Anzac bay Lone Pine for Salute 2011

[legatushedlius]

I love the idea of doing some Gallipoli games but the terrain you need has always put me off.  I'm even more put off now!

Sometimes something is so good it just makes you give you up before you started!   It could be that this board actually stops people gaming this!

[tim1966]

Well I attended the show and the board was even more amazing in real life - particularly as it was covered in some lovely Gripping Beast figures. I had a chat with the guy who made it and he was very friendly and modest. One chap I heard talking to him had just come back from Gallipoli and said it captured it beautifully. Grab a copy of Wargames Illustrated 283 for lots of pictures.

On another positive note there were 4 or 5 other WW1 games there. A fantastic Kaiserlacht game by Whistable and Herne bay gamers club - very knowledge and friendly chaps - looks superb and shows what can be achieved by ordinary gamers working together - the troops where mainly plastic and looked superb. And cold tea for the watery mud in shellholes! There was also two nice early war games and some aerial games. All top notch.

Very enjoyable show and it has inspired me to buy some WW1 figures to paint up after nearly 20 years of only computer gaming.  

[6milPhil]

Good thing indeed then Tim. 

I'm not sure how but I missed this table, me and the lads where kicking ourselves when we realised.

[thejammedgatling]

Love to see some good pics of this and the other WW1 games. I saw a few of the Kaiserschlact game on the South London Warlords blog..but none of this one?

Can anyone post some for us Antipodeans and other hangers-on at the fringes of the Empire?

[WillieB]

A few hundred pictures here in three parts by Joe Dever.
At least half a dozen of the Gallipoli game as well.
It was simply breathtaking!

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