Shed Wars: Conventions

Monday, 28 October 2019

BLAM 2019

Good Morning All

This time last week I was recovering from the effects of a rather wonderful weekend of wargaming, rugby and beer.

Of course, I am talking about the annual wargames convention held in my local pub. For the fifth year in a row I have been priviliged to help organise a smallish event of around 25 avid gamers and members of the lead adventure forum to push figures and roll dice for three three days.

Rather obligingly the pub screened all the quarter final rugby games so nobody had to miss out on the sports either.

The following photos give a snapshot of the games on play - thank you to some folks on the forum for allowing me to pinch some.

Stars Wars: Ewoks attack by Gamer Mac

Sharpe's Bastards by Malamute

Tales of Shedwood by Eric the Shed

A Paleo Diet by Mason

A Victorian Dungeon Crawl by Malamute & Dr De'Ath

Traveller by Sl44de

Rebels & Patriots by Romark & Jeff

WW2 in the Levant - Captain Blood

and here is to 2020..

Saturday, 27 October 2018

BLAM 2018

So last weekend 30 wargamers descended on my local boozer for a three day binge of wargaming, and I am delighted to report that the 11^th BLAM was a total success.

The three days of gaming in the pub's small function room saw a total of 13 games hosted. These ranged across a wide set of periods and genre’s. Where else in the wargaming world can you play Judge Dredd in the morning, Custer in the early afternoon and a leading Columbian Drug dealer at the end of the day. If you want to fight Spanish guerilla’s, blood soaked zombies or axe armed men at arms BLAM offered it all.

A massive thank you to all those that helped to organize, hosted games, or just took part in this gaming extravaganza.

For those of you not familiar with the concept of BLAM this started off life on the Lead Adventurer Forum. This is an annual meet of gamers who share the same passion for great terrain, figures and games. All the participants are regular visitors to this most excellent forum and over the years several great friendships have been established, battles fought and hobby experiences shared. It is most definitely one of my highlights of a wargaming year.

The LAF is a most definitely international forum and not surprisingly this year’s visitors to BLAM were a very international bunch. Guests arrived from Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Denmark, Sweden and Germany. We even had a guest from the States this year.

The following photos are taken from the games being played – some of these were absolutely outstanding beautiful..

roll on next year