Four hours later, in a cold, windy and almost empty harbour building (only commercial traders were building up at this moment) we were still trying to get our landscape and scenery in shape. We destroyed dozens of needles that did not want to pierce our glue and paint hardened tablecloth and underlying materials.
Next morning the first familiar looking face was Dad who deliverd some promotion material for FIGZ 2017. Now it felt like we were real Benno's Figures Forum promoting gamers.
Soon after, Dykio and Peter appeared, followed by Wolfgang Meyer and Fredericus Rex. Someone I did not expect was Konrad who was in company of his charming Miss Konrad. Now you guys must know Mr. Bos and Konrad share the same fascination: painting as much Strelets Romans as possible. So they started to discuss the color of Roman tunica's right away:
45 minutes later they were still discussing the color of Roman tunica's, which surprised me because for all spectators it will be clear both of them prefer exactly the same colors
By high noon it was pretty crowded around us all the time:
This is what the spectators preferred to photograph:
An ancient German village guarded by some Roman Limes towers:
The scratch build Roman camp and iron wire&paper tents by Mr. Bos:
A Roman fortress that I build in 1986, occupied by Roman-Batavian deserters and supplied by captured riverboats:
Roman siege artillery by Mr. Bos trying to get the Batavians out of that fortress:
Some of his excellent painted Roman commanders and bodyguards:
An old hillfort occupied by German allied tribes:
The Roman bagage train run over by German cavalry:
And very popular by the female visitors of Crisis was the German Wagon Camp with lots of Wild West civilians converted to Ancient Germanic families:
Suddenly MABO showed up together with an old young friend of ours: MABO Junior. When MABO went shopping, MABO Junior joined us to help me beating the Romans. Mr. Bos explained him some of the basic rules:
One hour later:
MABO Junior: 'I just lost 16 Germans in a fight.'
Mr.Bos: 'Don't worry, there will allways be plenty of Germans everywhere.'
Every time MABO came back to our table, MABO junior asked him to go shopping again.
Another hour later:
MABO: 'And now we realy must go home, junior.'
Mr. Bos: 'There is still 550 Romans left on the table.'
MABO Junior: 'In the past two hours I routed 48 of them. How much time to route the rest?'
MABO:
Thats it for this moment concerning the Batavian Revolt. There was so much more to see.
Next to our table was Militia Brabantia, some old friends of mine. They had a great game depicting Samnites luring Republican Romans in an ambush and some converted figures throwing rocks down on them, all in 25mm.
This Roman guy grabbing his head was not the only one losing all his money in one day:
A group called Heavy Brigade from Flandres were another neighbour of us so that felt like an Ancients Colony at Crisis. They had great masses of 20mm Eburones, commanded by Ambiorix, luring another Roman legion into an ambush. I don't have to tell you guys what companies these figures are from.
But apart from these well known figures, they had made some remarkable scratch build specials, like this ballista:
This giant stonethrower:
and this Celtic fire wagon melting the Esci's plastic Romans.
Finally a picture from Alde Garde, two gentlemen from Venlo. Every year they show up with completely new armies and sceneries, always depicting research based historic events in the Netherlands. This time early Renaissance battle between Habsburg and Gelre taking place in Northern Limburg around 1510.
Well I had a great day. I want to thank all members of Benno's Forum visiting our table for their nice company. And most of all thank Tin Soldiers of Antwerp for organising this great event.
I hope some more of you made some pictures to post here.
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