Salute 53

We went to Salute and had a great day. Susan and I played in a game of What a Tanker, run by Joe Bilton, which won the Silver Gold trophy for best participation game. I got to drive a damaged Char B1, with two Panzer IIIs gunning for me, I ended up ramming one of them in desperation, as I only rolled move dice. 

We toured the hall afterwards, and I introduced myself to the CGL demo agents running BattleTech.

As the kids say, I farmed some aura. I told them I was the former FASA freelancer who wrote the all but one of the Clan 2C mechs for the 3055 TRO, back in the day.

We stumbled across the Gundam Assemble game being demoed, and I think the minis are going to be a big hit with mecha fans everywhere.

This Konflict 47 board caught my eye too. The Axis mecha looking alien like was cool.

At 14.00  we went and listened to the Professional Wargaming panel. I know Dave Manley, and he and the other panelists did a good job of describing the wargames they've run for the MoD and Civil Service, and my takeaway was the importance of immersion where story is everything.

And no show report would be complete without a picture of haul. The Battle Group book I picked up for Paul, who now needs to let me know where he wants me to post it (he's gallivanting around the world for work).

The MDF paint rack, Susan bought for me, because she wants my paints organized better.

I picked up my Maschinen Krieger from Drew Edney of Slave2Gaming himself. It was super nice to meet, put a face to the name, and jaw on about SF wargaming, which we surprisingly shared similar views about about.

I bought a copy of O Group, not because I'm getting into WW2 (I can barely keep up with Ogre and my mecha ambitions), but because I want to read the rules for phase lines, which is something I'd like to include in any set of rules I might write.

I picked up end of line sale six pack of 0 to 5 of nice sable brushes from ABC Brushes.

The final  splurge, and boy did I splurge this year, was some packs of Crow Industries Clan Elementals, which I plan to convert into FATS-Cs; Chinese fatties from Bad Dog.

That's it for now, catch you on the bounce.