The Megalomaniac (Mwhaha)

Sunday, 17 May 2015

2015-05-16 Sheffield Triples

I picked up Dave and drove over to Mel's and swapped cars and Mel kindly drove us all to Sheffield. I managed to get some great bargains which I'll post about later, and all in all we enjoyed ourselves. I thought the show was a lot quieter than I'd seen it for a while. I was surprised how easy it was to park, normally I am on the grass but we managed to park in the carpark across the way. The bring an buy was poor but there were lots of traders and the standard of games was very good this year in my opinion.

So what inspirational delights did I get to see...

Wargames Development Coastal Command participation game

28mm Rorkes Drift participation game by Rotherham Wargames Society

British Legion Charity participation game 28mm Rorkes Drift

28mm Hougoumont game by L'ordre Mixte club. I loved this as I have the same Hovels Hougoumont models and have yet to use it as Hougoumont! Plus I have an ancestor who was with the 2nd Guards in the Great Orchard.

28mm Hougoumont game by L'ordre Mixte club

15mm D-Day, one of the British beaches

ABW Irregulars presented a 28mm Dalek Invasion game using Battle Systems card terrain for the interior and old Citadel Daleks and Ainsty Mechanoids plus some figures I wasn't sure of. It looked great. I liked the use of kitchen cabinet legs as base legs.

ABW Irregulars presented a 28mm Dalek Invasion game

28mm Amazon's assault on Athens

28mm Paranormal investigators battle it out with ghosts on a beautiful board by Crooked Dice using 7TV or perhaps 7ombieTV rules

28mm Paranormal investigators battle it out with ghosts on a beautiful board by Crooked Dice. Yes the transit van does have the skyscrapers painted on it's windscreen

28mm Paranormal investigators battle it out with ghosts on a beautiful board by Crooked Dice

28mm Sudan game

Ilkley Old School presented a 28mm Plancenoit games

Ilkley Old School presented a 28mm Plancenoit games. On this photo you can see that the road is made from sand. The whole game was actually on a sand table shaped to form hills and roads then green added with scatter.

Ilkley Old School presented a 28mm Plancenoit games

28mm Bolt Action game WW2 Scheldt Offensive 1944 by Barely Legal

28mm Bolt Action game WW2 Scheldt Offensive 1944 by Barely Legal. Great looking terrain. Loved the dog in the kennel.

28mm Bolt Action game WW2 Scheldt Offensive 1944 by Barely Legal

28mm Bolt Action game WW2 Scheldt Offensive 1944 by Barely Legal. Canadians advance led by a member of the Dutch resistance

28mm Bolt Action game WW2 Scheldt Offensive 1944 by Barely Legal

28mm Bolt Action game WW2 Scheldt Offensive 1944 by Barely Legal. Spot the duck.

28mm Bolt Action game WW2 Scheldt Offensive 1944 by Barely Legal

Assault on IBIS a 20mm riot in Britain by the Doncaster club

Mad Max game

Sailors vs Zombies a 28mm participation game by Sheffield and Rotherham Wargamers

Adrian Walls 28mm WW1 game of the charge of the Australian Light Horse

40mm AWI Battle of Long Island 1776 by the Penarth & District Wargamers. Figures Sash & Sabre and Trident Designs

40mm AWI Battle of Long Island 1776 by the Penarth & District Wargamers

28mm Dark Ages game

Guild ball game

28mm Zombietown game by Dave Parsons

Not a game but the new photo realistic buildings by Sally 4th.

Sally 4th photo realistic insides

Sally 4th photo realistic insides.

Ainsty Castings' 28mm football hooligan game

Dave Thomas's figure cabinet - luckily they didn't spot me drooling

Dave Thomas's figure cabinet

Dave Thomas's figure cabinet - I probably should have mentioned that it is a revolving cabinet. You can ask nicely to have it stopped for photos but they were busy so I didn't disturb them!

15mm Waterloo

15mm Waterloo. I think this was by the Company of Veterans

28mm Medieval

KB Club Derwent Modern Campaign

KB Club Sci fi Zhargud

WW1 Wings of War

28mm Magnificent 7 participation game by Gunsmoke using a Dead Man's Hand rules

Wings of War goodness

Saturday, 16 May 2015

Sheffield Triples today

In a last minute decision I am trekking over to Triples today. I have had a look at the website and their are loads of traders and the games look interesting. Do I start my WW2 Blitzkrieg French collection? Or pick up more X Wing gear, or Crimean War Brits or Zulu War volunteer horse? Or none of the above. The joy of last minute decisions to go on a road trip with some of the chaps from the Conwy Wargames Club is that I don't have my usual list prepared. As I type I've just remembered Crooked Dice will be there and the have not Cylons from not Battlestar Galactica. Right I am now off to raid the piggy bank!

Tuesday, 5 May 2015

It's a sign

While clearing up rubble I finally found something really old. Previously I'd found cigarette packets that seemed old but were probably post WW2, and the oldest newspaper was from the 1970s. This time it's a snippet of a newspaper. What delighted me was that it mentions one of my favourite gaming periods the Anglo-Zulu war 1879 - which I assume makes this paper contemporary.

Is it a sign I should finally get around to painting my Zulus and British? or does the mention of the Afghan war and the fact the Perrys are going to bring out plastic British suitable for this period mean I need to branch out into a new period!