Salute 2026 Personal reflections

[martin goddard]

I very much enjoyed salute 2026.
Pure joy to see the layouts and quantity of games.

Some very personal observations.
Fewer historical big battles.
Fewer metal figure makers.
More paint and brush traders.
More dice traders
More shop traders
Fewer one man 6ft stands
More fantasy skirmish.

More "participation for all ages" type games. This includes "paint and take" type activities too.


Fewer non UK traders ( I saw 3 this year). Portuguese, US and Eastern Europe.

Overall a great show and worth the cost of a day out.
All who played on the TCR were nice people  i.e they wanted to play the game and learned the central ideas easily.


martin

[martin goddard]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJn3fcVV6_4

There are a few Salute documentaries. Here is a very good one.

martin

[Smiley Miley 66]

As with Beachhead we observed very similar, lot more traders of "Bits" now rather than what we use as subject matter ? The things we need to do our hobby ?
Is this the result of Internet shopping and 3D printing?
Miles

[JonT]

Thanks for the link, Martin, that was indeed a very interesting one! 

Jon.

[martin goddard]

I don't know Miles. Things are changing though.


martin

[Leman (Andy)]

I think we all know my take on non-historical games. I can't bring myself to call them wargaming.

[martin goddard]

I may go next year . The rail transport is major problem for me though.
A long way distant at this time


martin