Another shot of the Tabletop Teasers - but mainly just to show off the rather magnificent interior of Kelham Hall, the original venue for the Partizan shows:
Beautiful looking but a right pain to get trade stands and game set-ups in through the narrow corridors!
Race to the Sea 1914 - done logically in 2014. The setup at Salute:
The idea was that the germans advanced down the right hand side of the table, the French down the left hand side, both trying to reach the critical canal bridge in the sleepy little town of Dampf:
The Hun cheated with a little aerial recce:
And the French with those new fangled automobiles:
But the traditional methods of transport are the best:
Until the sneaky French blow the bridge:
And there was a personal connection with the 1914 campaign:
This was a DBA Campaign game played in a day, one of the big advantages of that rule system and run via the rather magnificent map created by Neanderthal:
Six DBA armies - Normans, Lombards, Papal Italians, Byzantines, Sicilian Saracens and Italian City States - fought for control of Italy:
And as often happened with some of our games, it moved from a Demo game to a Participation game as spectators got drawn in:
And while the various games were going on (I think we managed at least 6 in a day) the rest of the armies and spare scenery made for eye-candy:
Remember seeing both those games (the latter at Bovington). Excellent set-ups both.
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.) Baron Mannshed von Wreckedoften, First Sea Lord of the Bavarian Admiralty.