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The Other Partizan 2024, Trojan War, Durham Wargames Group

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2024 8:24 am
by Atheling_2006
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And so it came to be; The Other Partizan and Durham Wargames Group's valiant effort at pulling off a small piece of Homer's epic with the Siege of Troy, or rather the battle as the Greeks made their first assault.
Normally at Partizan I would be running around taking pictures of games that particularly struck me as eye catching, dramatic, epic etc. but thanks to an eight hour rowing couple directly above me in the B&B, the dizziness and exhaustion that ensued etc I was unable to find the energy nor mettle to push onward with my camera and capture the show in pixels to share with you lot. I do apologise for this situation; the blame lies firmly with the rowing couple and the management of the B&B who's only response was "sorry dude!" and a flimsy promise that they would contact booking dot com! Farse. Mucho apologies to everyone who put such wonderful games on deserved every pixel of coverage and of whom I didn't manage to get around to taking any snaps due to exhaustion and dizziness!

OK, back to the toys! The actual city of Troy had been hanging out on a shelf at our club for as long as I can remember but was in need of some serious refurbishment to make it ready for the game. Given the age of the model and a good refresh it did really well to act as a centre piece for the game and is still, to this day, an amazing construction as a model made to the standards of Ian Weekly of yesteryear.

The battle started out with a clash between the main protagonists, Menelaus, Achilles, Patroclus, Hector etc battling it out to raise the morale of their armies. As per history, Hector fought Ajax and won, Hector fought Menelaus and won, Hector then fought Achilles and lost then Paris shot Achilles in the heal and he died which gave the Trojans an extra main Character with the Greeks lost 3 Characters to the Trojans single chap!

The battle then began in earnest with the Greeks smashing the Trojans. Needless to say, the wooden horse did not remain on the beach but was scavenged and taken home!

I'm limited to the number of images I can place in most posts on any given forum so for more images of the game please hop on over to my Just Add Water Blog here:
https://justaddwater-bedford.blogspot.c ... n-war.html


Here's a few tasters:
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Re: The Other Partizan 2024, Trojan War, Durham Wargames Group

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2024 9:41 am
by Willz the Wargamer
Fantastic.


Willz.

Re: The Other Partizan 2024, Trojan War, Durham Wargames Group

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2024 10:25 am
by tim.w
Looks epic. I missed such a good show! I had plans to pop down but was full of cold. I'll have to make do with Leeds.

Re: The Other Partizan 2024, Trojan War, Durham Wargames Group

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2024 11:05 am
by Spanner
Very impressive, mate. Comment left on the blog.

Re: The Other Partizan 2024, Trojan War, Durham Wargames Group

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2024 3:19 pm
by Atheling_2006
Thank you guys- very much appreciated. :)

Re: The Other Partizan 2024, Trojan War, Durham Wargames Group

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2024 3:57 pm
by Count Belisarius
Excellent looking game!

Re: The Other Partizan 2024, Trojan War, Durham Wargames Group

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2024 7:08 pm
by MarshalNey
Looks good ! :)

Re: The Other Partizan 2024, Trojan War, Durham Wargames Group

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2024 7:53 am
by Atheling_2006
Cheers guys. :)

It was great fun despite the hotel shenanigans!

Re: The Other Partizan 2024, Trojan War, Durham Wargames Group

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2024 11:21 am
by World2dave
That looks excellent! I couldn't make the show which was a right pain, as it looked like there were a number of very impressive games

Re: The Other Partizan 2024, Trojan War, Durham Wargames Group

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2024 12:11 pm
by Atheling_2006
World2dave wrote: Fri Oct 18, 2024 11:21 am That looks excellent! I couldn't make the show which was a right pain, as it looked like there were a number of very impressive games
It's crazy...... at every PartizAn show, the games just keep getting better and better. For me, it's an attend at all costs as a lot of my friends will be there, the games are always amazing and (weirdly) I rarely ever spend any money due to being so busy! :-D