Again an Open day at the Dutch Artillery Museum

 As Alde Garde we presented a French Revolutionary wargame at the Open Museum Day of the Dutch Artillery Museum. Our whole car was filled with stuff: 

Already our fifth (or more?) year that we visited the open day, it is always a great event in our eyes. 
Next to our game there were four WW2 games and one 2mm game of

The day itself was sunny and a lot of people found their way to the artillery museum and all the events that took place. I understand from the people we spoke (and we spoke a lot!) that they enjoyed themselves with all that could be seen at the open day. 
Of course there is the museum but also the artillery material (old and modern) that was exhibited along roads, between barracks etc. Also you could ride with trucks, bands were playing, kids were entertained, groups in historical uniforms were giving presentations etc etc. The Dutch army presented itself in a very good way!

As a lot of people found their way to the wargame section, we got a constant stream of visitors to our table. We have talked to whole families (from grandparents to children in a pram), veterans of the artillery regiments, groups of friends etc. Some were very interested, some couldn't believe grown up men play with soldiers and everything in between. But a lot of visitors appreciated the effort which goes into presenting the game, make terrain, painting figures etc.
As always; our Milka cow is a hit and we had a scoop: our Milka cow had give birth to 2 young cows. So the family is expanding! (sadly, no pictures are available).

To be honest, we talked so much (something like grandpa is talking about history - we are both 71) that playing the game became second. I think we have finished 2 or 3 turns at the most. But we liked it very much.

And of course; thanks to Ludwig, the organiser of the wargames section. We love to participate next year again.
When you want a great day, visit the artillery museum open day in September 2027. For the correct date in 2027 go to artilleriemuseum

Underneath are some pictures of our game, then the  other games but starting with some pictures I took when parking the car. We didn't have time (as explained above) to visit the whole exhibition.

Our table:

    

                

the other presentations:

the 2 mm wargame!

Open Day at the Artilery museum at Oldenbroek

 Again, this year at Open Munumentsday (September 12th 2026) the Barracks at Oldenbroek (the Artillery museum) opens their door for people who are interested.

Their programm is underneath.

As Alde Garde we will be there with an French Revolution game in 28mm. Hope to see you there!

Open Monumentendag op de Legerplaats bij Oldebroek 

Op 12 september opent Legerplaats bij Oldebroek tussen 10:00 en 16:00 uur haar deuren.

Op het programma:

• Oud en nieuw (artillerie) materieel (static show)
• Re-enactment door Schutterij Den Bosch, KNIL en Stichting IJssellinie
• Militaire muziek door het Reünieorkest Artillerie
• Garrison Artillerie Veterans met 25-ponder demonstraties op diverse tijden
• Wargaming
• Kramen met militaria 
• Veteranenontmoetingscentrum geopend

• Te bezoeken:

• Nederlands Artillerie Museum
• Museum Rijdende Artillerie
• Nederlands Inlichtingenmuseum

 Praktische informatie

• Adres: Eperweg 149, 't Harde (Legerplaats bij Oldebroek)
• Datum: zaterdag 12 september
• Tijd: 10.00 tot 16.00 uur
• Toegang: gratis toegang, uitsluitend via de Bovenpoort op de Wolterberg/Knobbel. Dit is niet de reguliere ingang van de Legerplaats bij Oldebroek. Volg ter plaatse de aanwijzingen van de verkeersleiders voor de route en het gratis parkeren.

FIGZ 2026

It was years ago that we (Alde Garde) put on a wargames demo at FIGZ, in fact we must go back to 2019 for our last wargames demo at FIGZ!

Holidays, COVID, two shows planned on the same day etc are the reason that we could not attend FIGZ. And we really missed it.

So we were glad that after that many years (7 to be precise) we were welcome at the show to present our early 80 Years War demo (played with Pikemans Lament).
Due to the available space, it was a smaller demo then at Geel but that didn't matter as it played as nice as the bigger one.

As always FIGZ is simply great, maybe smaller then most shows but that is the beauty in our opinion. There are modellers presenting their new made models (and showing how it is done), a painting competition, stands of small manufacturers with great stuff and some other retailers of games, figures and models,  a layout of Waterloo with hundreds of 20mm figures and last but nog least some wargames tables with various periods as theme.
But; most importantly it is a friendly show, more of friends meeting once a year and talk about last year, their projects, new material etc. Maybe you can compare it with a clubnight. 

If you want to visit next year (June 6th 2027), look at their Facebook site (FIGZ) or their new website figz.nl .

We use Pikemans Lament rules for our demo but instead of one we use 3 companies each. The used statistics for the are:

Pictures are underneath; starting with some of our table

the wargame section 

Organisers stand

Waterloo in 20mm

From Remco,a hobby in itself; collecting Romans from the comics of Asterix. Now almost reaching a 1000 pieces.

Compagnie d'elite; resin models

To our regret we had some very bad pictures of the modelling part so these could not reproduced 😌

Scale World Geel

Wow, I noticed, it is a long time ago that we published here on our blog. Sorry for that but on we go.

On the last day of May, it was again to Scaleworld Show in Geel (Belgium). Organised already for years by the modelling club KMK (the Blue shirts), it was a modelling show but for some years also wargames find their place at the Show.

First of course, a great "thank you" to all members of KMK for organising this show; this year they had the extra problem of a venue (Thoman Moor school) which is in transit with buildings being torn down so a lot of modellers and wargames had to be placed somewhere in the remaining buildings.
But they succeed in doing it, put on a great show and the members of the club stayed friendly and helpfull all the way; our sincere thanks and congrats to the club!!

As said, the majority of the visitors are modellers and they presented a lot of quality models in a lot of catagories; from air, land and sea, small and great, historical and fiction.
We took pictures of some models but when we saw the pictures of models on the facebooksite of KMK we think it would better to give you the link https://www.facebook.com/kmk.scaleworld/?locale=nl_NL and look for yourselves.

So, all that remains are some pictures of the wargames that were presented by various clubs. And sorry that we didn`t noted the names of the various clubs.

This club we know, the bottles betrayed them; the Red Barons from Gent with their Franco-Prussian game played with the new rules "Kepis and bayonets"

The Berlin wargame of De Witte Ridder club

And then some pictures of our wargame: the early 80 Years War (around 1575) situated "somewhere"in the Netherlands.
Figures 28mm and mostly from TAG (The Assault Groep) which are specific for this period and they are looking great!
We used Pikemans Lament as rules but of course some specific adaptions for this period were used. Also we used more companies then the rules suggest in using but in our humble opinion, they worked very good.