Salute 2024

[martin goddard]

I am  going along to salute 2024.
Saturday  13th April 2024.
No trade stand just a club game of CK.

Anyone fancy coming along for a day of CK gaming, plus of course some show wandering too?
Anyone who comes along will get a free ticket to the show of course.
I am going up on the train.
London Waterloo and then the underground et al.

This means I would meet you there.

martin

[John Watson]

No thanks Martin. Last Salute I went to was 2016. Previously I went by train once and it took me 6 hours to get there. It was like being in "Trains, Planes and Automobiles" without John Candy or Steve Martin.
John

[Colonel Kilgore]

The spirit is willing, but I have a half-marathon the next day. So will need to think through logistics.

By when are you looking to finalise numbers, Martin?

Simon

[martin goddard]

Thanks chaps.
No great hurry on numbers. Maybe Feb 2024?
I am intending to bring the whole set up (figures, scenery, cloth)  but it would be nice to have some help. If folk are busy that is no problem either.

martin

[Colonel Kilgore]

Thanks Martin. I would like to come if I can. I've never actually been to Salute (!).

I'll let you know by next February 

Simon

[Smiley Miley 66]

I would like to come, but I ve got to look at my finances?
I am going to a big music festival in August, so my spare cash is going on that ?
Miles

[beza]

@martin goddard

Any chances you could bring a small order with you ? Just some dice and C&K rules.

Let me know.
Bart

[Colonel Kilgore]

It turns out that we're going to be away that weekend, so I won't be able to attend. Apologies.

Simon

[martin goddard]

Hello Bart
Sadly I cannot bring any orders to Salute as that would violate the terms of putting a game on.  I think that is very fair from their point of view.
I am there as a club game anyway and not a PP official game.

Do come along and play some CK Bart if you have the time.


martin

[John Watson]

Bart, if you live anywhere near the New Forest I am seeing Martin at the beginning of March and could act as go between.
John

[Leman (Andy)]

Would love to, but committing myself to a stay in Antwerp in September for the return of Crisis. Only need to take two trains from Groningen to get there.

[Sean Clark]

Just watched a video taken at Salute. The video person stopped at the Conquerors and Kings table and spoke with Nigel.

The observers comment "oh they're a bit like To the Strongest" annoyed me.

I realise I shouldn't let things like this bother me, but the implication that C&K have followed in the wake of To the Strongest comes across as disingenuous and shows a lack of knowledge of these things.

I'm going for a nice cup of tea to calm down.

[Colonel Kilgore]

I hope it's a nice pot of camomile, Sean 

Simon

[Sean Clark]

It annoys me that certain rules and manufacturers become almost ubiquitous. I understand the culture of popularity where there people play the popular rules, the more popular they become because more people see the games being played and social media gives them a further boost.

Yet there are dozens of other rule sets, not just RFCM, out there that would probably be equally as popular if they could just get that break by having someone with an audience shout loud and proud about them.

I am just feeling grumpy today. Tomorrow, I may cheer up a bit.

[Martin Smith]

It annoys me that certain rules and manufacturers become almost ubiquitous. I understand the culture of popularity where there people play the popular rules, the more popular they become because more people see the games being played and social media gives them a further boost.

Yet there are dozens of other rule sets, not just RFCM, out there that would probably be equally as popular if they could just get that break by having someone with an audience shout loud and proud about them.

Sometimes it seems it's just the weight of the publishing company which sells it, Sean. eg some of the Osprey 'blue book' games are very, very good, and rightly get recognition, while others are 'less well received' but still get plenty of promotion, because with Osprey behind them that's what's going to happen.

Nowadays I shrug my shoulders and ignore the hype as far as possible. If something is right for me, then it'll be me who decides, not the weight of hyped-up wargaming public opinion.
I think the RFCM rules plough an unusual furrow, with grids being somewhat 'marmite'. However, they're still holding your attention, and making you happy, so that's a gotta be good thing.
Comments that C&K are "......a bit like To the Strongest" are just a reflection of the commentator's lack of a wider perspective...more fool them, perhaps.