A few more photos from the trench game

Here are a few more pictures from our game at Milton Keynes last weekend.

Photos from the trench game's last outing!

We really enjoyed Campaign, the 2 day wargames show in a shopping centre in Milton Keynes last weekend - many thanks to Neil and the other organisers at Milton Keynes Wargames Society for putting on such a good show!

The unusual thing about having a wargames show in the middle of a shopping centre is the number of "non-wargamers" - the general public - who stopped to look at the game and to talk to us about it and about the Great War. It was great to talk to so many people and to explain what we were doing, and also to talk to wargamers who appreciated the work that had gone into presenting the game. And the cold tea in the shellholes drew loads of attention again!

This was probably the last outing for the trench game at a waragames show. It will now go into a dignified retirement (in the new wargames shed!) as we concentrate on the Race to the Sea game. We have already started planning our game for 2013 as well!

I took a few photos of the game, with some interesting results as we were in direct natural light from the glass roof:

The trench game gets another outing!

We are off to Campaign this coming weekend, which is a wargames show staged over 2 days in the middle of a shopping centre in Milton Keynes! So we thought that it might be best to take the trench game, rather than Race to the Sea, to illustrate the Great War to the general public. We'll have all the usual stuff with it, hordes of aircraft and too many boxes of figures to get in the car and this time I will charge up the battery for my camera! If you are in the Milton Keynes area this weekend, do drop in and say hi!

We won't have the new aircraft stands yet though. I've found a magnetic pointer in a well known retail store in the UK (five letters, last four ESCO) that extends over seven sections and ends up 24 inches long (or high, depending how you look at it!). They were selling at the grand sum of £1.27 each, so I bought 18 of them! Soon you'll see these on the table as we develop our WW1 air rules further.

And some photos from 6milPhil

These photos were kindly taken by Phil Page, otherwise known as 6milPhil - thanks Phil! It was good to see you on Saturday.

Sidney to the Rescue!

Having not been able to take any photos myself, I have just been kindly sent some by Sidney Roundwood - many thanks Sidney!

So, here are a few of the game in action!

I'll try to add some more in the next day or so!

Salute 2012

Well we have now finished Salute 2012 and what a great day it was, although very tiring! I didn't get to leave the table from 8 o'clock in the morning when we got there until about 3pm when I did manage to get a quick trip round the show! It was really good to see everyone and our thanks go to all of you who stopped by to say hi (including some friends of yours Sander - but unfortunately I didn't get their names!). We met loads of interesting and friendly people who were very complimentary about our efforts which was nice!

Now those of you who have done show games will know that it is inevitable that something gets forgotten, and so it was yesterday. Unfortunately the "something" was charging my camera battery, so at the moment I have no photos to show you. But I did take some on my phone, and if I can work out how to post those I will! And lots of other people took pictures and I'm going to try to link up to those too.

Race to the Sea is almost ready!

We're off to Salute first thing in the morning - leaving home at a time a friend calls "O-dark-early"! The set is just about as finished as we can get it, and will hopefully look really good. No photos of the finished version until we get to Salute I'm afraid - it's kind of a tradition that we never, ever actually see the whole finished version of a set all laid out until we get to the show and do it! In fact this set is the first to properly fit into the shed as it's a 10x6 layout, so fairly small for us!

Anyway for those of you coming along tomorrow (and it's a real shame not to see you there Sander!) do come and find us, we are on table GB23 in the top left hand corner from the main doors.