{"id":10472,"date":"2025-07-09T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/?p=10472"},"modified":"2025-07-07T20:55:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T19:55:27","slug":"open-day-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2025\/07\/09\/open-day-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Day – Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Welcome to another Wednesday blog post, for this week we are looking back at the games from our recent Open Day.<\/p>\n

We start with Stephen’s Barons War game. The table looked great, lots of terrain almost exclusively scratchbuilt by Stephen. With lots of normal life trappings to give it a lived in feel.<\/p>\n

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Stephen managed a couple of games on the day, the second resulting in a major fight in the middle of the field the claim the trebuchet.<\/p>\n

We move onto Mark J and his big Vietnam game. Mark now owns an impressive collection of jungle terrain to say nothing of the miniatures and vehicles assembled and painted.<\/p>\n

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I’m not sure how far the American armour made it across the table. The game had a settlement complete with villagers, animals and rice fields to set the scene.<\/p>\n

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Next up and we had a lord of the Rings battle put on by Tony F and Phil. I participated in this battle by helping Phil’s orc forces streaming out of Moria. Well I say helping, Phil gave me a troll to play with but I managed to get it killed in its first battle with Tony’s dwarves.<\/p>\n

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But a lack of dwarven reinforcements allowed the orcs to push on, but they failed to kill the dwarf king in order to secure victory.<\/p>\n

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Something different now with David and Chris putting on a game involving Technicals, or improvised vehicles for those not in the know. These were converted from matchbox cars and miniature crews added.<\/p>\n

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The game involved a dozen vehicles at a time and as you can see was somewhat explosive. It’s always nice to see these different types of games at the society, and a good addition for the Open Day.<\/p>\n

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Our last game at the Open Day was another outing for Marcus and his award winning labyrinth style pulp adventure game. Featuring dozens of 3D dungeon tiles.<\/p>\n

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Marcus added a couple of tower tiles this time round and played the game as a dungeon fantasy game this time. It was good to see the tiles used for another game, and I believe they are getting another revamp later this year.<\/p>\n

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We hope you enjoyed seeing the games that were put on. We’d also like to thank those wargamers (or would be wargamers) that came to our open day to see what we get up to at the society.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in coming along to the Maidstone Wargames Society all our details can be found on our about us page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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