Adventures on the Wargames Table

The weekend of 17/18 November was the Warfare 2012 show in Reading and we were there with a War & Conquest demo game. We played the same game as we put on at Colours in Newbury earlier this year, "The Battle of the New Road". The Romans are trying to clear the land ready to build a road, however the proposed route passes right through a sacred Celtic shrine where stands an mighty, old Oak tree. Needless to say that the matter can only be decided with swords and spears! You will be able to find out more about this game in a future issue of Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy. First though a few words about the show... It wasn't as good as Devizes or Colours, mainly because the venue itself is a really bit below par IMHO. The very uneven carpets laid to protect the indoor bowling green were a real hazard - I saw plenty of people trip and stumble. To be fair the club have complained to the venue about this. Also, the logistics were a bit chaotic. Getting there quite earl...

Amongst the many goodies I picked up at Warfare (Reading) this weekend were these rather splendid sets of resin sandbags. They even come pre-painted! Here's some fine chaps from the BEF making good use of their new cover. A close up shot. Hopefully you can make out the wonderful 'texture' on the bags. I also bought a pack of straight sections. These are the two packs, made by Pegasus Hobbies. Pack one is six straight sections - and they all seem to be slightly different. The second pack has two short straight sections plus four rounded corner sections. Total cost was approx £22 (about €27). The straight sections are 145mm and the short/corner sections are 90-100mm. So I now have almost 1.5m (nearly 5 feet) of sandbags. More about the (not so good) show in a future post. However, the games of War & Conquest we played were great fun!