Elvington 2010 show pics

First up I'd like to apologize for the lack of activity on the site lately, have just been too busy to put anything up. Secondly I'd like to welcome all the new followers, thanks for joining and hope you enjoy the site.
Right, onto the main subject of this post. The Elvington show was on the 8th and 9th of May. The YCW bunch went there both days to put on a series of games demonstrating the range of stuff we do.

We started the day off in the usual manner of refuelling ourselves for the day ahead with the traditional "fat boy's breakfast".


We then set about getting the table ready, here's Tim's "Toy Soldiers" game, notice the Briton's cows in the field, a nice little touch I think.

This was an interesting little game near to ours, it aimed to compress the whole of WWII into a tactical map based game, quite nifty.

Here's a few of the other games that were being played in the hanger.


















Back on our table we set up a range of other games including, WWI, Colonial, Fantasy and ACW





Here's the backdrop to the show, rather impressive, I can't think of any other shows with a backdrop to match.
To cap off what was already a great day, our group was awarded runner up for the best participation game. Here's Tim accepting the prize.

and finally a close up of the trophy.
Well, I hope you all enjoyed the pictures and I will try not to leave such a large space of time between posts next time lol.

A weeks gaming in a nutshell

Well, I've managed to cram a fair bit of gaming into one week. Last Sunday I called round to Alex's place after work to catch the end of his DBN game which looked very impressive. I got some pictures of the game, I'm sure there will be a battle report up soon.











On Friday I called in at Peeler's gaffe for a game. Alex had brought an ACW variant of DBN to play. The game was played using 1/72 plastics which seem to be appearing more and more in the games that we do, and why not they're a perfect way to game as they don't cost as much as the usual stuff we use. I didn't get any photos of this but I'm sure Peeler will have some to put up on his blog.

Then today I went along to the York wargames show. Unfortunately Peeler had to give it a miss due to work so I went along on my own. It was a good show and I got some good stuff on the bring & buy along with the rest of the stuff I needed for the Elvington game. Here are some pictures of some of the games.























I left the show at about 12:30 as I was in need of something to eat and the cafe at the show was packed out, so after escaping from the mud in the car park I set off for home, stopping off at a nice little fish and chip place on the A64, the same one we called at on the way back from Leeds. I got home at about 3:00. All in all it was a good show and a good way to kick off the wargames show calendar. Bring on Elvington!