UK Games Expo 2024: Live Blog

Justin has a final walk about having a quick look at some stands he wasn’t able to make it to during the convention.  Having one final look around one of the halls Justin finishes off our wonderful time at UKGE 2024 at the beautiful UKGE dragon at the entrance to the hall.  We hope you all enjoyed UKGE 2024 and if you weren’t able to make it we hope you enjoyed all the videos and the live stream we put on for you at home.  See you all next year!

Justin has a chat with Colin from Warlord Games about what they’ve brought with them to UKGE 2024.  As always they’ve brought a lot of the beautiful Bolt Action with them but this time they’ve brought something new along too.  Their newest venture is a Bolt Action board game where much like Bolt Action players go head to head in a World War Two battle but this time there’s resource management to deal with on top of the battle!  Warlord are also working with The Kidney Foundation who have been working on Duncan’s band Of Brothers for a few years and their absolutely stunning board packed full of character shows their love for both World War Two and Bolt Action.  Check out Warlord Games website here.

Ben takes a walk over to the Cephalofair Games stand to check out Frosthaven and Gloomhaven.  That’s not all though as Cephalofair Games have came out with their new solo version of Gloomhaven in Buttons and Bugs.  Check out more from Cephalofair Games here.

Take control of the SAS Commandos behind enemy lines in order to take objectives without getting detected or if that’s not your style go loud and blow it all up while spraying and praying!  Check out SAS Rogue Regiment here.

Raid and pillage your opponents in Viking Raiders from Neowulf Games.  Purchase items from the market to dispose of your enemies more efficiently and conquer the table to claim victory.  Check out Viking Raiders here.

Gerry heads over to the Intrepid Games stand at UKGE to have a chat with Dan about their upcoming resource management strategy game.  Corporations have invested in the largest space ship but catastrophe is unavoidable and most of the original crew die upon crash landing.  Choose your crew wisely and take over as much land as possible for your corporation.  Check out Lander: After the Crash here.

Gerry has a chat with the team from Effekt Publishing about their new game Tales of The Old West which is ran on Free League Publishing’s Year Zero engine.  Tales of The Old West sees players take on the darkness of man rather than devil or beast.  Check it out here.

Use pickaxe and dynamite to gain more wealth than your opponents in this wonderful game from Devilfly Games.  Who needs safety when you have dynamite!  Check out Undermined! Pairadice City here.

Medusa Games have brought a bunch of wonderful board games with them to UKGE this year whether you’re looking to try out a worker placement game or an area control game Medusa Games have got you covered!  Check them out here.

Check out the newest addition to the Warcrow universe from Corvus Belli and this time we will be battling in the north!  Check out more Warcrow here.

These amazing little books about mischievous gnomes on Game of Gnomes by Critical Tales are a great to read in your spare time or even if you’re looking for some gnome based ideas for your next DND adventure or character.  Check out their website here.

Ben takes a look at the stunning hex based terrain system from Lorescape Ltd.  With a bunch of different types of terrain from dirt, stone, sand and sea this terrain system will take your DND campaigns or your games of Battletech to the next level.

As always Para Bellum Wargames have brought a fantastic stand full of amazingly painted miniatures from their community and their own in house painters and we haven’t even mentioned the incredible boards that they’ve brought with them to put the miniatures on.  Check out more here.

We have a chat with the guys from NeuroCraft Studios about Code Blade a very interesting Cyberpunk table top game with a bunch of unique rules that makes this rule system stand out from all the rest.  Check it out on their website.

Gerry heads over to Catalyst Game Labs who are at UKGE 2024 with a massive diorama of Battletech at their stand and the scale of the diorama is incredibly impressive showing off the scale of the dropships in the Battletech universe.  Check out more from Catalyst Game Labs here.

Take on fate itself by writing and drawing about interesting and sometimes deadly creatures in Mappa Mundi in order to save your world from Fate.  Check it out here.

Most of us know Free League Publishing for their RPG books and adventures but they have branched out in their newest game Zone Wars, a table top skirmish game where you and your opponents attempt to seize control of territory and items with your gangs of bloody thugs.  Check out more from Free League Publishing here.

You will have seen Gray Primer on our livestream just now with Gerry showing off the awesome diorama that he built for the OnTableTop crew. It is an awesome evolution of the old Ice Cream van that we had in the studio years ago and it’s looking splendid. It might have made Justin a bit pensive…

Join us for Day Three of the UK Games Expo. Ben shows us around Hall 3 where you can sit down and have a chat with likeminded folk and maybe play some games. Perhaps take part in the paint and take and get yourself one of those dragons!

We got to chat with the folks from Loke BattleMats about their awesome array of gaming books, battle maps and more that you can use to enhance your skirmish games and roleplaying games.

We dive into a chat with the awesome Ralph Horsley who designed the fantastic dragon for this year’s show (and has done for the last few years!). His work is amazing and it’s great seeing what he has been working on for the worlds of Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering.

We get to chat with Sev from the Avalon Hill team about their newest expansion for HeroQuest that is entirely new and original for the series. Head deep into the jungle and battle entirely new foes with a host of great new miniatures. The game expansion is currently available to pre-order!

We get to chat with Sev from the Avalon Hill team about their newest expansion for HeroQuest that is entirely new and original for the series. Head deep into the jungle and battle entirely new foes with a host of great new miniatures. The game expansion is currently available to pre-order!

The folks behind Paper Fort Games have been doing a great job bringing their passion to the design of Terraria: The Board Game which is currently crowdfunding! Find out more about their process and what they are bringing to the tabletop for Terraria fans and those who have never heard of the game!

Crooked Dice and the students from Edge Hill University talk about game design and the way that they have been bringing to life the Sci-Fi world of Colony 87. The miniatures range is already awesome and it seems like we have some budding game designers in our future!