"SALUTE 2009 - a complete walkthrough in pictures" Topic

Thanks for including pix of the vendors as well. Similar pictorial reports often neglect the vendors.

WOW! Thanks for taking the photos and sharing! I am very impressed with the quality of the gaming tabletops and the vendor booth displays. Our East cons here in the USA might be bigger in numbers only, but the UK still sets the standard for quality we should strive for.

Larry

Excellent photoreport

I'll join the others by nitpicking though sorry. On page 1 you have a photo labelled as our stand,, when it's SMG's stand :)

(Our stand seemed to be camera shy for the day ;) )

Larry

I think that the differences between US and UK shows (from evidence I've only read about, you understand, having never been to one in the US but having been to ones in the UK and Europe)) are:

a) a higher proportion of demonstration games at UK shows: although Salute has a high proportion of party games – usually over 50% – I understand that it's still way short of participation games to demo games ratios at conventions in the states. I would imagine that's because…

b) pretty much everything in the states (becasue of travel distances and cheaper hall hire) is a multi day long week end… am I right in assuming that? Almost no one sane want's to just demo a game for days and days! Most everything in UK (and shows like Crisis in Antwerp) are one day or – at most – two day shows.

c) Am I right in saying that participation games in the US are often Pay to Play? Whilst I'm not saying that never happens in the UK, I've only seen it occasionally. That economic factor might bring out a different dynamic, I guess. Perhaps 'look and feel' for a game are rationalised by the 'can we get enough money back' factor… I don't know about that last point but I'd be interested in what anyone in the states thinks.

As for numbers, I've no idea how many gamers were at Salute this year, as conventioneers and paying public all added up. But its best year, with those two combined, Salute might have been somewhere between 5000 and 6000, though it varies year on year.

John T

Thanks for the pics.

I appreciate the effort to give us a walkthrough.

I obviously missed out on soooo much!

I wish I was there. Thanks for all the photos!

Good thing I didn't go! My bank account would've been destroyed! Along with my credit cards!

Otto
noizehive.blogspot.com

Very nicely done… I just wished you hadn't chosen Koekie, Willie B & Patrick R (TSA) for a close-up pic. Pics like that give our hobby a bad name… (joke, joke!).

Rudi – TSA

Stunning stuff.
Thank you for your time.

Joe,

can I post the links you posted to my blog?

Otto

To Otto: Yes indeed, you're very welcome to.

Hi,

Thanks Rees I was going to say the same pics, 36 and 37 are BLACK CAT BASES as the overhead sign in 36 says and not BLACK HAT MINITURES (Black Hat is a great range though and Mike who runs it is lovely so no complaints at the association! :) )

Also 159 is our game and it is DODO racing NOT DUCK racing, so yes you were kidding but I am not!!!:)

Completely understandable mistakes at that number of photo's and thanks for sharing them! I've seen more of Salute today than I did on the day!!!

Jo:)

Thanks Joe!

Otto

Great, thanks for the hard work

On the first batch of photo's

Picture 90 is not Kallistra

Picture 95 is Kallistra

I predict that this thread will be at the top of many of the TMP message boards for a long time to come…

Hastati,

Thanks for the kind words on the Roman V Sassanid game!

Meet and Greet is what we do. Its our thing at shows to try and do something a little different (28mm Warmaster this time round) and get people talking about it.

Our terrain is governed by lack of storage and so we can't go down the purpose built/show standard road but try a show what can be done on a budget if you put your mind to it.

Most of the time we feel it stands up pretty well against a lot of the 'turn up and play something' demo games, as opposed to those where Clubs put hours and hours of work in and then take it 'on tour'.

All the figures on show were the work of one person (not me I hasten to add) and we think his consistant style adds to the overall effct.

Immortal Miniatures and that photo do not make sense.

Thank you for taking the photo's and posting them. Great pictures of the games and some good memories.

AAAARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!! I'm not only on the wrong side of this continent, I'm on the wrong side of the OCEAN!

No fair, having all that fun without me!

Thanks a lot for the time invested to keep all of us who were not there well informed!

Cheers

Romain

I was amused to see the 3D version of "Awful Green Things From Outer Space." The board game upon which it is based (originally published by TSR) was designed by my friend and former employee, Tom Wham! I wonder if he knows it has been done as a miniatures game.

Only fees at the US HMGS Cons are a nominal entry fee for the hall/hotel ($10/day or $30/3 days). Individual events are free at HMGS events.

