RE: Almost time for Salute

OTOH, most of the games at Salute are "party" games rather than "demos".
>From that point of view its the best UK show by miles. Then again, Jon
from
the trader's perspective has described it as "Hell" - the GZG stand is
invisible most of the day under the crush of people attempting to thrust
large wads of dosh into his sweaty hands! I think you just have to be
there
to understand what we mean......

Last year there were about 6000 people at Salute.

Cheers, Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allan Goodall [mailto:agoodall@att.net]
> I was at Fall In! in 2000, a historical convention in
> Gettysburg that was
> probably a bit smaller than Salute. I spent a good two or
> three hours (on at
> least two trips) in the dealer's room alone. How do you have
> time to game in a
> 1 day convention???

I guess our mainstream shows are more about buying / selling than gaming
-
around half of the games tend to be straight demonstration games rather
than participation ones anyway, so they are there to look at and admire
rather than join in.

My club have developed a system of making our participation games of
fixed
length, so that we can get people to join in knowing how long they'll be
there and when they'll be finished. Usually we opt for an hour, and the
scenarios are along the lines of "you have a limited amount of time to
capture the enemy leader / destroy the Rebel transports / clear the
village
of VC / drive a path to the other end of the table". We find that people
are happier joining in a game that they know won't eat too much into
their
shopping time ...

Tony

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