Today has been the best wargaming day of the year thanks to the hard work of the Wakefield and Ossett Wargamers and the Recon show.
For those folks who have never been you are missing a great deal in a little space. The hall is easy to find (just of the A647 and A6110 near Leeds) and has plenty of car parking (free) but could be better signed. Entry was only £2 and this buys you access to 30+ traders and 20 games. This is half of the ground floor – the sun (yep that yellow ball showed itself as well) spoilt the other side
Upstairs was a series of games ranging from FOW to teddy bears and a busy but smallish bring and buy stand – clear labels and a wide choice of good quality bits helped make this an interesting scramble.
Tucked down the back was the main reason I went – a HOTT competition with five games sponsored by Coritani/Magnetic Displays from Skegness who relieved me of a fair amount of cash for storage bits. Thought having the HOTT rules, this was the first time I had seen the game played in anger and credit to all players – they where very happy to explain the game and why they made the moves even in the middle of the fight! I did mange to take a fair number of photos of the 15mm figures in use:
 Witch army – flyers and MU only! |  Elf army? |
 Lizard vs Witch army |  Cat army (winner) |
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If anyone has the names of the players please let me know so I can add them to the pictures. I do know the cat army took the prize for most wins and most popular army and was based around the book of Mr Mistoffolees with a boat as a water lurker and a stronghold of the vicarage wall
Other games included a massive ‘A Very British Civil War’ game over two tables:
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with the biggest ship I have ever seen on a wargames table:
Two games with the Eureka teddy figures – one cowboy and one Zulu (Panda) themed games and I owe both the Yorkshire Coast Gamers and Brompton Bankers an apology as I did try to get back to talk and play but failed due to HOTT being so interesting:
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Kirklees Crusaders had a fancy Boxer Rebellion game but just sat around and did not want to talk to visitors while I was there:
Oh yes one more point – as for the food FANTASTIC – I had the lamb stew in Yorkshire pudding for £2.50
Roll on 4th December 2010
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