Smoggycon 2010

[Gandalf]

Smoggycon 2010, Middlesbrough Gamers Club's annual show will be held between 10.00 am and 4.00 pm at Southlands Leisure Centre, Ormesby Road, Middlesbrough, England TS3 0HG on Saturday 27th November.

Entry is a recession busting £1!

Free parking is available in the public car park of the Leisure Centre.

Bring & Buy
Trade stalls
Participation & demonstration games
Competitions & tournaments
Refreshments including a licensed bar

Pictures of Smoggycon 2009 and more information about this year's show is available though the Middlesbrough Gamers Club website at http://www.m-gc.co.uk/cms/page.php?3 The site will be brought completely up to date when our web bloke returns from holiday (honestly)

Competitions, Participation and Demonstration Games

Beyond Monopoly/Newcastle Gamers
Beyond Monopoly and Newcastle Gamers will be showcasing some popular and innovative board games.  All are welcome to participate.

Northern ASL Group
Following their marathon Advanced Squad Leader games last year, Northern ASL will be demonstrating Napoleon’s Triumph, a board game recreation of the Battle of Austerlitz.

Tyneside Wargames Club
All are welcome to take part in Tyneside Wargames Group’s Crimean War table top game using 15mm figures.

Redcar Ironbeards
Allegedly inspired by Orky Races, a Middlesbrough Gamers Club participation game at Paradeground many years ago, Redcar Iron Beards will be encouraging people to take part in the thrills and spills of Bike GP, an exciting Warhammer 40,000 race participation game.

Critical Mass Games
Critical Mass Games will be showcasing their extensive range of 15mm Sci Fi miniatures, vehicles and terrain in a series of free to enter participation games throughout the day.

Games of War
Yvonne and Allan Merchant will be demonstrating some of their superbly produced scenery and figures.

Middlesbrough Gamers Club
All are welcome to take part in this epic Romans vs Celts Warhammer Ancients battle using figures recently painted for the club by Paul McGarrell.

Middlesbrough Gamers Club HeroClix Competition
Paul Spencelayh, Steve Date and Simon Swinbank from Middlesbrough Gamers Club will be running a HeroClix participation game throughout the day in the Sports Hall where anyone without prior experience can come along and try out HeroClix and battle with a team of comic book Superheroes.
Competition Entry is free to all on a first come, first served basis.
In addition, from 1.00pm Paul will also be running a three round, tournament style player vs player game for all comers.
Participation prizes will be awarded for good sportsmanship etc at Paul’s discretion.

Middlesbrough Gamers Club
A true ground scale World War II skirmish game by Allan Rudd and Sean Dillon using 10mm figures set just after D-Day 1944.

Northumbrian Adventurers Guild
Free to enter Flames of War participation games set in World War II using 15mm figures.

Border Reivers
A 28mm skirmish demonstration of a Very British Civil War, what might have happened during the Abdication Crisis in 1938 with Britain and its Empire breaking up into factions such as the Anglican League, Liverpool Free State and the Army of the Scottish Republic.

iacta alea est
Ian Robinson’s 1:900 scale naval demonstration game of canny Caribbean merchants trying to avoid the clutches of rapacious pirates.

Durham Wargames Group
Following their huge Battle of Novara game last year, Durham Wargames Group will be demonstrating a 28mm Pirate game on a grand scale.

Generals and Kings
A 28mm Napoleonic demonstration game of “What if...” at Quatre Bras in 1815.

Russell Marwood
Russell will be demonstrating one of his beautifully produced 15mm fantasy games.

Redcar Rebels
Graham Cummings and Leigh Brewster will be demonstrating a 28mm American War of Independence game using the Perfect Captain rules.

Traders attending include:

Battlefield Live: Modern Warfare
Blue Rat Games
Caliver Books
Charlie Whitehouse
Critical Mass Games
Dave Thomas
David Lanchester Books
Durham Pals
Figures in Comfort
Four A Miniatures
Games of War
Gamingfigures.com
Gateshead Gaming
GB & SD Hobbies
Graham Cummings
Grubby Tanks
Hasslefree Miniatures
Ironclad Miniatures
Irregular Miniatures
Lesley's Bits Box
Mantic Games
Minibits
MTFG Hobbies
Mutineer Miniatures
Northumbria Games
Old Glory Corporation
Paul McGarrell
Pendraken
Rathbone Games
Rif Raf Miniatures
Rubicon Scenics
SHQ Miniatures
Solway Crafts and Miniatures
Stafford Games
The Signalman
Tumbling Dice
Under the Bed Enterprises
Warbases
Wargames Emporium
Wargames Recon Magazine
Worley Books

[TheMightyFlip]

Anyone else going?

[voltan]

yup

Though my spending may be determined by the bring and buy 

[Gandalf]

The web bloke has returned and the website is now up to date.
Any errors and omissions are now down to me 
http://www.m-gc.co.uk/smoggycon/index.html

[bc99]

I was so hoping this was going to be in Southern California. =/

Oh well, wish I had the money and lifestyle to go on a tour of gaming across the world. This looks like a great set up.

[Gandalf]

Southern California or Middlesbrough?  I know where I'd prefer to be organising the show!  

[Red Orc]

 

Have a lovely one, Gandalf, Mightyflip, Voltan, Manic Miner and all!

[Gandalf]

Unfortunately, due to problems with transport and other commitments, Solway Crafts and Miniatures will not be able to attend Smoggycon this year.

[TheMightyFlip]

So who's up for a LaFers meet up?

[voltan]

I hope they don't close the A66 over Stainmore this weekend with the snow, don't fancy taking the scenic route to the show.

[Red Orc]

I think we all know that it will be. I thought the A66 was the scenic route?

As an aside, my dad once closed the A66... about 20 years ago when he was working for the Nortern Echo, there was bad snowfall and the next day he was putting the front page together ('Snap Freeze causes Travel Chaos' kinda thing) and he lied and said the police had closed the A66. They hadn't, but only because the guy whose job it was to close the road hadn't been able to get to work because of the bad weather... actually that last bit is made up. The police hadn't officially announced that the A66 was closed but we all knew it should have been.

[voltan]

Had figured it would be closed   just don't like having an extra hour or so on my journey each way,

and I'd be up for a meet, but make no guarentees to remebering about it 

[Red Orc]

Where you coming from Voltan? Carlisle? I guess A69/A68 isn't going to be a whole lot better, if it keeps up like this you'd be best off going all the way to Newcastle and going A1 or A19 I'd reckon.

Good luck anyway! And to everyone else trying to get to the 'Boro this weekend!

[voltan]

From Penrith, last year it was so easy, follow the 66 till the transporter bridge.

Was planning to go A69,then A1 as it seemed simplest 

[manic _miner]

 Looking forward to this show.It will be the first time I have a table booked.Just hope the snow holds off until sunday.I will aslo have some of the Relic's miniatures for sale at the show.