Conwy Wargames Club venue

Having left our previous venue after 14 years and tried out 3 new venues we've selected one as our preferred future meeting place. We've currently secured Creuddyn leisure centre for the last Sunday in each month 12 - 5 up to October and hopefully we can set something up longer term.

Being typical wargamers we worked out the biggest table we could set up which is probably bigger than all the terrain we all own put together.

The venue also has excellent parking for unloading toys and importantly excellent wheel chair access.

Battle Group Wacht Am Rhein book

I really like this new supplement for the Battle Group rules by Iron Fist publishing. It's a much thinner book than their usual tomes and soft back rather than hard back. However it is still packed full of photos and info. The reason it's thinner is that most of the army lists are already available in the Overlord book and the additional lists required to recreate battles in this campaign are in this book, with suitable reference to required lists if you want to use these forces.

Unlike other wargames scenarios I've seen I like that this book focused on the most used units and included these in the scenarios. This is not a book full of King Tigers romping through the woods, although it won't stop you playing these type of games. I own more Tigers of various models than I should.

I'm a big fan of the rules and books and I wasn't disappointed with this format and I look forward to the promised additional books covering other famous battles like those in Hungary and a firm favourite Operation Market Garden.  

10mm Dinosaur game

Mel put on an interesting 10mm dinosaur hunt game in May. One player controlled the carnivores and the other the herbivores. The aim of the game was simple avoid being eaten if you're a herbivore.

Everyone had fun with this quick game. To my shame I've forgotten the rules used, but I know Mel wants to add a points system to it so that it can work with multiple players rather than 2. The rules as it stand have the game end once a kill has been made.

The figures are from Magister Militum.