Salute 2017 Live Blog

One of the things that we always love seeing at Salute are the awesome gaming tables that folks set up. This is one of them, the Old Guard, which has been set up since yesterday and is looking rather spiffing.

Hopefully, later in the day we'll chat about their table and what's going on with all these hexes!

We close in on some of the cool tabletops that we’re looking forward to checking out. There are some great set-ups from the guys at 4Ground but there’s much more too.

It will be cool to stop in and find out what’s popular here and…the doors will open soon enough letting forth the horde!

The lights are up, judges are ready, and traders are starting to fill the cabinets with their entries.

Last year was a resounding success and this year will be no exception, as entrants and winners from Golden Demon, various Slayer Sword winners, Monte San Savino, Euromillitaire, The Fang, Hussar, and other esteemed contestants will be in attendance to compete as well as with the likes of you and me the average tabletop wargamer. (ps. I haven't entered)

It’s a serious business but also a bit of fun for anyone at Salute to enter. With this in mind they have introduced a couple of new things this year to push the competition to new heights.

There is a Best of Show Trophy which will be awarded to the winner and they also get to take away with a paid for flight and transfers to enter Chicago’s CoolMiniOrNot in 2017, for the Crystal Brush competition.

It looks like if you fancy delving into the world of Ancient Wargaming there is a tabletop for you to get stuck into.

This one plays out The Battle Of Raphia and shows off some awesomeness as the two armies clash with big elephants and masses of ranked spearmen.

Warploque Miniatures are here (we'll be catching up with them soon) and in the mean time we thought we'd dive into the little demo table that they have set up here.

These chaps have some fantastic miniatures which look like they've come from the world of Fable and brought to life on the tabletop.

Twisting things about a bit one of the gaming clubs has bought along this version of Bolt Action to play out on the tabletop which takes you to the 18th Green in Pinhai!

The Japanese and Chinese are clashing here on the tabletop and it looks great.

We stop in to find out what Gripping Beast are bringing to Salute 2017 with some demo games for Swordpoint and SAGA.

As well as that they're stepping in to show off their new Dark Age Plastics and even give away some of them PLUS the exclusive Gripping Beast dice as part of our competition.

We catch up with Alex and find out what's happening with Warploque at Salute.

This includes Halfling of Hobbles hire and their amazing range of characters

We checked in on this game full of Crusaders battling it out in this ruinous terrain.

We stop in at one of the tabletops which is running the game from Studio Tomahawk, CONGO.

This game sees your explorers heading out into the dark heart of Africa and running into Tribesmen and more.

The game seems to feature some nifty mechanics so it would be cool to know whether you folks have checked this one out in the past?

The new edition of Warhammer 40,000 was announced today and here as the Salute 2017 event unfolds.

You can find out more on their landing page here: https://warhammer40000.com/the-game/

Are you interested in getting stuck into the new edition?

We sent Dave out to find out what else is going on around the gaming tables and it turns out that as well as all of the goodness that we've seen Historically there's also some folks playing Infinity on this nice and colourful tabletop.

We think it's neat to see this game here, in a bit of a drop-in-drop-out format on the tabletop. It certainly works for character focused gameplay.

Take a look at some of the painted miniatures from the new Fabled Realms game.

These are some fancy looking characters for 4Gound's game which will be hitting Kickstarter.

Ben gets to hang out with the guys at GCT Studios to find out what's going on with the Eastern skirmish game of Bushido.

We're catching up with Annie from Bad Squiddo Games to talk about some awesome new female Russian Soldiers and Lagertha!

We delve in and find out about the Doctor Who: Extermination board game/miniatures game hybrid that has been put together by Warlord Games which brings together the Cybermen and the Daleks.

Mix this in with some fantastic additional stuff when you add in the characters from past and present PLUS the Doctor and his Companions.

Oathsworn Miniatures talk us through what they're going to be bringing to us in the future and indeed where things are going when it comes to their Burrows & Badgers collection.

Role-playing books are on the way as well as a potential card game coming for UK Games Expo.