A Round-up of some of the other Games run in January-February 2025

The Devon Wargames Group has grown rapidly in the last five years and we now have some fifty members on our mailing list and regularly host around twenty-five members at each of our meetings, with usually at least four games on offer.

This growth has produced a challenge for the club, meeting as it had done, once a month, to make more games and opportunities to play available for our larger membership, that has seen us in recent years run two meetings per month in January, February and March, and more recently increased to adding April to our calendar of bi-meeting months.

As regular followers of the club blog will know we generally run one new post each week to illustrate to the wider wargaming community and potential new members the games we like to play, with the blog very much our club-shop window, but with the number of games now increased to around eight per month in the first tertial of the year not all games, for one reason or another, have their own feature and AAR and so I thought it might be fun to show our readers some of the other games run this year.

So in January we had a Napoleonic Naval Game run by Jack hosting his collection of 1:700 merchantman and men-o-war in a convoy attack game using Kiss Me Hardy, with models that make me think I should seriously think about getting into this scale for age of sail.

Also on the second meeting in January we had John running out his Test of Honour 28mm Samurai collection.

In February we had Gregory running his Burrows & Badgers game featuring his marvellous collection of warrior creatures and matching themed scenery, with Greg having the plaudit of his name credited in the recent second addition of the rules.

If Greg's excursion into the wild and dangerous wasn't enough of the fantastic we had Tom and Taiwo taking things up anther notch with their Modern Lego Skirmish using Savage Worlds, featuring a helicopter complete with spinning rotor.

To reassure those of us in the club that historical themes weren't going out of fashion we were treated to a glorious Chain of Command game in 28mm by Bob with US paras going up against SS Panzergrenadiers in classic bocage country.

For our second meeting in February we had a WWII theme going on with Steve L running out his 15mm WWII collection for a bit of fun using Fire & Fury's Battlefront rules.

 

Tom and Taiwo were back at the table for our second February meeting organising an ACW Ironclad naval action using Dawn of Iron.

Finally we had Vince, never one to be backward coming forward, with a game of 7TV if it means he can get his collection of Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlett collection of 1960's and 70's toy cars, rockets and anything else a certain age-demographic in the club can remember from their childhood, this game entitled Captain Scarlet & the Mysterons.

Is that the 'Donald', a certain 'Mrs T', Putin and the 'Little-Rocket Man' himself, Kim Jong-un? If so that has got to be the first North Korean to feature in the club.

I think you'll agree we enjoy a very varied diet of gaming experiences in the Devon Wargames Group, blessed as we are with some very talented model makers and game creators that makes every month at club an experience not to be missed.

In the follow up post to this round up of other games run at the club in March and April, I look forward to showcasing yet more varied themes and collections.

More anon

JJ