| On the weekend of October 2nd/3rd, PAW staged
another of our occasional Wargames Open Days at our regular venue, Blindman's Wood Scout
HQ.
There were between 25 and 40 wargamers present at different times of the weekend, playing a wide variety of games. There were games of Warhammer 40K, Warhammer Fantasy, WarMaster, DBM 15mm and 25mm, Principles of War Napoleonics, Vampire (RPG), D&D, MechWarrior, Pirates of the Spanish Main and Star Trek ship combat. Thanks to Clive Dudley for taking these pictures. The pictures here are thumbnails: click on them to see a larger picture |
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| A general view of the hall. There were about a dozen standard 6x4 tables set up here, plus a few more in the surrounding rooms. |
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| There were a lot of Warhammer 40K games over the weekend, probably due to the recent rules update. Here, Clive Dudley's Imperial Guard set up to take on Chris Wingate's Space Marines in a Cleanse Mission. This game resulted in a Victorious Slaughter against the Space Marines! |
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| Below, Clive's Guard take on Dave Stapleford's Necrons. | ||
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| More pictures of the Guard vs Necrons game. Note the dangly dice on the Sentinel on the hill. Some people have too much time on their hands... | ||
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| Here, Les Shuttlewood takes on Imperial Guard commanded by Rob Cowan (left) and Chris Wingate's Space Marines (centre and right) with his Dark Eldar | ||
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| Ancient games using the DBM rule set were the other popular games system this weekend. Here we see Martin Binns' 25mm New Kingdom Egyptians against John Soper's Sea Peoples. |
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| In this shot, Sea Peoples Warriors stand amazed at the sight of a sacred Egyptian Cat pursuing a mouse across the battlefield. |
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| John Orange with Alans faces off against Colin Evans' Visigoths in this 15mm game. Colin's C-in-C's command was broken, but he held on long enough to break the Alans for a 7-3 victory, although only one more element loss would have broken his army as well. |
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| Dave Lewis ran an excellent Lord of the Rings game on Sunday. Gandalf is seen here leading a charge against Goblins and Orcs. Unfortunately, they were supported by a Troll... |
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| Ken Hockley, Tanya Hockley, Nigel Blair, Paul Dennis and Al Cox ran a large 15mm Napoleonic game over the weekend, part of their on-going campaign. This was fought on a 12' x 5' table with hundreds of figures. |
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| Colin Evans and Nigel Kerr provided some of the new WizKids Pirates of the Spanish Main ships for people to try out on Sunday. This is a curious cross between a collectible card game and a miniatures game, since the cards have press out parts for the ship models. Every one seemed to enjoy it, although the rest of us did get fed up with the cries of "Yo Ho Ho" and "Avast There" |
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| Orlando Murrish ran this Star Trek game using the Trek version of the Babylon 5 rules system. Here we see Romulan ships attacking Klingons in an effort to wipe them off the board. |
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This page was last updated on 27 June 2006 |
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