Had a lovely day out at the Derby World Wargames Show was a nice venue at Castle Donington International Exhibition Centre . Two day event running today and tomorrow. Plenty of free parking and the hall was spacious with and well laid out and easy to navigate. It has a nice cafe and good toilet facilities. I got to have a good nosy around and look at a lot of cool figures, vehicles and terrain. There was huge amount of traders though having got home could kick myself as I missed one trader whose wares I wanted to look at but that was my own fault as there was a lot of shiny on display around it I got side tracked.
I managed to snag a few photos of games not as many as I planned but I'll get better at this show report the more I go to :)
I got to meet a few bloggers and friends from facebook as well which was just awesome to meet people in the flesh. Met up with
Shadowking and
Doctor Warlock at midday at the Ainsty Castings stand and had a good natter and picked up the very first metal castings of The Mutts for S.D.Z.A. Also did a Chocolate Hob Nob supply drop over to the Tor Gaming stand and got to meet up with Gavin Moorcroft the creator of Relics and I got to look at a lot of the figs in the flesh and can't wait to get my stuff from the gamefunder earlier in the year I have the rulebook and a few figs to have a play with need to have a read of the rulebook and decide on an army!
A Few games that caught my eye. There were tons of demo games and displays. I think there was some tournaments on down one end of the hall there seemed to be a wide variety of games going on down there as well.
Rick Priestly was hosting a demo game of Gates of Antares which the kickstarter got cancelled last year but is still in the works obviously. It looked pretty good the Aliens and some of the characters look decent. Judging by the dice it seems like it borrows some of Bolt Actions mechanics but coming both coming from Warlod that's not surprising.
I have got home and forgotten what this game was looks like it was American War of Independance and I've seen it before on other peoples blogs. It was very impressive and the next three photos are a sweep of the table from left to right.
A small demo board of Dead Mans Hand by Great Escape games (I Think) it looked really cool though especially the hangman's gibbet in the lower left corner.
e show was quite varied for me I picked up a few paints and inks and some figures for several projects.
Wolfen Jagers for Empire of the Dead
Studio and Hasslefree miniatures survivors for various games
Hansa Nairoba, Freeborn Mercenary Captain (Just because I like the figure)
Free sprue of Warlord French Light Infantry and some bases from Wargames Tournaments (These came in the free bag that was handed over on entry)
It was a great turn out I shall definitely be going again next year
