Title: Re: How many places have you played wargames?
Post by: Leman on July 03, 2019, 09:26:15 PM
By places I am assuming you mean towns/cities. For me it is:
Llandudno Penmaenmawr Liverpool St Helens Formby Hoylake Reading Newbury Clevedon Oxford Abingdon
Some of those places only once or twice, others dozens of times.
Title: Re: How many places have you played wargames?
Post by: Deflatermouse on July 03, 2019, 09:54:44 PM
I've been lucky to play games in Brisbane Bundaberg Sydney London Reading Peterborough Edinburgh Glasgow Dunedin Whangarei KeriKeri Palmerston North
I have visited Game stores throughout the world but havn't always been able to get a game in (time restrictions etc)
Title: Re: How many places have you played wargames?
Post by: Muzfish4 on July 04, 2019, 06:20:48 AM
A few:
Sydney Wollongong Canberra Yass Kochi City (Japan) Durham (UK)
I too like to visit games shops when I travel.
Title: Re: How many places have you played wargames?
Post by: MartinR on July 04, 2019, 06:48:43 AM
What a strange thread! But here goes...
London Harpenden St Albans Sheffield Luton Mansfield Newark Irchester Shrivenham Milton Keynes Fort Southwick (Southampton) The old nuclear bunker in Essex whose precise location escapes me Leeds Chesterfield
Title: Re: How many places have you played wargames?
Post by: Lord Raglan on July 04, 2019, 08:04:58 AM
Title: Re: How many places have you played wargames?
Post by: tin shed gamer on July 04, 2019, 08:23:48 AM
I genuinely don't know .I've been gaming for over thirty years . But I suspect if you broaden your definition of locations to include people's homes and show participation games. You'll be well past 200 locations. I mentioned this to the Mrs and she clearly stated it was bad enough been dragged round museums on holiday.If I thought I was going to toddle off to play with toys on Her holiday . Then I could expect my anatomy to be radically altered with a rusty spoon. So even if I could list every where I'd gamed. The last 23 years would not include anywhere exotic or near a beach lol
Title: Re: How many places have you played wargames?
Post by: Muzfish4 on July 04, 2019, 08:24:28 AM
I studied there for a year and really had a great time. So, yes, a definite highlight.
Title: Re: How many places have you played wargames?
Post by: Harry Faversham on July 04, 2019, 10:11:08 AM
Once played in the middle of the North Sea.
:)
Title: Re: How many places have you played wargames?
Post by: Daeothar on July 04, 2019, 10:49:31 AM
Even though I've been gaming for almost 30 years now, when it comes to towns/cities, there's really not much variation. I usually play(ed) at my regular club (of the time), at my place or a mate's. I'm by no means a traveling gamer.
I mean; I travel, but much like Tin Shed Gamer up there, I'd rather avoid the (proverbial? I hope so) rusty spoon, and leave my gaming gear at home when going on vacation.
Story time:
Because the entire idea invokes a memory of this one saturday afternoon (somewhere 2003-ish?); I was browsing the GW blister racks at my local gaming store. I wasn't actively gaming at the time, just collecting and painting, and the local gaming community was largely unknown to me.
There were some young guys chatting about their 40K armies (one was a part-time staff member at the store), and in comes this slightly older guy, carrying two GW figure cases and proudly wearing his geek-aura as if it were a suit of power armour. I swear he had a bit of a swagger to him. They obviously knew each other, and from the deferential way the youngsters were treating him, I deducted he was the local gaming club's (grizzled?) veteran.
I couldn't help but tune in on their conversation whilst scanning the racks of miniature blisters. A conversation was struck up, detailing some stuff I forgot, but some of it had to do with the previous gaming night, in which the veteran had completely trounced some other gamer. They then discussed an upcoming tournament, which they wanted to attend. Then came the question if the veteran was going to play today. And the answer was; 'No, I'm going to (insert out of town location here; he was old enough to own a car), to play a 2000pt game.' (Much oohing and aahing) 'Yeah... it's 2nd ed' (More oohing and aahing; this was when 3rd ed 40K had been current for 5 years).
And at that, I got this image in my head of the guy; working a mindnumbing, low-tier job during the week, but in the weekend, he became some sort of traveling wargames ronin, roaming the land far and wide with his miniature cases, looking for worthy opponents to defeat.
(I later joined the local club, and even though he was the club's veteran who won almost every game, I kind of liked the guy. Disappointingly, he was no traveling wargames ronin; his meetup had been much more mundane. Also; I eventually ended up pitting my Dark Angels against his Night Lords and won... :D ).
So yeah; I'm more of a local gamer and my location list is therefore quite short:
Breda Tilburg Rhenen Leiden Utrecht Amsterdam Maastricht Zwolle Birmingham (yes; the UK one lol )
Title: Re: How many places have you played wargames?
Post by: pogo on July 04, 2019, 01:34:09 PM
Belgium : Brussels, Gent, Kortrijk Netherlands : Utrecht France : Paris, Metz, Lille, Amiens, Lingolsheim, Nice... Spain : Barcelona, Sevilla Portugal : Lisbon Italy : Pisa, Milan Greece : Athens Sweden : Stockholm Finland : Helsinki Ireland : Dublin United Kingdom : Derby, Epsom, Canterbury, Chalgrove, Dunstable
Alex
Title: Re: How many places have you played wargames?
