Colours is next week!! September 3, 2011
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Just so every one knows, as the Wargame Show Colours is on the weekend of 10th 11th September, and the club is in attendance with a Demo Game, the usual Sunday all Day meet is being moved to the following Sunday, the 18th. Thanks!
Dave Wilkin
Club Secretary
Armoured Trains and Warhammer August 29, 2011
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Another busy night at the club last Monday with a winter WWII game featuring the armored train and quite a few games of Warhammer.
The armored train was used for a scenario game, the Germans had to get it off the battlefield whilst the Russians attacked it.
The Russian sniper team destroyed the tracks so the train couldn’t escape.
Ski troops even came in to help take out the train.
On one of the other tables Terry’s Empire took on…
Neil’s Tomb Kings.
We also hard Dark Elves taking on Beastmen.
The Beastmen army had a fantastic conversion of a Cygor.
The third and final game of Warhammer that night was Dwarfs against Orcs & Goblins, here a group of Squigs and a pump wagon charge a unit of Thunderers.
There was also a game of Warhammer 40K with Nurgle Chaos Space Marines taking on Tyranids.
Another great club conversion, this time of a Demon Prince
The Tyranids advance on a unit of Space Marines.
Overdue Update August 8, 2011
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The club has been rather busy the last few weeks with a wide varied of different games and systems being played.
Force on Force, Ambush alleys reasonably new modern warfare game has been having a run out recently and has been getting quite a lot of interest.
This game was a infantry only skirmish but there are rules for vehicles too, including helicopters.
Many players at the club play warhammer and Wahammer 40k, here Dereks Skaven take on Neil’s Tomb Kings who have recently had a new book. Derek’s rat ogre bonebreaker is a great conversion.
A few of us play Wyrd Miniatures’ Malifaux skirmish game, the other week we had a 3 player free-for-all featuring The Dreamer, Pandora and Sonja Criid.
There is nearly always a world war 2 game being played at the club here are some from a recent Flames of War game.
And for those who like a larger scale game the club have their own 20mm rule adapted from Peter Guilder’s ruleset.
The Big Sunday May 8, 2011
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We had a bumper set of games for the may all day meeting. Here we see Dave and Steff with thier ECW gmae in 28mm using Warhammer ECW rules.
Mike and the new lads fight an Apocalypse WH40K game with Eldar, Nids and Blood angels. Good use of the old Castle terrain here!
A lovely conversion of a Stormraven. made by one of the new lads before GW’s kit was released. A nice job, and really looks like it recieved a skorching on re entry!
The lads fighting a big mele.
We also had Warmachine with Brian and the other Mike…
The Steam driven abominations advance!
But we didn’t stop there! Graham and Steve had a set to with thier 15mm Ancients using FoG. Imperial Rome Vs palmeria
Steve leads 2 full Roman Legions…”there is another in the box behind me” he boasts!
Grahams Eastern warriors don’t like the look of this, and his Elephants flee!
And Lastly james has yet another 40K Apocalypse game with his truely huge Ultramarines force Vs some hapless Eldar.
And all on his new terrain. This was a 10k per side game.
But it is an excuse to bring out the big Forgeworld goodness!
And there we have it, more Gladiators dribbly lovelynes to show off what we do!
War Machines and machines of War April 10, 2011
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April’s All Day meeting hadonly 2 games on offer. Brian and Mike gave War Machine an outing. I am not too familiar with this system, but there are more and more converts to it in the club.
The lads cetainly seem to be having a great game.
Another system we play off and on is the Rate of Fire WWII skirmish rules from Crusader. The AFV came out at the end of last year, but we have only now managed to get a game in.
Terry advances the US Infantry with a Sherman in Support.
Dave advances a StuG 3 with Fallchrimjager in support.
A nice system, and we are happy with how the tanks have been integrated into what is essentially an infantry skirmish game. We will probably see more of this system in the coming months.
All Day Sunday Report AT43 Apocalypse March 13, 2011
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The Febuary all day Sunday saw a range of games an Dave and I finally managed to get our Long in the planning large AT43 Game (a At43 Apocalypse If You Will) underway. The AT43 game was 6000 points a side and was designed to have 3 companies each with a separate players sharing the LP for the entire army. Here you can see the Red Blok Commander pondering the next turn.
Here is a close up of the Armoured Centre advancing up the table with an infantry unit using them as cover and also acting as mechanics for the heavy armour.A Dotch Yagga Urod and a Hussar
Some of the Massed Cog Opposition – Dave brought a better balanced army and ran out an easy winner, it was an interesting experiment and it would be nice to try Daves idea of a multiplayer game.
We also had a couple of other WHFB games. Here Mike ponders where to send his High elves.
