at conventions

Dudley Bug Ball 2002

Ed Simbalist talkign to Guy Robinson and Dave Blewitt

John Kovalic in a rare quiet moment. Little does he suspect that a large Scotsman is about to descend upon him.

Cheapass Games's Diceland being proudly shown off by Buttonman Doug

"Prima Inter Pares" A Play by Email game during the convention. Natty togas. Run by Interesting Times

View of the Trader's Hall. The chap in the sweatshirt is Jay Forster, Editor of Valkyrie and sales-being for Caliver Books.

BGD's stand being looked after by Director's Blew and Scott (seated) and John. Photo by Francis Tiffany

Colin Wheeler of 2nd Games Galore occupying the bits of the tradehall you can't see in the photo above. Note the C&S product in the nearest green box and the copy of C&S 2nd Edition in the box two boxes to the right of the green box.

young Sir Michael Turner smiling as he approaches the evil Dragon Tim. (If it had been ed taking the picture then he's have told Michael off for touching the blade). Photo by Tim Smith

Francis Tiffany inspecting approaching Orcs in the Border Warlord's spectacular Laketown Demonstration game.

What Francis was looking at, the approaching orcish army

John Kovalic with ed. ed is pretty damn certain that he is losing that bloody gut Photo by Tim Smith (swine)

The night before DBB, Andy Staples sings.

Paul Vissing joins in "Hotel California". Note Andy's Mandolin to Paul's right.

As we were testing the wargames rules we brought our armies. Here we have ed's 15 mm Orc nomad and 25mm Darken Temple army in glorious paper. Most of the figures are based on those by Patrick Crusiau. The others were bought from Microtactix.

ed's paper Orcs vs a Darken Temple Army made up of Steve's metal miniatures. Francis Tiffany commanding the Temple forces. History does not record the result (though Francis does)

Panorama of the Sunday Afternoon big playtest of Heroes of Marakush using the C&S mass wargames rules. Click on the pic for a slightly bigger version. From the left. Francis Tiffany, Ed Simbalist, (seated) Dave Blewitt,.(standing0 onlooker, Steve Turner, Sue Turner, Richard Ostridge (onlooker) Paul Vissing, Andy Staples and Tim Smith (sorry about cropping your head Tim). ed is behind the castle but then again, he's the one taking the picture.

Late on in the assault. Blew's mage has teleported archers to the siege tower to take it, the paper archers over the gate are an illusion cast by ed's mage, who have so convinced the enemy that one unit are incapacitated (tipped over, base facing camera)