Today was the first proper day of my summer holidays! - We went to the PARTIZAN wargames show at Newark showground today... It was Alfie's first Wargames show.. I wasn't sure what he would make of it.. but he said he had a good time! This is the second Partizan show of the year - and as it is in the middle of the school holidays it was a bit quiet. Next year they are going to move it to October apparently.
This Partizan show was half demonstration games and half participation games... and there were plenty of stalls too selling wargames supplies... I picked up some paints, a couple of mdf scenery bits and a couple of miniatures for Rangers of Shadow Deep. Alfie picked up a book from the historical Usbourne book stall, plus a few interesting dice he liked the look of.
We had a go at two games in the participation area... firstly we had an excellent game of British vs Romans using SHARP PRACTICE rules converted to use with ancient armies. This was organised by The Harrogate Wargames Club. We have only just seen the new Horrible Histories Rotten Romans film, so we decided we would be Boudicca and the Ancient Brits... we played against two nice guys who were the Romans, and experienced Sharp Practice players. Our objectives were to sacrifice some Roman soldiers, set fire to their watch tower, invade their fort - or just beat them into submission. We had no idea how the rules worked, but the chap who was running the game talked us through as we went along. Alfie did a lot of the dice rolling... and somehow we managed to win!! - It was a really good game, the scenery and painted miniatures were absolutely fantastic. I liked the card driven rules system, and it definitely got me interested into looking more into the Sharp Practice system.
After this epic game of defeating the Romans, we moved onto something completely different... I'm not sure what the game was called, but it involved teams of finger puppet animals moving around a board trying to tickle each other! This was organised by a chap from the RAF Cranwell Wargames Club. It was quite a short game... but good fun, and involved eating chocolate!
Here are a few pics from the demo area:
