Call To Arms 2025

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 We held our annual convention Call to Arms on the weekend of 30-31 August. About 160 wargamers from all over New Zealand came and played in 10 different events.

Up on the stage we had a couple of different Napoleonic games. They are great looking games with nice armies in spiffy uniforms.



The main hall was mostly filled with GW games. on the far left we have the MESBG, then AOS. These were two of our largest events.
In the middle of the hall, we have the Horus Heresy games
On the right of the hall, we have Kill Team, Flames of War, Warhammer Old World and some of the Demo games including Alan's huge zombie apocalypse game. (more on that later)

The ancient gamers are on their preferred side hall. It's warm, quiet and close to the toilets. There were 18 of them playing DBMM
This is one of the MESBG tables. The terrain they had was really nice. 3 of the players dressed up as wizards, we had Saruman, Gandalf and Radagast running around in wigs and robes and waving their staffs like they meant it.
This hugely impressive piece of terrain is from one of the MESBG tables. It's a filament 3D print. I'm not sure whether it is compensating for something or just a proud statement of a single guy. I don't know any wife that would be keen on having that in the house.
This is a shot from a game of Horus Heresy, at first, I thought they were playing Aeronautica Imperialis in 28mm scale, apparently there were some ground troops involved somewhere.

Overall, the event was successful and lots of people having fun with their hobby is always a great sight.

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