Post Salute post

hi all

An off schedule, very quick, rough and ready Post salute post (I'll leave the dissection of the day to the experts). This was my first major show and what a show it was! I don't remember who did what and I'm just going to post a load of pictures of the demo games of which there were loads, all of good to excellent quality and the ones that I played were fun including Bushido which, despite my recent posts was my first game of it! It was awesome and I'm glad I got a faction before, I also bought a second faction immediately after playing which will be featured as and when I get them done (I still have a few more posts from my Temple of Ro-Kan faction yet). I also played Wacky Races based on the cartoon from the 70's - loads of fun! And a 54mm Napoleonic game by Victrix - the minis were amazing. 

I managed to spend a ton of cash, although I could have spent a ton more! The discounts I got were amazing all on games I wanted to spend money on - no frivolous spends for me. As well as a new Bushido faction I grabbed the Saga rule set, a game I've had my eye on for years, an Anglo-Saxon starter set and accessories. With Rich and Chris also buying Saga stuff it looks like a little project is forming with each of the guys promising to contribute their Saga saga (!) to this blog, something to look forward to I hope.

Anyway the first pic is of all the swag I grabbed from the show including Saga, Bushido, Hasslefree and bizarrely some kangaroos....... The rest is of the demo games and the last is a pic of the nerdy travellers

my swag, ignore the tray at the top, that's a build project i'm working on 

Bushido - demo walk through

a sci-fi/steampunk nautical game

a massive Napoleonic, the board was a spray-painted rug and looked superb as flowing meadow grass

A huge Halo participation game

this looked amazing (can't remember the game though)

54mm Victrix Napoleonic

Team Yankee,  no different to Flames of war I guess

something to do with the Congo I think

Gates of Antares

GW - boo, hiss!! actually this was one of the most lacklustre games.....

ACW - Warlord (I think)

this was a mix of all sorts of models/manufacturers

dropzone (I think)

the bridge of the starship enterprise

a steampunk game, not sure of manufacturer

each pod on this scratchbuilt ship was a dropzone tank!

an Indian railway skirmish

Pike and Shot

Battlestar Galactica!!!! oh yes it was!!!

Wacky Races

A Vietnam game (not sure which)

Lion Rampant

Nerds Assemble!!  For those that don't know I'm front and centre

Enjoy

dGG

Ps my apologies to my fellow bloggers, I missed the meet. I was there I promise but for some reason never connected, i guess it doesn't help not knowing what you guys look like in the flesh. Maybe next year! i'll wear a red carnation instead of my Zombie t-shirt....