Partizan 25 Loot

 

Bit late in posting my loot collection from Partizan, I'm afraid. Life has just done it's best to stop my fun. Although my fun starts again tomorrow in a different form. My two youngest, Mrs R and myself are all off on holiday for a week in sunny Cyprus.

Anyway onto the loot, there's not a lot as you can see, I barely got around the show, let alone buy much. 

Got some casualty counters from Warbases along with the three packs of random pond shapes. A couple of trees from the Tree man, I would have bought more but these were the last 2! Bought 4 trees from the Last Valley along with some river sections for my and Lee's Retreat from Moscow shenanigans. No pics of those I'm afraid. We need to give them the Reject magic to try and match them to our bases. Ice sprinkles? Saw a video on YouTube about making ice. So I thought we'd give it a go on our river sections.

Lastly a deck of Sharp Practice cards......so all in all a reasonable haul of loot, me thinks?

Cheers

Ray

Partizan 2025 - The Rejects on Tour

 

I'm a bit late in posting about Partizan, life has just got in the way this week. Most other gamers, bloggers and vloggers have already posted up their show reports, but here's my take on the show and games at this years May Partizan.. Its a very long post, so go put the kettle on before you go any further.

I've firstly gotta say what a fantastic day that was!!!

I do love the Partizan shows, there's eye candy every which way you look.

Top marks to all the clubs hosting games and to all involved in running the show.

Unusually for us, we arrived after the show had started, but there was still a queue to get in. It was a little different this time round as we had to park in another carpark and walk a short distance to the entrance, where there was a marquee, housing an overspill of a few games and traders, also a bring and buy, where you could hire a spot for an hour and sell your unloved items. I picked up a few ECW/Medieval houses quite cheap. Me and Lee planned to walk around together on Lee's planned route, just to make it easier to name the games we were going to photograph. We lost Postie and Steve in the first 2 minutes entering the show and didn't see them again for a few hours. A quick stop at the Last Valley followed, to buy some terrain for our Retreat from Moscow project, then back to the car, where we bumped in Iain from Caveadsum 1471, where we stopped for a chat, then raced back into the show.

The Queue

Now onto the games, here's where I have to apologies to most of the games in the participation area. It took me and Lee so long to get around the demo game section, (around 5 hours!) because we were talking so much to loads of fellow gamers! So by the time we got to the other end some clubs has started to pack there games away, and I was down to 3% battery on my mobile so had to take whatever pics I could.

Kallista/Forest Outlaws - 12mm Ancients - The Battle of Forum Gallorum 43BC

Shrewsbury Wargame Society - Legion Imperialis

Like a Stonewall - 28mm Back of Beyond

Dave Docherty and me, Dave was controlling the ships coming into the harbour below.

Al members of the club, were in fancy hats!

Steve's Painting Shed - Wagram 1809

6mm Napoleonics

I had a good chat with Steve , loved the simple but very effective paint scheme on his tiles, making them look like fields.

Mike from Drespitz blog, we last saw Mike at Warfare in November last year, all the way from Germany!

We always bump into Nigel at Partizan and have a chat!

Rubicon Models - Oscar Mike - Vietnam War

Only a very small game, but it looked great!

Steve from Rubicon and Ged from Gringo 40's

Yarkshire Gamer - AWI - The Battle of Germantown 1777

A rather subdued Ken, he was not feeling the love today!

I was at Ken's table for around 45 minutes where I met several other gamers and bloggers.

Firstly Kerry, from the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge. Loved his recent Baron's War figures!

Photo bombed by Lee!!!

Then had a long chat with Iain from Flags of War, who gave me some solid advice for an up and coming project if I ever get my finger out, that is!

Matt from Wargames in the Dungeon

I also had a chat with Salute's Martin Gane, but I neglected to get a photo. He said my and Lee's interview on the Yarkshire Gamers Podcast was a talking point at their Committee meeting recently?????

Westbury Gamers - The Battle of Sarajas 1086

The Spanish Reconquista

Derby Wargames Society - Operation Typhoon 1941

WWII Eastern Front

Dave & Dave!

