Continental Wars Society - Salute 2011

After all the planning, frustrations and last minute work to get the game together Salute is over for another year. As you can see, my photography is frankly rubbish-I will have to stage a few shots this weekend to let you get the flavour of the game. However the game, the very impressive display of books and associated back up material plus the plain hard work of everybody on the stand meant this year the society won the "Best Presentation in use on a game" category. We ran the participation game 4 times, each game lasting about one and a half hours. The rules, "Rank and File" from Crusader worked well I thought (I did simplify them a little) but can vouch for their playability and reckon they would work well for really big games as well. As the umpire the constant talking has left me with a very hoarse voice, so the glass of Merlot that sits beside me is for purely medicinal purposes. Sadly I did not get to see too much else and I certainly missed the Gallipoli game that I have heard so much about which is a shame, but it was a lot of fun to be part of this years society stand.

Found Property-Somebody left a small plastic bag with two booklets in after visiting the game. If you think it is you please let me know and I will gladly send it on to you.