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	Modern desert There is someone on the board!
	SciFi game No idea what this game was.
	SciFi terrain Is there a game going on here?
	Scifi game Looks a bit bland.
	Wargods I think this was a Wargods of Aegyptus.
	Mummies The sand looks good.
	Asia Burma or Thailand or something like that... lots of neat elephants.
	Asia This is a rather intriguing setup, actually.
	Large scale LotR A giant Weathertop game.
	Large scale LotR I don't know what the scale actually was, but it was large.
	The center stage For the most part, nothing was really happening here.
	SciFi terrain These boards were on sale as blanks. Looks pretty neat, but in a few months everyone and their brother has one...
	SciFi terrain Why does SciFi always have to be uniform gray? I know, I'm as guilty as the next man...
	Confontation One of the few sponsored events, I think.
	Confrontation More french stuff.
	Confrontation Yet another frenchie game.
	Confrontation Yet another Confrontation board.
	AT-43 Rackham's new puppy.
	AT-43 Looks halfway decent, at least the terrain.
	AT-43 Clearly their main item this year.
	AT-43 Too much flash, but they look relatively ok.
	Re-enactors The SS re-enactors had a big section.
	Re-enactors Neat equipment, but on the whole I don't really know what to think about this.
	Zulu game Myer's drift. Nice to see it's not yet another Rorke's game...
	Zulu game The reinforcements.
	Zulu game Swarms of natives, an essential part of colonial games.
	Zulu game I think this was another static display. I sure wouldn't fancy moving all these pieces...
	Asia Looks like SE Asia again.
	Asia Japanese seem to be attacking, so this must be early war.
	Asia The terrain reminds me of Burma.
	Three Musketeers Nice terrain, but a bit empty.
	Three Musketeers I think this was another 1/48 game.
	Re-enactors SS mugs on sale!
	Re-enactors They even brought their own wheels.
	Hour of Glory This is actually a board game.
	Hour of Glory Oopsie, forgot to rotate this picture... anyway, the squares the rules are based on are clearly visible.
	Hour of Glory I think this is a functional replica of the actual game board.
	Amphibious assault Looks like Anzac troops are coming onshore.
	Star Wars This was actually pretty neat, a Death Star trench game.
	Battlefleet Gothic Neat fortress. Must be a bitch to store, though.
	Battlefleet Gothic Chaos fleet pouring through a warp gate.
	Thunderbirds Neat idea, but the delivery is a bit lack-lustre, sorry.
	Italians Looks like Italians in the desert.
	Italians The might of Italy's tank force.
	Re-enactors Is that a Bergmann MP?
	Re-enactors Sidecar. You gotta have a sidecar.
	Re-enactors And ofcourse, an armored car.
	Sidni Biriani Too Fat Lardies put up a nice looking game.
	Sidni Biriani Quite a lot of desert fields in the show, though. Are they just easier to make look nice?
	Sidni Biriani Zoom in and you can read the text.
	Sidni Biriani Nice terrain, but not that much cover.
	Wild West Not quite Deadwood.
	Warmachine Warmachine was another manufacturer demo game.
	Hordes The new game is always in the limelight.
	Hordes Neat houses, though.
	Warmachine Rather larger than your typical Warmachine game, I think.
	Warmachine Neat trains.
	Star Wars Another Star Wars game, not quite as nice as the Death Star one IMHO.
	Star Wars Ok, it's Hoth, but still...
	Border Reivers Based pretty much on Vendel's line of figures. Could be interesting though.
	Border Reivers You can't go wrong with livestock on the board. Reminds me I should buy some pack mules.
	Border Reivers A-reiving we go...
	Mexicans The Maximillian adventure, perhaps?
	Another Nappy game The battle of something or the other...
	Another Nappy game The redcoats are at it again.
	Another Samurai game The game could look better, but the organizers were wearing actual samurai garb. I'll take that over SS any day of the week.
	Another Samurai game I guess the main detraction is the disparity between the ground cloth and everything else. I know, because my terrain at home has the same problem.
	WWII bridge Yet another bridge too far.
	WWII bridge Nice terrain again. This will probably incite a few curmudgeons to claim that 'this can only be done in 1/76', which is a load of crap IMHO, but it's still nice terrain.
	WWII bridge There seems to be a continuity problem in the construction work.
	Successors Way more pikes than I really care to do.
	Successors I tend to gloss over the pike-heavy periods (because Real Men(tm) don't hide behind a 20-foot stick), but I'm pretty sure this a successors battle.
