Its Sunday, the day after Salute 2025, and I’m still knackered from the Mt Everest of a show that is Salute.
Lee’s first post can be found here, if you haven’t seen it already. And his second post can be found here.
The Rejects arrived nice and early and gained entrance at around 8.15 thanks to our Press Passes, apart from poor Dave, who had to go join the queue! Previous to that we had a little trouble parking, and I guess most visitors had the same problem?
We were greeted at a roundabout by a rather rude and jobsworth Excel employee, telling us and everyone else that we couldn’t park in the Excel centre carpark because we hadn’t prebooked a spot. Nowhere on the Excel webpage or Salute page was this mentioned?? So we had to park 15 minutes away in a rowing club carpark. So it was them who received our £25 fee rather than excel. I was threatened with being banned from the site for trying to argue my point, which left me extremely pi$$ed off! So 15 minutes later we arrived at the show none of us were looking forward to the walk back, laden down with goodies, which we’d usually drop back to the car in the excel carpark, but what can you do?
We spoke to Peter the logistics head of the Warlords who wasn’t aware of any of this going on, so it was as much of a shock to them as it was to the paying customers.
But we wasn’t going to let Mr Jobsworth and Co spoil our fun! Was we!!!
And we’re in!
We bought a few things, walked around had several chats with various blog and You tube glitterati, before the main visitors enetred.
At 10 o’clock the waiting horde was set free.
Now onto the games!!
Central London Wargames Club – Emperor of the Battlefield
Goblin King Games – Moonstone Fantasy Skirmish
GCT Studios – Bushido
Retired Wargames Reloaded – Gotterdammerung Berlin 1945
This was a monster of a game, which took 2 years to complete!!
A truly impressive looking game.
Another impressive looking WWII game, this time from
Loughton Strike Force – Warsaw 1944
Uhrwerk Verlag – Chronopia
– Marquee Models – Star Wars Legion
Halo
Crow Industries – Starship Troopers
Oshiro Model Terrain – Sengoku period Japan Skirmish
Ashford Gaming Club – Crypt Hulk and Tarati’s Castle
Rifleman Harris
Warlord Games – Bolt Action
BattleTech UK South East – BattleTech
Skirmish Wargames – Shootout at Excel City
1/72 Wargames – Dargai Heights 1897
Gentlemen’s Wargame Parlour- Like Cricket – But with guns
A Very British Civil War
Simon Miller – Louis Quatorze’s Warses
Dibble Dribble……
Lee joining the ranks of the mighty 79th Highlanders!
Deepcut Studios – Colouring in figures
And painting
Anchuluss Publishing Limited – The Defence of Tobruk 1941
Bad Squiddo Games – Colouring zone.
WarFulcrum Games – 1918 Battle of Belleau Wood and the Battle of Villers Brentnneux
Essex Warriors – Mario Cart
Weymouth Levellers Wargames Club/ Peter Pig – AK47
Abingdon Wargames Club – Asteroids
ROK Minis – Small scale demo
Spectre Miniatures Ltd – Spectre Operations
Soldiers of Napoleons……
Matt Crump & me
Brecon Wragames Club – DAK Attack
Parabellum Miniatures
Battleground Bobmack 3d & Flank Miniatures – BattlegroundHD Cold War Skirmish
Cornwall Wargames Association – Port Royal 1692
Lee lookin all grand in his uniform
Brandy for the Pason
Society of Ancients – Battle of Gaugamela 331BC
Reverence Games – Last Living Soul
South London Warlords Hall of Fame Game
Club Space
Grond! At the Gates of Pelennor
Friends of General Haig – Breaking the Stalemate, Iran/Iraq War
Pendraken – Future War
Photo bombed by Tamsin!
Mike Hutchinson’s – Hobgoblin
Titan Owners Club – Titan Walk
Veteran’s Wargame Association – Digital Racing
Whitehall Warlords – The Ballard of Kinmont Willie
Wars of Gelderland Succession – Vauban’s War
Beowulf Miniatures
Wandsworth Gaming
Olmec Games Ltd – The Drowned Earth
Yorkshire Renegades – Starship Troopers – Bourbon Outpost
Hugo’s Heroes – Battle of Trangen 1808
Swedish v Norwegians Napoleonic!!!!
Never heard of it, I here you say??? Me neither
I had a chat with Jan, in the blue top, who during his army service served in one of the Swedish regiments that fought in this battle.
Ilford Wargames Club – Rocketeers Guide to Rocketships
Flash Gordon ships from the 1936 Buster Crabbe series
Burrows and Badgers
Magrathea Builder of Worlds – What lies beneath
Night Terrors
Painting Challenge
Haverhill Wargames – Twilight Chronicles of Anyaral
Free League Publishing – Zone Wars
Peterborough Wargames Club – Alpha Strike Introduction
Garry David Wills – The Best Army in Europe
The Battle of Pirmasens 1793
Maidstone Wargames Society – Atari Tank Warfare 1980
Continual Wars Society – The Battle of Gurguljat
Serbo-Bulgarian War 1885
Hornchurch Wargames Club – Zeppelin
Footsore Miniatures – Baron’s Wars
Ooooo me knees….
Gordon’s Regiment Scot’s Brigade
Highlander Reenactors
The Shed Gamers Club – Battle of Westeros
Pandyman Entertainment – Trench Offensive
Santa Maura & Capri Boardgames
Yarkshire Gamer, Ken Reilly
with his Best Historical Game Award
The Battle of Mentana 1867
Rome or Death
Per Broden & the Wyre Forest Wargamers – The Crossing of the Duna 1701
Great Northern War
Per with his Award, Best Small Scale game
Lasting Games – Butcher & Bolt
WWII Daring Raids and Covert Operations
All hell let loose – Bloody Omaha
Bunny Badger Games/Frothers Mars Defends
Elon
Mr Orange
Realtime Wargames – The White Cockade, Pretender, Prince, King
Belloludi – Oosterbeck 1944
Oakbound Studio – The Woods: Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Peter’s Paper Boys – Wofun 10mm Napoleonics
Mark Backhouse – The Battle of Beneventum 275BC
TooFatLardies – Chain of Command v2
Joe Bilton (TFL/Reisswitz) – What a Tanker
Operation Charnwood – Caan July 1944
Dave Brown (TFL/Reisswitx) – Austerlitz 1805
General D’Armee 2
Lastly Team Warbases!!!
I had to pick my package up at the end of the day.
Well that’s it from me and Salute 2025
What a great show, I took 638 photos on the day and cut it down to this one mega post. I hope you all enjoy the ride.
