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Title: Fort Vaux at Crisis 2016
Post by: James Morris on 28 October 2016, 11:16:01 PM: I am very excited to be attending Crisis 2016 with my 'Inside Fort Vaux' game next weekend. Myself, Tom Webster-Deakin and Nick Eyre will be running participation games to commemorate the four-day battle inside the corridors of the fort in June 1916. The game is simple to pick up, works for 1-3 players, and takes about 40 minutes, so please drop by and give it a go. Hope to see you there.

We are just inside the door of Hall 2 on stand g06a04, listed as 'Newark Irregulars - Inside Fort Vaux'.

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Title: Re: Fort Vaux at Crisis 2016
Post by: Steam Flunky on 30 October 2016, 11:53:30 AM: Game looks great. Looking forward to seeing it next week.
Title: Re: Fort Vaux at Crisis 2016
Post by: skirmisher on 31 October 2016, 12:33:10 PM: Hear hear. Crisis will be my first wargame convention so if I'm not too overwhelmed by (big)"kid-in-chocolate-factory" excitement, I shall hopefully be able to enlist for a game.

Best of luck,

Warren
Title: Re: Fort Vaux at Crisis 2016
Post by: Steam Flunky on 06 November 2016, 01:31:05 PM: Your game looked fantastic on the table yesterday James, and it was nice to meet you.
Cheers
Robert
Title: Re: Fort Vaux at Crisis 2016
Post by: zizi666 on 06 November 2016, 03:42:43 PM: Wonderful table.
Glad I got to see it IRL and get some info on the subject by one you chaps.
Title: Re: Fort Vaux at Crisis 2016
Post by: Lardy Rich on 06 November 2016, 04:58:21 PM: I was lucky enough to be almost next to James and the lads, so I could ogle their superb looking game all day. Inspirational stuff indeed.

Rich
Title: Re: Fort Vaux at Crisis 2016
Post by: Admiral Benbow on 06 November 2016, 05:56:13 PM: Superb setup and game! Hope you've got a price ...!?
Title: Re: Fort Vaux at Crisis 2016
Post by: skirmisher on 06 November 2016, 09:42:39 PM: Thanks James for putting on such an enjoyable and visually spectacular game. Great rule mechanics and amazing models & terrain.

Cheers,

Warren
Title: Re: Fort Vaux at Crisis 2016
Post by: Finnegan on 07 November 2016, 05:45:59 PM: Great looking en enjoyable game. Even though my son beat me and took the fort on day 4. :(
Title: Re: Fort Vaux at Crisis 2016
Post by: James Morris on 07 November 2016, 06:11:58 PM: Quote from: Admiral Benbow on 06 November 2016, 05:56:13 PM
Superb setup and game! Hope you've got a price ...!?

Thanks! A price?
Title: Re: Fort Vaux at Crisis 2016
Post by: James Morris on 07 November 2016, 06:19:49 PM: Cheers everyone, it was super to be at such a friendly show. We ran about ten games for Belgian, Dutch, French, German and Irish gamers. The rules seemed to go down pretty well too.

We went onto Arras on Saturday night and walked the 1917 battlefield at Oppy Wood (next year's project planning), and I had the most unexpected bonus of finding a relative (my mum's great uncle) on the memorial to the missing in Arras. Further investigation (courtesy of Dan Mersey) showed that he had been in the Royal Flying Corps and was shot down by the Red Baron himself at the start of the offensive we were researching! We'll have to see if Great Uncle Reg can make an appearance in next year's game...
Title: Re: Fort Vaux at Crisis 2016
Post by: tomrommel1 on 08 November 2016, 09:57:23 AM: very nice game indeed but to my shame must say that I mist taking pictures!
Title: Re: Fort Vaux at Crisis 2016
Post by: WimVdB on 08 November 2016, 07:12:37 PM: Quote from: James Morris on 07 November 2016, 06:11:58 PM
Thanks! A price?

Probably meaning to say "do you won a price with the game?"

I have not played the game, but it looked fantastic!
I played To the Strongest in the morning (great ancients game by the way), and had to pick up some pre-ordered items and do some chatting with friends I hadn't seen for a while. So the day was a few hours too short...
Title: Re: Fort Vaux at Crisis 2016
Post by: James Morris on 08 November 2016, 07:55:18 PM: Quote from: tomrommel1 on 08 November 2016, 09:57:23 AM
very nice game indeed but to my shame must say that I mist taking pictures!

Wargames Illustrated has an article coming up about the game and how it was made; they took the shots in the dark and have really captured the feel of the model. I've seen the draft pages and I'm pretty pleased with the results. Should be in the magazine in January if you're interested.
Title: Re: Fort Vaux at Crisis 2016
Post by: James Morris on 08 November 2016, 07:58:33 PM: Quote from: WimVdB on 08 November 2016, 07:12:37 PM
Probably meaning to say "do you won a price with the game?"

I have not played the game, but it looked fantastic!
I played To the Strongest in the morning (great ancients game by the way), and had to pick up some pre-ordered items and do some chatting with friends I hadn't seen for a while. So the day was a few hours too short...

Ah! Did we win a prize? Afraid not, but there were many fantastic games there. Anyway the prizes were so big this year, we might have struggled to fit it in the car on the way home.😀

The To The Strongest game looked excellent- so many 15mm figures! Glad you enjoyed it, I like a bit of TtS too.
Title: Re: Fort Vaux at Crisis 2016
Post by: James Morris on 24 December 2016, 05:08:26 PM: The Fort Vaux game is featured in the January 2017 Wargames Illustrated (theme: extreme battlefields). We did a photo session in the dark to get that underground feeling and I'm delighted with the results - very atmospheric. Good work WI!
The 8-page article is mostly about modelling the fort.