Broadside 2012 Show Report and Pictures...

...maybe not very good pictures but joint second place for our demo game!

Up at 0500hrs to meet up with the rest of the rejects and pack up everything for our WW1 Battle of Amiens 1918 demo game at Broadside 2012, we arrived at about 0710hrs and the venue was open, no sign of any show boys yet (we got asked a lot if we were because of our tops I think) so we set up the table and we're done by 0800hrs (doors open at 1000hrs!!!!). So we wander and harass chat to traders and other demo gamers as they arrive until the doors open at 1000hrs.

Took some pictures of our game and some of the other demo games, we had played this game the week before and I won that as well with some help from the other boys obviously, forgot loads and some names (apologies), spoke to other wargamers and we invited some to come play a game, met fellow bloggers, Tamsin, Robert Crook, 6milphil, Whisperin' Al to name a few, spent a few quid (if you don't buy then shows will not happen.....BigLee!!!:D)

We got joint second place for our demo game due to our info, willingness to speak to people and enthusiasm........
The game was good but we there to talk to people, educate about the period and the battle, look for conscripts and promote the hobby, the show and the Rejected!

So here we go........

Assembly in progress.....

Ray...his best side!

Everything was pre-marked for a specific place on the board.....

The lesser spotted show organiser.....spotted!

What to do, what to do....everything is ready.

Shenanigans......

Ray the forager trying to get into a bag of rolls......

We played a couple of turns to get the ball rolling.......

They blow up too easily.........

We had good interest throughout the day...........

Nice WW2 game...

......air support...

...these were excellent card buildings!

The Alamo again, I love this game....

The boys from Maidstone 6mm WW2 game, it won best in show...

This contributed to the win, good information......

Clint from Anything but a One and his modern Afghan game and hand crafted boards, the man is a unique genius and a pleasure to talk to, he made the gun rack for the Aliens movie!!!!!!

The Battle of Benfleet, lovely guys, lovely stuff......

Franco Prussian Game from Real Time Wargames I believe....

"Romans go Home" from the boys at Shepway......

The main hall with a Reject for scale.........

These kids were well informed of the period and terrain.....

One of the Rejects was lured away by the gleam of a WH40K demo game......

A view of our hall and area......

My tank crosses the lines and would eventually win the game for us.......

The Rejected! 

(well most of them anyway, the others were shopping I think, picture taken by Mr.Crook!)

Compared to last year and it's first year this year was busier, better attended by traders I believe and I believe has a good future, demo gaming is fun, hard, my back is fecking killing me, I never had to smile and monitor my language so fecking much in my life but I enjoyed it and well done to the boys and girls of Broadside 2012!

.....and of course the boys of Posties Rejects!

Broadside 2012 this Sunday, Rejects WW1 Demo Game.....

.....and a story about a magic trick!

The Rejects will be at Broadside 2012 this Sunday with our WW1 Battle of Amiens 1918 demo game........

...a sneak pic of the practice demo game we played last Sunday.

......and now a story about a magic trick!

Many years ago back in Dublin, me and the boys were out drinking and we ended up in a posh hotel bar, for some reason they were hosting a magic show with a reasonably famous magician and his quite risqué magic show (amazing female assistants).

So anyway the show was good until he requested a volunteer from the audience to help with an old magic trick, my mates volunteered me and really fecking reluctantly I agreed.

He asked me to loan him my watch....... which I did, he asked me to place it in a red velvet bag that his assistant handed me...and I did, he then took the bag and with a large fecking hammer that he produced from his inside his cloak he proceeded to knock the faeces out of the bag and then he asked to go back to the seat.......

....very, very reluctantly I returned to my seat to the sound of my mates laughing their heads off, I sat down when all of a sudden the magician shouted at me and threw the red velvet bag to me......

......I reached inside the bag and took out a doughnut and I bit into it and guess what was in it...........

....JAM!!!!!!

Broadside 2012 Show Update and a Sleeping Disorder!

The Rejects as as you may know are at this show on June 10th putting on a WW1 demo game but the organisers of the show have had a problem with some advertising and the issue can be seen here at Anything but a One .........

