"Carronade 2013 - My show report." Topic

Hi,
I attended the Carronade show at Falkirk on Saturday. I had a great time and really enjoyed myself so many thanks to the organisers.
The show had an excellent range of both traders and games and was a good chance for some of us who didn't make it to Salute to see some of the recently released wargames products.
Shopping-wise I bought the new 7th Voyage rules from Crooked Dice and their new Heroes book for 7TV. Both are excellent productions and great reads. I also bought the Classified scenario book for Force on Force and was very impressed by it. It has a very good range of scenarios ranging from WW2 to the present, all of which are playable on a small table and only need modest figure and scenery resources. I also bought one pack of British infantry for my Sudan project, which should be the last pack I need.
There was a great variety of games on display, most of which were of a good standard and many were participation games. I took a few photos of my favourite games and these are shown in subsequent posts below.

The first game I really liked was "The Wild Geese" by The Border Reivers. It was a participation game based on the end of the famous movie where the players had to get the mercenaries to the Dakota and escape before the pursuing Simbas caught them and choped them to pieces. I would have loved to have played in this game and was offered a place but sadly didn't have time. If it is put on at any other Scottish shows it will be first on my list to play. Here are a few photos:
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The Dakota waits for the mercenaries.
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Simbas approach through the bush.
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Mercenaries wait cautiously near the plane.

Gourock Wargames club presented two nice demonstration AWI games on adjacent tables, Freeman's Farm and the Brandywine. Rules used were Piquet and all figures were 18mm Blue Moon. Scenery was simple but effective inculding some nice caulk roads.
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Freeman's Farm
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The Brandywine

Greenock Wargames club did a very nice and evocative participation game based on the original Tron movie:
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Next up is another demonstration game, the Battle of Camelon, an attack on the Antonine Wall, by (I think), the Tyneside Wargames club.
Although the figures were simply painted, they had lovely bold colour schemes and the whole game had a nice old school toy soldier look to it which I really like. I also like the fact that the game was based on a hypothetical battle which could have been fought in Falkirk. The Antonine Wall ends near Falkirk and Camelon is a suburb of the town. It was a nice thought for a visiting club to do a display based on the history of the host's town
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Yet another lovely participation game, which again I didn't have time to play in but whcih I will if I ever see it again was Kirriemuir Wargames club's Charge of the Light Brigade. I'll let the photos do the talking:
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The Valley of Death
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The brave 600
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"Cannon to the front of them volly'd and thundered"

Here is yet another truly excellent participation game and another for my "play at show list". It's RAF Leuchars' "Divine Wind" 1/300 kamikaze game. The players were all kamikaze pilots tasked with performing a critical strike on the American carrier. Attention to detail was excellent. Before the attack run the pilots all had to don their kamikaze headbands, then a gong was sounded and they downed a shot of sake and then they were off…
Here is a photo of the game:
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Angus Wargamres club demonstrated the new "Dead Man's Hand" old west gunfighting rules on a really great looking table which used scratch built balsa buildings made from the Gary Chalk plans originally published in Wargames Illustrated (and available on the RWNN yahoo group).
I had a good chat with the guys running the game and they rated "Dead Man's Hand" very highly, prefering it to RWNN and LotOW.
Here's a photo of the game:
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South east Scotland Wargames club ran a very nice demonstration of the Battle of Nachod from the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 using 10mm figures. The terrain for this game was (as Midpoint has already pointed out) very subtle and very effective. I thought the use of 6mm buildings with the 10mm figures was quite interesting. Here is a photo of some of the action:
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Finally, my own club, The Glasgow G3 ran a superb participation 28mm science fiction race game, "Gs Xtreme Racing". The track was custom made by Sarissa Precision and featured under-track LED illumination.
This was the game I simply had to play, and it was a total blast! It was huge fun and really felt like a futuristic race game with lots of video game inspired features like power-ups and track hazards. And the very best thing: I won! Here are some pics:
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The track. Buildings were also by Sarissa and painted (by airbrush) by the club. Bikes/vehicles were from a variety of manufacturers including Soda-Pop. My bike was the yellow one, the Yellow Hornet.
The second pic shows my bike spinning out of control after being hit by a missile from the big purple Soda Pop Walker:
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Luckily I recovered and eventually went on to win, despite more mayhem from my competitors.
GS Xtreme Racing was my very favourite game of the day and I'd like to thank everyone involved in creating and running it. I'm also very lucky because it now belongs to my club so I can see if the Yellow Hornet will continue his ride to glory or end up as a smear on the track!
Hope you've enjoyed my show report and thanks again to everyone from the Falkirk club for organising the show, to the traders for offering such lovely temptations, and the clubs for their excellent efforts in showing off how great the wargames hobby is.
All the best,
George.

The racing game looks fun any chance the rules are available online anywhere?

Hi,
I'll check with the guys in my club and see if the rules are available on-line.
All the best,
George.

The Battle of Camelon was actually the Westerhope Wargames Group

Excellent series of posts by the way

Karrellian Knight, the rules aren't currently online, but I'll see what I can do later.

Thank you Andrew.

thanks for the kind words we do enjoy the "Dead mans hand" rules although we've only had them for a short time and hadn't added all the extra rules in but very enjoyable to play.

the terrain is all the work of our master terrain builder Mark towel what a joy to have someone who likes making the stuff in the club,

Have to admit although its not my scene I was chatting to your guys and thought your table was that little bit special and look forward to seeing it at skelp

Karellian Knight – and anyone else who's interested – the rules are up online here:

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That's brilliant! Thanks very much, looking forward to reading them when I get home.