"The Other Partizan 2024, Trojan War, Durham Wargames Group" Topic

And so it came to be; The Other Partizan and Durham Wargames Group's valiant effort at pulling off a small piece of Homer's epic with the Siege of Troy, or rather the battle as the Greeks made their first assault.
Normally at Partizan I would be running around taking pictures of games that particularly struck me as eye catching, dramatic, epic etc. but thanks to an eight hour rowing couple directly above me in the B&B, the dizziness and exhaustion that ensued etc I was unable to find the energy nor mettle to push onward with my camera and capture the show in pixels to share with you lot. I do apologise for this situation; the blame lies firmly with the rowing couple and the management of the B&B who's only response was "sorry dude!" and a flimsy promise that they would contact booking dot com! Farse. Mucho apologies to everyone who put such wonderful games on deserved every pixel of coverage and of whom I didn't manage to get around to taking any snaps due to exhaustion and dizziness!

OK, back to the toys! The actual city of Troy had been hanging out on a shelf at our club for as long as I can remember but was in need of some serious refurbishment to make it ready for the game. Given the age of the model and a good refresh it did really well to act as a centre piece for the game and is still, to this day, an amazing construction as a model made to the standards of Ian Weekly of yesteryear.

The battle started out with a clash between the main protagonists, Menelaus, Achilles, Patroclus, Hector etc battling it out to raise the morale of their armies. As per history, Hector fought Ajax and won, Hector fought Menelaus and won, Hector then fought Achilles and lost then Paris shot Achilles in the heal and he died which gave the Trojans an extra main Character with the Greeks lost 3 Characters to the Trojans single chap!

The battle then began in earnest with the Greeks smashing the Trojans. Needless to say, the wooden horse did not remain on the beach but was scavenged and taken home!

I'm limited to the number of images I can place in most posts on any given forum so for more images of the game please hop on over to my Just Add Water Blog here:
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Here's a few tasters:

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Well, that is just lovely! The city, of course, but the ships are also painted beautifully. Are the ships scratch built or does somebody make them in resin? Anyway, I've saved lots of photos for ideas of how to paint my own figures.

Something that I have been wondering for a few weeks now: how did it come to pass that there is a Partizan convention as well as The Other Partizan convention?

Grelber

Very pretty, a lotta lotta work went into making such a beautiful game! Thanks for posting it.

Row, Row, Row your boat, gently down the stream….

Unbelievable! Absolutely beautiful!

Wow, really nice!

Beautiful! Sad the bad guys won.

Thanks for all the positive vibes guys :>)

Grelber

Are the ships scratch built or does somebody make them in resin?

I think they're from Redoubt Enterprises but I could be wrong. I'll ask Matt tonight at the club and see where he got them from.

Grelber

Something that I have been wondering for a few weeks now: how did it come to pass that there is a Partizan convention as well as The Other Partizan convention?

Ah, that question I can answer; they're the two best shows in the UK by a royal mile- run by the same guys too.

Shagnasty

Sad the bad guys won.

I concur! :>)

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