Warfare 2023

 I spent two days over the weekend at Warfare running the Guildford Club Demonstration game  "Guildford 1940" - a sealion game in 20mm using Rapid Fire Reloaded rules and (mostly) my 20mm early war collection (including a lot of Airfix figures).

The game board was 2' by 12' and represented a slice of surrey countryside very close to where the club meets and was brilliantly put together by Martin Burford. It is based on an attack in on the GHQ line in a book about the sealion invasion that sees the germans coming up through Guildford.

We had a force of germans entering from the south, a recce group coming through middle and paratroopers landing at the far end (opposed by home guard).

We won the Most Innovative Demo Game award and talked to a LOT of people - my voice is quite croaky today.

Here are the very few pics of the game I managed to take first thing on Saturday.

Warfare seemed well attended and they had more through the door on the Saturday then last year.  I spoke to some traders and they seemed happy with takings. There were a few of the normal trders missing such as Colonel Bills (Stu is no longer doing 2 day shows). Plastic Soldier Company, Peter Pig, etc but I think this is a reflection of traders getting older and attending fewer show, and people's mail order picking up and staying strong during and after lockdowns.

There were plenty of newer traders who I hadn't seen before - mainly scenery and 3d printing companies - there does seem a lack of new figure companies breaking into the market.

The only comment I would make is that the demo games could have been better spaced out with larger gaps between them for people to move and stop and chat.  It all felt a little cramped at times.

But, all in all, an enjoyable weekend. 

We have been asked by a couple of other shows if we would take the game to their shows next year and we are discussing that at the moment.