It's May, so back to the big hall in Milton Keynes shopping centre for Campaign.
Chris K & I provided the games. He did the Northants Regiment at Monte Cassino (as previously advertised) and I took our fast and furious 28mm Edgcote game, mainly to plug the heraldry booklet. Clever planning meant we got the entire stand in the boot of my car.
This is what the area where we were looks like from above. I couldn't get a clear shot of the other end. That run of tables centre left and the blue fringed board behind is us.
Chris had cunningly squeezed his game down to fit on the end of our display stand. That's Alex, one of the NBS Committee and Chair of the Northampton Civic Society doing stand duty for us. Over the weekend Steve & Vincent also helped out.
It's been a few months since I've had the game out, but it seems to mostly have survived winter storage. Some of the glue on the white info panels is giving up, alas, so repair work is in the offing.
We didn't have a whole load of people play the big game. This chap turned up, not knowing we were there, and stopped to chat. He has some young people who work for him who play Warhammer and he asked me to explain wargaming to him. We played the game through, with me as Herbert and him as the rebels. He scored a win. He's an engineer who does 3D printing. Due to retire this year and looking for a hobby. You never know.
This is the climactic moment when my army finally collapsed, with William Herbert dead in a ditch.
MK doesn't get the high profile participation/display games, but the Peterborough boys always do something good. This was a moon landing game.
The Clangers were there. Wallace and Grommit also made an appearance as did astronauts from SpaceX.
We had a fairly successful weekend. We ran Edgcote four times over two days, which was less than I'd hoped, but we spent more time talking to the public, which is probably the right balance. The trade stands are adequate but not spectacular. You could get modelling supplies, bases (hooray!) and such like, plus board games and Bolt Action boxes. There was a 3D printing D&D company who were filament printing colourful models live on the stand, which did look cool. Dave L was there with his books. I sold him several of mine and bought a book on the Anglo Sikh Wars in exchange.
Campaign remains unique, as far as I know, and we will persist in supporting it. We had a high number of contacts with the public around the armour and weapons display. We should probably take notes of how many, to be honest. Chris ran his game more than half a dozen times, and convinced four people to but a copy of NQM from the trade stands who had some in stock. Win for him.
Next week Partizan.
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