On Saturday March 10th a bunch of us from the Little Wars Revisited 54mm Wargames Forum met up in Woking, Surrey for a day of 54mm wargaming. The idea behind the day was to play a number of different games with different rulesets and see what other people did with 54mm wargaming and experience some new things as well as meet up with some people in Real Life for the first time.
The venue was Christchurch, a church in the very centre of Woking.
There were 5 games run on the day with people switching games between the morning and afternoon sessions.
First up, I ran my game of The Portable Wargame by Bob Cordery using the same scenery, Little Wars Revisited figures and scenario that we had used for the Cavalier game.
Anthony Morton brought along his ECW collection and and ran a game using the Pikeman's Lament ruleset by Dan Mersey.
Alistair Jack ran a North West Frontier scenario with the British rescuing a garrison from hordes of Pathans using The Sword and The Flame ruleset from Larry Brom.
Eric Kemp and his son Jon ran a Napoleonic game using their own homegrown rules featuring a mass of Fench (160 figures!) assaulting La Haye Sainte against a few plucky British.
Brian Carrick ran a Lion Rampant game (again, rules by Dan Mersey) with English and French medieval armies clashing - featuring some very clever conversion (crossbow men from ww2 figures...)
We played a game in the morning, broke for lunch in the excellent church cafe downstairs and then played a second game in the afternoon. After clearing up a few of us retired to the local Turkish restaurant for an evening meal and more discussions of 54mm figures and wargaming.
All in all, a fun day and something that I have already been asked about repeating next year.