Warfare

[joroas]

my bearer

Poor Phil, and after he raised the money to buy these enormous container loads of figures. 
No wonder he is in favour of plastics!

[Mors]

The beers not c**p any more, it's non existent. I needed a drink too after somewhat going over budget.

[joroas]

A good show, overall.  Spent loads, especially on Musketeer and Gripping Beast, loved the new Squire, school master and students and Scarecrow sets.   

Also saw the really nice VBCW game, the cloth cap and tank top were a nice touch. 

Met new friends, Jim Bibbly and Malamute and old ones, Yankee Pedlar and Phil Robinson.  Nice to put real faces to Avatars ............   

[Captain Blood]

Lest you doubt me, friends, a few snaps of the competition hall... There were 10 rows of tables like this 

Note the attractive groundcloths and irregular pieces of felt and even coloured paper (yes, real paper) serving as hills, woods and so on...

Quality.







All these chaps are, no doubt, decent fellows, entitled to enjoy their wargaming however they like...
I realise it is, to all intents and purposes (as was remarked to me) a different hobby... 

Compare and contrast a couple of the nicer display games that caught my eye...


The rather nice VBCW set up, Joroas mentions above...






An extremely beautiful Wild West skirmish game...






And a spectacular WW2 landing game complete with harbour...






Ah well... Each to their own, I suppose... 

[Ray Rivers]

It's probably how many of us started back in the days of WRG world domination. I certainly did. I'm just shocked by how many people are still stuck doing the same old thing and haven't moved on...

I did as well.

10 tables, heh?   

Holy Moly!

[joroas]

Nice piccies, I think you caught the flavour of the gaming? hall ( The Good, The Bad and The Ugly). 
I was so impressed by the VBCW game that I went and bought that Hovels church........... 

[Silent Invader]

Fascinating photos.  The wild west game looks luscious.  Interesting pics of the comp games.  Presumably such wargaming is mostly about winning (obviously it's not about the terrain!).  As had been observed previously, it is distinctly different to the adventure type gaming (story-telling with miniatures, some rules and a dose of chance) that tends to be played by LAFers.  I'd sometimes wondered why LAF doesn't have a bigger membership and now, maybe, I now why: it seems a lot of wargamers just aren't interested in the peripheral stuff that permeates this forum.  Each to their own, of course.

[Westfalia Chris]

I have to admit that when our then group used to play a lot of Warhammer Ancient Battles and Warhammer Panzer Battles, our chief objective was to have an exciting battle (and usually it ended with everybody routing, tanks/elephants burning to the left and right, and a great time was had by all).

We usually compromised in that we had area markers for woodland, onto which tree bases (with structured surface and all) were placed, and proper (if a bit terraced) hills just so that movement of the regiments wasn't such a bloody hassle. Given that nowadays I've drifted more towards skirmish games, I guess I'd rather go for the sculpted terrain if I had the storage space.

But the above is sad. Really. Rather than play like that, I'd even play real time strategy computer games.

[Keith]

Had a great weekend, everyone seemed to be having a good time. Met the rather excellent Mr and Mrs JimBibbly (who are both very bad people and as a result I have started an unplanned Japan project  ) and Mr Malamute, who is a gentleman and a scholar to be sure. I've a suspicion that I've also met lots of other forumites this weekend but they didn't seem to look like their avatars so I'm not sure.

[joroas]

I've a suspicion that I've also met lots of other forumites this weekend but they didn't seem to look like their avatars so I'm not sure.

I was there on Sunday and saw no-one wearing a fez either!  

[OSHIROmodels]

There were a couple of Gandalf look-a-likes though 

Good show for me and a pleasure to meet fellow LAFers for the first time and of course meeting the usual trouble makers 

cheers

James

[elysium64]

Unfortunately I didn't make it due to a stomach bug

[Malamute]

Yep it was good to meet  both new and old friends, sorry I missed Yankeepedlar and his bearer though...
And for the first time ever I went home without purchasing anything not sure how that happened!

[Hammers]

An extremely beautiful Wild West skirmish game...


 

Oh, aye...! Is that teddy bear fur used to such nice effect again? If it is, to hell with the boys, I am skinning their cuddly animals. They are almost 1 and 3 years anyway and it is time they toughen up!

[Malamute]

Yep it was teddy bear fur and it suited the figures which are 54mm not 28mm.