On another table the dwarves get stuck into some imperial artillery.
We cover a wide range of Wargames Periods and have a number of role-playing groups that are actively recruiting players. we meet at the North end Club Bedford on Mondays from 7:30 till 11:00 and also on the Second Sunday of the Month from 12:00 till 11:00
New Year and Old Armies January 13, 2011
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Well another year is upon us, and the club has some old favourites on offer this week.
Dereks Empire Knights advance on Daves…
Empire! A bit of a practice game for dave with Warhammer 8th Edition. Same faction battles can be good fun. And it was a race to see if Dereks Cannon could beat Dave’s Steam tank into chewing up the opposition first,a full on carnage later and dave’s decimated troops were slightly less decimated than Derek’s Flagellants. A great game.
Flames of War was also in evidence, but this time more odd pairings with US vs UK clash…obviously a training exercise before pitting themselves against the hun!
Some of the 15mm British in the Flames of War game move around a wooded hill.
And finally more WW2 this time in 20mm using the Peter Guilder rules. German Mortar teams set up in a church yard.
And the Allies push to drive them out, among the Bocage
Merry Christmas January 1, 2011
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Well the Holidays are nearly over, so here are some pics of what we have been up to.
The Boardgame Tanhauser, using the new variant rules, great fun, and a great improvement on version 1, simpler smoother mechanics, with easy to remember abilities for each of the characters
A close up on the action. We must play this again, and maybe get the expansion for it. The new V2 rules has all the add on’s on one volume, so keeping things simple.
Some Lord of The Rings action. Wayn’s Balrog leads the Charge. Great looking game…..
And here we see it geting stuck in to Martyn’s army of Good.
And Graham and myself had our traditional Xmas game in my Gaming room. Chinese/Mongols vs Samurai using FoG.
It’s Cold Outside December 7, 2010
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Despite the freezing tempratures, the club saw a good crop of games on Monday, and a large amount of members braving the sub zero tempratures for some hot gaming action! (ooer!)
We also have some more new faces at our door, keen to see what being in the Gladiators is all about, I hope they found us to be the kind of group they they can find a home for thier gaming needs.And make some good friends into the bargain. Welcome all.
A bit of Malifaux action with Dave Brown from the Cranfield Conquerors coming along to play against Dave and Ove. Here we see Dave Brown’s Viktorias crew emerging from the woods to meet Ophelias’ Gremlins and Warpig.
And Ove’s Sonia Criid crew lurking round the town Hotel…… Interesting playing a 3 way game of malifaux, and it seemed to work well.
Mark plays one of our new comers at Warhammer,with Barry looking on.
Elsewhere, Tom’s Chaos army emerge to cause , well…chaos in a game of 40K……………
And more 40K in another part of the room, yes Ultramarines…isn’t there a film out about these chaps?!?
There is an All Day meeting this coming Sunday ( 12th December) so hopefully lots of great pics of the action on our last all day meet of 2010…stay, erm!! tuned!
Games Con Leicester 2010 November 14, 2010
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14th November 2010 saw the lads attend the first Gamescon Leicester,at leicester Racecource.
This new event seemed to go well, with a good selection of traders,including Miniature Wargames. Our own demo team was the sole club, displaying our Elven Civil War game, as played at Colours 09. The upper floor was dedicated to tournament play, with Magic the gathering, Yu Gi Oh, Warmachine, Warhammer, FoW,40K and the UK national AT43 tournaments.
Our club had two entrants in the AT43 competition, showing our support of an excellant system despite, Rackham Entertainment recently going into liquidation. Indeed the tournament organisers recieved the prizes with in only days of the announcement of Rackham ceasing trading.
Here we see the Tournament floor, with the AT43 tables in full swing
The other end of the tounament floor, with more AT43 tables, and the CCG tournament area beyond
Dave Wilkin’s first game with his Cogs up against Tom Boddicoats Karman force. A crushing defeat for Dave,by the eventual Champion, indeed the Vandal (seen in foreground) was captured by Tom and used to devestating effect against it’s former owner!
Our other player, Maurice in his first game using his Red Bloc against a young UNA player. There were a few youngsters in the tournament, and they seemed very knowledgeable on the system,and all involved had a great time. We hope some enterprizing company takeds up the IP and continues what is a great system, with inovative game play. It is doubly sad as a few of the people here were about to engage in the beta testing of the second edition of the rules for AT43, which could have given new vigour to the game .
As for Games Con Leicester http://www.gamescon-leicester.co.uk/ the event seemed to go well, and we hope it goes to a second year with more support from the wider gaming public. Thanks to Zoe and Floris for a great fun day out.
