This weekend for the very first time
CONFLICT RHEINLAND is taking place in
Langenfeld. The city itself isn't too well known I presume but at least it's located between Düsseldorf and Cologne aka. the heart of the Rhine Area. Thus three reasons made a visit there mandatory for me:
- It's only an hour from the place I'm living
- Our club brings a AWI table to the show
- The fellows running the show are really decent fellows
Thus I headed the train to Düsseldorf at 07:00am where my friend Holger picked me up and took me to the club house where the show took place. After approaching Torsten and Thorsten the two major heads behind the show I met my THS club fellows at our table:
My friend Heinz prepared the table and most of the terrain and figures on it. It a AWI game based on some events during the
Saratoga Campaign in 1777. Experimentally I made a short video of the British comun with my mobile phone:
Sorry for the poor quality. On the phone it was much better but after uploading it looks kind of downsampled... Anyway the tune you are hearing comes from a small gadget Heinz integrated in the scenery:
But besides ourselves there were some other clubs delivering interesting and exciting tables as well as wonderful participation games. Especially the
Force on Force table caught my attention and finally I found an excellent introduction into this exciting game:
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| Hunt for Red October |
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| Beginner's table Force on Force |
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| Delta Force sneaking around. |
But besides that there were more nice tables, good games and fine fellows. Here's a selection of pictures:
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| WW2 Operation Squad in 28mm |
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| Whitechappel a detective tabletop about hunting Jack the Ripper |
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| One of my current favourites: Congo |
After all there were a couple of really excellent tables although the place of event was rather small with about 250m². But I saw people from Hannover as well as chaps from Karlsruhe which is a radius of 300km. In my humble opinion that's a great influence for a small show during its first year. From my point of view Torsten and Thorsten performed a sublime job organising this event and I dearly hope that for them it was as successful as for us visitors. If Conflict establishes itself it could become an excellent familiar show perfectly set between the gigantic players Tactica and Crisis. Best of luck boys!
Of course yours truly wasn't able to keep all the quids he brought. In Langenfeld were only a few local traders but nevertheless Didier's (
More Terrain) work seduced me enough to acquire some pieces for Congo:
Alltogether a wonderful day and a real pleasure to visit the very first Conflict Rheinland Wargames Show. I really hope that many will follow!
