Wappinshaw 2013 - Key Info

Wappinshaw 2013 was on the 1st of June at the Kelvin Hall Glasgow

The Glasgow Phoenix Wargames Club meets on Tuesday evenings between 1800-2200 at Partick Burgh Hall.

The first Tuesday of each month is a communal game and an ideal time to introduce yourself.






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Showing posts with label viking. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 March 2013

Charge of the Light Brigade

The third in a series of posts on the games appearing at Wappinshaw focuses on that brought to us by Kirriemuir Wargames Club - http://www.kirriemuirwargames.co.uk/index.shtml

They will be presenting The Charge of the Light Brigade in 28mm



This will be a public participation game - and something tells me the players won't get to be the Russians!

Here: http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=1570 you can listen to a scratchy recording of Tennyson reading his famous poem.


Half a league, half a league,
 Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
 Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!
"Charge for the guns!" he said:
Into the valley of Death
 Rode the six hundred.


Two years ago Kirriemuir ran a participation game based on a viking raid, and this went down very well with all ages!








Last year was another participation game - and the persistence must be admired - but a very different game - Malifaux