Post by: Jemima Fawr on July 04, 2019, 05:17:39 PM
Good Lord, that's got me thinking...
Narberth (my home town) Clunderwen (my house) Pembroke Dock (WASP - my first wargames club) Pembroke (my old flat) Pennar (mate's house) Carmarthen (Carmarthen Old Guard) Swansea (Swansea Wargames Club) London (Salute and running mega-games at the National Army Museum) Reading (Armageddon, Colours and Warfare) Walsall (WMMMS) Wolverhampton (WMMMS 2nd venue) Kelham (Partizan) Newark (Partizan 2nd venue) Bovington Tank Museum (Battlegroup South) Eastbourne (To The Redoubt) Birmingham (Warcon) Shrewsbury (a show I've forgotten the name of) Builth Wells (a multi-hobby show at the Royal Welsh Showground) Ottawa (university wargames club) Kingston (Royal Military College wargames club) RAF Cranwell (wargames club) RAF Waddington (wargames club) RAF Brawdy (with mates) RAF Pembrey Sands (with minions) RAF St Athan (with minions) MoD Aberporth (with minions) RAF Brueggen (with mates) RAF Lyneham (wargames club) Whitland (with minions) Neath (with minions) Tenby (with minions) Penally (with minions) St David's (with minions) Llanelli (with minions) Fishguard (Battle of Fishguard commemoration) Trefin (mate's houses) Haverfordwest (model show) Cardiff (forgotten model and wargaming shows) Penarth (Crusade) South Mimms Services M25 (mega-game event) Bayeux (with minions) Derby (Assembly Rooms wargames show) Bristol (forgotten wargames show) Calne (mate's house) Cowbridge (mate's house) Pencoed (mate's house) Swindon (forgotten wargames show) Scarborough (Wargames Holiday Centre) Yeovilton (the great John Tuckey's house) Marston Magna (wargames show) Newbury (the old wargames show and Colours 2nd venue) Worcester (wargames club) Kilgetty (mate's house) A village in Herefordshire (VBCW mega-game)
Well that's 53... I'm sure there must be others... :)
Title: Re: How many places have you played wargames?
Post by: Jemima Fawr on July 04, 2019, 05:18:34 PM
(Wake up at the back!)
Title: Re: How many places have you played wargames?
Post by: warrenpeace on July 04, 2019, 09:06:06 PM
New Mexico: Albuquerque
California: San Francisco Sacramento
Oregon: Roseburg (2) Glide Eugene Albany Salem (2) West Salem McMinnville Hillsboro (3) Beaverton Portland (3)
Washington: Olympia
Title: Re: How many places have you played wargames?
Post by: Dave Knight on July 05, 2019, 08:19:45 PM
My 100 was individual venues but includes 17 (old school) counties in England, 13 in Scotland, a Swiss Canton and Portugese district. Probably about 70 different towns.
I never game on a proper holiday and take a 2 week break over Christmas. On a few wargaming trips my wife has decided to come along (with the dog) so those turn into long weekends with a wargaming element. Castles and museums are fair game on holiday though
Title: Re: How many places have you played wargames?
Post by: Elbows on July 06, 2019, 12:25:10 AM
Honestly don't think I've gamed that many places...but let me think.
Virginia: Woodbridge Springfield Fairfax Drake's Branch North Carolina: Charlotte Raleigh
Georgia: Savannah Augusta
South Carolina: Charleston Rock Hill Pennsylvania: Lancaster Wisconsin: Waukesha
Title: Re: How many places have you played wargames?
Post by: Sterling Moose on July 06, 2019, 02:40:41 AM
OK I'll play:
Plaistow (My house) London (Model Engineer Exhibition - various venues, Salute - various venues) East Ham (Mates house every Saturday) Manor Park (Basement of Wall Models, later New Model Army) Ilford (Rampage) Harlow (Wargames club) Loughton (Broadsword?) Colchester (Mate's house) Muenster (Wargames club) Bielefeld (Wargames club) Detmold (Wargames club) Herford (Wargames club) Dulmen (Wargames club) Nienburg (Action) Celle (Action) CFB Suffield (Gaming club) Medicine Hat (Gaming club - Star Fleet Battles was all the rage) Edmonton (Motel - Xmas 1988 - copious games of Wooden ships & Iron Men) RAF Gatow (Wargames Club - Berlin) Gutersloh (Action) Fallingbostel (Wargames Club) Hohne (Wargames Club) Mulheim (Mate's house) Waterbeach (Wargames Club) Milton (Gaming Club) Osnabruck (Wargames Club) Paderborn (Wargames Club) Rheindahlen (Action - various years) Pristina (Wargames Club) Crystal Palace (SELWG) Stratford (Mate's house x 2 plus Hotlead - Canada's finest gaming convention) Strathroy (Mate's house) Calgary (Uncle Mike's house) Hamilton (Broadsword) Lancaster (Fall In, Cold Wars & Historicon) Gettysburg (Fall In)
Plus some I've probably forgotten. So that's 36 places in 5 countries.
How the years have flown :D
Title: Re: How many places have you played wargames?
Post by: Mindenbrush on July 13, 2019, 01:25:47 PM