Thank you so much to everyone who came to Poroutawhao Hall yesterday and made the first wargaming meeting at our new venue such a success. Mentions in dispatches for David Taylor, who brought tea, coffee and biscuits to share, Ken Hay who suggested the venue and put us in touch with the hall committee, and Gavin Dodd who travelled from Palmerston North to play 
We used six tables and it was great to see friends dropping by to check out the action. Ignore the mistake in the short video where I say five tables were being used. Games played were:
Our youngest wargamer, Blair, beat his dad, Richard Glendinning, with a head shot (oww!) when they played Battletech.
Steve Sands (Union) brought along his 15mm American Civil War armies and he and Alan Cassidy (Confederate) played a game using Fire and Fury rules.
Rhys Hendry (French brig Sylphe) brought his Napoleonic ships and the General Quarters, Post Captain rules to play David (HMS Savage).
Ken (Dwarves) and Jeremy (Beastmen) played Warhammer, The Old World.
There two games of DBMM. Samuel Taylor (Late Achaemenid Persians) played Chris Blackler (Late Imperial Romans. I used Thracians vs Gavin’s Alexandrian Macedonians.
We are back to our regular schedule of meetings, 10am on the first and third Sunday of the month. Our next meeting will be on Sunday, October 5. All periods, all rules and all scales are most welcome, see you there 
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A short video of our first meeting at our new venue, Poroutawhao Hall
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| The reason the hall is there. To remember those from the district who have served our country |
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| Chris Blacker (Late Imperial Romans) vs Samuel Taylor (Later Achaemenid Persians). Bryan Fowler is in the middle offering helpful advice. |
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| Some of Gavin Dodd’s gorgeous Macedonian phalangites with Companions to the left of them. |
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| Some of Gavin Dodd’s Macedonian hypaspists. Gavin did the digital sculpting of the grey horses and the 3D printing himself. |
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| Initial deployment: my Thracians vs Gavin Dodd’s Alexandrian Macedonians. |
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| Warhammer the Old World: Jeremy (Beastmen) vs Ken Hay (Dwarves). I am very sorry, I don’t know the name of their friend sitting at the left. |
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| David Taylor, Master and Commander of HMS Savage up against Rhys Hendry, with French brig Sylphe. |
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| Our youngest wargamer, Blair, played Battletech and beat his dad, Richard Glendinning. |
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| Fire and Fury American Civil War: Steve Sands (Union) vs Alan Cassidy (Confederate). |
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