GAME

AWARDS

SALUTE 52

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Best in Show

Warsaw 44
Loughton Strike Force
Best Small Scale Game

The Crossing of Düna 1701
Per Broden and Wyre Forest Wargamers
Best Medium Scale Game

Breaking the Stalemate , Iran Iraq War
The Friends of General Haig
Best Large Scale Game

(Bill Brewer Award)
The Crossroads
A Few Brits and the Hobby
Best Participation Game

Bloody Omaha
All Hell Let Loose
Most Innovative

(Robin Hunt Award)
Mars defends
Bunny Badger Games
Best Presented Game

Port Royal
Cornwall Wargames Association
Best Scenery

Gotterdammerung Berlin 45
Retired Wargamers Reloaded
Best Historical Game

(Robert Bothwell Award)
The Battle of Montena 1867 “Rome or Death”
Yarkshire Gamer
Best SciFi/Fantasy Game

(Jim Clark Award)
What Lies Beneath The Streets Of Luneden & Mega City One
Magrathea Builder Of Worlds

Best Participation: All Hell Let Loose

Bloody OmahA

“I created my Omaha Beach game for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. I wanted to help bring to life the phenomenal effort and sheer scale of the undertaking and celebrate the bravery of the American soldiers that fought on the beach.

I built a scale model board of the entire length of the beach, sea approaches and the bluffs. I was able to use contemporary maps, modern archaeology and aerial photographs to recreate the beach in precise detail.

I used 6mm figures for the US and German ground forces and scaled down 3D prints for the landing craft, support craft and destroyers, cruisers and battleships. Players took on the role of the US troops landing on a beach sector. They had to guide the landing craft in, beach safely, disembark amidst hails of machine gun fire and artillery shells and push up the beach to reach the shingle. Players used engineering teams had to try to clear gaps in the obstacles and tanks to shield forces on the beach.

My two teenage sons helped set up, break down and run the game at the show umpiring sections of the beach. We were all very busy for the whole day!

I have run the game up and down the country over the last 18 months and had well over a hundred people give the game a go. I believe we have helped bring to life the horror of the landing at Omaha and given just an inkling of the courage, sacrifice and heroism required to establish the beachhead.

I was absolutely thrilled to be awarded Best Participation game, particularly given the incredible quality of the games at Salute.”

- Charles

Best IN SHOW: Loughton Strike Force

WARSAW 44

Best SMALL SCALE: Per Broden and Wyre Forest Wargamers

The Crossing of Düna 1701

Best MEDIUM SCALE: THE Friends of General Haig

Breaking the Stalemate

Best LARGE SCALE: A Few Brits and the Hobby

The CrOSSROADS

“The game we displayed was a result of not being able to bring the actual game that was planned!

We had a 20mm WW2 Normandy planned but two weeks before the show, an issue with ferries arose and that idea had to be scrapped.

So we decided to do 28mm Napoleonics instead! Warwick supplied the Austrians, Andy supplied the Austrians and we threw together a game. Indeed the first time the table was set up, was at SALUTE and it was put together out of scenery that was available.

We just called it 'The Crossroads'!

We loved the layout and table, and it just goes to show that you don’t need sculpted boards and expensive terrain to put on a good looking game.”

- Piers Brand, Andy Fox and Warwick Kinrade.