"CRISIS 2008 - a complete walkthrough of the show in pictures" Topic

Here's the links to a pictorial walkthrough of Crisis'08, for all of you who could not make it across the Channel for the annual wargames event in Antwerp, 8th November, hosted by TSA club.

This is the link to Part 1 of the walkthrough:

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This is the link to Part 2:

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The Tarakan Island game looks awesome. No wonder it got best of show.

Thanks Joe!
Clif

Joe,
Great pictures but just to set the record straight, photos 56 to 80 are from our demo (The Alde Garde, Netherlands) and not by Toy (Tin) soldiers of Antwerp or Celtic Cross.
Thanks for sharing.

The Tarakan game was excellent. A very fun looking game was the Bridge over the River Quar.

WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW !!!!!!

Great show and pix. Thanks for sharing.

Glad you liked our Quar game. Peter and Petra did a marvellous job on the rules and all the insane Quar puns, fluff and figure-and-terrain conversions. It was great to participate, allthough my feet are still re-gerenarting….

As the day proved, the rules were equally understandable (and enjoyable) by 50- as well as 10-year olds, even if you have to put the latter on top of a chair to have him see over the table-edge :o)

Thanks for posting, shame I missed Crisis this year, but your pictures slightly made up for it.

Thanks for the nice picturs, but the tsa mar bazelmans should be with the ancients battle ( crusades actuaaly and not teh 40k battle in the first link).

Marc

Thanks for sharing!

OK. My feet have regerenarted…. Now only my grammar gland as well….

Thanks to everyone concerned for posting corrections to the credits, much appreciated.

Wow!

Arghh have to wait until I get home to view, damned IT dept

Fantastic!!! thanks for sharing.

Thanks for sharing. I had a great time, buying 400 E worth of toys!

My gaming now feels so inferior. I thought everyone played on a tablecloth with a few buildings scattered about? Oh well….

Great pics! :-)

Beautiful games with fantastic photography. None of the tables had any junk on them like most games at East HMGS events. Did the players pick it up prior to photo. The dealers area was impressive, as big as Fall in if not cold wars. Were there any tournament events?

Joe, thanks for sharing those nice pics. Would you mind to add some infos concerning the "Wild West Skirmish Game" (pics 090 – 111)? This game was staged by the THS-club from Germany and named "Once upon a time in Mexico". It won the trophy for "Best Participation Game Crisis 2008" (pic 009). Thanks much!

Thanks for sharing. Cool pictures.

Amazing. The game that won first prize not only deserved to win….it won against other games that were brilliantly presented and could easily have won at other conventions.

Visiting that convention is now high on my 'if ever I win the Lottery' list.

Here's some historical background to the Tarakan Island game:

On January 10, 1942 a Dutch Dornier Do 24K flying boat spotted an incoming Japanese invasion fleet and, knowing full well that the chances of winning were small-to-nil, the Dutch Commander ordered the destruction of all oil fields on the island. The Japanese forces of the Right Wing Unit from the Sakaguchi Detachment landed on the east coast of Tarakan at midnight on 11 January 1942, followed by the 2nd Kure Special Naval Landing Force. After mounting a brief-but-fierce resistance, the Koninklijk Nederlands Indisch Leger (Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, or KNIL) garrison was outnumbered and forced to surrender on the morning of January 12. All prisoners of war were subsequently executed by the Japanese in retaliation for the destruction of the oil installations. This war crime was repeated later by the Japanese in Balikpapan. During the night of January 11, before Japan completed the blockade of Tarakan, the Dutch submarine K-X, the patrol boat P-1, and the civilian motor launch Aida managed to slip away undetected. The Dutch minelayer ‘Prins van Oranje' tried to escape as well but was sighted and sunk by the Japanese destroyer Yamakaze (commanded by Lt. Cdr Shuichi Hamanaka), and the Japanese patrol boat P-38. Tarakan remained under Japanese occupation until May 1945 when it was liberated by Australian troops in the Battle of Tarakan.

Thanks Joe,

Since the Tarakan display game got a good response, I'll put a separate thread about it up here. I'm going to try to acknowledge some of the other clubs who were so freindly at Crisis and put on great games.