Andy and I braved the traffic by driving to Excel yesterday for Salute 2015. Last time we went was 2007 - the first year it moved from Earl's Court to Docklands. This inevitably adds hours to the travel time. Was it worth yet? Definitely yes. A cavernous hall with over 150 traders and incredibly over 100 demonstration and participation games. So much to see we never found time to sit down and play any. Lots of goblins and zombies stuff to ignore and plenty of proper historical things to see. Resin models almost disappeared now and the air was rich with the aroma of laser cut MDF.
And even the extra hour or so across Central London has the benefit of passing most London highlights - the Museums, Harrods, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square and more - although there is the share of lowlights too - mine was the gold-plated/wrapped Ferrari we saw in Knightsbridge. #wereallinthistogether :-(
Almost all of my purchases were for my new Samurai project so I'll blog about those separately. This posting will highlight the favourite game tables we saw.
The feature game from the Warlords who put on Salute was a great Stingray game, with the players given caps to wear and rudder wheels.
I was obviously looking at the various Samurai games for inspiration:
Other highlights included a WW1 game with a massive Zeppelin:
A Dambusters game with bouncing bomb splash markers and a breachable dam:
A game played inside the many levels of a Russian cold war ship:
A James Bond ski-chase game (with magnetised figures of course!):
A Wicker Man!
A rather nice looking Star Wars game:
An amazing layout with ships (mostly old ship models that had been bought up, had the keels cut off, and re-rigged):
Another ship game with ships mounted on dolleys (no, it wasn't a fantasy flying ship game - they had just got fed up of playing on the floor!):
Lastly, a wonderfully detailed WW2 game with tons of scenery and plenty of loose rubble. Looked amazing, must have taken all evening to pack away:
And even the extra hour or so across Central London has the benefit of passing most London highlights - the Museums, Harrods, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square and more - although there is the share of lowlights too - mine was the gold-plated/wrapped Ferrari we saw in Knightsbridge. #wereallinthistogether :-(
Almost all of my purchases were for my new Samurai project so I'll blog about those separately. This posting will highlight the favourite game tables we saw.
The feature game from the Warlords who put on Salute was a great Stingray game, with the players given caps to wear and rudder wheels.
I was obviously looking at the various Samurai games for inspiration:
Other highlights included a WW1 game with a massive Zeppelin:
A Dambusters game with bouncing bomb splash markers and a breachable dam:
A game played inside the many levels of a Russian cold war ship:
A James Bond ski-chase game (with magnetised figures of course!):
A Wicker Man!
A rather nice looking Star Wars game:
An amazing layout with ships (mostly old ship models that had been bought up, had the keels cut off, and re-rigged):
Another ship game with ships mounted on dolleys (no, it wasn't a fantasy flying ship game - they had just got fed up of playing on the floor!):
Lastly, a wonderfully detailed WW2 game with tons of scenery and plenty of loose rubble. Looked amazing, must have taken all evening to pack away:
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