Salute 2025 Live Blog!

Offensive Miniatures are back showing off the game that they previewed during Salute last year. DAK Attack is a fantastic set of rules for playing Long Range Desert Group battles in North Africa with a quick and simple set of rules. What’s nice is that they also have some great ways for you to play the game both on a classic tabletop but also with a “map” where you run the full campaign.

This was an epic 6mm scale participation game where you were going to be trying your best to get up off the beach and deeper inland. There were loads of folks talking part in this particular game with a board by Charles Rowntree and with a mixture of miniatures, some of which were from Alder Miniatures. As well as running people through the game, they were also talking about the historical context of it and how they mapped the game to the real world events.

The Cornwall Wargaming Society has gone piratical once again with their showcase for this year and whilst they are doing some great stuff on their larger board (more on that later), they are also showing off Port Royal from Firelock Games with a good old skirmish through the ruined streets.

I snuck over to the Wargames Atlantic spot and had a sneaky peek at those lovely new Dwarves that the folks are working on as the next faction for Classic Fantasy Battles. It was great seeing the miniatures up close and personal and also those cavalry miniatures on the backs of the goats! Lovely stuff.

It looks like there’s plenty of buzz around the 10mm scale at the moment and it will be great to see what Wargames Atlantic do next.

Judging begins at noon!

You’ll have to forgive me for picking out some more Middle-earth but the folks at South London Warlords have put together a stunning tabletop featuring some larger-than-life Middle-earth “minis” as the Rohirrim are trying to stop the forces of Sauron from breaching the gates. Will they do it in time? It looks super cool seeing the game in a larger scale!

It was rather intriguing seeing this awesome game come together using Vauban’s War rules for the Wars Of The Gelderland Succession. The folks behind this are taking a light-hearted approach to the history and the battle itself with the use of “trenches, saps, mortars and colourful diseases”.

You can snap up these siege warfare rules for yourself by heading to the likes of Piquet Wargames!

Spectre Miniatures are here once again showing off their Modern Warfare wargame Spectre Operations with a little demo delving into their mechanics. They also chatted to me about Cosmic Horror and their plans for the game. There are lots more miniatures coming down the pipeline for their Lovecraftian spin-off.

Interestingly, they are also going to be working closely with Black Site Studio to bring some of their games over to the UK to make it easier to get a hold of games like Don’t Look Back.

Anschluss Wargames are putting on an excellent table packed with fascinating miniatures in 12mm scale retelling Rommel’s Afrika Korps attack on Tobruk. This has all been done to be as accurate as possible with the numbers of troops, vehicles AND the terrain matched up to what was there at the time and aerial photography of the battlefield.

The 12mm scale allows them to do some great stuff with a range of other collections but most of the miniatures are their own which you can find HERE. We even got a scoped look through a soldier’s eye view of the battlefield!

The queue to enter is around the block, sadly obscuring some of the cabinets!

So, we take a look at some minis awaiting entry…

Parabellum Miniatures has set up a nice table showing off some of their 3D printed elements that they’ve been producing over on Etsy and the like. I was immediately drawn to their Balin’s Tomb collection which shows off some gorgeous alternative miniatures for The Lord Of The Rings with both a Fellowship and the Goblins of Moria.

It’s super cool and you can get your hands on some glorious terrain and more from Parabellum Miniatures too.

Too Fat Lardies are back with their absolutely stunning tabletop covering Operation Charnwood during World War II and the What A Tanker! rules. This is going to be an 8 player game run by Joe Bilton as you fight for control of Caen in 1944.

As well as running What A Tanker, the folks from Too Fat Lardies WILL be demoing the new version of Chain Of Command so you’ll have to keep an eye out for more on that.

Soldiers Of Napoleon is being put on led by Warwick Kinrade and Piers Brand themselves and once again, it showcases how glorious you can get games of that era looking with some well-painted miniatures and some gorgeous terrain. If nothing else, these tables help to inspire you and get you fired up for painting miniatures you might not have considered before.

Does this kind of game get you fired up for battles during this period or does it end up scaring you off?!

Justin was lured in by this ace looking game from the folks at Dice Heads who we think have been at the show before. They have been showing off their now extensive range of miniatures for Zoontalis which is a battle royale miniatures game making use of rather awesome miniatures.

If you’d like to find out more about Zoontalis and you like the look of the miniatures you’re seeing here, you can check them out on their website HERE.