Grumpy Old Wargamers Convention

Last weekend saw the inaugural outing for The Grumpy Old Wargames Convention held at Tabletop Nation. This conn is the brainchild of Templarscrusade01, if you are regular YouTube'r, if not his name is Brian and a thoroughly nice chap he is too.

The weekend was extremely well attended with tons a gamers running demos, a painting competition and more YouTube celebs than you could shake a stick at.

I met loads of great people including Spud, Andy and Chuffy, three YouTube guys who were great fun and not forgetting Chuffys lovely wife who spent a lot of time hanging with us watching Relics.

Me and Gav chat in the background whilst Spud beats a Yank into submission with the Britanans.

For the most part myself and the rest of the JAG guys spent the weekend supporting Gav of Tor Gaming fame by running Relics demos for both days. The game went down a storm, just as it always does and Wayland Games sold tons of models and the new rulebook, so much so that Gav had to keep running out to his warehouse (car) to restock them.

Day ones painting competition was well supported with some lovely minis, shame they didnt have a separate category for the pro painters who insisted on entering but hey ho.

Southend Wargames were running a truly huge FoW D-Day landings table, with 16 Allied players trying to take the beaches.

The YouTubers had a Q&A session in the bar and Beasts of War were filming all day and doing studio tours too boot.

Sunday was a relaxed day of gaming for everyone who attended and the guys who were so bust the day before got a chance to come try some games. Over on the Relics table we showed Warren from Beasts of War and a few of the guys how to play and they all enjoyed it. Must apologise to Gav as I think the Pueri are now known as Floating Naked Ladies and the Panetentium are now Sado-masochistic Dwarfs (try saying that one Brian).

A truly brilliant weekend that myself and the JAG guys will be back to fully support next year as this can only get bigger and better.

Some Relics Time.

Well the next month see's a few Relics events. Kicks off next weekend down at TabletopNation with the Tor Gaming Expo day on the 11th. At this event JAg will be running demos, there is a tournament, painting competitions, Worthy Painting will be there too and Joey Berry may well be in town too.

Also at TTN on the 8/9 June there is the Grumpy Old Gamers Convention with loads of demo games to join in and once again JAG will be in attendance with Tor Gaming to run Relics and hopefully the new sports game R:AL (Relics: Armistice League).

So if you can come on down and play some awesome games, meet some great people, buy some excellent figures and if you dont fancy painting them you can always ask me.

Salute 2013 is nearly here.

With just a week now until the mega event that is Salute 2013, the UKs premier Wargames show at Excel, the excitement is building. Us guys at JAG will be busy on the day running demo tables for Warlord Games, Tor Gaming and Wayland Games add to that the vast amount of shopping we all want to do and its gonna be a hectic one again. Looking forward to catching up with some old friends again and making a load of new ones. So if you are going dont forget to stop by and say hi at one of the games we are running.

International Tabletop Day...

So I've returned from Tabletop Nations hosting of International Tabletop Day and what a great day it was too. Apart from us guys at JAG, running Dystopian Wars, Bushido, SAGA and Carnevale, there were loads of other participation games going on. Star Wars, Dreadball, Aeronautica Imperalis, Carcasonne, Warmachine, and Spartacus to name but a few. Plenty of old friends like Rid from Fanplasticlittlemen , and loads of new faces too came along and enjoyed playing games all day.

If you want to see some pictures and videos of the day then pop over to Beasts of War.

Good fun, good company and well worth doing again next year.

Hope to see you all there.

International Tabletop Day

Just a quick heads up to remind one and all that tomorrow, Saturday 30th March, is International Tabletop Day at Tabletop Nation, http://tabletopnation.simpletix.com/Event/32/Tabletop-Day-Saturday-30th-Mar/ so come along and meet up with new and old friends for a great days gaming. There will be wargames, board games and RPGs going on. Beasts of War will be on the prowl too and us guys from JustAboutGames, http://www.facebook.com/justaboutgames.co.uk, will be in attendance to run Dystopian Wars and Bushido participation/demo games. Other companies will also be there with the likes of Rid from Fanplasticlittlemen, http://fanplasticlittlemen.blogspot.co.uk, a great painting service blog down to join in the fun.