The Loose Association of Wargamers

valleyboy wrote: ↑Sun May 20, 2018 9:01 pm Good to see you all even though I was probably a bit distracted trying to take it all in
As I told those that I met - I found myself 7th in the queue and raced immediately to Dave Thomas' stand where I manged to get most of what I wanted

Bought quite a few other things including BUF from Footsore and some warbases stuff and more paint
Had a really good time....................

I came, I saw and I Purchasededeededed

Does Mrs Buff know about this?

A great day out and of course great to see those I met on the day.

Purchases – two cheap books, three bottles of Vallejo paint and some brush restorer. Every time I looked at the blisters of Foundry and Perry I kind of got this giddly 'that looks like a lot of work' feeling that stopped as soon as I stepped back.

Did anybody see a game called Spitfires that was a fantasy air combat game that had creatures flying eagle like beasts. I ask as I can't recall the company who made this game but I really liked the mat they were playing over. It was mouse mat material that had puffy clouds over English style landscape. I'd like to know where they got it.

I have a friend who works for one of the vintage aviation companies and I'm thinking of asking him if they still have a plane fitted up with a camera…

Very tempted to get into the Sails of Glory until I discovered the shocking prices… I think I'll stick with modifying GHQ.

the fantasy game was Spitfyre by Hysterical Games. I suspect the map was one of the standard aerial ones by one of the mat companies e.g Tiny but there are others too http://www.tinywargames.co.uk/wings

I vaguely recall that the mat might've been a cigar box battles one

A great day out - where else could you
- meet a fellow Baron, a Count, a purveyor of biscuits, a goat handler, two Welshman from opposite ends of the earth, a fellow ex-Wimbledonian/spiritual Yorkshireman, an artist (non-piss variety), a former CO of the 24th Foot (not Welsh),
- buy three different manufacturers' 28mm Norman archers,
- manage to spend more cash than you thought you had actually brought with you (and yet still have some left over),
- AND win the battle of Germantown despite your Foot Guards being routed by militia*?

* Apologies to anyone who came up and tried to talk to me around the time this happened and found me even less "chatty" than usual, but I was having a very difficult time with some highly unco-operative dice. For the second day in a row.

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Mon May 21, 2018 1:21 pm
despite your Foot Guards being routed by militia*?

I thought they had made sure you weren't allowed near any elite troops ?

Thanks for help identifying the mat. I'll take a look.

goat major wrote: ↑Mon May 21, 2018 1:24 pm I thought they had made sure you weren't allowed near any elite troops ?

Bit difficult with a British AWI army.