Local Conventions Are Fun

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This Sunday I’m thankful for Trumpeter Salute.

It’s the biggest annual gaming convention in Vancouver.

Last year — 2025 — I ran a game on Saturday that I’ll talk about later.

But the games I played on Friday night and Sunday morning are why I really like local conventions.

Friday night I played in a game of Freikorps vs Communists.

It was a fun 15mm Rampant variant.

We fought the reds to a standstill. Would’ve preferred to vanquish, but alas.

Then on Sunday morning I played in one of the epic games of Wild West that has been a staple of Trumpeter meets for years, decades. Another 15mm masterpiece, running classic Boot Hill.

I got to play the Man With No Name.

The Trumpeter monthly game nights have expanded over the years to include roleplaying and board games. Hell, there’s even some HeroClix now.

So if you live in the GVRD I recommend you check Salute out come April.

 

Bottle Battles

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This Sunday I’m thankful there are men in the world who don’t allow even the mortal danger of organized violence to come between them and a good piss-up.

A few months ago, in the March 2020 issue of Miniature Wargames magazine, I learned about the Battle of Tuttlingen.

Tuttlingen

I thought, “Cool, that’s a well written Thirty Years War scenario; and one side being loaded does make it VS.” Then, as is my wont, I carried on.

Fast Forward to last week. My awesome Mailman delivered my copy of the Medieval Warfare 2019 Special Edition: Rise of the Gun (which is excellent, by the way!). Therein is an article titled, “The Good, the Bad and the Intoxicated.” That’s when I found out about the Battle of Beverhoutsveld.

Beverhoutsveld

The moral of the story is this: if your enemy’s tight as an owl you’ll likely carry the day.

[Addenda: DRUNKTIONARY!

Also this.]

 

OK Now this Plague is Really Getting in the Way

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Lamentations of the Flame Princess (US Store) just released a handful of new titles.

For virus-related reasons he’s unable to ship to a few countries, including Canada.

If you’re up here and want any of the new books I recommend you go through a freight forwarder.

Going through a forwarder will add shipping costs to your order for sure, but if you want the books sooner than later and are willing to foot the bill it’s a solid option.

I’ve been a customer of Can-Amer Freight in Blaine, Washington for years. They’re good people; I’ve never had anything but great service. Their receiving fee is nominal and they get me the lowest price available on postage to slingshot my stuff up here.

There are probably forwarders all along the border. Check for your province.

Find one, contact them to learn their procedures, then place your order with Lamentations. Boccob’s yer uncle!

Thankful for the Middle Ages

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What a time to be alive!

Something I’ve wondered about off and on for years is why nobody was making figs inspired by classic art. There are a lot — tons really — of minis out there of this or that TV or film character. And a fair few of daring heroes and cruel villains from books and comics. But nobody was mining manuscripts or pillaging paintings for ideas. Until finally …

Antediluvian Miniatures has a terrific range of demons pulled from the pages of manuscripts and woodcuts.

Skull & Crown’s Triumph of Death is a marvellous line of skeletons taken from medieval and renaissance books and prints.

Skull & Crown’s Killer Rabbits are a wonderful warren of malevolent bunnies modelled after medieval marginalia. Seriously, it was a weird scene. Check it out.

And last but sooo not least, Old School Miniatures has a great range of rabbits and other marginalia minis. I mean …

Right!?

So yes, I’m thankful for these magnificent Medieval minions.

[Edit: I should mention Hereditary and Paimon. Do it!]

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