Wargaming Westwood's

Show Review

Recon - Pudsey - December 2014

Last show of our year, and not one been to for over 14 years. Attended this as our regular late year show (Derby, Worlds) fell on a working weekend.

Easy to get to and find. Car Park was nice and big and free.

Was only a small show compared to our usual shows (Salute, Triples, Worlds), but we were happy to give it a look/

Trade Stands - For our wargame needs not many stands for us to use. Warlord and Lesleys Bits Box were the main stalls for us. There were a good few stands that took our attention but not for us this time. A couple I might have looked at but had a different shopping list - Tumbling Dice and a few selling X-Wing/Wings of War.

Games - Here was a different story. Plenty of games and most seemed to be Participation. All were friendly and fun and we spent most of the day playing games.

Can't remember who put the games on but our favourites were -

Viking Smirmish
Adam and me played this whilst Mark and his friend Sam played Warmachine. We had to search a village for loot and the side who found it and got it back won. Adam found the loot and I waited for him in the street. A running battle started and by the time Adam had got back to his start he had 1 figure left and I was wiped out.

Later in the day all four of us played, Sam forgot all about gold and went hunting chickens!!
Adam again found the loot, this time a huge melee with Marks troops broke out and my guys joined in against Marks remaining force who had 'nicked' the gold. Sam finally put chickens down and tried to run the length of the village to snatch the gold. However, My remaining force had managed to catch up to Marks only to be finished off and allow him to escape and thus win!

We played a great game of Check Your 6 - Jet Age also, using 1/100th scale set during the Korean War, so no missiles.
Adam and me took the Americans, Mark and Sam the Korean/Chinese pilots. After lots of dodging and weaving by both sides. It ended with Mark being shot down and Sam flying away trailing smoke and debris being chased by both US planes.

Whilst in the room with the CY6 we played a map game of WW2. Adam and Mark were allies whilst Sam and me were Germans. The war started in Sept '39 and in our game ended in 1942 with the Russians taking Germany all the way to the French border - a different history altogether, with 2 failed attempts to invade England.

Finally, we had a fun game based on chariot racing.
It was a teddy bear chariot race, using Uni cards and dice.
Adam - Maximus Cuteus
Mark - Juda Ben Fur
Sam - Fuzzius Maximus
Me - Unfortunately, can't remember name and its unreadable on photo.
I was close to getting a second place and had whipped my horses, only needed higher or lower on a 2, I went high and it came up Ace (which was low)!!

1st - Adam and Last me (other 2 can't remember)