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Please see below descriptions of various demonstration and participation games on show at Colours 2024, as well as copies of the programme for you to plan your visit.  The Society will have 3 separate games on offer.

• Adrian Nayler will be demonstrating his new Blood Red Roses rules.
• Phil Sabin will be refighting Cannae with the latest edition of his Legion rules.
• Richard Jeffrey-Cook has organised a mini-campaign set in Roman Britain based upon The Saxon Shore is Burning boardgame.

In additon, the Society stand will be present.

The full list of games avilable is shown below.

Demonstration Games
Each year, clubs and societies exhibit a wide variety of wargames and battle scenarios at Colours, with this year being no exception.  Below are the exhibitors who have already booked their place at the show.
 
Blood Red Roses
The new rules for fighting battles in the Wars of the Roses from the Society of Ancients.  Join the author, Adrian Nayler, to see the game and learn the rules.

Cannae 216BC
Hannibal's famous victory in 15mm using Legion II rules, brought to you by the rules author, Philip Sabin, and the Society of Ancients.
 
Salamanca 1812
A Black Powder rules recreation of Wellington's famous Peninsular War battle brought to you by the Leggetts.
 
Japanese-Korean War In the 16^th Century
28mm wargame using Warlord rules, organised and hosted by Trevor Halsall.
 
Russo-Finnish Winter War 1940
28mm scale battle organised by Shepway Wargames group.
 
BBB Napoleonic
Chris Pringle and the Oxford Wargames team are organising a scenario using his Bloody Big Battles (BBB) rules.  He has not settled on a particular battle yet, but you can expect it to be one of the bigger ones.
 
02 Hundred Hours Night Raid
Operation Gaff July 1944. Organised by Stuart Greening and hosted by Boscombe Down and Amesbury Wargames Club.
 
Battle of Downham Station 1871
15mm scale wargame brought to you by Table Top Battles.
 
Ilipa 206 BC
Scipio's victory over the Carthaginians in Spain using De Bellis Magistrorum Militum (DBMM) rules in epic 28mm scale brought to you by Wargames Association of Reading.
 
Anglo-Ottoman War 1809
A 15mm Napoleonic Wars scenario brought to you by Steve Deeprose.
 
Abbeville 1940
This was (almost) General de Gaulle's big moment as he sent his armoured division to attack a second-line Bavarian infantry division at Abbeville.  Between 27 May – 7 June the French high command ordered four division-size attacks on the position.  This game features the one led by De Gaulle's 4^th DCR, the strongest division in the French Army.
 
PBI World War 2 New Edition
Two games showcasing the 2024 edition of PBI brought to you by Peter Pig and led by the rules creator.  The first game will be a full demonstration game using Monte Cassino as a backdrop.  The second game will focus on explaining the PBI rules mechanisms.

Fallschirmjäger vs US Paras
On June 7^th 1944 1^st Battalion's, Hauptmann (Captain) Emil Preikschat was ordered to form a blocking line south of Saint-Marie-du-Mont. He took up position around the village of Vierville as part of this blocking line.  With American armour pushing inland from the beaches, A company 746^th Armoured Regiment was ordered to support elements of 2^nd Battalion / 506^th Parachute Infantry Regiment under the command of Lt Colonel Robert L. Strayer. Strayer had orders to take the village.  Brought to you by Wargaming Headquarters using Rapid Fire Reloaded rules.

 
Participation Games
Of course, whilst looking at the games is perfectly acceptable, many of the exhibitors at Colours would also like you to join in.  Here are some of the participation games that you can expect to find at the show.

A Small Town in Italy
Anschluss Games invites you to join the game and learn the rules.

Break Through The Trenches
Gripping Beast invites you to join this World War 1 game and learn the rules.

Packing Heat
A new Participation game with description "A squad on squad battle using Sharp practice rules."

WW1 Aerial Combat
What would Colours be without Dave Fowler and the Wings of Glory Aerodrome?  Smoke me a kipper – I'll be back for breakfast!

The Siege of Luneden
And now for something slightly different.  Three separate Burrows and Badgers participation games all played on one large table representing part of the city of Luneden which is under siege from malevolent outside forces. Play as a group of assassins, bodyguards, sewer jacks, pirates street gangs or a simple guard unit.  Organised by the Magrathea Builder Of Worlds wargames group.
 
The Saxon Shore is Burning Britannia Campaign
The Society of Ancients invites you to join in a mini-campaign of barbarians attacking Roman Britain.  Battles will be resolved using Mortem et Gloriam Pacto rules.
 
A Field in Flanders 1672
Join Simon Miller to fight a battle from the Franco-Dutch Wars using To The Strongest rules.
 
Most Dangerous Game
Join Crawley Wargames on safari in Africa for some big game hunting.  Enjoy being stung by hornets, grappled by gorillas, etc.
 
Korean vs Japanese
Liverpool Wargames Club invites you to participate in this 15mm scale battle using Field of Glory rules.
 
General d'Armée Napoleonic
The new rules for fighting Napoleonic Wars battles.  Join the author, Dave Brown, to participate in the game and learn the rules.
 
Operation Sealion
Southbourne Tabletop and Boardgamers group invites you to participate in this 15mm scale Flames of War scenario from the World War 2 invasion of Britain.
 

Hordes of the Things Competition
Society member and frequent poster to this Forum, Martin Smith, has organised a one-day competition.  Hordes of the Things (HOTT) is a fantasy spin-off from the popular De Bellis Antiquitatis (DBA) ancient period wargames rules, but including such elements as dragons, magic users and demi-gods.  With each round in the competition taking roughly 1 hour to complete, the whole competition will be brought to a satisfactory conclusion within a single day.  Join in now.
 
All information on games is correct at the time of this posting.  For any corrections or updates, please contact the Colours Show organisers.

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Quote from: Nick Harbud on August 04, 2024, 10:24:33 AMIlipa 206 BC
Scipio's victory over the Carthaginians in Spain using De Bellis Magistrorum Militum (DBMM) rules in epic 28mm scale brought to you by Wargames Association of Reading.

This is, of course, the game previously seen at the Society's Battleday back in the Spring. If you missed it then, come see it now!

Thanks for updates an plans Nick.

Looks great

Stupidly, i appear to have booked a holiday that stops me from going

 :-X

I hope to snatch a few minutes to have a look at the SoA run games, though it's hard to know if I'll be able, as we currently have 14 Hott players to coordinate/oversee/herd in the Hordes tournament 🙂.
Particularly intrigued by RJC's Saxon Shore campaign...

Me too alas...