Here are just a few of my highlights from this years
UK Games Expo at the NEC in Birmingham...
I went for all 3 days this year. For accommodation we did the same as last year and filled a large local AirB&B house with friendly gamers from Sheffield.
I took quite a lot of "old" games to sell at the Bring and Buy sale this year, so most of Friday morning was spent queuing to put stuff in, then queuing to get in to have a look around, then queuing to pay. It was crazily busy, but it was worth it... I managed to get cheap copies of
City of Iron II,
Lancaster,
Guilds of London and
Shadows over Normandie... which are all games I was on the look out for.
The rest of the weekend entailed a lot of wandering around the trade halls looking at stuff, demoing games, meeting up with friends in the open gaming area to play games... then going back to the house in the evenings to play more games. A great time was had.
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What a great idea! - Ready to play miniatures from Flatpack Forces...
They do army packs specifically for Dragon Rampant... plus they are working on other ranges too |
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| Jupiter Rescue - (not one of the better games I played over the weekend) |
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Century: A New World - The latest boardgame in the "Century" series..
I really enjoyed this nice worker placement style game. |
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| A display of some of the upcoming Fantasy terrain that will be available via Kickstarter from Battle Systems later on this month. The buildings were indeed fantastic! - I will be following with interest when more information is released. |
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| Ticket to Ride London was released at the Expo this year - a few of us Sheffield Boardgamers had a game on the oversized demo copy. |
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| My haul of games from this year... the top two were new, and the bottom four were all bargains from the bring and buy sale. |
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