The Nunawading Wargames Association is one of the longest continuous wargames club in Melbourne being established in 1977 by good friend Geoff and some of his mates. Every year with some Covid exceptions they run an open day. Given the wargames population in Australia this is nothing like anything you will see overseas, but then you make do with what you have.
Some of the games and traders on the left and rear.
There were a number of games including this one which was a large Sharpe Practice game, called “Nobody Expects”. The 95th rifles were trying to rescue something valuable from a monastery before the French arrived there. There were a large number of things on the table for children to find like seagulls fighting over fish and chips!
Bring an buy stand where I picked up a large robot “thingy” for a dollar.
A Saga game in progress.
A 1944 US armoured division is attempting to secure a road juncture at Montelimar to disrupt German withdrawals from the region.
The photos show my bias!
A large 28mm Napoleonic game being umpired by the “Fickled Finger of Fate”!
A 9th Age Fantasy game using Games Workshop figures.
A Peloponnesian naval battle of Aginusae between Athens and Sparta! Go Lacedaemonia!
A Cold War game set in the 1980’s.
The Great Airfield raid of 27th of August 1979 where Guerillas mounted in a variety of technicals attack an airfield somewhere in “Imaginafrica”.
A Field Of Glory Napoleonic game of the battle of Katzbach on 26th August 181, where Marshal Blucher inflicts a bloody nose on the French Army led by MacDonald.
A Battletech game on superb terrain!
Far to complicated for me. Around this table were about thirty stat and record sheets….blah!
A Marvel Avengers game where multiverses collide. Can the Avengers save the day! Again another game run by a couple of young guys who had lots of participants playing. Well done!
A “Bot War” game where on one Saturday morning in 1985, in an alternate reality on Earth, large robots battle it out for what resources still remain. Nice terrain but looks as if things are pristine and plenty of resources are still around to me.
An Armageddon game set in the 41st Millennium on a war torn hive world. A nice game put on by some youngsters.
A game called Nocturnal using some brand new rules yet to be published. A 28mm Modern Horror skirmish game of “Gothic Punk Vampires”. Strange, since when I asked him if he liked “The Damned’s” “Keep em alive” he thought I was talking about a new miniatures range! Still I don’t think he was alive in the 70’s!
Diggers & Yanks & Huns on the rum. A 54mm set of skirmish games. Loved the tanks!
I had a great few hours came away with a few goodies, caught up with some mates. I also was introduced to a local gamer and I hope to catch up soon.
Looks like a great event Dave, with some cool games on show. Prefer the smaller events like this in the UK, you get a lot more time to talk to people than at an event like Salute.
We do have a few larger ones but the standard of the games was great at this one. My only one visit to Salute was like I had died and gone to heaven! So many traders and games going on I was like a kid in a candy shop!
Some really nice minis and games there, Dave! 🙂
I was a bit surprised John. The standard of games and painting was excellent. I was particularly pleased to see some youngsters running games and their enthusiasm attracting others to join their games. Unfortunately some of the adults were more interested in playing their game rather than having others join in.
That looks like it was a great show- so very nice looking games there. The airfield raid one caught my eye- especially the aircraft vignettes.
Cheers,
Pete.
It was my favourite as well.
Looks like great fun!
I had a great couple of hours browsing and catching up with mates.
Looks like a fun time mate, in all the time I lived in Wantirna I never heard of NWA, then again not being a Gammer I’m not suprised!!!
We gamers are like hermits, but with dice!