	Successors I'm not sure if that's knock-knees or some of his namesakes.
	American Civil War Another period I don't really know much about. The tree bases stick out a bit too much though.
	American Civil War Looks rather skirmishy, though. Is that a word?
	Ultra-modern SEALs in the desert, or something like that.
	Fighters over Finland Neat game idea, though the ground looks way too light green. Finland is a dark, dark country.
	Fighters over Finland If I could find some decent rules, I could see myself doing this. Or maybe even Winter War, for even grittier action.
	Fighters over Finland Though it's the darn hexes again...
	Fighters over Finland Neat bases too.
	A game No idea what this game was all about. Looks vaguely 18th century to me, though I'm not really sure.
	A game Nice graveyard, though.
	Medieval game The large base for the standard bearer seems familiar from somewhere...
	Medieval game It's the somethings against the others. War of the Roses, perhaps?
	Gaming table I've seen these on the Internet for roleplaying games. Nice to see one in real life.
	Gaming table Though the actual game on the actual looks a bit bland.
	Aegyptians Now, if I recall correctly, this wasn't really a Wargods game but something in a similar vein.
	Aegyptians I don't quite know how the yeti and the pyramids go together.
	Aegyptians Aegyptian war elephant and Spartans, I gather?
	Pacific war megagame Rather boardgame-y.
	Samurai skirmish Another samurai game, this time looks like a skirmish.
	Samurai skirmish I get the feeling that this is actually more early period, maybe something like 12th Century?
	Samurai skirmish West Wind figures, maybe?
	Samurai skirmish I like the warrior monks. Maybe I should do a force of them.
	Samurai skirmish Wait a minute, are we doing the mongol invasion here?
	Samurai skirmish Looks mongolish to me.
	Wargods I think this is a real Wargods game.
	Warhammer Fantasy Looks like Empire vs. beastmen. Nice mountains, even though they don't seem all that playable to me.
	Warhammer 40,000 A rather nice but very very gray display.
	Warhammer 40,000 I guess the uniforms do work as camouflage if this is really the terrain...
	Waterloo Another Nappy game.
	Hexon -stuff It's the Hexon stuff again. For hexes, it actually looks pretty good. I think the game is some sort of 10mm fantasy thing.
	Waterloo redux Boney's last stand, all over again.
	Yet another samurai game Terrain looks nice. I'm not really sure if samurai stuff is always this popular or if it's just in fashion right now.
	Crusades The high point of Christianity.
	Crusades Nice camp.
	Crusades From the terrain I gather this is set somewhere in the eastern Europe.
	Crusades They are actually playing this game, which is more than can be said about many of the displays at the show.
	Crusades The saracen camp.
	Re-enactors Hitler-Jugend re-enactors?
	Hexon stuff The Hexon -stuff from another angle.
	Hexon stuff I guess they are Kallistra's 10mm line.
	More WWII bridges Neat city.
	More WWII bridges German panzers to the rescue.
	More WWII bridges The other side of the river.
	More WWII bridges Hey, the plane is broken.
	Naval game Pre-dreadnoughts.
	Naval game I think these were 1/1200 models, which I guess can work with the gunnery ranges pre-dreads are capable of.
	Somewhere in Russia Medieval Russia, I think.
	WWI Looks like the French.
	WWI It's a fountain.
	WWI Germans in the fields.
	WWI Hedgerows?
	WWI Kaiser on the march.
	WWI Peace movment protest.
	WWI Nice use for a mini-tripod.
	Somewhere in Russia I think this was the Teutonic Order or guys of their ilk.
	Somewhere in Russia Yep, Teutonics.
	Somewhere in Russia Bleak peasant housing.
	Somewhere in Russia Woo-hoo, siege towers.
	Somewhere in Russia Mantlets in the field.
	Somewhere in Russia I believe one of the organizers mentioned that they pretty much scratch-built all of this.
	Somewhere in Russia Horsemen with pointy sticks.
	Somewhere in Russia The Righteous Ones' ship.
	The Shire Oohhh, Heineken! Erm, there's a game of some sort on the table too.
	London Bridge Even though it's not a game, it's a neat display.
	The Shire I don't recall the hobbits being quite this warlike.
	Dambusters Nice glare from the ceiling lights, but it's those damn busters again.
	Dambusters That's a dice tin I guess.
	Dambusters Bombers and a control board. Pretty neat.
	Dam busters Nice info board, all games really should have one.
	Dam busters Night fighter lies in wait.
	Pseudo-Egyptians Despite the label, I think this is another fantasy pyramids game.
