So, in the blink of a blurry eye Salute 2016 has been and gone. For the WI team it was a great day, meeting our readers, running the Hobby University* and the Participation Zone and getting to see some great games.
In the forthcoming two issues of the magazine – WI335 and WI336 – you will see a full report on the show and some in depth photos of the best games and painting comp winners. WI Prime and Interactive readers will also see get to see videos of some of the best games from the show. But for now here’s a quick look at some of the action from the show via our point and shoot camera.
P.S. It goes without saying these photos barely scratch the surface of what was going on at the show!
*Big thanks to Victrix, Warlord Games, Perry Miniatures and Warlord Games for helping us out with the Hobby U.
Eager gamers queuing to get in
A helicopter view of the hall (just prior to kick off)
Eager gamers queuing to subscribe!
The Wargames Illustrated sponsored Mad Max – Stop the Truck game (WI Prime Members search the Vault for ‘Stop the Truck’ to see more on this game).
The Wargames Illustrated sponsored Sidewinder Air Combat game (released by Caliver Books in the Summer, more on this forthcoming in WI)
More Sidewinder action
More Mad Max action
More Mad Max – Stop the Truck
A Stop the Truck game in full swing
Wargames Illustrated ‘Saving Prince Kashin’ game. This board was a ‘recycled’ version of our Gettysburg Little Round Top hill from two years ago. For more information on the recycling project see WI342.
The last few packets of our Michael Perry designed free sub figures. Available next at Historicon (… then Crisis, then Tactica)
The Wargames illustrated sponsored ‘Go Team. Go’ Team Yankee game presented by Captain Kitbash and the Leicester Phat Cats. (Thanks to Battlefront Europe for their help with this one).
More Team Yankee action
Bill Gaskin’s (fictitious) Seven Years War Battle of Wilhelmstadt game
The Battle of Wilhelmstadt game – look out for more on this game in a future issue of WI (we will be visiting Bill’s gaming room to photograph it soon)
The Battle of Wilhelmstadt game
The Battle of Wilhelmstadt game
The Battle of Wilhelmstadt game – WI Prime members – search The Vault for ‘gaskin’ to see loads more of Bill Gaskin’s stuff from the back issue pages of WI.
Over on the Battlefront stand, top figure designer Tim Adcock was sharing his secrets with the public
From screen to plastic production – Tim tells all
Battlefront were also showcasing their new ‘entry level’ Tanks game
Tanks!
Tank-tastic (X-Wing for treadheads)
Going, going… Battlefront ‘Tanks’ game was flying (or should that be rolling) off the shelves.
What if Essex had gone to Bristol – An English Civil War demo game by Neil Trew of the Crewe and Nantwich Wargames Club
What if Essex had gone to Bristol – Prime members check out the previous incarnation of this table by searching for the Battle of Worcester in The Vault
The Bristol docks
Bristol docks again
Bristol circa 1643
The Wargames Illustrated Hobby University
Busy young wargames at the WI Hobby U
Ian Smith and Friends, The Battle of Adrades, Peninsular war 1811. Based on the Sharpe books
The Battle of Adrades. We are going to be featuring this game in detail in a future issue of the magazine.
The Battle of Adrades
Wargaming’s favourite artist Peter Dennis (left) and Andy Callan play a game of ‘Paper Soldiers’ using figures designed by Peter and rules written by Andy.
Prime members search for Paper Soldiers in the vault for more 2D gaming fun
The Perrys and The Snook at their stand
Perry Mins Cape Wars diorama. Check out Wargames Illustrated Interactive (our tablet magazine) to see ‘spin arounds’ of these figures.
Ron Ringrose and the Essex Gamesters present their Nam game. Check out the current issue of Wargames Illustrated (WI342) for much more on this game
More Nam
Loads more Nam in WI342
The new “Tower’ from Renedra
Gripping Beast’s Swordpoint demo table
More Swordpoint action – big battles ancient and medieval rules
Sword point figures painted by expert bushman Wyn Rogers
More of Wyn’s work
54mm Napoleonic’s on the beautiful Victrix table
54mm Victrix cav
54mm Napoleonics by Victrix
Paul Sawyer of Warlord Games pieces together a giant sized biker game model
Warlord sculpter Steve Saleh
New/forthcoming from Warlord Games
New/forthcoming from Warlord Games
More Warlord demoing
Warlord’s new plastic castle – The Citadel
Gates of Antares (with it’s creator Rick in the background)
A closer look
Another Gates of Antares table
The Bolt Action tank battle table
Winter War table
Featuring some great detail
More on this table in a future issue of WI
Winter War – By the Loughton Strike Force
The rather massive 4Ground stand
4Ground’s new well
New 4Ground ‘street furniture’
New Chicago Way 4Ground buildings
4Ground Frostgrave demo table
4Ground Iron Cross demo table
4Ground Dead Man’s Hand demo table
4Ground City blocks
4Ground Sci-Fi demo table
4Ground Fantasy buildings
4Ground WWII Buildings
4Ground desert buildings