quick edited highlight of the sights... Akkie's sudden obsessive compulsion disorder evolved from not really getting involved this year to doing a massive fantasy WW1 game between German Goblins and British Hobbits and Russian Dwarves... the table was great work, but it actually required the creation of two new ranges of figures just so the Hasslefree Kindred had someone to fight against...
Frothers had 4 tables this year, the above FWW1 game, a fleet scale Babylon 5 game, Frothy Races with bonkers chariots and Shadow Over Froth Street - a Cthulhu fest over Rev Nice's black and white printed scenery which went on to win Most Innovative Game, which was 2 years running for Frothers and that award... sadly, I have no decent pictures of any of them, not being tied to a table this year I really took my time wandering about and missed the home-side stuff... ooopsCrooked Dice had a couple of tables this year, a big game of On Her Majesty's Crooked Service...
inside the lair...
and they also had some small quick play games, this one was Fiddlers Green and was just a really nice, simple and good looking little board... love it...
always a highlight to look at was the Oshiro Terrain table... stunning Japanese eye candy which my photos don't do justice to... if I had the space and the money...
the Warlords put on a Captain Scarlet road game, using various diecast cars and figures from Crooked Dice...
various other games included a historical WW1 game where shelling caused a river to burst it's banks and reduce the battlefield to a floodplain... I'd never seen anything like it before from a gaming point of view and thought it was a great idea... aside from historical accuracy, it just looked good...
I quite liked the look for the massive Sevastapol game...
a Doctor Who game using the Character Building figures (essentially not-Lego)...
a really nice table for some Roman bashing action... the celtic village was nicely done and the terrain as a whol was something I'd love for my Folk Horror stuff... again, space and money...
and as far as we could work out down the pub after the show, this won best game this year, but have no idea what it was all about... used a lot of Ainsty terrain though...
there were a great many things to see - a couple of Oriental Fantasy games with some nice boards, a quite impressive Napoleonic land and sea game and more than a couple VSF games...managed to pick up some goodies - the much needed extra heads and some not-Federation Security troops from Crooked Dice, a really nice resin stone circle that was cheaper than if I'd have built it myself, some Warlord ECW clubmen (annoyingly they'd sold out of the dead animals), some flower tufts for bases and a new 4ground release - strictly speaking a medieval hovel, but it will work as an older building...
