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I hesitate to call this a 'show' - it is rather a gathering of local wargamers in the Coitswolds area, with some friends coming from farther afield. The Day is in its second year.

The event is about wargamers coming together in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere to do a bit of gaming, have a chat, and swap stories and opinions. There are no traders, but there will be 'Wargaming Exchange' area to swap/sell/buy/give away wargaming stuff in an informal way. This year, 8 games are planned. I request a voluntary £5 contribution to cover costs. Free tea, coffe and biscuits.

Check out last years event at the link below. This year is planned to be a bit bigger (second link).

http://notjustoldschool.blogspot.com/2018/09/classic-collections-do-battle-at.html

https://keefsblog.blogspot.com/2019/02/cotswold-wargaming-day.html

If you are reading this, you're invited. Let me know via the blog, or just pitch up. Hope to see you there.

Keith Flint.

Last year looked a great day out and I wish you the best of luck with this year

A bit far to travel from the antipodes unfortunately ;)

The Stafford and District team ar planning on attending  :D

Sadly I am on holiday or I would be there ... especially as there is a rumor that there might be an BKCIV game with an armoured train making an appearance.
I'd love to see some photos and read a account of the game - pretty please  :D

Have a great day Keith. Unfortunately the cost and time of travelling by public transport rules not out for me.

I think I replied by email ... it's in the diary. Bloody Big Battles may have to happen.

Dave and I had a dry run of the Battle of Kurudere scenario we are putting on Sunday at the show. Some pics below and hopefully may see some of your there:

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ju3cJ1hEspg/XWbDOdbPcWI/AAAAAAAAHv0/ErKl3SoQa74hyZexnEkHoIv-vFxcSfu7wCLcBGAs/s400/P1100995.JPG)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BL91v-t5624/XWbDQiAhPjI/AAAAAAAAHwI/nFQj5SPTYWAZE99vScWDSEj_FXq7XjYwgCLcBGAs/s400/P1110001.JPG)

Looks good

Bring your old school hat and new school fun head. Sarcasm, wit and banter is compulsory. Beards must be combed through in advance.

A great overview of the day can be found on Keith's Blog:

http://keefsblog.blogspot.com/2019/09/cotswold-wargaming-day-2019-post-match.html (http://keefsblog.blogspot.com/2019/09/cotswold-wargaming-day-2019-post-match.html)

I'll do a review soonish, all being well, but it was a great day out, with fun had by one and all.

Looks like it was great fun, indeed.  :-bd

The pointing was very much on point.

Looks like a good day!

 :-bd =D> :-bd =D>

Thanks for a good day - we certainly enjoyed ourselves

Another report with loads of lovely 'photos of the games:

http://notjustoldschool.blogspot.com/2019/09/cotswold-wargaming-day-growing.html (http://notjustoldschool.blogspot.com/2019/09/cotswold-wargaming-day-growing.html)

We even convinced Stuart Asquith that 6mm is a good scale to game in!  :o

In fact quite a few of the gamers were interested in Dave's 6mm figures, as they could see that you really got the feel of a large battle. I think Stuart Asquith being really enthused by our game was the highlight of the day; in fact he probably spent most of his time sitting and chatting with us, which was a great honour and pleasure.

Poop - missed this one :(

Next year then...

Quote from: Steve J on 04 September 2019, 10:26:57 PM
In fact quite a few of the gamers were interested in Dave's 6mm figures, as they could see that you really got the feel of a large battle. I think Stuart Asquith being really enthused by our game was the highlight of the day; in fact he probably spent most of his time sitting and chatting with us, which was a great honour and pleasure.

Excellent! Great to hear that Stuart liked your Kurudere game so much. Do I remember right that Stuart wrote a scenario book for the Crimean War himself? (He types, having already googled to confirm: )
https://www.amazon.co.uk/PARTIZAN-PRESS-GUIDE-GAMING-CRIMEAN/dp/B0086VMR5Q/ref=sr_1_6?qid=1567769366&refinements=p_27%3AStuart+Asquith&s=books&sr=1-6

Any chance of the Wargaming Addict doing an AAR for us too?

Chris

Bloody Big BATTLES!
https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/BBB_wargames/info
http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/

My AAR delayed due to taking daughter to Edinburgh and the prep involved in that. Now safely back home the plan is to write it this weekend.

AAR goes something like: "Russians, dressed a bit like French Napoleonic Infantry, deployed thinking this will be a piece of cake; only facing pesky Turkish Raw troops  (dressed a bit like Prussian infantry). Then it started, the Russian left flank fought like deflated marshmallows, Turkish Irregular cavalry went berserk in the centre and broke through Russian regular cavalry, shrugged off Russian trained infantry (attacking from the rear) and narrowly missed destroying the Russian hospital full of wounded troops. Then the Russian Grenadiers attacked with elan only to find that the Turks had elan-plus installed!"

And here endeth the lesson. Blogspots will carry images of the very soon ...

I think Dave has summed it up pretty well :D. Some game 'photos, a sort of AAR and thoughts on the show can be found on my Blog:

https://wwiiwargaming.blogspot.com/2019/09/cotswold-wargaming-day-2019-show-report.html (https://wwiiwargaming.blogspot.com/2019/09/cotswold-wargaming-day-2019-show-report.html)

 :-bd =D> :-bd

Great result, well done

Thanks chaps :).

Quote from: Steve J on 08 September 2019, 08:46:35 PM
I think Dave has summed it up pretty well :D. Some game 'photos, a sort of AAR and thoughts on the show can be found on my Blog:

https://wwiiwargaming.blogspot.com/2019/09/cotswold-wargaming-day-2019-show-report.html (https://wwiiwargaming.blogspot.com/2019/09/cotswold-wargaming-day-2019-show-report.html)

Dave, Steve, thanks for the AAR and blog post. I really appreciate the work you did on the bespoke terrain: that depression behind the Russian lines where the hospital was is hard to portray convincingly on the tabletop any other way (I just demarcated it with my versatile green pipecleaners!) so it's great to see it done properly.

I found a quite detailed Russian map of the battle in the Russian Wikipedia entry:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%8E%D1%80%D1%8E%D0%BA-%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B5_%D1%81%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5

And out of interest I took a walk on the battlefield using Google Streetview. Sure is flat!
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.742414,43.4935851,3a,60y,180h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBvYb0hgvu46Q-BOvtzY-Bw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Chris

Bloody Big BATTLES!
https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/BBB_wargames/info
http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/

That is flat! Good job the Russians only had smoothbore weapons, imagine the Bloody Big Balkans firepower on that ground.