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Newbury Demo Game

Page history last edited by Si Tyler 13 years, 6 months ago

While the Downtown Conversion process has been going on for a while I thought it about time to whet the appetite of those looking forward to Colours at Newbury in September.

 

We have been given a slot on the second floor with a 6x5 table which will be more than enough to put out the 4 x 5 game table and enough room for spare models and charts.

 

The Terrain Pieces are have come along a fair way and I am hopefully getting another couple finished off while on Holiday in the Lake District.

 

Because my "normal" USN aircraft have markings for the 1972 constellation cruise and Oriskany, I don't have aircraft for the 3rd Combat Cruise on Constellation in 1967.  I have just started a quick project working up a set of markings for a pair of VF-143 "Pukin-Dogs" which I will see how they come out.  If all else fails the 1972 aircraft will proxy in.  Which they did in the end, I just didn't have time to make up more aircraft.

 

Newbury Show is now over! We attended both days and came away with "Winner of Best Small Game"  which is a result.  We ran approximately 9 sessions of the miniatures conversion with about 24 players attending (we catered for 3 attending each session) plus a number of one on one chats to people who didn't have time to play but wanted to know.  Both Chris Russell (Thud Ridge author) and Paul (from Tumbling Dice) visited and gave us some good feedback.

 

Game was very well received and we were asked if we would put it on at Sheffield in May of next year which again was a surprise.  All in all a good weekend gaming we learnt loads about the project ourselves and it has been very worthwhile.  As there were only 2 of us doing the demo not a lot of photos, but have a look at these to keep you interested..

 

The Mat all painted up with all the proposed hexes ready to be boxed up you are looking East with Hanoi at the Bottom and Haiphong at the top

 

 

Haiphong and Hanoi Hex complexes (yes Kien An is in the wrong place but this is the only photo If you can't read the writing then try a zoom in.  I don't know what happened to the shots but I find that if I go to 125% (IE8) the writing is very clear.

 

 

Raid in progress.  The yellow dice are for SAM partial acquisition.  The green show how many SAM shots remain.  The US package is threatened by 3 MiG flights.  The dark blue hexes at the top of the mat are the entry and egress routes of hte bombers.  The green hexes (3mm ply) are reversable (Green/Blue) and are used for the way points that the bombing and Recon flights have to follow.  CAP and SEAD flights get to free range which is good from a demo game as it keeps the interest up: Yes Kien An is in the CORRECT place in this photo.

 

Table laid out on Day 2.  USN entry hexes on the souther edge and all the targets labelled up. (Yes Kien An is still in the wrong place)  We had a very short time to set up before the doors opened so this was a very clear table before the models were laid out.  Kien An was in the right place (as you can see above) for the raids.

 

If any one out there has shots from Colours that wouldn't mind providing so we can get them up then contact me at Si dot tyler at blueyonder dot co dot uk (don't do the webcrawler thing)

 

Si 

 

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