I made the long trip south for what is the premier wargame show in the UK, Partizan. It is held at the Newark Showground, a fine venue with good car parking. It was packed, but the queue was reduced fairly quickly.
Partizan is primarily a show for great games. From the big eye candy spectacular, to lots of smaller games, you can spend half an hour or so enjoying. Most of the main traders were there as well (43 of them), and they seemed to be doing well, as did the societies and the author's corner.
There were about 70 games, and although I had most of the day, I didn't attend all of them.
The Siege of Lucknow was the first big game to greet me in the main hall. Terrific job on the scenery.
Wings of Glory is always a popular participation game.
I think this was a Bolt Action game, but the work on the street scenes was very good.
I loved the use of Playmobil or similar figures in this game.
A good example of a smaller game. Tyrolean revolt.
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Charlie Don't Surf Vietnam town scene was superb.
I had a good chat with Simon Miller, who was running a War of the Spanish Succession mega game for his forthcoming Lust for Glory rules, which we have been playtesting.
Wargames Illustrated has a lovely temple scene for their Assassins and Templars game.
One of several ACW games.
British Grenadier is an old rule set, but still played.
Eastern Front Bolt Action, if that isn't too obvious. Too obvious for me, apparently, as it turns out, it was St Vith during the Battle of the Bulge.
Border Reivers using Ruckus rules. A fine setting.
The Wild Geese is still encouraging games, 50 years after the film came out.
Samurai, with a very nice fortress.
This is a new set of Napoleonic naval rules in development. Looks very interesting.
Quality table for a WW1 trench raid.
The mad baron is always an excuse for an RCW spin-off game. Excellent table.
As I have been busy painting pre-SYW Austrians, this Austrian v Prussian SYW game was superb. Lots of well-painted figures and a great castle or Schloss.
Rorke's Drift with a more realistic size final redoubt than you usually see.
Battle of Lewes using Midgard rules.
A little bit of Arnhem in Newark. Chain of Command.
Great show, well organised, and well worth the trip. I didn't buy a lot, but met up with lots of old friends and had some good chats.
The bolt action game which you have tagged as the eastern front was actually if you’d read all the information at the end of the table was around st Vith during the battle of the bulge and there wasn’t a Russian insight.
ReplyDeleteMy apologies. I missed that.
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