Review of the day, Colours 2022

This weekend I went to Colours 2022 at the Newbury Racecourse, hosted by Newbury and Reading Wargames Society. Regular readers will know I love this show and due to reasons we all know about, last year the show didn't go ahead. This year was a welcome return for the show.

The whole day flew by at such a pace, I had such a great day I was too busy to even take any photos! I started the day with a peruse of the always wonderful Bring and Buy then Brother in Law and myself had a demo game of Achroma, a new card game. Similar in vein to Magic the Gathering or Pokemon, there were some interesting ideas like the use of a mobile app to keep track of your life and as you are linked to your Opponents apps, you can steal their life directly from their phone too. 

There was of course the obligatory meet up with Illustrious Opponent and other friends, then for the afternoon my youngest boy joined me thanks to the Father in Law bringing him down. Keen to get some gaming in, my boy was a little disappointed with the less than normal number of games at the show, but we did get to sit down with the chaps from Liverpool Wargames. We had an excellent game of Saga using balanced Samurai forces and I have to say myself and the other chap I was partnered with took an absolute trouncing from the Enthusiastic Opponent. My son has the best luck with dice and a keen tactical mind. We were very grateful for the chaps coming down from Liverpool with such an excellent game. I've not played Saga before and I have to say, I would again.

For the rest of the show we got some great shopping in, even Pokemon cards, although Space Marines were thin on the ground around the show, so EO didn't get to add that wanted Dreadnought to his Ultramarines force. He did however choose some scenery of his own.

The scouts are his own too.

I had a lovely chat to the owner of Tangent miniatures who kindly gave EO a freebie miniature that has a distinct Buckeroo Banzai feel to it. As we watched Ready Player One this week, I am instructed to paint the model up as Parzival for him. (Watch the film, it will make sense.)

The shopping haul wasn't massive, but there was one heavy item.

I have to say, the set is so heavy my plastic bag split before I got home and snipping the sprues for the scenery was a workout in itself. We are looking forward to getting a game in. Today has been all about X Wing though, mainly because there wasn't any painting involved, we cracked on straight away learning the rules when we got home.

All in a fun day, can't wait till next year.