Pictures from Broadside 2013

We had a really good day on Sunday - if you came along to the show and said hello to us it was great to see you!

Broadside is certainly growing as a show, there was more space to move around than other shows of similar size and having the games and traders in two halls helped too. It was a very busy day, although we did manage to get a few turns of the game in too!

As well as gaming and chatting to other gamers shows are of course for buying, and I picked up some of the excellent Early War Minatures trenches. If you haven't seen these yet they are well worth checking out - you'll see more of them on the blog when they're done!

In the meantime, here's some more pictures of "Miracle of the Marne"

 

 

 

 

 

 

Broadside Sittingbourne

We are off this Sunday to the Broadside show, which is in the Swallows leisure centre in Sittingbourne Kent. This is a growing show that is getting bigger and better each year, and we are really looking forward to this year's show. If you are anywhere in the South East UK it is well worth a visit - last count they had nearly 40 traders and 19 games including ours of course! If you do come along, do stop by our game (which will be the Miracle of the Marne game of course) and say hi!

As ever I will post a report and photos after the show.

Pictures from Campaign 2013

We had a really enjoyable two days at Milton Keynes last week, and to those of you who came to see us at the show it was a pleasure to meet you!

As the show is in a shopping centre it is often difficult to tell who is a gamer and who is a member of the "general public". Awards for the daftest comments of the weekend go to one gentleman who, on looking at our game, spent about ten minutes explaining the American Civil War to his wife (ok, one side is in grey and the other in blue but that's as far as it goes!) and to another chap who asked us if our game was set in Vietnam! On the whole though we were very busy chatting to people and answering more sensible questions, and hopefully have done our bit to promote wargaming in general, and wargaming the Great War in particular, to the wider public.

We did get to play the game too, and unfortunately the Germans took a sound thrashing!

As promised here are a few photos from our game at the show.

 

 

 

 

Campaign at Milton Keynes

We are off this weekend to the Campaign show, which is held on both Saturday and Sunday in the middle of a shopping centre in Milton Keynes. We went to the same show last year and had a great time, so hopefully this year will be just as good! It's a very relaxed show, probably because it is in a shopping centre so there is lots for the wives to do while the gamers chat! The other bonus is that there is natural light coming in through a glass ceiling so its quite good for photos.

I will of course post an after show report with pictures next week!

Pictures from Salute 2013

Well we had a really busy day at Salute on Saturday! It certainly seemed to be busier than last year at the show and we met lots of people during the day. I'm posting a few photos of our Miracle of the Marne game below!

On our way to Salute 2013

All packed up now and ready for an early start in the morning to go to Excel London for Salute 2013. Our game this year, called "Miracle of the Marne" is loosely based on the battle for the village of Soizy-aux-Bois, which was fought over for two days in September 1914. And no, there won't be any taxis! That famous event took place in a small part of a very big battle that lasted nearly two weeks - and it's not the part we are using!

This year we decided not to post pictures of the game as we built it, but rather to launch it on an unexpecting Salute without preview! I will however post pictures after Salute (I can't promise to do them tomorrow as it's a very long day) of the game, and maybe some of how we built it as I did take some as we were working. Unlike last year I have remembered to charge my camera battery this time.

The other feature of the game is that it plays out the rule examples given in "Over by Christmas", so people will be able to see the examples being played through.

If any of you are going to Salute, do come along and say hello!

Over by Christmas is here!

Over by Christmas is here and ready for sale from right now!

Traders will have stocks in a little while, but in the meantime you can buy them directly from us if you would like to do so. As a special introductory offer we are selling Over by Christmas, Where the Poppies Grow and Tools of Victory at a cost of £14.00 for one copy, £25.00 for any two copies and £35.00 for all three, all plus p&p. You can contact us by email on crushthekaiser@yahoo.co.uk so don't delay!

Over by Christmas has lots of period flavour, and includes rules for trench catapults, improvised mortars and hand-grenades. In addition to detailed organisations for infantry, cavalry and artillery for British and Empire, French, Belgian and German Armies it includes details for all the aircraft in use in the early part of the war, and in some cases allows for troops to shoot at aircraft of their own side if they get too close!