	Pseudo-Egyptians Hmmm... it's the undead this time.
	Pseudo-Egyptians Defending the oasis or something.
	Tricornes Strikes me as vaguely 18th Century, but I've no idea what this was.
	Settlers of Catan Nice board.
	Settlers of Catan Though the addition it brings to gameplay is probably rather minimal. Looks nice, though.
	SciFi microarmor The ground looks like a camo-pattern cloth, but it's really not.
	SciFi microarmor I've no idea which rules they were using.
	Alien Squad Leader I've heard of this game somewhere.
	Alien Squad Leader Looks like it's element-based.
	Aegyptians again One of the not-Wargods games. No offense, but the pyramid theme seemed to be thrown around a lot.
	The Village looks like the Americans advancing through a village, somewhere.
	The Village There's something bloody wrong with our tanks today.
	Wargaming in Reading There was a wargames club in Reading.
	The hall Thankfully, there were rest areas with tables and chairs.
	The hall the environment could be nicer, but I guess it does what it's supposed to.
	Arriving at ExCel Finally at the ExCel after two grueling hours in public transportation. Well, actually the traing from Reading to Paddington was ok. The tube and DLR made up for it, though.
	ExCel ExCel is way big, and Salute was just one of the events they had that weekend.
	The Q-busters Yep, this is the Q-buster queue.
	Stormtroopers Law and order was properly maintained.
	More queueing Still in the fast queue.
	Stormtroopers Stormtrooper seem to get at least three square meals a day.
	Finally inside It's a giant convention hall!
	Racks of miniatures One of many, many, many racks of miniatures at the show. This one is from Tin Soldier.
	Dalek It's a Dalek!
	Another Dalek Another Dalek.
	Little Wars There was a club that was doing Little Wars with authentic toy soldiers and even a real carpet -- on the table.
	Medieval skirmish One of the many fine games displayed.
	Medieval skirmish A better view of the battlefield.
	End of Empire Nice city.
	End of Empire I guess this was early 20th Century.
	Pirate game I think they had FLoB for rules.
	Nappy game A giant Napoleonic game by Southend Wargames Club. Well, at least the table is big.
	Pirate game I think this was about the death of Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard.
	Nice city Really nice buildings.
	Nice city This is pretty damn cool. I think the game had some sort of Victorian theme.
	Trenches Pretty nice trench board
	Trenches A lone german guard.
	Trenches I think the figures were actually 1/48.
	Siege of Osaka Nice samurai game.
	Siege of Osaka I think this was another mostly static display.
	Siege of Osaka I wonder if they really read those japanese books or if they bought them just for the pictures like I do.
	Siege of Osaka The defenders look a bit lonely.
	Teeth of the Dragon Chinese vs. Vietnamese on Kallistra hexes.
	Teeth of the Dragon I like the idea, I love these little obscure things much more than the treaded path.
	Teeth of the Dragon The hexes actually look pretty nice -- if I didn't hate hexes.
	Battlefleet Gothic Looks like free-for-all.
	Battlefleet Gothic Really nice planets, though. They were on sale too (painted) and not all that expensive either. Too bad my bag was too full to really buy anything.
	Paper city I guess paper terrain can look nice if you really put effort into it.
	Paper city The game was some sort of near-future skirmish I guess.
	Colonial game Very nice display. I think this was Sudan.
	Colonial game Really nice marketplace.
	Colonial game I guess no Sudan game is complete without a river gunship.
	Colonial game The natives seem a bit restless.
	Siege of Tenochtitlan Another very nice display game.
	Siege of Tenochtitlan Hmmm... casualties, they're really playing this!
	Siege of Tenochtitlan They even had sinking canoes.
	Siege of Tenochtitlan There's fighting on the causeway.
	Siege of Tenochtitlan Aztecs waiting in ambush.
	Siege of Tenochtitlan Looks like elite warriors, I forget what these were called.
	Siege of Tenochtitlan The pyramid.
	Siege of Tenochtitlan The skull racks, drying in the sun.
	Siege of Tenochtitlan Monty's calling for divine intervention.
	American Civil War Rebs and yanks.
	Late medieval Lots of pikes about.
	Late medieval I hate actually moving pike blocks.
	Small Nappy game Most of the games were 28mm or even larger, but a few smaller ones were present too.
	Small Nappy game I don't recall what the scale actually was.
	Small Nappy game Looks ok from this height.
	Back of Beyond I think this was a Back of Beyond game.
	Back of Beyond The defenders.
	Modern desert Looks pretty... beige?