South East Scotland Wargames Club

Wappinshaw

Derek — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 11:15:22 +0000

Members of the South East Scotland Wargames Club ran a participation game using the play-test version of the Chain of Command rules from TooFatLardies at Wappinshaw in Glasgow last Saturday.

Here’s some pictures. The first is by Midpoint, one of the organisers of Wappinshaw. The rest by Derek Hodge.

The Wartime Experience

Derek — Thu, 16 May 2013 05:07:23 +0000

Another event with National Museums Scotland, this time at their Wartime Experience event at the National Museum of Flight at East Fortune. This event has been running for a few years now and featured re-enactors from WWI and WWII as well as all sorts of other activities such as period singing, dancing and even hair do’s for the ladies.

We were there with Falkirk and District Wargames Club running participation games for people attending the event. Colin Jack provided the game scenario and scenery and we used the Bolt Action rules to run a game based on an action at St Lambert-sur-Dives in August 1944. We were set up in one of the museum hangers right beside Concorde.

In our game Canadian troops were attempting to plug the Falaise Gap and had to capture the village to prevent the trapped Germans escaping via a bridge over the River Dives.

The game was a public participation game and a decent number of people joined in throughout the day.

Next door the Falkirk Club put on two WWI games, a naval encounter from WWI and this game of Wings of War which saw aircraft battling over the trenches in 1917.

There were lots of re-enactors outside, including a lot of WWII Germans

There were also British

and some WWI highlanders with these rather splendid field kitchen re-enactors who were serving food to all the other re-enactors, British and Germans alike.

Not all the re-enactors were military, these women were dressed as WWII civilians.

And the Blitz Sisters, provided period music and backed up a dancing display with public participation.

A fun time was had by all and we’re very much hoping we’ll get an invitation back next year.

Claymore 2013

Derek — Thu, 16 May 2013 01:00:37 +0000

Scotland’s premier wargames show, Claymore 2013, will be held on Saturday 3rd August, 2013, at the Granton Campus of Edinburgh College, 350 West Granton Road, Edinburgh EH5 1QE. Doors will open to the public at 10.00am.

Cost: Adult £2.50, Child £1.50, Family £5.00 (2 Adult 2 children)

Features

Demonstration and Participation Games: As per usual at Claymore there will be a good selection of demonstration and participation games.
Traders:Over 30 traders have been invited and some have confirmed they will be attending, a list can be found here.
Bring & Buy: Sell your second hand wargames stuff at our Bring and Buy stand. Save time by filling out your Bring & Buy sheets in advance. Download as an Excel .xls file or as an Adobe .pdf file

Facilities

Parking: There are 450 free spaces at the College. People coming to the show should not park in neighbouring Morrisons supermarket car park. If you’re there for more than three hours you will be fined.
Catering: The college will be opening their catering outlets for the duration at the show.
ATM: a cash machine is available in Morrisons, immediately next door to the College.

Getting there

View Map on Google Maps

Buses: The following Lothian Bus services stop outside the campus - 8, 14, 16, 47/47X. Full details of all these services can be found on the Lothian Buses website. Single fares are £1.4o for adults and £0.70 for children under 16. Exact change is required.

There are extensive roadworks in the centre of Edinburgh at the moment and the buses are all over the place. Closer to the day we will post details of where exactly in the city centre you can catch a local bus to the show.

Coming to Edinburgh by train? Get off at Waverly Station, go up the Waverly Steps to Princes Street and get a bus. The 8 and 14 buses go directly from stops close to Waverly Station. There are no direct buses from Haymarket Station to the college.

Coming to Edinburgh by bus? Get off At the St Andrew Square Bus Station then get a local bus.

Coming by Plane? Take the Airport Bus to the city centre then get a local bus.

Claymore Traders

Derek — Thu, 16 May 2013 01:00:36 +0000

The following traders have confirmed that they will be attending Claymore 2013

Games at Claymore

Derek — Wed, 15 May 2013 01:00:33 +0000

The following clubs will be putting on games at Claymore, 2013. We are still waiting for replies from a few clubs and this list will be updated as we hear from them.

