HASSRA Leeds – Tabletop Wargames Club

The Tabletop Wargames Club is a small friendly club with about half a dozen or so regular wargamers who participate in tabletop wargaming. We play regular games on the second Monday of each month, usually in Quarry House, Leeds.

Beginners, please don’t be put off as everyone is willing to offer advice and later in the year (W/C 13/7) we will be holding our 1^st annual “have-a-go-day” for new members, returning wargamers and those who just want to “have a go”.

At our regular meetings and at the “have-a-go-day”, we can provide everything you need to get involved and you can receive coaching from members of the club so that you can quickly pick up the basics and show the regulars a thing or too.

This is our inaugural year, so we are pretty new to the club scene. We currently play mostly sci-fi or fantasy genre, but are expanding to cover historical battles as part of our ongoing development.

We are keen to widen our membership to include some new players. Later in the year we intend to run some tournaments, with a ‘modest’ trophy for the winners and who knows we may even extend ourselves out into the wargaming community and challenge a few clubs to a competition or two.

This year, we also plan to attend a number of conventions including Games Day (Games Workshop’s annual wargaming event – held at Birmingham NEC for the last few years - which sees thousands of attendee’s), Fiasco (held in November at the Royal Armouries in Leeds) and a number of other events across the wargaming calendar.

Even though we enjoy pitting ourselves against each other across a battlefield, it’s really all very good natured with plenty of humour, so if you’re a novice, someone coming back to wargaming or just want to come along for a nosey, go on and get in touch.

New members are always welcome – please contact Stuart Wiltshire (27251) or Martin Brown (24183) in Quarry House for further details.