Central London Wargames Club
Unofficial* Club Motto - "It Smacks of Incompetence"
* having an "official" motto would not really be very "Central London". In fact, the mere suggestion of having anything "official" at all would probably get you thrown out. If we could be organised enough to do it of course.
Now close to 30 years of existence, surviving through an anachronistic mixture of democratic anarchy and polite chaos
The Club runs two nights a week every Monday and Thursday at "Escape" which is just by Mornington Crescent Tube.
We meet at about 7-ish on Mondays and Thursdays and play most things. There are usually at least 4-5 games going on of various sorts (sometimes many more).
Ancients is just about the most popular, although there can be everything from ACW ships to Space ships, skirmishes to massed battles, 6mm to 28mm, as well as boardgames. On both nights we have room for more players and more games...
FoG & King of the Battlefield (penned by a club member) are probably the most popular right now, but a range of other things are played too. For Epic in particular Central London is a bit of a hotbed and the Epic players have even set up their own self-spawning mini-mega-robot-tastic website at Epic Armageddon London, which is far better designed that this half hearted effort. The King of the Battlefield rules written and published by club member Ian also have their own slightly less impressive but equally well loved and cared for Yahoo Group. As well as being the ancentral home of King of the Battlefield, we have also developed Gavin's award winning best in show at SELWFG 2011 and 2010 World War 1 Air game, and Alan's teeny tiny ships game, Ironclads in Action which covers the entire second half of the 19th Century
Central London has a Yahoo Group for club messages and arranging games which you can join. Its the Virtual LondonA Group.
To arrange a game or if you have any questions please or
The key fact is that we meet in a PUB, and technically we aren't even a club, as we have no membership fee, no committee, no club constitution and none of that boring political stuff that goes with it. Did I mention that there is a bar ?
The Escape is fairly near Euston Station. It is outside the Congestion zone, but that finishes at 630pm anyway, and there is also parking nearby. There is also (this) website at www.clwg.org.uk
This is where it is for those of you too incompetent/lazy to type it into Google yourselves - The Escape in Mornington Crescent
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Unofficial Club Motto - "It Smacks of Incompetence"
Unusually for a wargames club, there are very few of us who could objectively or accurately be described as "fat". We also have an unusual distribution of facial hair, in that it that the hirsuteness of our membership roughly mirrors that of the general population. The B.O. however is still a problem.....
Blogs and stuff
Some of us have our own blogs, and by the magic of the interweb, some of the more recent posts can be seen here (click each post to be taken to the relevant blog)
18 Jun 2013 at 9:36am
If I find enough time to paint a bit, blogging hasn't been on my priority list lately, as you can imagine. I've been busy giving last minute lessons to pupils right before their ex.....
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16 Jun 2013 at 3:31pm
Sorry for the short break in posting folks. I've been shattered all week so hadn't done any painting which left me with nothing to post.JasonYou might remember that Andres at Einar..... ...(click the post title to go to the full post on this blog entry...)
10 Jun 2013 at 11:30pm
I've spent the last few days painting new 28mm for my Successor army. I really like the idea of the 100 Ancients painting club at the lead adventure forum. Nothing like a comman pr.....
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10 Jun 2013 at 10:11pm
As promised, here are the pics of the Secret Project which I gave to Ray yesterday at Broadside.
1 Jun 2013 at 12:30am
I'm in a good mood. My painting mojo seems to be back. And indeed I've finished another Foundry miniature. It's a javelinman from the same blister. Once again, I've tried a free ha.....
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9 Jun 2013 at 8:41pm
Well folks, today a took a trip out of London heading down to Sittingbourne for Broadside 2013. At least this year I got to Victoria station in plenty of time to grab a coffee afte.....
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31 May 2013 at 9:32am
First of all, I wanted to thank you all, because a few days ago, I discovered I had reached the 100k hits milestone. Whepee! I think my crazy week had something to do with it, so I.....
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6 Jun 2013 at 10:14pm
First of all, thanks for all the well-wishing. My cold is much better now, but I was still feeling run down this evening and haven't done any painting.I did receive a couple of sma.....
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30 May 2013 at 12:30am
I learned a few hours ago that there is a gas leak in our building. So National grid has shut everything off, meaninf we don't have any heating, hot water nor cooking fire... Hopef.....
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4 Jun 2013 at 11:27pm
For the last couple of weeks I've been walking around with a mild cold, not bad enough to stop me doing anything. However, last night it stepped up a gear or ten and has left me fe.....
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29 May 2013 at 12:23pm
Hi everyone.As you know, I'm tempted to paint 28mm stuff. So, as I've been weak, I've bought many Foundry figures on ebay, and I'm now spainting them, just for fun and to improve m.....
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2 Jun 2013 at 11:23pm
OK, it's been a couple of days since I last posted, so it's definitely time for an update.Thursday's X-Wing GamesI did take my camera, but ended up not taking any pics. Sorry about.....
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21 May 2013 at 9:44am
It has been indeed a while since the last time I showed some painted minis. I'm particularly tired and I don't really feel comfortable painting during the evening. I rather prefer .....
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30 May 2013 at 2:28pm
James Brewerton of Exiles Wargames Painter is celebrating the 3rd birthday of his blog with a fantastic giveaway. So, if you want some freebies you'd better head over and start fol.....
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18 May 2013 at 12:00am
Ladies and gentlemen, today is the last draw. First of all, thanks everyone for your participation. I really hope you enjoyed it, especially those of you who won something ;) 11 wi.....
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On the weekend of June 11th 2011 some of the club members played a big Fire & Fury game (Antietam) as part of an art project in an art gallery in Piccadilly. This is part of an installation by Swiss artist Christoph Buchel, and has been reviewed in both The Guardian and The London Evening Standard. Read the report of the game here
