Glasgow & District Wargaming Society
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Display Games GDWS plays its part in promoting the hobby by supporting wargames shows and putting on display games. These attempt to showcase the best features of the hobby with well researched and visually attractive displays. In recent years the society display team has focussed on Warhammer Ancient Battles using 28mm figures and 18th and 19th Century battles using our own adaptation of WECW and PoW rules. The current cycle started at Glasgow Wappinshaw 2004 show with The Real Dracula based on Vlad the Impaler against the Ottoman Empire. At the Wappinshaw 2005 show the game was Dyrrachion 1081, Normans invading the Byzantine Empire. Later in the year at Edinburgh's Claymore 2005 show the game was Vaslui 1475, Moldavians resisting the Byzantine Empire.
For the 2006 shows the display team presented a series of battles on the theme of Prince Eugene in the Balkans. At Glasgow Wappinshaw the presentation was Zenta 1697. This was followed at the first Falkirk show Cannonade with the Battle of Belgrade 1717. Finally at Edinburgh Claymore in August with Peterwardein 1716. The rules for these games were adapted from Warhammer ECW and the amendments and army lists were published in Wargames Illustrated (August 1996) and can be downloaded here.
In 2007 the season started again at Glasgow Wappinshaw on 14 April. The display game was Doboj 1415 the Balkan alternative to Agincourt. This was followed by a change of period for the rest of the season starting at Falkirk Carronade show with Maipo 1818. A battle in Chile with the Patriot army of General Jose de St Martin attempting to stop the Royalist army at the gates of Santiago. One of the hardest fought battles of the South American Wars of Independence. Followed by Chacabuco at the Phalanx show at St Helens in June and Claymore in August. Finally a return to Vlad the Impaler for the Skelp show in Forfar with the Night of Terror.
For 2008 the theme was Napoleon in Egypt. This was a feature article in the August edition of Wargames Illustrated. First stop was Wappinshaw on 12 April with the Battle of the Pyramids. Then Falkirk Carronade on 10 May with the battle of Mount Tabor. Then south of the border at St Helens Phalanx on 21 June with the Battle of Heliopolis. Last stop was at Dumfries Albanich on 5 July with the Pharaoh's Gold.
Final display for 2008 was Kirriemuir Targe on 1 November with Mughal India
In 2009 the main game is Sharp Practice. Starting at Wappinshaw in April and then Cannonade in May.
Then on to Phalanx in June with Calcutta 1757 based on Clive's campaigns in India.
At Claymore in August the WW2 team took over with an early Western Desert battle at Mechli.
For 2010 we started at Albanich in Dumfries at its new venue. Our game was 1711 Peter on the Pruth. Moving on to Carronade at Falkirk with Tannenberg 1410.
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