"SALUTE 2009 - a complete walkthrough in pictures" Topic

For those of you who were unable to attend this year, here is a complete walkthrough of SALUTE 2009 – the annual South London Warlords (UK) event. This is the largest show on the UK's annual wargaming calendar.

The photos show the demo and participation games that were staged throughout the one-day event (Saturday 28th March) at the prestigious EXCEL Centre in London's Docklands.

To give you a more complete walkthrough experience, I've interspersed photos of the trade stands among the demo & participation games.

Due to the large number of photos I took, I have posted my Salute 2009 walkthrough in FOUR PARTS. They can be accessed via these links:

SALUTE 2009 – PART ONE
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SALUTE 2009 – PART TWO
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SALUTE 2009 – PART THREE
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SALUTE 2009 – PART FOUR
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Please feel free to post corrections, updates, and any additional information you may have about the photos and the event.

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing the pics!

Joe,

Thanks a million. SIgh…

Is this the Joe Dever of Lone Wolf Gamebook fame by any chance???

An amazing amount of photos. Thanks.

Took me an hour to go through those and well worth the time it was, too. Thanks, Joe.\
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Tim

Anton: I was about to ask the same damned question. My 10 year old loves those things, and they are rare as hen's teeth.

To Anton & Jwomack94: Yes, I'm the author of the Lone Wolf gamebooks. Thanks for your kind comments, much appreciated. For info about the new Lone Wolf collector's editions from Mongoose Publishing, check this link:

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Thanks for taking the time to post these photos.

Wow! Thanks, it was almost like being there. And I did not have to spend all my money :) Really thanks for your time and effort.

Thanks for the wonderful shots. Makes up for not being there.

Thanks for the pics, one day I would love to attend Salute (wistful sigh).

Thanks for taking the time to get this to us. I realy enjoyed it.

When I was on the last link I got hit by a Virus bewared.

Ed

Excellent and thanks

hussarbob1746.webs.com

Brilliant Joe

I was beginning to wonder if anyone had actually gone to SALUTE this year.

Thanks
Mark

A heartfelt thanks for all great pictures and complementary text.

The first online photos of the BEF/Chieftain Pink Panzer :-)

Joe Brilliant images. Thanks you and once again confirms that I missed quite a bit on the day.

You asked for amends:
Image captioned as Doms decals is Raiden miniatures and the Copplestone captioned image is Doms Decals, Dom in black, WoW models on table with air gaming rules.

Great work and pictures!

Thank you!
Marco

A beautiful amount of pictures !
And thanks for the Lone Wolf books also.

Rees

p.s. the link on the first page,under the "Black Cat Bases" photo, is for "Black "HAT" Miniautres". You also call them the same, an easy mistake with the sheer amount of photos youve uploaded. :)

Nice pictures!

Amendment – 095 is the Kallistra stand again selling "Hordes and Heroes", not "hobbies and Heroes"

Thankyou for your lovely photos of the convention.

Helen

Thanks for taking the time to give those of us unable to attend, a good visual report.

Too bad my batteries had run out (and there was a huge concession stand in the basement area)

Good job on the pictures !!!

Well done onthe report – great pics!

Some great looking games too…

Great pictures, well done getting them up so quick.

Were there really no ancient games at all?

Great show, but I was a little disappointed by the games on show in that there was very little variety in the periods people were doing.

"Were there really no ancient games at all?"

check the pics again.
the SOA were clearly doing a big hellenistic game.

Thanks for taking those photos, really inspirational stuff

Joe

That is a fantastic set of pictures and I hate you…

But seriously, as someone running a game during the day and thankful for the time I got off to walk round and buy something and take a few pics, I am at the same time deeply envious of both your lesmanship and the opportunity you had to take the shots and MASSIVELY thankful that I can see the bits of the show I missed.

I had the best of three worlds: I went to Salute, I ran a game for people AND via your shots I missed NOTHING!

And I didn't even get to spend too much!!!!

John T

PS – the Warlords MaK SF3D game was 1/35th rather than 28mm

Many thanks for these Joe.
And like others before me, many thanks for the Lone Wolf books – an important and influential part of my childhood.
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Thanks for these Joe…(I took my camera, and then forgot to take any pics……dear oh dear).
A pleasure to see you again. Take care,
Cheers Chris

Thanks for all the photos…I was gutted I couldn't go and now, it's like I was there!

Just to let you know that the 'un-named'game – Pic 041& 042 – are of the Twilight game from Hasslefree miniatures.

Thanks for all the effort, and thanks in particular for the shots of our game (AK47 Guine Bissau).

Andrew
Whitehall Warlords

lost for words here.

Thanks!

Thanks a lot for the report Joe. It's excellent.

Were there really no ancient games at all?

We should be there!

We had a 12x6 Late Roman v Sassanid going on, which the world and his mate took pictures of!

Can't check Joe's camera work at the moment, as the firm's Site Blocker gets in the way. I'll look when I get home

Will be choked if we were missed out!

Very cool.

There were a coupleo f Ancients games, the Roman Sassanid game and I am sure I saw hordes of celts running around too

Many thanks – and shots are great quality. What camera did you use?

Canon Ixus 960iS

Great photos! Again many thanks for posting them all!
Rivet counting……listed as 'EM4 Miniatures' is actually 'Grubby Tanks'- excellent piccies all the same!!

Very impressive -enables me to see all those games I missed (which was most of them – couldn't get awayfrom the stand for more than a couple of minutes).

The pic in Part 3 labelled em4miniatures is, I think Grubby Tanks. Regrettably,I am not the handsome gentleman with the tatoos.

Doug

I took shots of at least one ancients game (bottom row centre and bottom row right corner on this page link

John

The Late Roman v. Sassanids game using Warmaster was excellent. The terrain was basic wargames standard but the painting on the figures (including hand painted shields) was fantastic and I was very surprised to find out the figures were by Old Glory. I had a very nice chat with the guys running the game and they did something that most displays did not, they engaged the passerby and even handed stands of figures over to be looked at. Very commendable.

Joe, three things:

1) Thanks for the wonderful Lone Wolf books…several friends and I have enjoyed them over the years.

2) Thank you so much for this photo tour….It will probably be a long time before I can ever make it across the pond to check out Salute. This was almost like being there.

3) '041: Fantasy participation game (unlisted)' was a game called Twilight. Its an upcoming 'non-standard' fantasy game soon to be released through Hasslefree Miniatures.

Again…thanks for the photo-tour…it is making my Monday morning much more bearable =)

Excellent report – thanks!

GregS