Saturday, 26 April 2025

Guards of Traitors Toll


I can be quite a hobby butterfly, flitting from one project to the next. Jumping in and out of different game systems from any type of genre. However I have recently heavily invested in Guards of Traitors Toll. Graham Davey the designer of the Samurai game Test of Honour and 0200 Hours, the WW2 night time raiding game, has now had his new game published.

You can find out all the information about the game Guards of Traitors Toll here.

Below is the first Guard Squad/Patrol that I have painted up. The models are all Wargames Atlantic's new Fantasy Guard miniatures and includes one of their Halfling Militia and one Landsknecht Ogre miniature.

The Stat cards for the guards do not differentiate Races, but there are attribute cards such as Slight and Heavy which you could attribute to highlight the likes of Dwarves, Ogres etc.

So to introduce Lady Merron's, East Watch, Paunsdorf Street Guardhouse.

Members

Watch Captain Sigismund Von der Tann


Watch Sergeant Piotr Kreuth


Watch Constable Karl Fussen


Watch Constable Felix Jachenau


Watch Constable Hilda Krun


Watch Constable Olaf Dinklesbuhl


Watch Constable Gerhard Muhldorf


Watch Constable Tarfen Kleines


Watch Constable (Heavy) Ziegel Nebengebaude


The Paunsdorf Pounders

Saturday, 19 April 2025

Happy Easter

Not into the religious significance for this part of the year but Happy Easter ! 




 

Monday, 14 April 2025

Salute 2025

 Another year and another Salute. The largest wargames show in the UK and one I pretty much make sure I attend every year, as April is my birthday month. However this year for some reason I cant quite explain, I wasn't really feeling it.

Things were not made much better on arrival at the Excel centre in London, to see an officious florescent vest wearing minion, you smugly told us that parking was only for the pre-booked? and oh I suppose you dont know eh? well of you go down the road and you might get parked near the rowing club! now fortunately I didn't have the same altercation as my friend Ray, see his blog post here. Well no where on South London Warlords or Excels site was anything mentioned about the parking issues. Anyway finally got parked, did the 15 minute walk over to Excel and joined the maddening hordes in the queue. We all know the queue, but this year did seem to go a lot more smoothly.



As for the show. I believe over 7000 attended this year. The morning seemed very busy but it tailed of in the afternoon and the hall felt a lot more spacious as there seemed to be a lack of traders and the games were the usual mix of clubs who put great games on but didn't want to interact with the public to very small, niche demo games with great enthusiastic demonstrators. 

I didn't have a big shopping list this time round and had already pre-ordered some stuff to collect and didn't get to play many games as nothing was really gripping me. However I played a fantastic game of Hairfoot Jousting, which was Halflings riding animals jousting in an arena. A fabulously hilariously fun game!

As mentioned I wasn't really feeling it this year, so the show for me was a bit lackluster - however I had a lovely day catching up with friends new and old, bloggers, gamers and people in the industry I've know for ages.

Some of my favourite people are Michael and Jo at Oathsworn Miniatures, Karl and Anna at Crooked Dice Miniatures, Wayne at Tangent Miniatures and Alex and his family at Warp miniatures amongst others.

                                                                  Some of the Games




















                                                                           My Friends

Gordon GCT Studios

Ray, Me, Lee

Michael Oathsworn Miniatures

Jo Oathsworn Miniatures

Duncan Rhodes

Michael and Alan Perry

Wayne Tangent Miniatures

Karl and Anna Crooked Dice

Wendy West Wind Productions

Richard Clarke Two Fat Lardies

Me, Lee, Ray

Wing, Dawn, Rob and Alex Warp Miniatures

The Blog Squad

The Obligatory Swag pic

Not a lot of loot this year, picked up the new Second Edition Burrows and Badgers rulebook, more Visitor miniatures from Crooked Dice miniatures, Paved bases from Renedra for Guards of Traitors Toll as well as a few 3D prints and other miniatures for the same game.