Showing posts with label Salute. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Salute. Show all posts

Wednesday, 6 June 2018

Salute 2018.


The obligatory "post Salute post". Other Bloggers take more / much better pictures but here are a few of mine...better (very) late than never I suppose?

Pretty much as soon as we got into the hall, Robafett and I had already decided to make straight for the Crooked Dice demo tables as we always seem to turn up to late and they are already busy.

This time we got there early and dived into a demo of the new Post Apocalypse vehicle rules by Wayne Bollands, who was on hand to run it too! Morgan Nash was also about to assist and i managed to have a quick chat with Karl and Helena before trade things got too busy! 









A great game and I am very much looking forward to this one!

Took a handful of pics but I always tend to spend most of my time either shopping or chatting.






Our friends from the League of Gentlemen Anti Alchemists were of course in attendance with another splendid game 'The Biscoti War'.






All good fun and still the premier wargames event in the country, especially if you like shopping. Its all very busy and hectic so can be a bit frustrating at times, when you cannot seem to get to a stand and are in the way wherever you are. Having said that, it is still a great show with lots of miniature eye-candy on offer and a must on any wargamers list of shows to attend.

Wednesday, 23 April 2014

Salute 2014.


Better late than never!

Another good day at Salute - Rob and I managed to actually play a couple of games this year too, rather than just spending too much cash, which I probably did too...

First few shots are from the games we played - "Deads Army" run by the Peterborough Wargames Club and "Hell & High Water" (we called it "Hell Comes to Ducktown") by Fenris Games. Both were great fun.

"Deads Army" featured Otto Skorzeny raising the dead near Walmington on Sea only to be put down by Captain Mainwaring and his trusty Home Guard!

The evil Skorzeny raises the dead...

The unsuspecting sleepy suburb of Walmington.

Home Guard to arms!

"Don't Panic!" Jones is surrounded by the undead at the church!

For more on this and a write up of the game see Robafetts blog.

"Hell & High Water" took place in a Gloranthan style setting where a group of Heroes defend a dam protecting Ducktown from attack by the undead. The unlikely heroes featured two Ducks (one an archer, the other a warrior capable of warping into a Duckotaur) and a group of humans including a druid who could shift into a were-rabbit form upon the eating of magic mushrooms! Nobody said this would be an ordinary game!

The warriors held off the horde of undead, loosing one warrior and Tom 'Ruddy' the Duck archer saved the day on the last turn, taking out the only creature that had reached the dam and was close to pulling it down, just before the sun rose.

This was a superb game, simple to play with loads of character and originality with a beautiful board and wonderful figures.

Tom 'Ruddy' looks out from above the dam.
Tom 'Ruddy' - ace bowman!


The 'Duckotaur' attacks!

The 'Wererabbit' leaps into action.
Lastly, a few pics from some other games on the day. Unfortunately I didn't get too many pics this year, especially of the SEEMS game as I was too busy chatting and playing but hopefully Rob has a load more. 





Pics by wardyla.

Sunday, 21 April 2013

Salute 2013.


A few of us attended Salute at the Excel in London and it proved to be another good day. All the usual suspects were there but unfortunately there was not SEEMS representation this year. One of the centre-piece games was the South London Warlords own 'Fleeced' games tying in with the loose theme of the show, Jason and the Argonauts. The game looked great fun and was fought using 1/6 scale figures with amazing looking skeletons.

Jason battles skeletons!
Here are some more snaps of games from the day...

Gripping Beast / 4Ground's massive Viking Hall.

Nantwich Gamers - When Chaos Reigns Normandy 1944.

Nantwich Gamers - When Chaos Reigns Normandy 1944.





A particular favourite of mine was the 3D version of the classic Snits Revenge board game by Tom Wham, designer of The Awful Grenn Things From Outer Space.



Frothers United - Snits Revenge.

Frothers United - Snits Revenge.

Frothers United - Snits Revenge.

Frothers United - Snits Revenge.

Planet of the Apes...

Frothers United - Return to the Planet of the Apes.

Frothers United - Return to the Planet of the Apes.

...and some more sci-fi...

Red Planet Miniatures - War on Mars.

Red Planet Miniatures - War on Mars.

Blakes Seven.

Blakes Seven.

...and some VBCW...

Gentlemens Wargames Parlour - VBCW.

Gentlemens Wargames Parlour - VBCW.

Gentlemens Wargames Parlour - VBCW.

The day managed to slip away very quickly but I did spend more time just gawking at the amazing games and less shopping. I had some great chats with some of the guys running games and a very interesting discussion with the designer for Sarissa Precision - the new 'Gaslamp Alley' buildings are lovely and I can't wait to pick up some of these.

 I picked up the new Crooked Dice 7th Voyage book plus I added a few packs of the lovely Foundry Argonauts to my current handful from the Wargames Foundry stall and very nice they were too!

Check out Big Lee's site for much better photos and a proper review!