Alde Garde: napoleonic

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

FIGZ 2013

Already some years a show for smaller figures is held under the name FIGZ.
Last year's and this year show was held in Arnhem (yes, of "A bridge too far" fame) and, in comparison to last year, the 2013 edition grew with more wargamers had tables reserved to present their figures.
Of course, a lot of modellers showed also their, mostly of 20mm, diorames and vignettes.
These were of high quality.

We liked the show, had talkes with a lot of different people and saw some old friends.

As the building where the show was held, was divided in two parts, the left part was occupied by the wargamers clan plus the sales stands, the right side was mostly the modelling side of our hobby.

The pictures underneath are of the wargames side of the show, other pictures of (mostly) the modelling brotherhood you can find at http://www.wd3.eu/wd3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1766 and http://www.bennosfiguresforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=14096

Look, the only fight I won!!! (half of the "Achterhoede club" is really exited)

Yes, that one ( and forced me to take a second picture to save this moment in history)

figures of the Achterhoede game of around 1920

20mm viking game

the Worean team sitting exhausted, not from the sales but because they couldn't find the figz site and drove around in Arnhem.

a ww1 air game: Wings of War

Two pictures from a ww2 Bolt action game

a tank battle presented by the "Hired Gun" club from Uden. Nice to see you again.

A viking game presented by Murphys Heroes from Delft

OUR DEMO:

Overview of our 1812 Peninsular War 15mm demo game. Rules: Black Powder. The first one from the french starting position, the second one from the destination position for the French.

Or the picture from the heli we hired (thanks Patrick)

The French coming from

the mountains and have to cross the table to escape over the pontoonbridges in the foreground. The Spainish are in their back and right flank. On the plain, the British try to cut of their retreat from the right flank.

So after crossing the ravine by a bridge

Yes, this bridge.

With the first British tourists in Spain (?)

They have to cross the mountain plain via a mountain path (they have to defend to their right flank against Spanish guerillas) and

via the small mountain road

descend to the plain;

light cavalry leading

where they have to deal with the flank attack by the lobsters.

So the French deployed

Here sadly ends the report because the reporter was shot (which sounds better then the battery of the camera failed!!!)

Monday, November 5, 2012

CRISIS 2012 is over

Saturday november 3rd: Crisis 2012. A new place to go with our 15mm Napoleonic demo after years in Metropolis.
We thought it a great place, better then Metropolis and, as we were early to built up the demo, we had no problem in finding a parking space. We understood that other had, thanks to the city of Antwerp, more problems in finding some space.
There were some hick-ups at the bar facilities and at one time a looooong queue existed but we had no problems to get our needed drinks. But it was the first time in a new venue so TSoA will sort this out for next year (remember how they fixed the bad lightning in Metropolis?)

So, congratulations of the whole Alde Garde to all who were involved in planning and realising this great show and of course seeing you next year.

Of course we took some pictures (who also will appear on our website-yes we will update this in the near future) but we found that we had too little time to browse around and take pictures, talk to people and do shopping. Must plan better next year.

Worean: Rokes drift

1793: Vendee in 15mm

De achterhoede: Indonesia 1941

Napoleonic 25mm by Stipzisc Huzaren

Lla Grande Armee: siege of Haarlem

Barry Hiltons' Warfare miniatures and table

And of course, some pictures of our 1812 demo:
We used Black Powder as rulesset and the figures were 15mm Minifigs, Essex, Warmodelling and various other makers.