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.

The Scots come to play Infinity

Decided to paint a few more Infinity minis for my Ariadna force. This time its the Scots and start the ball rolling here is a lovely young lady. A great model to paint with plenty of good detail as you always expect from these guys.

MCM ComicCon London 2013

Lottie and I ventured out to ComicCon, our first one, and it was such a blast. The place was packed with tons of people well dressed up from Pikachu through to HellBoy, and everything in-between. Loads of Steampunkers posing around and very nice they looked too. Plenty of stuff to buy and try and loads of meet and greets, photo ops etc. It was great to catch up with old friends and make some new ones too.

Lottie and the Artyfakes Troll

Lottie with Kat & James (The TTN Steampunkers)

Lottie with a Alice inspired Steampunk Girl

Lottie with our friend Tabitha Lyons.

We enjoyed ourselves so much that Lottie wants to get a Link costume and I am now looking at Steampunk apparel so that we can blend in better at our next foray.

Infinity - The Ariadnan Force

Infinity a real blast of a game. Fast, frantic fun. Its a breakneck speed game where you can't afford to look away from the table incase you miss a nice reaction shot. Small scale crew sizes make this an affordable system to play as you can field as few as five models for an effective force.

I play the Ariadnan Force which comprises of the peoples of Earth who left to settle and got cutoff for many years. They comprise, US, French, Scots and Russians and whilst not technologically advanced these guys are mean and pack a real punch with some devastating firepower and some really cool close combat surprises. Also the enemy find them infuriating as they have no tech that can be hacked.

Here is a view of some of my force.

British Para Limited Edition

With nothing on the table to paint at the moment I found this limited edition Warlord Games mini. Its of a British WWII para carrying a wounded comrade and very nice it is too.

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.

Cutlass The First Outing

Captain Martin and I decided to play our first game of Cutlass the other night and it was fantastic. We only played a small skirmish with 5 models per side and had them all armed the same but it worked really well to learn the game. The rules are dead simple and the idea of having a different die for each attribute works great too e.g., Combat D8, Dexterity D6.

The game flowed well amongst our new 4Ground buildings but in the end Martins female crew, who he hadnt painted, succumbed to the might of my crew. See told you all painted figures always play better.
A shot of the table set up and a few in game shots. More reports to follow.