So, Salute has come and gone for another year. For those unaware, Salute is the largest wargames show in the UK, held at the ExCel center.
I didnt get the chance to take many pictures, and the ones that I did get are on my mobile right now. I will add them here shortly.
I had the honour of being cast as the token 'booth babe' for DRM for the day.
("So, I get free entry and get to play with the new, experimental DRM rules using Tuffskulls minis? I dont know, let me think about it!")
The DRM table was well attended by eager fans, new and old. I am sure that Doug or Paul will turn up with more details and information about the DRM games and rules. I wonder if I can also get Doug to put up a picture of some of the greens that he had on the day, since I forgot to get pictures of these.
I did manage to get some time off for good behaviour, however. I had the chance to examine both Battlefield Evolution (Mongoose) and AT-43 (Rackham) to ake a look at the pre-paint quality. In my opinion, the BatEvo stuff was a little disappointing in paint quality, and I would want to repaint it. The AT-43 stuff was actually quite good from what I saw.
In addition, I managed to chat with Peter (Baccus) briefly, and got to see the huge walking city module, which is even more impressive in reality, as the size and scale comes across better. I also picked up some light Centaur tanks.
I was seriously tempted to pick up Hybrid, which came with the expansion Nemesis for free, but couldnt justify the storage of the box or the cost for something that I am very unlikely to actually play. Instead, I did pick up Confrontation third edition, with the first expansion book for free. Those with a good memory will remember that I was looking for this for a while, but didnt pick it up in the past as the campaign/development rules were not in the core book. This solved the problem nicely.
My final purchases were, understandably, DRM, to expand my Kraytonian and Andrayada forces - including an Araspan and a Mordent
Strange item of the day was some kind of laser tag corridor, involving people dressed as Alien, zombie and dalek creeping forwards.
Overall, a pretty good. I think that the only thing that felt a little bitter was the fact that one of the centre displays involved Nazi German equipment and uniforms (which I dont object to) and children in similar atire (which disturbed).
Was anyone else there?
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?) . It would have been great to know who we were talking to!
