Salute 2024

Saturday was Salute 51 at the Excel in London, the biggest wargames show in the UK of the year. As usual, it was painful on the feet, I do hate the concrete floor, but an excellent opportunity to buy loads of stuff for loads of games.

There were loads of amazing demonstration and display games to look at. The effort put in by all of the games clubs is exceptional, I usually end up with getting a few ideas for my own table.

There were several ship based games on some pretty big tables with some lovely ship models on display.

One of the biggest tables was a massive walled town. It did look great, but I did wonder how it could be used in a game as it would be impossible to reach anywhere near the middle of the table.

This chaos themed floating rock table was rather nice, a setting for a game of Chronopia.

I assume the most expensive display game was the combined masses of Warhammer 40K Titans fighting it out.

As a table is simply not big enough, the floor is required for a game of this magnitude. It makes my Imperial Knights look a bit tiny really.

There were several medieval tables with a nice mix of buildings, castles and harbours, something I like to incorporate into my own games.

There was a very nice trench setup on display, the earth looked like real dirt, but I did resist the temptation to poke it to find out for sure.

The use of resin water was included in quite a few displays, which makes me want to try again on some small terrain pieces to see if I can make it work for a change.

I have a pile of swag that came back with me and I will my purchases in another post here this week.