Well onto the games, and some observations. There seemed to be a lot of Sci Fi, Fantasy, Steam Punk etc games this year, more than usual. I suppose Warlords have to try and cater for as many person as possible, and the future is probably in these games. Most were really well put together and had some wonderful scenery. I think some of the historical exhibitors should take a look at the competition and definitely up their game some what. Of the 50 or so historical games, I would reckon two thirds were okay for a night game, but come on people this is Salute so think about what you are trying to achieve, if anything.
Of the 30 or so Fantasy etc games I would say the majority had really gone for it, attempting to show off their hobby at its best.
Anyway onto some of the games. I have attempted where possible to include the table title etc to show who did what. This was a really well done game, and I have watched Simon putting together this game. I thought Id taken more photographs, but clearly not. This was a very fine game.
Reading Wargames group, put on a nice ACW game, it was very neat, and looked worth a bash.
Blitzkreig Miniatures put on two WW11 games, both were pure eye candy, with the terrain and models being beautifully painted.
See what I mean about Snow, clearly this was the must have on a game this year.But how well done is the scenery, this nearly made my best of show.
The Continental Wars Society also had a snow covered terrain, this time it was a large amount of kapok type fabric, effective, but it played havoc with the figures.
Conrad Cairns, looking pensive about the kapok.
The title says it all really. Big ships, big terrain, nice figures, a Ron Ringrose special.
This was a first rate game, with some excellent terrain, very effective and well presented.
This is the blogger Dallauppror's game, based around a Swedish medieval encounter. I had a good talk to Jan the guy who created the buildings, a very talented bunch of wargamers.
I knew this would happen. This was a particularly well done Warhammer game, using 3rd edition rules. The whole game was excellent. I can only apologise with the poor quality images.
Having now realised just how many photographs I actually took, I will create a third post to break up the report.
If yopu looked at the games list there were actually slightly fewer fantasy games than lst year- though not by many. Also many - perhaps most of the sci-Fant games werre put up by commercial companies to push their game (and possibly paid for by said companies bank !).
ReplyDeleteAt its best Fantasy can look very good - and shouldn't look samey- but somehow often does- usually because of a lack o background work - an assumption that we know what its about - this can go for historicals too- at least these days when so many don't seem to know their Archemenids from their Elbows !