"Partizan, Newark, UK show report 2025" Topic

A 50-minute show report produced by me from the Newark (UK) show ground.

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My usual format of featuring as many tables as possible and trying to capture the atmosphere of the event. This video was produced under difficult personal circumstances and I do include a brief tribute, at the end, to my late travelling companion of 14 years.

I will add a list of the clubs featured later.

Barry

As promised above…

Featured clubs include:

The Iron Brigade – ACW
Burton and District Wargames Club – Battle of Entombi, 1879
Westbury Wargames – El Cid and the reconquista
Yorkshire Gamer (Supporting the Dogs Trust) – German Town AWI 1777
Rubicon Models – Oscar Mike Vietnam
Derby Wargames Society – early Eastern Front WW2
Dale Yates/Garage Goblins – Early medieval skirmish
Chesterfield Old Boys – Eastern Front WW2
The League of Augsburg – Franco-Dutch War in the Caribbean
Gordons Gophers – Operation Battleaxe, North Africa 1941
Perry Miniatures – Napoleonic Spanish versus French
Barely Legal Wargamers – paper ACW figures in 18mm
Lincoln Miniature Warfare Society – Pacific WW2 in mixed scales
Steve's Painting Shed – Wagram 1809 in 6mm or 1/300th
Gothenburg Gamers – Gladiatorial
Biszantios – futuristic robots in urban environment
Wings of Glory/Aerodrome – triplanes and tripods, Martian invasion in WW1
Peterborough Wargames Club – Darks Ages skirmish
Brecon Wargames Club – DAK Attack (SAS/LRDG raid in WW2)
LetsXcape Gaming Cafe of Newark – large fantasy
The Boondock Sayntes – Aliwal 1846, 1st Anglo Sikh War
South London Warlords – Battle of the Marne 1914 in 6mm or 1/300th
Ardhammer Group – Franco-Dutch War using Reiver Castings figures
The Very British Civil Forum – alternative history UK civil war 1938
Mr Bill Gaskin playing Honours of War rules
The League of Extraordinary Kriegspielers – alternative history attack on Wake Island 1920s
Ecoscheurs – 100 Years War Skirmish
Geordie Wargamer – Battle of Stamford Bridge
The League of Gentlemen Anti-Alchemists – Fall of France 1940 skirmish
Cowards of Wroxham – The Eagle Has Landed and Went The Day Well? WW2 skirmish
Two Fat Lardies – WW2 skirmish
+ tribute to my companion Teddy

Many thanks for your trouble in preparing the video and list!

Very sorry to hear about the loss of Ted.

Thank you Sydney.

While at Partizan I also went next door to the Newark Air Museum.

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If you are visiting Hammerhead, Partizan or Other Partizan, the Air Museum is just next door and well worth a visit.

Barry

That's a good report, Barry. I watched it last night. It looks a little more chaotic than I thought it would- a bit like CanCon does on Day 1. I had planned to be there this year, but events conspired against another overseas trip. Thanks for the tip about the air museum.

It did seem very busy this year, and people seemed to stay longer than usual I thought. Normally by lunchtime it's already starting to thin out as those who went primarily for shopping go home. It would be interesting to see the footfall figures.

So were the crowds were larger than usual, or just hung around for longer, Volleyfire? One reason I go to CanCon on Day 2 is because you can actually move around and see more things (very, very rarely games of the calibre shown in Barry's and Volleyfire's blogs, though).

Or perhaps both Dal if you want to nit pick?

Not nitpicking, mate, just curious. While there's a lot of hobby similarities between Oz and the UK, the shows seem to be done differently. Here the emphasis on competition games seems greater than in the UK, weekend-long shows are the norm, and three- or even four-day shows aren't unknown. It looks like most UK shows are single day affairs. Also, rarely do the demo/participation games I've seen meet the standards of the UK shows.

My opinion is based on photos and UK reports, because I haven't managed to get to a UK show. I probably won't get the chance, now- I should have scheduled my 2019 trip differently.

A correction to my prior post- I meant "shown in Barry's and Yarr68's blogs, though".