments Triples participation game ,Cursus Honorum 11, now I have played the Cursus Honorum 111 card game but this was almost aroman version of monopoly . The game is wonderful ,again a game of possible promotion through the Roman society with plenty of chances to get honour and ramk by either being loved by the people or being down right dirty (that would be me then ) .The game took about 35-40 minutes to play with 6 players ,4 of whom had not played before we all picked it up really quickly and had a great time ,especially me has not only was I first around the board but I won with an amazingly high score .If you are at Triples look out for this and take half an hour out to play it at least once ,highly recommended plus I also understand John and his team will be offering a discount on WD membership ,even though I am running a game I am hoping to take time out to play again .

My game card just before my last flurry of gaining lots of honour and dignity 

John (wearing the laurels )and Dave look on in amazement as I do a victory parade  around Rome 

Joy of Six 2015

Our charity game at this years Joy of Six show was a WW2 with difference ,it covered an action in Iraq with the British KingsCorp taking on the Iraqi forces ,rules were the GHQ WW2 rules and all the figures and scenery were also GHQ .All painted by John Grayson. The game was a close run thing with the Brits (me ) suffering terrible dice roles . This years show was at anew bigger venue and had more traders and games than before ,well worth visit .

The first few pics are of our Game .

This and the following are some of the great games on display 

Sheffield Triples Day 2

Second day of fund raising at triples for the British Legion ,a bit busier than yesterday again every one enjoyed them selves and was happy with the feed back on my Rules "nothing remains but to fight " especially when we won Best Participation Game award .Bought some more new toys as well .

Yes we did have a Buglar on hand for the retreat to the redoubt 

Head swelling time 

Sheffield Triples Day 1

A good day at an usually quiet Triples , Got 3 games of "nothing remains but to Fight" in went really well every one seemed to have fun plus importantly raised funds for the Royal British Legion  .Bought some more Empress stuff and a set of rules  Deus Vult .Hopefully get chance to visit the Crooked Dice stand tomorrow .Best bit today was chatting with people I only get to see once a year always good to catch up .

Dressed for the Part 

The best rendition of men of Harlech of the day 

Reading their lines 

Casulalties

Hull Veterans Day 2014

A great day out in Hull ,lots of reenactors and Military items on view ,felt a bit ill so left early and missed the BBMF and Red Arrows sadly.

Lots of non military stuff on show as well

Loads to do 

My mate John having problems with his weapon ,an every day thing according to Debs 

My highlight of the show ,a brilliant display.

The Joy of Six

Our Game for the British Legion at the Joy of Six Sheffield a what if set in the 80's

The Board kindly supplied by Adrian's Wall's 

The Village 

The Iraqi's advance 

our table 

Plenty of games on show 

The Egyptians fall foul of an Artillery strike

an Birds eye view

More destruction

An Egyptian air strike

The US Airbourne arrive

Even more destruction

The Iraqi's still moving forward

A10 in action

Hind D hitting back

Another A10 over shoots its targets

The U.S Airbourne blown from the skies 

A frog foot roars in for he kill
all figures GHQ from the war-games Emporium