UK Games Expo 2021: Saturday Live Blog

Join us at OnTableTop as we get stuck into Day Two of UK Games Expo 2021 here at the NEC in Birmingham!

The team are going to be have a look at the games, companies and more that are available for you to check out.

Make sure to let us know in the comments what you’re most looking forward to!

We get stuck into a couple of fun games from Nuts! Publishing. They have a couple of great Historical games. One of them is very quick, 300: Earth & Water.

The second is a bit larger in scale with This War Without An Enemy. As an English Civil War fan, this one sounds fascinating. We also have a Fantasy release in the form of Mini Rogue! Dive into a solitarie dungeon delving experience in a jiffy.

We get to look through the amazing selection of different roleplaying games that Free League have to offer. Post-Apocalyptic, Fantasy, Sci-Fi and more.

We also learn how to pronounce a bunch of words. This is about learning as much as it is about actually finding out about the games. We discuss Mutant Year Zero, Vaesen, Mork Borg, Alien and Forbidden Lands!

Strata Miniatures do some fantastic work on their Dungeons & Diversity range. This is a miniature collection in resin, metal and in STL format that can be used to represent D&D heroes in combat wheelchairs!

Sarah has been doing stunning work on the rules for these miniatures and the partnership here is great. It has been fun seeing these miniatures being used in BIG games like Critical Role!

PHALANX has been really busy with a selection of their games. They have been working away on all manner of titles which move from light through to medium and heavy weight.

Fire In The Sky seems like a big crunchy board game for those who like their hex and counter tabletop games. Bretwalda on the other hand is a little lighter but looks absolutely gorgeous! I love the way they have presented this and I am all in!

So I had to show this off again. Bretwalda is a brand new board game coming soon from the folks at PHALANX. The idea is that it is based around the idea of becoming the Chief King of Anglo-Saxon England.

The artwork for this game is stunning and the pieces are going to be wonderful and wooden. It feels like an artefact of the period. I also like that this game is going to be a little bit of a lighter experience. It has crunch but it feels around the “medium weight” category. I am a massive Dark Age fan so this is very, very intriguing!

Ben got to have a quick chat with Ian Livingstone about what he has been enjoying about the UK Games Expo this weekend. He has been here talking Fighting Fantasy BUT also looking for some board games to hunt out.

Perhaps you’ll be part of the crowd that will give some terrible advice and get Ian’s “willing” victim killed as part of his Fighting Fantasy show which he does every year.