Monday, August 8, 2016

Call to Arms - Wellington Warlords' Annual Convention

Over the weekend my local club the Wellington Warlords held their annual convention, Call to Arms. This event has been going since the mid-seventies - so 40+ years.

It was great to see around 200 gamers battle it out across the table in a variety of competitions. From my reckoning I saw tournaments in:

  • Kings of War
  • Malifaux
  • Age of Sigmar
  • Warhammer 40k
  • Dystopian Wars
  • Blood Bowl
  • Lord of the Rings
  • Flames of War
  • DBMM (Historical Ancients)
In addition, there were demo games in Frostglaive, Bolt Action and Guildball as well as WWII Naval, Napoleonics and I'm sure others that I missed.

I love multi-event conventions as you can walk around the tables and see a variety of different games as well as catch up with people who you might only see occasionally as you now play different games.

Up on the stage there was a huge Bring & Buy. I managed to sell about $300 worth of stuff that was taking up space in the garage. In addition, I pick up for Jack, an OOP Forgeworld Fire Dragon (new in its box). Score!!

3 comments:

  1. Yeah great event, good to see all the various wargaming going on.

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  2. Would you hazard a guess at relative numbers?

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    1. Probably 30ish for 40k, the rest were all 8-12 players

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