Ruckus at Partizan 26

 

Well Partizan was excellent! Its such a gathering of like minds and as such a lovely jovial atmosphere prevails. Everywhere there are games and gamers having fun.

And what games! Enormous great things with thousands of figures and dozens of elegant buildings beautifully displayed and tiny wee things with a few sometimes very large-scaled figures and finished to no less than the very highest of standards.

Overwhelming, outstanding...quite brilliant!

There was far too much to take in…

And we had a game to run…

The Queens Envoy at Partizan

A tale of Ambushment and Skullduggery.

The Story So Far. Sir Edwin Slackbladder, the Queens Envoy, is on his way to the Scottish Regent, John Erskine, with a message from her majesty the Queen of England. Good Queen Bess would like there to be stronger ties between the two nations and the message carries an expression of goodwill and plans for a more united future.

However there are followers of Mary Queen of Scots who would wish this not to be and would have Scotland seek a closer relationship with France. The notorious Reiver Red Rab McNab, who thrives on disorder in the borders, has been employed by Mary to take  Slackbladder prisoner so that the plotters may discover and thwart the Queen of England’s ambitions.

The Warden of the West March Sir Henry Scrope knows that Red Rab is riding and has set out in haste with a detachment of men to save the day.

And it went very well, in fact we won the prize for the best participation game. A big part of the reason for our success was simply down to how much my brave Ruckusteers, Christian Bailey and Jordan Linton enjoyed themselves playing it!

How could anyone not like a game when the players are so committed to every roll of the dice? So keen and enthusiastic were they that I had to caution them to slow down at one point.  I am sure that it was the sound of their laughter that drew the crowds of curious hobbyists to our table.

It made all the effort worthwhile.

Can the Queens Envoy get safely to the Pele Tower? 

We left the walls off and used various bits and pieces, tables, barrels, beds, chests etc to give it a lived in feel 

Bands of fierce Reivers wait their moment to ride to glory

And then they Attack...

The Warden rides to the rescue 

 Shootists on the hill! These guys were Outlaws, Broken Men, who randomly shot anyone! They were activated by the Happenings Card

These woodcutters were feisty ones and caused no end of trouble to both parties

These shepards were unfazed

The view from Punishment Hill

The provisions got left behind...

Slackbladders party! 

As they near the Tower a crowd forms, is it a welcoming party?

...maybe not

Despite falling off his horse the Envoy arrives at the Tower...

...and lives to flee another day!

I had a very successful meeting with Roger Gerrish about the BIG Book of Ruckus and met dozens of Ruckus fans and so saw very little of the show and the only pics I got were of our game.

Big thanks, huge thanks to both my Ruckusteers, didn’t we have a great time?

And extra thanks to Chris for the pics.