The Other Partizan 2023…

Greetings…

This weekend I headed off to the Other Partizan at Newark Showground…

My friend Jervis picked myself,Allessio and Chris who was over from the US…up at an ungodly time of day and we all headed off to assist with the Perry’s Franco-Prussian game…

I say assist… Jervis was running it… Allessio and Chris fought each other… And I avoided lifting things 🤣…

This years show was excellent…

There were loads of lovely games and toys to see… 

It was a lot busier than I expected and unnaturally warm for this time of year…Even when they opened all the doors.

For me this did not diminish any of the fun I had.

I got the chance to meet up with and chat to lots of old and new friends which is one of my favourite things about going to shows like this… Even being there all day I still managed to miss bumping into some people…

The standard of the games were very high… I took lots of pictures…Sadly not all of them came out in focus… Fortunately other people in the blogosphere have covered some of the things I missed…

So….

Some pictures….

The Perry’s Franco-Prussian game… Unfortunately I didn’t get a picture of Allessio’s French Light Cavalry slaughtering Chris’s Prussian Heavies…

I may have been too busy laughing 😁… I wonder if I was sitting too close to the action and confused the Dice Gods…

The Battle of Oltenitza 1853 by the Gothenburg Gamers…

This is a Russo-Turkish action in what would eventually be called the Crimean War… The toys are from the collection of my old friend Dave O’Brien …

I’ve watched Dave put this collection together and it is really refreshing to see a ‘Crimean War’ game without the British or French.

Old Pikey’s Operation Resolute…

A fictitious battle for the West German town of Warendorf set in 1987… Quite tank-tastic.

As to be expected…Beautiful stuff from the Boondock Sayntes…

The Iron Brigade’s Winter is Here game…

This sent a very pleasant chill through a rather warm hall…

The very delightful Siege of Hennebont from The Bodkins…

This won the Best of Show… The fear comes over me imagining painting all that heraldry…

A lovely ‘Set the East Ablaze’ game from the League of Extraordinary Kreigspielers.

A game from the Very British Civil War Forum…Nice Blues and Royals.

The Battle of Hargicourt 1918 from The Grimsby Wargames Society.

English Civil War action from the Shrewsbury Wargames Society…

The Defence of Calais from 1st Corps…

A Never Mind the Boat Hooks participation game…

My buddy Peter Dennis does Paper Tanks… Awesome.

Giant Risk from… Today’s Foxes ?

Yup!…That is exactly what it was 😁… I loved it… Wargamers just having fun.

Daleks and Cybermen from the Chesterfield Open Gaming Society…

Yes yes yes… Terrain made from household bits and bobs… there is a bit of a vacuum/hoover in there.

I loved this…Well thought out and beautifully presented.

Every Partizan I get to judge and present the Adrian Shepherd Award for the Best Tabletop Vignette…

And the winner is……

A knight getting his spurs… By Matt Bickley.

Beautiful…

Did I buy anything… 🙄

Books… What a surprise 😂🤣😂…

More wildlife… I have entertaining plans for these…

Fleshing out the paint stocks…

War of Austrian Succession toys from Flags of Wars…

I may start painting some of this soon… I believe I might have said this was a retirement project… But!

Last but by no means least…

I thought this was great…

I was off work today because I had a number of  different builders coming round to hit my house about… So… I sat in the garden and read it from cover to cover…

A fantastic look back to how all of this delightful nonsense started… Thank you Charles.

All the best.  Aly

The Other Partizan... The Booty...

Of course I forgot to post pictures of my booty... (ooo!Eer!)

I already have this book... as should we all...
But this second edition has some nice artwork from my friend Mark Allen... and I had money in my pocket...
I highly recommend it by the way... a jolly good read.

Well you can never have enough books on the Swiss in French service... honest.

Lets not forget the lead...
Some really important really needed Russians for the Russo-Japanese War from Empress Miniatures... This is a 'next year' thing...


Not a lot really... I clearly need to try harder... that lead mountain doesn't build itself...


All the best   Aly