The open Munumentendag at the Dutch Artillery museum was great.
A nice sunny day (well, most of the day, it ended in heavy rain) resulted in a lot of visitors (a lot more then expected!) at the museum, the various information stands from the museum and other organisations, the displayed guns/trucks/material etc and of course also at the NCO mess were the wargames were located.
Some 6 wargames tables were presented; two WW2 games, two ACW games (28mm and 15mm), one KNIL game (1879 or was it 1897?) in the Atjeh war period and of course our 1511 game: Siege of Venlo.
The nicest thing (at least we think so) is, that visitors aren't the "normal" wargamers but whole families who spent their saturday at the Open day and have no clue what wargames are, how they play and what it represent. So we were talking a lot ( really a lot!) to people, explaining what wargaming is and show how rules work etc. You get the picture.
Some visitors probably thought that wargamers are weird (grown men playing with miniatures) but a lot also liked it very much, admired the tables, talked about the modelling aspect and find the history part interesting.
So thanks for the Dutch Artillery Museum to invite us and of course special thanks to Ludwig van Dijk who organised the whole thing for us. Of course, we hope to visit and participate again next year.
And then of course some pictures (what is a blog without them); starting with our table and then from the other ones.
Our game is situated in the early renaissance period during the Guelders War. We used Pike&Shotte.
Other pictures fromthat day (some from Arthur, hope he doesn't mind that we use them here also as some of ours were not good).
From the 28mm ACW game:
They used these Osprey rules. And the author was playing them!
and pictures of the KNIL game using home made rules.