John Kersey 1/72nd - Russo Japanese War - Nihon Shugi, The Assault on 203 Metre Hill 

Lincoln Miniature Warfare Society - 15mm WW2 Pacific Not a Holiday in the Sun ‘44

The Ruckusteers 28mm Medieval -  Never Mind the Billhooks, Here's the Ruckus

Bill Gaskin - 28mm Seven Years War

Very British Civil Forum - 28mm VBCW Hedge Hoppers Unanimous

Forest Outlaws - 28mm WWII

Postie, The Dude, Chris from Bunker Hill Blog, Lee and me.

Mouthwatering stuff from....

Simon Miller - Lust for Glory 28mm “To the Strongest!” Horse’n’Musket

1st Corps - 28mm ACW

Another beautiful game!!

Glasgow Tradeston WG Club - 15mm 30 Years War - The Battle of Rocroi 1643

Barely Legal Wargamers - 18mm Paperboys - ACW - The Battle of Honey Hill, 30th November 1864

Gordon's Gophers - Operation Battleaxe June 1941

 15mm WW2 North Africa Rapid Fire Reloaded

Dale Yates/Garage Goblins - 28mm Vikings

Burton & District Wargamers -  28mm Zulu Wars - Skirmish at Intombe

Iron Brigade - 25mm ACW - Bonnie Blue Flag

Chesterfield Old Boys - 28mm WW2 Russia, Case Blue - The Georgian Highway

League of Augsburg - 28mm 17th Century Caribbean Dutch Raid on Hispaniola circa 1675

Oh my gawd, dribble, dribble, dribble.........

Colin and Barry

Perry Miniatures -  28mm Peninsular War

The Bodkins - 28mm Wars of the Roses  - The Battle of 'Boars Hill', Oxford on 6 April 1471

Just look at all those luvvly flags, what a great looking game!!!

Bramley Barn Wargames Club - Somewhere in Syria

28mm Ancients Late Romans vs Sassanids

Another beauty of a game!

Morris & Chums - 28mm Midgard Heroic Battles The Battle of Mount Badon

Here's where my phone started playing up, loads of blurry unusable photos.

Paul from Scrivsland blog and Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge

My fat belly and James

Ardhammer Group 28mm French Dutch War 1672-1678 The Battle of the Windmill

Yet another fantastic game!!

Again though, more pics came out blurry...

Northumbrian Painting Services/Reiver Castings Rob

The Warlords - Over by Christmas - Crisis on The Marne, September 1914

6mm WWI

Anschluss Wargames - 10mm WW2 - A Small town in Italy 1945

The Geordie Wargamer - 28mm Early Medieval - The Battle of Stamford Bridge 1066

Garry David Wills

Caseshot Publishing  - 15mm War of the 1st Coalition The Best Army in Europe - the Battle of Pirmasens 1793

League of Gentlemen Anti-Alchemists - 28mm WW2 Perbais 1940

Cowards Wargames Club - 28mm WW2 Landed Has the Eagle

The Gentlemen Pensioners - 28mm Post Apocalypse - What a Scaver

Glenbrook Games - 28mm Midgard - Lord of the Rings The Cleansing of the Eyewash

TooFatLardies - 28mm WW2 Chain of Command - Baltic Balcony 1945

Rich & the Rejects

Here's where we started running out of time and my phone was nearly out of charge.

Boondock Sayntes - 28mm Anglo-Sikh Wars - The Battle of Aliwal, 1846

Great Escape Games - 28mm Old West Dead Man's Hand Redux

Northhampton Battlefield Society  - The Battle of Edgcote Made Easy

Think they're...

KB Club 1/144th moderns Manouvre Group

Nick Hindley - Epic scale Napoleonics The Battle of Waterloo 1815

Big on Strategy - 54mm Medieval Robin Hood & The Tax Collector

Peterborough Wargames Club  - 28mm Medieval Hereward's Revenge

Team Warbases Martin & Glen

Apologies again for all the games I missed, I should have stopped talking and taken more pics

And that my friends is the end of this epic post, now go and have a lie down.