Wargames Waffle – March 2008 Update

The time has finally come for us to move out of 98 Station Street and fit everything into 114/115 opposite.
Instant Armies and Veteran Miniatures will, from the end of March 2008, be based at :

The Smallholding, Clifton Road, Netherseal DE12 8BP

- note that it is NOT a shop, so visits are strictly by appointment. Their phone number is 07758 451853.

We will still be very much in touch with each other, so we will still be passing on messages and we will also be happy to act as a pick-up point for deals arranged with them over the phone. We will not have room for any of their rummage boxes to be left here, but in order to make space for the historical ranges from 98, we are dropping most of the sci-fi ranges, so for the time being there will be plenty of bargains from us there. A glance at the catalogue will reveal an enlargement of the Ends of Ranges figures section, and as well as 25% off most of those ranges, we will be open to offers for the whole of any reduced range.

Enough of the serious stuff - the fun news is that I was able to join in the fun at the Raiders of the Games Cupboard do at a local church hall, where there was space to get my 1:1200 WWII ships out for the first time in several decades. In a hypothetical German raider breakout, the British only had cruisers and a handful of destroyers, so needed a successful torpedo attack as the only hope of putting a decent sized dent in Scharnhorst. It didn't happen, and the cruisers and pocket battleships fought each other to a standstill. Only the Admiral Scheer and one British destroyer went to the bottom, but it was a sorry selection of colanders that limped back to their respective ports. Who won? Over to the propagandists....

Also rescued from years of neglect were my 25mm orcs and Sally's Mongols, Normans, rats and badgers on ostriches. The plan was to try using the Battlelore rules without the hex board; it seemed a shame to be playing with unpainted 20mm figures with a cupboard full of unused pretty 25mm exotica. It worked a treat. Now I have to find room for setting up battles in the shop as well as wedging the extra stock in...