A visit to … X-Comics Trier

During our family holiday to Trier I visited a local gaming store in the inner city. It is a branch of the X-Comics stores, the former SpielBar.

As a local gaming store, it covers merch, comics, trading cards, board games and quite a few tabletop products, as you could see behind the second counter.

Not only Games Workshop products, but ranges by Asmodee as well, like Marvel Crisis Protocol, hobby tools by Citadel and Army Painter, among others.

And just behind that counter there's a room with some tables, a painting corner and long shelf with further tabletop products, mostly Warhammer with side games, and some Reaper blisters and Star Wars Shatterpoint boxes.

They have regular events for the different types of games they offer, and there is a dedicated Tabletop Day every third Saturday of the month, here are the dates for 2024.

And right in the middle of the store there is a flight of stairs downstars to the SpielBar. A lot of shelves with board games and another two gaming tables.

On the other side of that, were show display cabinets with various miniatures and armies in there. And to my surprise, even a Golden Demon including the entry that won the trophy. I was a bit surprised at first, to rather randomly find a Golden Demon in the basement of a gaming store, but after reading the name it rang a bell. It was won by Pascal Urgiero, the manager of this store. He won the 2012 trophy with the Imperial Fist terminator squad in the 40k Unit category.

Unfortunately Pascal wasn't in when I dropped by, so we didn't had the chance for a chat. Never the less, I enjoyed the service and didn't leave empty handed, as they had a discounted box with various books (5 EUR per book), and I picked up the older hardcover rulebook for Age of Sigmar, along with an older Stormcast Eternals Battletome, which I'll use as a ressource for my Warcry project.

You can find the store here:

X Comics
Neustraße 11
54290 Trier

and it is open Mo.-Fr.: 10:00 - 19:00 and Sa.: 10:00 - 18:00. They do have four further branches in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland.