Salute 2015 Live Blog: The Days Fun

We spoke to Tim King at Mantic's 'Kings of War' table. They are running participation/demo games of Kings of War at the 750 point level. They are currently refining the second edition rules focusing on army balance following their recent successful Kickstarter!

We dropped by the World Of Twilight table running participation games in their unique fantasy setting created by Mike Thorp. This scenario is called Bug Hunt, where the players fight over a living food source, but in this game the food fights back!

The great thing about World of Twilight is there are many scenarios that cater for multiple players.

We managed to grab a few words with Adam Clark at Black Scorpion. He was dealing with a huge crowd of customers looking to pick up models for his pirate game Cutlass. He let us know that he is working on Tombstone, a new Western game which will use a similar game engine to Cutlass.

What we really liked about the Black Scorpion model range were the plethora of female miniatures on display.

The Dice Bag Lady brings possibly the most colourful stall I have ever seen to Salute! She's stocking her amazing, hand crafted Dice Bags, plenty of original merchandise and her very own Baggy miniature to the show!

It was really good to see her absolutely surrounded by people picking up their pre-orders and various goodies.

We reckon that these birds from Blight Wheel Miniatures must be perfect for some kind of Pulpy/Steampunk wargame where you've potentially traveled back in time to some Prehistoric landscape!

Rob, Mick, Mark and Graham from 'Ardhamma (that's Geordie for Oldhammer for the uninitiated) play a seriously impressive 'display game' of Warhammer Fantasy using the third edition rules.

They like to "keep the board alive" by having mini skirmishes going on across the whole battlefield. Their philosophy is never throw away your old rules!

We had to battle the crowds in order to speak to the Guild Ball guys as they show off what's left of their stock!

Matt Hart explained the concept as being a "perfect second game," being easy to learn with a lot of strategies to uncover.

Ian Brumby from Fenris Games tells us that Runequest and D&D are the worlds that inspire them to make their weird and wonderful miniatures, as well as the more conventional Vikings and Greeks and their range of Cthulu characters.

Ben from Frothers Unite forum built this amazing, multi levelled gaming board for their fantasy dungeon crawl game using their custom rule set.

Check out those mushroom men lurking in the tunnels beneath the castle!

If you're looking for painting inspiration, look no further than Figone!

On display were busts, figures and miniatures of all genres and styles, all exquisitely finished to a high standard.