Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 170 – Salute 2016
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Welcome to Episode 170 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast
In this episode, hosts Neil Shuck & Dave Luff visit the 2016 Salute show – one of the biggest wargaming events in the UK – and interview various companies about their latest news.
They are then joined by Mike Hobbs and Mike Whitaker to look back at the event.
We hope you enjoy the show
Show details:
- 00:00 – Intro
- 02:23 – Arcworlde
- 07:05 – Renedra
- 11:50 – Bendy Boards
- 20:15 – Warbases
- 24:05 – Mike Whitaker
- 29:20 – Baccus Miniatures
- 35:30 – Plastic Soldier Company
- 43:50 – David Marshall / TMTerrain
- 48:50 – West Wind Productions
- 56:20 – Osprey Games
- 1:04:20 – Gripping Beast
- 1:08:25 – Great Escape Games
- 1:13:45 – Spartan Games
- 1:32:05 – Steamforged Games
- 1:37:20 – Bad Squiddo Games
- 1:39:55 – Miniature War Gaming: The Movie
- 1:48:45 – Hawk Wargames
- 1:55:25 – Salute debrief with the Meeples & Miniatures crew
Tales of @NeilTheDwarf 
Great show and thanks to Mr Hobbs for volunteering for the Joy of Six show.
We fly over to the show each year from (effectively showless) NI so it is about £200 before we even get there but any other show on the mainland would be as expensive so we might as well go to the big one. It tends to be a shopping trip more than anything else, I guess I must spend half of my years gaming budget at Salute. I do try to look at the games but that is a distant secondary consideration, participation games don’t even enter the equation, there is simply not enough time for them.
I knew the theme was steampunk but I saw no more of it than in any other year but again I miss an awful lot of the games. My brother did comment that he thought it was not as interesting as last year.
Perhaps the committee should consider a prize for the best game “on theme”.