Well, the 1964 Wargamer's Convention is behind us - and what a hectic affair it turned out to be! I had a very sneaking idea that vie might get a big crowd but I doubt if anyone else expected the one hundred and fifty enthusiasts who crammed the Tudor Room at Caxton Hall -- from about 11.30 until nearly 7 p.m on Saturday 6 June. From all sides have come verbal-and written expressions of pleasure and enthusiasm arising from what surely must be one of the most stimulating events that British wargamers have encountered. For my part - and I had a fair bit of worry and work organising and seeing that it ran as smoothly as possible - I feel that it was a bit unco-ordinated. Largely owing to the huge crowd and the relatively confined spaces, I thought it got a little ragged at the edges. But then, have YOU ever tried to fight a wargame on the packed terraces behind the goal at the Spur's football ground -- because that's what it was like! And to the eager spectators -- regrets for the fact that it was liking watching a Royal procession to get near enough to see what was going on over those six wargames tables. There was plenty to see if you could get close enough - Peter Gilder set up a most colourful demonstration of Hinton Hunt 20mm Napoleonic figures on some of his incomparable terrain; there were displays of the new BELLONA terrain features made by DELTORAMA highly varied and lively wargames in flats; 70mm and 20mm solids covering periods from Tony Bath's Ancients, through the 7 Years War figures of Charles Grant; the Napoleonics of Warwick Hale and Peter Pringle; the resolute 20mm solids of Peter Gilder's American Civil War campaign; the off-beat collection of boiler-plate tanks and armoured cars, motor-cycle teams, cavalry, sailors, native troops and vintage staff-cars that made up my own 1917 German West African battle; and finally, the scientific and seemingly intellectual manner in which the Graham Biddle group from Birmingham went about their fascinating WWII battle. Note: The second half of the article was in such poor shape, it had to be scanned as a graphic.--RL LOST AND FOUND SECTION Amazingly, only one item seemed to get left behind at Caxton Hall after the Convention lost Saturday - not counting the little bunch of die-hards who were squeezing the last ounce of enjoyment out of the day discussing wargames and figures! Someone went home without a plastic-type raincoat which was found under a chair on the left-hand side of the hall. If the owner likes to write to me and send postage it will be duly returned. Back to Table of Contents -- Wargamer's Newsletter # 28 To Wargamer's Newsletter List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1964 by Donald Featherstone. This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com