It's May. It must be Partizan!

I'd barely unloaded the car from our weekend in Milton Keynes before everything was back in the boot and we were off to Newark. Same set up, slightly different team, it being me & the two Chris' this time.

We were very busy, so not a lot of pictures from me. The show was generally more busy that our last few visits, which is great news. They've stuck a marquee on the entrance to free up space in the hall too, which was very welcome. 

We were next to WD Display Team North, who were running their quick play "Alexander the Brief". That's Martin Rapier of  The Games We Play blog chatting to Chris K before the public came in. We had Edgcote and Monte Cassino out to play, and we had a steady flow of people. I think I got in 5 games of Edgcote, and Pembroke even won one of them. Or possibly two.

This is Kev from Sheffield. He's more of a modernist - he runs SCW games using a variant of my "For Whom the Dice Rolls". His inexperience with this sort of stuff showed.

I succeeded in winning with Pembroke, swarming over the "petite riviere" and breaking the rebels just as their reinforcements were about to arrive.

I won this one too, by fortuitously killing Robin of Redesdale. Otherwise it was a good day for the rebels. We sold quite a few copies of the Wargaming Guide too.

I have no pictures of the rest of the show. There were the usual large impressive looking games. A big fictional Hail Caesar Wars of the Roses game based on the idea that the Lancastrian forces unite in 1471, instead of being beaten piecemeal, looked great. That was put on by "The Bodkin" group that includes an NBS member. Clearly taken as a chance to get everyone's toys on the table.

As I'm looking at the Anglo Sikh wars I had a quick look at a big 28mm game of the Battle of Aliwal, put on by the Boondock Sayntes, which was nicely done. My own efforts will be a little bit more subdued, being done in 15mm and by me on my own. On that subject we were next to "The Society for Army Historical Research" and in his quite moments the chap running the stand dug me out some journals from the back catalogue they were selling off cheap with some memoir based articles on the wars.

Other than that I bought a pot of Vallejo orange paint from Pendraken, as Sikhs wore orange turbans some times, and the Bengal Light cavalry used it as a facings colour. Mind you, as a distinct old schooler in terms of paint usage I was well confused with the types of paint. Did I need Game or Model Paint? What was the difference? Does it really matter?

I'm getting too old for this stuff.