Battleground 2017

Today, there was no club as we were at Stockton upon Tees for the now regular, and excellent, Battleground show. I managed to get there for 10:15am, so had a good chance of finding what I wanted...
Held at the Queens campus at Teesside university's sports hall, it has good lighting which makes taking pics easier! Sadly, some were too blurred to use, and I missed taking pics of some good folks, like my friends at Hoka Hey! Sorry guys!

Other blogs have more pics...
https://rubbsalotsmancave.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/battleground-wargames-show-2017-stockton.html

http://westerhopewargames.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/battleground-2017-show-report.html

https://www.facebook.com/pg/BattlegroundShow/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1061388890670031

Among others!

Still, here are the ones I took...

First, the games:

A game of Kreigspeil, with lots of period 'feel' items.

 My Tyneside wargames club's Trojan war 10mm game.

 Achilles?

Brompton bankers' lovely looking Samurai game using the new Ronin rules. 

 Wargames in the dungeon and their operation Sealion game.

Independent Wargames group's ACW game

 Durham wargame club's visually stunning Port Republic game.

 Love the civilians! 

Warcradle studio were doing a Wild West: Exodus game 

 Nate Zettle had a lovely blood and plunder game

 Beautiful detail.

 Cozzmic cakes regular 'Shoot a cake and eat it' game

All the displays had nice signs saying what they were, a really useful resource for the casual browser like me! 

Cute way of selling nice cakes anyway! 

Malifaux's steam punk game, I think?. 

 Redcar Ironbeard's WW2 game

...(despite one of my pet hates, erratically placed rail track!)...  

 ..A nice looking game, with rather nice flame markers for burning tanks!

 Border Reiver's interesting Quatre Bras refight. 

 Monty's wargaming world's Adventures in 'Lardest' Africa. 

Durham wargames' Hungarian war of independence' game. 

 68th DLI display.

 Players in Tricornes?

 Has to be Stafford & district wargames WSS game.

 A refight of the Battle of Oudenarde.

Another lovely game, Carrying on up the dale's  Franco-Dutch battle... 

 ...set during Louis XIVs expansionary period!

Harrogate wargames group's Italian wars game. 

As usually, a well signed... 

 A house divided ACW game by Old Guard Wargames.

I liked the terrain especially! 

 Westerhope Wargames Group's Wellesley -(Soon to be Duke of Wellington)- in India game

Go, you Sepoys! 

Passing our lad's Trojan game again! 

The Bring and Buy! 

As the sign says... 

Generals and Kings' battle of Brandywine, 1777 

And finally, Scarborough wargames club's Bolt Action WW2 game.

On to the Traders:

Helion and company. 

I was tempted by some of these books! 

Barwell bodyworks 

 Pendraken & minibits

ssafa: A good charity, supporting servicemen and their families.

Colonel Bill's, loads of goodies here! 

Lesley's bits box 

 

Bring and Buy again, still going strong! 

Tumbling dice 

Dave Thomas's - loads of plastic goodness... 

...and Perry stockists! 

Dave Lanchester books. 

Newline designs 

Asylum wargames 

Rapier miniatures, gotta love those witches on broomsticks! 

Warbases! 

A massive selection of tufts! 

 Games of war

Four A ? 

Some lovely packs of Minions! 

 Crooked dice

 Warlord games

  

Baccus 6mm 

Gaming figures, with a very striking display! 

Grubby tanks? 

Ainsty castings 

Their display is always worth a browse... 

..almost any battlefield nik-nak you could think of!

 By 12 Midday, the hall was still buzzing, but I had to go...

 Lawrence, at my last stop of the day...

 The Last valley! New cherry trees on view for the first time.

 Yeh, I bought some more desert roads...

...and tree tableau's  

 ..and a couple of marshy pools!

Sadly, being too close to Christmas, I had to control my budget, so had to settle for what i really needed. Perhaps its a goo thing I didn't get to Hoka Hey...!!

Great show though, My thanks to all those involved in putting it on!