Partizan May 2026 - What a show! and another looong post!

 

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

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

Friends of a Military Gentleman - Seven Years War

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

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

The Bodkins - The Battle of McPhearson's Ridge
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!!