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Two games of The Barons’ War at last Saturday’s NWA meeting. One Vikings v Normans using the Conquest supplement and then the Vikings fought an English force using the standard rules. So this post contains my random thoughts, rambling and report from the first battle with some comments on the second. I got the Conquest supplement…
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With the 2020 Kickstarter campaign, new plastic miniatures and refreshed boxsets and rulebooks Battletech has experienced a bit of a resurgence. Still early days at NWA, but there are a few people showing interest in both Classic and Alphastrike versions of the game. Fun fact. More people in Melbourne backed the Clan Invasion Kickstarter than…
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Medieval May May is themed this year: Ancients and Medieval May. We strongly encourage members to pull out their sword and spear armies that may have been gathering dust and get them onto the tabletop. Whether it’s SAGA, Billhooks, Hail Caesar, or Art d’la Guerre (ADLG), it doesn’t matter. For people who don’t have anything…
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After a busy start to the year the club seems to have settled into a good rhythm with the meetings. Of note with them, attendance has steadied on Fridays and Saturdays with 25-30 members and 5+ visitors regularly attending the RSLs on those days and evenings. The 3pm start at Blackburn has gone well. The…
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Welcome everyone to February’s Despatches. We have now commenced our outreach to schools in the vicinity of Blackburn. Whilst we’ve had more new members join NWA in the past six months than more than the previous six years (even if we exclude COVID) there’s still opportunity for us to offer gaming opportunities to people of…
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Click https://www.facebook.com/NWAGames/ for the NWA public page, where you can find out about upcoming events involving NWA and where the public can ask questions and find out about the club. Click https://www.facebook.com/groups/nwa.members/ for the members Facebook group which is very active. This is for members to organise games and post photos of club meetings and what they are playing,…
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Download the free Army List generator in Excel for Sword & Spear, a game for Ancient and Medieval combat by Polkovnik Productions and published by Great Excape Games. Updated to version 2.01 and enhanced by NWA member John Shaw. You can also download the PDF army lists in case you want to print and do…