I thought it might be a good idea to do a bit of a report on the Eurobash and what happened so that those who thought about coming and didn’t, or those who might consider it next year, can see how it ran and what it cost.
I would hope that the thread is
mainly for other attendees to voice their feedback with how they got there and what they spent roughly.
Other members are welcome to ask further questions, but please can we keep it relevant, so it could be useful over the rest of this year for potential visitors next year.COSTS.Ok so from a Team UK point of view, we booked with Eurotunnel, using Tesco Clubcard points.
So a £120 return crossing actually cost £40 in Tesco Vouchers. From my place it was around 365 miles for the round trip to St Niklaas.
The Ibis hotel has a deal with the main car park, situated under the Town Square, and I parked my car there Thursday evening after we had unloaded minis at the club, and didn’t move it until we left Monday morning, and that cost a whole 6euros.
There were 3 of us and we split the overall cost of approx £75 between us.
Of course Finlay had a train trip from Exeter up to Fr1day, and then Fr1day had petrol costs for the 40 odd miles to my place.
Personally I spent 160e on the hotel, which was 2 nights solo [ @50e ] and 2 nights shared [ @30e ] and included breakfast.
Now I made breakfast every morning – unlike some
– and made sure I wasn’t hungry until the evening.
The rest of my spending was a couple of snack meals, and drinks, which were mainly restricted to the club bar, and all of us bought a few rounds there, yet I reckon I only spent another 90e, so 250e total.
Those of the attendees who visited alternative bars elsewhere in the town centre probably spent a bit more ..............
Of course we do owe a big thank you to Soth as he organised three of the main evening meals.
Those of us who arrived Thursday got a visit to the local football club and were treated to burger and chips.
On Friday some vouchers magically appeared to reduce the bill at a very nice restaurant and I think the 14 of us had to chip in 10e each to settle the difference.
Then you all have seen the bowls of Bolognese prepared by his lady, An,
and the snacks for the game on Sunday.
GAMINGDue to the aforementioned late night bar visiting there wasn’t a great rush to start gaming each morning – I think around 10 on Friday, 11 and later on the Saturday, and a bit earlier around 9.- 9.30 on the Sunday as we knew we wanted to watch the football around 3.30pm
Some people had Campaign Merc lists, some had normal armies and not just Empire. Games varied 1000pts to 2500pts.
Personally one of the reasons I enjoyed myself more this year I think was the Campaign lists – as with the Marienburg ones from 2 years ago, rufus again has produced some really great lists and yes I have old obsolete units
that I could suddenly use again, but a rufus’ lists are very clever in the way it offers so many options.
The Campaign lists and Newsletters will get a new relaunch very soon as the campaign is about to get under way.
If you have the chance make sure you print off the final pdfs of the Mercenary List and the Imperial Factions – then look at each unit listing.
Look at the units you already have – and I am sure you can find the exact build somewhere in the lists.
I had a mere 2 games at 2500pts but they were both crackers.
My Middenland Imperial Faction allied with Mercenaries – probably totally illegally as no-one seemed to have a copy of the first newsletter outlining the ‘allied’ rules.
First up were Fandir’s HE.
I had a GM, a WP, Wizard, and a BSB Carrochio, and loads of Border Horse Cavalry, Pistoliers, Hounds, & Ogres amongst other units.
We started around 4.30 pm on the Friday and a mammoth battle ended sometime Saturday mid to late afternoon.
There was a golden lesson to be learnt from Fandir’s solid victory – when you read the rules for the Carrochio / War Wagon the “mounted on a Chariot base or larger does not make it a chariot, so do not stop reading when you see “cannot march” and carry on and see the words “or charge”.
Not being able to charge when you expected to can be a bit of a bummer to your battle line strategy.
Of course it also doesn’t help when you shoot the handguns on the Carrochio at BS3 for the whole game either.
There were a couple of magic moments – the Standard of Dispersal in particular shocked some poncey Swordmasters who died to a
man helf to my IC knights, and some Dragon Princes who bounced off my Halberds.
Soth’s nephew Phillip and his Chaos Warriors provided my second battle, which ran either side of the footie.
I changed my list a bit with some TTG, and Wolfkin instead of some of the Border Horse Light Cavalry
This time the Wagons BS4 accounted for a number of Chaos Knights, and we ended up with a bloody draw.
Interesting final point – the latest White Dwarf, entirely devoted to the new Fantasy rules, turned up last week and I threw it in my bag for the trip as I hadn’t had a chance to read it before we left.
Finlay and Fr1day got a read whilst I was driving, yet I still haven’t.
The beauty of the Bash is there is always something going on, be it gaming, drinking, eating, or even Frisbee in the park, or 5-a-side football on Soth’s
private pitch lawn in his back garden, and conversation – the latter because you are surrounded by so many different and like-minded people.
Links:Fandir's album
http://s839.photobucket.com/albums/zz318/morpheuskom/Eurobash%202010/?albumview=slideshow