Myself and Ray will do what we can to help with posts and shout outs (we're not that arrogant to think that this will solve the problem) but every bit helps I believe! 

If you're going or can't go put something on your blog near the time as if we don't promote shows or no-one knows about them then they'll fail to happen any more and we lose something good!

Anyway a more serious problem affecting bloggers these days.....sleeping disorder's!

While on my regular patrol at work yesterday I noticed a suspicious shape in this vehicle....

On closer inspection I noticed it's a common spotted security officer....

Who can it be?

Ray......who had a real sleeping disorder later after he got a kick in the crackers, don't let him fool you when he says he works hard....friends are such a burden!

Have a good weekend if you can as I'm off tomorrow and Saturday but back in on Sunday working with Ray!

Salute 2012, For Sale and Polo Shirts!

Ray has done a post about the Rejects on tour at Salute and out willingness to meet fellow bloggers and wargamers primarily because we can, we should, we want to and especially to put faces to names (maybe a group shot), the one thing that this blogging shenanigans has done has brought a lot of people together across the globe which can't be a bad thing and has kept me functioning as a human being for a lot longer than I was intending to!

For the love of Michael Flately take the picture as I can't hold my breath for much longer!

I'm going to Salute obviously like everybody else primarily for figures and stock or what my funds allow me to buy but I'm looking forward to meeting people (with a little trepidation because I am a little shy) that I've spoken to countless times on their blogs.

Now Ray has sorted out a time for a brief meet up at the venue (it was meant to be a pub but he's driving and can't drink, I'm not though but he is my lift!) but if you see me before that stop me and introduce yourself and while I can be politely described as a large lump (rhymes with cat) and looking like a bulldog licking piss off a nettle I am not too bad a human being as some fellow bloggers I've met in person can hopefully say!

I have organised some polo shirts for the Rejects game at Broadside 2012 (information on the side bar) and while they didn't come out exactly as I wanted they're still very acceptable, we did the shirts after speaking to and seeing other demo game clubs and groups do this for uniformity and stopping some ass crack moments! We'll probably wear them at the show....under a jacket!

After this I shaved my head!

I also have a new page at the top of the blog with a link to some stuff for sale on Ebay which funds my Shinybloodyitis disease and Salute this weekend.

We've also got an ACW game on the Sunday with a few Canadian bloggers and I'm cooking my heart attack on a plate as well.

Demo games for Wargames shows and no ass cracks, Cavalier 2012 part 2.

As I said yesterday the Rejects will be putting on a demo game at Broadside 2012 and we got a lot of advice from other gamers at the Cavalier 2012 show and some nice pictures, we're also getting polo shirts with our logo and names on them for the professional mercenary look (lots of XXXL's then)......

....we also want to be approachable (some of us will need lessons), know what we're talking about, have handouts, presentable (more about that down the page), good demo game eye candy terrain and figures and maybe even smiling (more lessons), it's about wargaming and making friends I hope and if you want to take a picture you can with maybe a sign saying that please do, BigLee said he got some smart ass comments from one table about the flash on his camera interrupting their game?

If you have any advice and have done this yourself please leave a comment as we're bloody amateurs and maybe out of our depth!

More pictures from Cavalier 2012....

This  WW2 game was from the Crawley Wargames Club and a more helpful bunch of guys you couldn't find, plenty of advice about the boards they use, figures, handouts and etiquette.....

This is a good idea and as Ray said he'e stealing it like all his ideas.....

Steve 1 (standing) and Steve 2 (apologies Steve 2 for back of head shot) but one thing he said about a demo game that stuck was appearance and ass cracks, nobody wants to approach a table and see 6 or 7 builders ass cracks and nobody willing to talk to them...... 

Ray posed for this.......

This was "The Storming of the Alamo", 6th of March 1836 from the Loughton Strike Force and this is the other type of demo game I believe which is played enthusiastically from beginning of the show until the end....

I went back several hours later and the action was getting tense as the walls had been reached.......there seemed to be a casualty figure for every single casualty caused!

One last thing and a favour, a friend of mine and Ray's has started a blog about modelling and wargaming, early stages and I will help him tweak things but he could do with a few followers over at Vinnies World, I'll make sure he follows back......:D