Partizan – The Wargaming Erratic

On an unseasonally warm October Sunday I journeyed to Newark for the second Partizan show of the year.

It was busy – I am on the hard road by the other show building on the site – the car park was as full as I have seen it. Being a tin shed, in the distance – hot weather is not ideal – but the organisers had lots of fans and did a good job on ventilation.

Traffic was light so I got there early and decided to get some fresh air for half an hour before opening time: I queued. Upside of queuing was I got to see the demo games pretty much people free

I think this was Shrewsbury wargames club – in this case I was too early 🙂 just sheep grazing…..

I toured the demos before checking out HLBSCo for some plastic figure possibilities – I drew a blank.

Earnest discussions at the 1/72 table – Mr John Kersey I presume – all set for some boxing antics chinese style

Boondock Sayntes provided an impressive display

I am not sure which club this was – they did the biscotti wars – offering samples to enjoy – given its Garibaldi on the table you can guess the variety. These are Piedmontese troops

The scenery was eye catching and this was a well laid out participation game by Chesterfield I think.

Again I failed to note the club but I always like a balloon

I think this is Grimsby Club with an impressive medieval encounter

Gangs of Rome participation game with some nice colour in the buildings

Like a Stonewall WGC offered up a Neil Thomas rules normans encounter – again participation plus you can also sense we were at capacity for layout and access space

A good display siege at the end of the gaming area

Simon of MeG is publishing a renaissance ruleset in 2024 (ReG?) and put on a demo he devoted some time to our conversation which I appreciated – I also liked the 30 year old hinchliffe figures below. It will be interesting to see the time spread and also focus of this rule set.

Chris at Northampton battlefields society – joe ekins takes out 3 tigers participation

Going to Partizan – Operation Totalise

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never take an untried new phone to a show – I had plenty of wrong focus results – the new phone seemed to have a mind of its own………the trees are in focus though! Which is a pity as I liked this ACW encounter

General Sikorski was the freebie this year.

Overall I enjoyed this partizan although somehow I think I prefer the May offering-not sure why?

I also missed the 1848 Hungarian war table, never went back to biscotti for some sharp practice or go for the boxing although I did chat with quite a few people perhaps more than I normally do – that I think is a good thing in these testing times.