The Other Partizan, The Rest of the Show

Or, The Games I Managed to Take Some Quick Snaps Of!

It was an experience. A mixture of great pleasure and pain! I'll explain.

It was the Bodkins (A Late Medieval Demo Game Group we have formed) first outing and that was going to be a blast no matter what considering the quality we have within our group in terms of sculpting, converting and painting! 

You can read a decent run through of Berne, Baby Berne!, a Burgundian and Swiss affair that we put on HERE.

So, onto the other games at the show.It seems only fair that I should point pout that I didn't have very much time at all to take many pics of the rest of the show as I was on duty at the demo table and happy to be there too. 

I think that the standout game for me was a great Early Medieval/Dark Ages L shaped game put together by Simon Miller, Paul Scrivens, James Morris and Steve Jones. It looked superb to my eye and utilised Simon Miller aka Bigredbat's To the Strongest rules which are a real innovation, especially for larger games.

Here's the few pics that I did have time to take of the game. I think you'll agree that it was a handsome affair(?):

I did manage to get a few more pics of some of the games but I really didn't have the time I usually have to take a leisurely stroll around so it was a case of take what I could when I could!

At this point it is probably pertinent of me to apologise to all the people who put the effort in to get great looking games on the table top that I missed. Ironically it was largely down to the quality of the game we had just put on :>)

Bye for now.

The Bodkins First Outing at The Other Partizan: Berne, Baby Berne!

I was about five or ten minutes late and had to rush through to the front of the Que past lots of cross looking wargamers to get into the hall on time for the start of the game. What a sight there was to behold! I knew that a Swiss Burgundian affair with it's massed Swiss pikes and supporting troops scraping with the exquisitely decked out Burgundian army of Charles the Bold was going to be a great beautiful looking game but nothing could have prepared me for the sight that was to greet me as I walked up to the game!

For once I don't really feel like I have to say very much at all, the images will do all the talking for me. I would like to heartily thank Dave Andrews, David Imrie and Simon Chick for painting up such beautiful looking armies! To say they were beautifully painted is in fact to do them an injustice and no images of the mini's will ever capture the magic of actually seeing them in the flesh! I'd also ;like to thank Jack Glanville who kept us straight on the rules- we would have been somewhat lost without him as David and I seem to have collectively forgotten how to play a rule set that we played quite a lot of when I was at the Edinburgh club a few years ago.

This was The Bodkins first outing and the Berne, Baby Berne did not disappoint! The next game we will be showcasing will not be revealed until very near the time but it is scheduled for Partizan in it's new premises next year.

Now then, onto the lusciousness that was the game:

I think that's enough eye candy to be going on with for now! Tomorrow there will be more from Partizan.

Bye for now.