The largest HMGS show (Historicon) has around 5-6M attendees. Very similar attendance to Salute. However there are as many as 600 games held during the 3 days of the Con.

TRU

Well Done! Thanks so much!

Top Post!

Pics were awesome Joe – Wish I had known you were there, I would have thanked you for so many hours of fun whenever my parents sent me to my room for my escapades of mischief, the Lone Wolf books were always on hand!

Great pics, thanks for sharing and taking the time to take them and load them up for us to view, must have taken ages!!

The Conquistador vs Aztecs really piqued my interest!

Steve P

Thanks for sharing these excellent pictures. Loved the look of the demo games run by Warlord Games and Perry Minatures- battles of Turnham Green and Quatre Bras. I hope that we get to see more of these on the official websites. Or on pages of WI magazine.

Cheers

James

Thanks for the great pictures – what an astonishing display of modeling skills. After seeing this, I'm making plans to ravel across the pond for 2010 – what a great show

Am I the only one that finds it interesting that when we see human beings in these pictures maybe 90% of them are either Grey-haired or balding? Perhaps 'the greying of the hobby' isn't as much of a myth as we thought…

Looks like an awesome day of gaming goodness.

I wish I could've been there…

Its so refreshing this year that the overwhelming feeling is of a great day out and thanks to the Warlords.

Excellent photos! WOW! Amazing looking terrain and demo games.

Thanks very much Joe – it's great to see such a comprehensive view of the show.

IronMike
''Am I the only one that finds it interesting that when we see human beings in these pictures maybe 90% of them are either Grey-haired or balding?…''
Being smaller, they tend to get obscured. I saw plenty of kids playing in the participation games and hanging around the tanks.

Thanks Joe, fantastic pics and nice to see you there.

Great stuff Joe. Thanks.

Fantastic pics, I was there all day and missed so much!!

Frankly, I'm amazed and delighted by the wonderful response I've received to my posting. My thanks to everyone for their kind comments, they're much appreciated.

For those of you who would like to see more of my wargame show walkthroughs and pictorial battle reports / photo archives, here's a list with links:

WARGAME SHOW WALKTHROUGHS

CRISIS 2008 (Antwerp) – PART ONE
link

CRISIS 2008 (Antwerp) – PART TWO
link

WARFARE 2008 (Reading) – PART ONE – Walkthrough
link

WARFARE 2008 (Reading) – PART TWO – Tournaments
link

COLOURS 2008 (Newbury)
link

GERMAN WAR MUSEUMS

KREIGSMARINE MUSEUM & U-995 (2008)
link

PANZERMUSEUM MUNSTER (2008)
link

BATTLE PHOTO-REPORTS

Tet Offensive (Vietnam 1968) – Part 1
link

Tet Offensive (Vietnam 1968) – Part 2
link

Waterloo 1815
link

Waterloo 1944
link

Gettysburg – Part 1 (set-up)
link

Gettysburg – Part 2 (game)
link

Vimiero 1808
link

Vimiero Revisited
link

Retreat to Corunna
link

RE-ENACTMENTS

Waterloo 2008
link

God dammit Joe – there goes my sleep tonight, I was looking at the Salute pics until 4am yesterday!

Yep 310am and just finished looking at the Nam game, my god, what an awesome set up!

Fantastic pictures!! I would be amazing to go to!!

On an aside, do you know of any UK Hobby Distributors? I'm looking for someone in the UK to help distribute my resin figures.
Shawn

Heck! Smashing photos Joe, thanks.

Superb, thank you very much!

@ Kingzombie, if I were a manufacturer North Star (Nick Eyre) would be my first port of call. Top service and reputation

arrrrrrrrgh no sleep indeed.

awesome photos!!!!!! really captures the day.

i had a great time at salute, first time i have been since '02 i think at Olympia.

anyone know who the Italian Wars game was run by as part of the Pike and Shot Society set-up????

Greg

Absoulutely fabulous photo set. Joe, would you mind if I uploaded and stored the photos of the Hordes!-participation table (i.e. Salute_2009370-73)on my site?

I'm the one who made the table in question, but my photos of the completed thing turned out horribly. You would of course be cited as the photographer.

Amazing Work. I could just smell the B.O. in the game rooms. Absolutely cracking job. It looks like you spent quite some time compiling those picture links. I really appreciate that.

Cheers

Gorkij: No problem.

Thanks a lot!

I missed so much. Note to self – re-read photo section for content before Salute 2010!

I saw more in those photos than I did on the day. Too busy taking photos!