Little Wars Revisited 54mm Games Day March 10th 2018

Managed to edit down my photos today and add a quick report to the blog.

Brian's Lion Rampant Game:



Anthony's ECW:



Alistair's North West Frontier:



Eric and Jon's Napoleonic:



My Portable Wargame:



Lots more pictures on the blog:

mikelewis.info/littlewars/?p=585

thanks

Mike

Seeing the pictures here and on everyone's blogs and I'm very sorry to have missed it! Some great figures and terrain and what look like really fun games. Glad it worked out and hope to be able to come out there next time!

Now, who here on the "correct" side of the Atlantic wants to try something similar? Anyone from this board live on the East Coast of the U.S.?

Having had a chance to visit the various blogs has just confirmed my opinion that the games looked great and the whole day was a success despite not being as large as hoped for. From small acorns etc.

For aducknamed joe: I rarely travel farther south than Portland Maine these days (its a 1,500 km drive to Lancaster PA, only 800 to Portland) but I'd be willing to lend a hand with organizing and if we can get enough people interested and find a suitable location would try to make it down sometime in 2018.

I was involved in a dedicated 54mm game at Cold Wars in Lancaster PA in 1998 but it was a bit early for 54mm with new releases of plastic and 54mm wargaming just getting going again, so while the games were well attended, too few of those who had been interested were available and ready on the day. For a few years after that we had an annual Yahoo Littlewars group 'bring your own' game instead and they were great fun.

Having a 54mm gaming get together doesn't have to be done in conjunction with an existing wargame Con but it saves huge amounts of admin headache, increases exposure, and gives people another reason to schedule it in. Depending on the venue one can often arrange with the Con to have one of the smaller rooms or at least have a group of dedicated tables.

Anyway, starting a new thread as Mike suggests would be a good start.

Ross
gameofmonth.blogspot.ca

Here are Dave Lycett's pictures from the day - there are a lot of them!



































Phew!

Mike

They are hosted on the Blackhat site so should be okay. Can you see this link if you follow it?

www.blackhat.co.uk/images/54mm/LWR/DL_33.jpg

Weird, not sure why that should be - if you click on the broken links can you do view image to see them?

Mike

Hi Dave

I more than happy to organise it again if enough people are interested? March seems a suitable time of the year and people seemed happy with the venue ()for the most part).

Mike