Phalanx Show 2024

 Once again the St Helens Spartans club has organised an excellent show, with a good balance between games and trade, with the added attraction of what looked to be a thriving Bring and Buy.  In the lunch time break between participating in the Montgisard game with the Gentlemen Pensioners I managed to take a few photographs of other games of interest.

Firstly, this Boxer Rebellion game, with groups of troops from several nations attempting to rescue a group of their nationals from the besieged town.

Another 'colonial' game was offered by Tiger Miniatures, set on the North West Frontier

Next to the Lance & Longbow game were James Mitchell and Bren Dolan with a Talavera Game in 6mm

In contrast the All Independent 54mm Wargames Club also presented at Napoleonic game, in , as their name suggests 54mm scale.

The Cheshire and Staffordshire Wargamers had another game which looked Napoleonic, but on closer inspection was set in the Crimean War.  It was covering the British sector of the Alma Battlefield.

Two clubs had games set in North Africa in WWII : Beacon Gaming Club

and the Mailed Fist group

We ran our game twice and  several visitors to the show were interested enough to give our much modified 'Lion Rampant' rules a try.

In these units the spearmen can kneel, allowing the crossbowmen to fire

Sadly, Dave Lanchester wasn't able to join the Gentlemen Pensioners this time, but Andy, Chris, John, Neil, Peter and Steve were all in attendance.