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SELWG 2019 – A Slightly Delayed Report

I had one more wargames show left to visit this year, the South East London Wargames Group’s SELWG 2019 on 20th October, in the Crystal Palace Sports Centre.

After the relatively fresh experience of visiting COLOURS 2019 in Newbury, I had a pretty good idea of what to expect, which made me feel a bit like a seasoned veteran of wargame shows: the halls were filled with traders and the demo games were exiting, so the situation was reassuringly familiar. Compared to COLOURS, SELWG felt a bit more spacious, which was partially due to the bigger inner height, but also due to the slightly lower number of traders, demos and a smaller crowd. I really don’t mean that as a negative, the location and venue itself was nice, there was a decent range both of games and merchandise. I’d rather say that the whole show was more of a manageable size.

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The “Oscars”

The local RPG club, where I spent several hours every week in the past year either playing or running a game as a DM, has recently become one year old. There were loads of ideas on how to celebrate the anniversary: throwing a party, having a cake, a charade, etc…  – everyone was excited and busy with organizing the event.

We decided to give some kind of an award or memorabilia to gamers who have really outdone themselves. There was a surprise only two of us knew about: Crooked Dice Studio had a miniature with an uncanny resemblance to one of the iconic members of the club. The head, the pose and the cargo short were spot on, so we decided to paint them in gold, silver and bronze and make them our “Oscars”.

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