I can't actually say how much I love this show, its got everything a historical gamer wants, loads of fantastic games, both big and small, loads of big tables full of figures and loads of great manufacturers and suppliers. If you've never made it to a Partizan show, please do, you won't regret it one bit.
For the Rejects its a 2 hour 30 minute drive, so a very early start and a late finish to, I got home at 7.30, completely exhausted but still buzzing. We stopped for a great fry up at a Beefeater not to far away from Newark Showground, like we usually do, then headed up the road and was in the show by 10.15, then the real fun started!
There were only 3 Posties Rejects this time round, Lee, Postie and myself
I think next time we'll pre book entry tickets, just to save a little time queuing.
Now I must apologise, I did miss a few games, my phone died before I fully got round the show, even after charging it in the middle of the day.
First game
Kallistra/Forest Outlaws - The Battle of Vosages 58BC
The League of Extraordinary Kriergspeliers - Gods of War, Baron von Ungensternberg
Back of Beyond
Back of Beyond
A we were taking photos, we had a chat with fellow Painting Challenger James MacMillan
Then Kerry from the Challenge all the way from New Zealand via Wales!
Lee at work with his camera thingy!
Comrade Dave D, another Challenger
Skirmish Wargames - WWI Trench Corsairs
54mm WWI Trench Raid
Caught short!
Steve Jones - The Battle of Chatterton's Hill
AWI 1776
The Bunker - The Wild Geese
20mm Post Colonial
Rubicon -
We always bump into friend of the Rejects Nigel at every Partizan!!
Shrewsbury Wargames Club - 28mm Samurai Rampant/Test of Honour
1 72nd Scale Gaming/John Kersey - Crimean Interlude
20mm Crimean War
Glasgow Tradeston Wargames Club - The Battle of Whitehill
15mm Thirty Years War
Iain from Caveadsum 1471, another fellow Painting Challenger!
Like a Stonewall - Cape Finisterre 22nd July 1805
Napoleonic Naval
League of Augsburg - WSS
The Very British Civil War Forum - And the beat goes on
Forest Outlaws - War in the Pacific
28mm WWII
28mm WWII
Friends of a Military Gentleman - Seven Years War
This was my Game of the Show!
This was my Game of the Show!
An absolutely stunning looking game. The Castle, the size of those units, come on what's not to love?
1st Corps - The Battle of Magnesia
On Bloody Ground
Veteran Voices - Iranian Embassy Siege
28mm Modern
Bramley Barn Wargames Club - 2nd Kernstown 1864
28mm ACW
Chesterfield Old Boys - Bemis Heights, 2nd Saratoga 1777
28mm AWI
The Iron Brigade - The Japanese Assault on Kawajima Castle
28mm Samurai
Westbury Wargames - The Battle of Minden
Seven Years War
Seven Years War
The Rucksteers - Tudor Border Reivers
28mm Here's the Rukus
Fieldkraft UK - Ardennes 1944
28mm Winter Thunder WWII
Derby Wargames Society - Late War Eastern Front
28mm WWII
28mm WWII
The Bodkins - The Battle of McPhearson's Ridge
ACW 28mm
ACW 28mm
Bodkin Dave, and Aly
Aly retirement pressie from GW!!!
A replica WWI Officers watch (If I remember correctly?)
Wargames Illustrated - 28mm Medieval Assassins & Templars
The two sides of Charles Singleton!!
Simon Miller - Lust for Glory
28mm WSS
Morris & Chums - The Battle of Lewes
28mm Midgard Heroic Battles
North Star -
Blitzkreig Miniatures - Ancient Battles Mighty Empires
Blitzkreig Miniatures - Winter Bolt Action
Henry and our red T-Shirts!
Peter's Paperboys - Paper Colonial Warfare
Lincoln Miniature Wargames Society
John Lavender - The Battle of Rorke's Drift
28mm Zulu War
Dale Yates - Defending the Holy Place
28mm Dark Age Pillage
League of Gentlemen Anti-Alchemists - Blitz at Villeroux May 1940
28mm WWII
Gentlemen Pensioners - The Tyrolean Rebellion 1809
Sharp Practice
Harrogate Wargames - Charlie Don't Surf
Two Fat Lardies - Oosterbeek 1944
Matin from Warbases
Snapshot of the hall
Dave from The Ragged Soldier and his pal Dave
We had a good chat with Rich Clarke, who very kindly gave us a MDF token sheet for Sharp Practice
Thanks Rich!!
He then proceeded to give us a run through of his Sharp Practice Peninsular game
The hero of the game Monsieur Piscine (or something like that..lol)
James Morris
Boondock Sayntes - The Relief of Lucknow 1857
It was here when my phone started to die, so I ran around taking the last few shots as the screen began to darken.
Not sure who or what this game was?
Northamptonshire Battlefield Society - The Battle of Ronnsoy 1918
???
Doncaster Wargames Society - Tank Hunting for Partisans
Peterborough Wargames Club - WWII
Wargaming & Military Modelling Association - WWII
Lego Pillage
And there the phone died, so I missed the last dozen or so games, so once again apologies to those who I missed.
Thanks to everyone who put a game on at the show, it was a hell of a lot of fun, and thanks to all those involved in setting up the show, see you in October!!