Participation Games at Claymore 2013

6s to Hit – Spartan Games/Dystopian Wars and Privateer Press/game T.B.C.
Aberdeen Wargames Club – 54mm Spartacus: escape from Capua
Bathgate Wargames Club – 28mm “Them”
Blue Bears – 1/600 “Raid” WWII aerial
Chaos of the Warp – Star Wars: X-Wing and Warhammer 40K
Glasgow Games Group – 28mm XTreme-G Racing
Glasgow Wargames Club – “Full Thrust”
Gripping Beast – 28mm Saga
Inverness Roleplaying and Wargaming Club – Pattons Race (WWII)
Kirriemuir Wargames Club – 28mm “Anyone for Tennyson”: the Charge of the Light Brigade
Livingston Battleground – “Blink”
Paul Henni Design – Magic Maelstrom.a fantasy boardgame
Privateer Press/Alan Kennedy – Warmachine/Hordes
RAF Leuchars Wargamers – 1/300 naval “Divine Wind”

Demonstration Games at Claymore 2013

Angus Wargames Club – Dead man’s hand 28mm Cowboys
Border Reivers Wargames Club- 28mm T.B.C.
Claymore Castings – 28mm Medieval
Dumfries Wargames Club – 28mm VBCW
Dunfermline Wargames Club – 10mm The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies
Durham Wargames Group – 28mm Star & Amazons: the French in Dahomey
Falkirk and District Wargames Club – T.B.C.
Glasgow & District Wargaming Society – 28mm Raid on Tito
Glasgow Phoenix – 10mm Kursk 1943
Gourock Wargames Club – 15mm Zorndorf 1758
Iron Brigade – 28mm T.B.C.
League of Augsburg – 28mm Grand Alliance
St. Aiden’s Warriors – T.B.C.
Tyneside Wargames Club – 15mm Ancients

Vikings at the Museum of Scotland

Derek — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:45:30 +0000

The National Museum of Scotland is hosting an exhibition about Vikings just now and last Sunday they hosted a wargames event at which members of the public could see what wargaming is all about.

Four of us from SESWC went along and put on a game using the Sea Wolves variant of the Dux Britanniarum rules that were published in the TooFatLardies Christmas Special for 2012.

Dave, Jack, Derek and Jim (left to right)

The game involved a Viking attack on a Scots village. It was heavily scripted and designed to allow the Vikings to put the Scots under some pressure before being sent flying from the field. We wanted to keep the home crowd happy and the Scots were definitely cast as the good guys for the day.

In the pictures below you can see the Vikings about attack.

While some Scots Levy desperately try to form up to resist, inspired by the local priest..

The Scots were heavily outnumbered and the Vikings soon put them to flight, rounded up all the plunder, slaves and animals they could find and got ready to head back to the ships.

When part way there they saw a large Scots force advancing to cut them off and started to form a shield wall.

At this point the fighting got desperate and we enlisted some help from the audience.

A good time was had by all, despite the Scots almost ruining the script by rolling terrible dice. Luckily we had some cavalry on hand to help them out if necessary.

Also participating in the event were the Falkirk and District Wargames Club, who put on a game of Impetus, also featuring Scots vs Vikings at the Battle of Cruden Bay. You can read more about their day on the Lead Warrior blog.

Their table had a more substantial Scots village

And large numbers of people playing.

The Edinburgh Games Hub, in conjunction with 6’stohit ran a painting demonstration and participation game where people could paint up a Gripping Beast plastic Viking before using it in a battle. Their painting table was kept busy all day and about 80 people took part, lots of them children. Here’s some of them.

There was also small scale participation game, Men of the Sword

All in all a good day. We spoke to a lot of people, including several who had played Warhammer in the youth and who were interested to see the historical side of things. And we might even have got a new member out of it.

Notice of EGM

Derek — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:17:37 +0000

Thursday 7 February 2013, Royal Navy & Royal Marine Club (Edinburgh), 7.30 pm

Notice is hereby given that an EGM will be held under Clause 6 of the Constitution

Christmas and New Year

Derek — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:50:14 +0000

The club will be running as usual on Thursday 27th December and Thursday 3rd Jan.

Forum Registration Problems

Derek — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:24:10 +0000

Once again we’ve been having problems with spammers trying to get into the forum and I’ve just had to delete over 4,500 attempted registrations. It’s more than likely that I’ve included a few genuine applications in the purge so if that’s you please send an email to admin@seswc.co.uk, telling me who you are and why

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Claymore Pictures

Derek — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:41:45 +0000

These slide shows will give you some idea what to expect at Claymore. More pictures from Claymore can be found here.

Another slideshow, these pictures were taken by “Midpoint” from the TMP forum. Midpoint’s photos can also be seen in a Flickr Album.