As the 12th April comes ever closer and the prospect of another day filled with nothing but the sights, sounds and smells of the UK’s best all-round gaming show (and with the recent trend with Games Day, arguably just the outright best) fills our every waking thought (especially Mat’s – it’s his first time and he’s really quite excited), the members of The Shell Case team attending Salute this year (sorry Ashley, next time maybe?) have taken time to reflect on their hopes and expectations for Salute 2014.
Here’s what I came up with and the other’s will be posting their expectations soon. I repeat, Mat is very excited about attending his first Salute. You have been warned.
Rob
This is the first year I’ll be going with a ‘definite’ plan for what I want to pick up (and by definite I mean go and buy all of that stuff, then buy a truckload more stuff, just because it’s SHINY!) I’ll be busy a lot of the day with my ‘work’ reason for being at Salute, fiddling around with tech, so time will be short; at least this year I won’t be running the London marathon the next day, so won’t have to build in time to attend the always amusingly juxtaposed marathon expo next door. All of the extra stuff meant that last year the Salute show side of things was a bit of a blur, I couldn’t even get to the #warmongers meet up at lunch time, which is almost unforgivable! My priorities this year are:
- Spend time chilling and exploring the show with The Shell Case crew
- Attend the #warmongers gathering
- Pick up two or three new skirmish games: Godslayer, possibly a second Malifaux starter and whatever takes my fancy on the day (Dark Age is something I definitely want to take a closer look at if anyone has it there – any ideas anyone?)
- Grab some FW goodness. I allow myself one impulse purchase from the FW guys at each Salute and by one purchase, I mean one credit card transaction ;-) Trying to decide whether I want to pick up some heresy goodies, possibly Iron Hands as I like their affinity with the Mechanicum and they have some awesome models.
- Get some video of the day for a post-Salute wrap-up for The Shell Case!
That should about cover it I reckon! I’m definitely looking forward to being able to have a few beers this time around without worrying about having to run the marathon the next day!
