Warfare 2024

 Made it to my only wargames show of the year last weekend... Warfare at Farnborough.  It's a busy show spread over 2 days at exhibition centre at Farnborough Airport.  

As well as the usual traders and demo/participation games there also a host of competition games taking place.  I've never quite got competition gaming but folk seemed to be enjoying themselves. Here's a small selection of photos, I missd loads of the games... as usual I've mainly forgotten to note who was putting them on so apologies to all the clubs who I haven't credited....

Huge What a Tanker participation game

Franco-Dutch War hosted by the Ardhammer group

Excellent Space 1999/UFO style game by (I think) South London Warlords

The moonrise game has inspired some thinking among gaming friends of a multiplayer game with different factions fighting on the moon and has sent some of us off down a 15mm sci-fi rabbit hole!

The show is also a chance to say hi to folk from my old games club at Guildford who were running a fun 'Shoot down the Zeppelin' participation game.  

Based on a real incident where a Zep went off course and ended up bombing Guildford, this was a perfect participation game.  Easy rules to pick up and it only takes 15 minutes or so to have a go.  I was pleased to report that I managed to at least damage the Zeppelin in my plucky fighter, even if I didn't bring it down.  Every year I promise to pop back into the club for a game... maybe this is the year!!

My shopping haul was pretty modest.  A few paints and tufts and some nifty dials counters from Warbases

I also picked up some terrain templates from Deepcut Studios... I guess these are off-cuts from their mats but at 7 pieces for a tenner they seemed pretty good value and will make excellent jungle areas with some new jungle pieces I acquired recently...

And lastly I got a copy of Chris Peer's Death in the Dark Continent rules at a knock down price...