SzenarioCon 2025
After a long break, I came back to the Palatinate, and as already described in the kick-off, the new wargaming year starts early, right on the second weekend, with the Szenario Con in Hackenheim, near Bad Kreuznach.
The event was fully booked, around 200 guests and 25 hosted Games / presentations along with several traders. Many thanks at this point to Jürgen and Frank for the great organisation.
The venue is a courtyard restaurant in the foothills of the Rheinhessen wine-growing region. You can go for a walk nearby or take a look upon the animals in the petting zoo nearby. And as veteran readers know, there is no event coverage without a proper parking lot picture.
Event Schedule for 2025
The event schedule for 2025 with potential events for the Chaosbunker.
List will be updated accordingly and focus around DACH and BeNeLux countries, with minor exceptions for special occasions:
TabletopWelt Paint Meeting 2024
For the third time, Robert aka Grinsemann of Wolpertinger Miniatures organised the TabletopWelt Maltreff (Painting Meeting), and this time - after some mild persuasion by Dino - I joined in.
The venue is a youth hostel, located within an old manor in the Eastern part of Germany, in Thuringia about half an hour north of Erfurt. But more on that later.
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.
Adeptus Titanicus – Battle for Uulda IV – Part 2
I gave you a brief overview on the first evening of the Battle for Uulda Part IV campaign weekend, so let us continue to the "main event" - the gaming on day two.
This year we put a bit more effort into the narrative, adding fan fiction to the conflict. We added the Uulda subsector in the Segmentum Pacificus, and Patrick / AuxiliaryMirelurk prepared an introduction on the lore as well.
Prelude to Crisis 2024
While I already covered the visit to the actual show of Crisis 2024 in Antwerp, I'd like to give an additional insight on a few bits around it, just like I did in the past. And pardon the delay, the trip to Berlin and preparing for the Battle for Uulda postponed the release of this article.
As usual I travel to Antwerp by car, but as I drive an EV now it requires a bit more planning. But Belgium has a proper grid of ev charger stations, so that was not an issue. Others, especially the British got there by train or plane, as you can get to Brussels quite easily and then grab a connection train from there to Antwerp (and arrive at a very impressive central station).
Adeptus Titanicus – Battle for Uulda IV – Part 1
After last years gaming weekend, and my first time playing Adeptus Titanicus, the Battle for Uulda continued.For this we met pretty central in Germany and travelled from the North, the South and the West to get together to roll some dice and decide the fate of the Uulda subsector. Initially we were 8 players in total, with not only the stress of finishing the miniatures in time but as most of us are wargaming daddies, stay healthy long / get well soon enough for the weekend, with Hauke unfortunately having to cancel last minute and me held together by some meds.We had three different tables available, Uulda Prime, Uulda Minoris and the ash desert of the orbital moon, all equipped with fitting terrain.
While the others bridged the time until everybody was there with Heroquest, quickly after I arrived on Friday late afternoon we picked up Titanicus, to refresh our knowledge of the rules (as for some of us, the last Battle for Uulda was the last time, we actually played Adeptus Titanicus). In case you want to freshen or get completely into the game, these videos by Tabletop Standard are very helpful.
A visit to … Battlefield Berlin
During my visit to the German capital I managed to cross something off my long-time wishlist, paying a visit to Battlefield Berlin. In march, when I was in Berlin as well, I just couldn't fit in the detour, but this time I had a bit of time on my hands and was just one district over, so I grabbed the public transport and went to Kreuzberg.
I think I am customer at Battlefield since the mid 2000s, and there are a few things that make them stand-out from other stores. The major aspect certainly is the width of the ranges. You can order items from them, that you would otherwise had to import from the states or might just get your hands on at trade shows. And they didn't do that for two or three ranges, but really a lot of them, so they are pretty much a one-stop-shop, where you get almost everything beyond the big brands. Oh, and they actually have a lot of those items on stock, and don't just forward your order / organise group buys.
Beyond that, there might be of course bigger stores (in terms of shop space), but this is a pure miniature wargaming store, with a few board games, but not the "usual" fantasy store that has trading cards, comics and maybe a bit of wargaming. But let me show you the pictures.
Crisis 2024 – Part 1
It is finaly back - Crisis could again hosted in 2024, after the last instalment in 2019.
The break had multiple reasons, and after the forced break due to Covid, the aftermaths of Brexit made organizing an event quite difficult, especially as one of the unique aspects of Crisis was the large amount of british manufacturers and traders at the show. In 2022 and 2023 there was a smaller convention at the club rooms of the Tinsoldiers, with support of the Lardies, creating LARDwerp, which we visited as well back in 2022. And due to scheduling conflicts with the new venue, it had to be moved from the first weekend in November towards September.
What is new about Crisis? First of all, it is not just the Tinsoldiers of Antwerp hosting the show, but they joined forced with the HQ Gaming Club and used the 't Bau-huis in Sint Niklaas as the new venue. While it might (currently?) not be the at Waagnatie in Antwerp anymore, the new venue is a proper alternative for the restart. About 15 minutes outside of Antwerp, you can easily get there by train from the Central Station (with the IC-line you can drive every half an hour, and it's about 7 EURs for a weekend ticket), as the venue is just 500m from the local train station. For those of you arriving by car, there are is a parking lot and even some charging stations for BEVs.
The tickets were 12 EURs (dropped to 10 EUR, due to some last minute cancellations of vendors) and visitors under the age of 14 had free entry. Due to keeping the risk and costs as low as possible for the restart, there wasn't a show miniature this year, but that might be for the reason as well, as the show didn't have a topic this year, unlike it did in the past. So we might see that return in the future.
Crisis 2024 – Part 2
Now that we have finished the traders in part 1 of our CRISIS 2024 coverage, let us move on towards the clubs and gaming systems.
A very special guest at the show was Tuomas Pirinen with Trench Crusade. I follow this system for a while now, as they have a very active facebook group, with various conversions and I was excited to see the miniatures at show.
The setup was a bit spontaneous, as Tuomas had little time to prepare much more, as he basically finished his regular work day as Game Designer for Sony Playstation and directly jumped into a plane towards Belgium, grabbing just the few items that fit into the luggage.
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