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Battleground 2025

Back to the teeside show this time in Middlesbrough.

My Previous visit was to the Stockton venue

https://thewargamingerratic.home.blog/2023/11/26/battleground-on-tees/

Last year I missed out on this great show.

So on with this year’s attractions……

Crusading with never mind the billhooks
Currently a very popular offering
A Seven years stunner in flats
A giant demo table
Flats are great especially en masse – Austrians including grenze border troops
Prussians march as well
A great Prussian cavalry flank
The massed cavalry look eye catching
One of the flat benefits can be seen here – many troops in a small space gives in my view a better view than with fully round figures.
Austrian cavalry mass for an attack
Each flat is unique in design and sculpture which adds to the effect
The inevitable downside view with 2D models in a 3D scape

Next up 2nd Punic war …..

trebbia was the game
This was a played game – later on the Roman wings were crumbling
An ACW demo game of little round top
Excellent scenic affair
The confederates march
These rebels were painted with oils
Tiger miniatures produce an eclectic range including turn of the century US forces expanding its borders at the expense of Spain
Nice mapping

Operation Barbarossa 1941……

Extensive steppe in this action between German and Russian forces.

Now over to the squabbling British……

War of the three kingdoms 1639-1651 although you could call it the second one Hundred Years’ War given it got going between 1639 and 1642 while it only ended with Culloden in 1746.
Witches brewing! Where is Duncan?
Nicely presented tabletop and it was being gamed I think
Another proper Ancients bash – the battle of Raphia

Then it was Raphia again this time using hexes

I used to have a complete hex board for 6×4 all nicely flocked but in the end I found the hexes a distraction – compare with previous pics and take your pick
Wakefield wargamers did World War Two in an hour – an excellently crafted home built board game but with wargames quality figures, but this time not a hex in sight – the land and sea was laser cut curves – I forgot to get a picture.
Their stand showed the club activity and next up is historically their RECON show in Pudsey now run by Pit Gaming and it’s certainly worth a visit

I don’t tend to share loot stories much ……

My loot photos only because I had “no plans” to buy anything except some secondhand warhammer space marines (which I failed to do) for a friend
Yep – having no plan can sometimes result in the unexpected wallet dent

Luckily I have been asked a few times if I want anything for Christmas – so that’s sorted now.