A few weeks ago I attended the Partizan show at Newark. I was there with Wargame Developments' Cursus Honorum II participation game and in between running the game and chatting to old friends I managed to suffer a 'retail incident' (of which more in a future post) and take a few photos of other games.
This noteworthy tabletop was a Punic Wars game in 1/32 scale - hurrah for big toys! The elephants were quite something.
I also played Graham Evans's very splendid Battle of Northampton game. This is appearing at several shows and I urge you to have a go. It features no toy soldiers whatsoever - the large blocks represent 'battles' and banners are removed to reflect casualties. I managed to suffer a sound defeat but I feel that my pre-battle burning of Northampton was at least a moral victory!
8 comments:
Thank Dickens for cheap(ish) 1/32. My eyes can't do smaller anymore.
Stephen Briddon
To be fair, you are looking at them from several thousand miles away....
LOL, that's alright Tim, I can't control my spending demons either....)
But at least you had fun!
I always love to see elephant conversions. And the Punic Wars let you use all those African elephants. I often wonder if the Carthaginians ever used any of the bigger African elephants or only the North African ones (now extinct.
What are the light cavalry made from?
Don M
I think I'll run out of space before you!
James James
I suspect most of the figures are by HAT - but i only had a brief chat with the presenter.
Yes, they mainly looked like big versions of the HaT 1/72nd scale Punic Wars figures.
Martin Rapier
And with your heavy investment in 1/72 HAT, you'd know!
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