{"id":16584,"date":"2025-06-24T12:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T11:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=16584"},"modified":"2025-06-24T12:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T11:47:14","slug":"maidstone-wargames-society-open-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2025\/06\/maidstone-wargames-society-open-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Maidstone Wargames Society Open Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As you may be aware (we mention it often enough) we’re both members of Maidstone Wargames Society<\/a>. It’s the society’s open day on Saturday, where we open the doors, put on some games and invite the public in to see what we do. Visitors will be able to join in any of the games, hopefully you’ll have an enjoyable day and we’ll maybe even persuade one or two people to join up.<\/p>\n

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We’ll be there running a Middle Earth game – the Battle of Azanulbizar, when Thrain II led an army of dwarves to retake Moria from Azog’s orcs, and a great battle was fought in the Dimrill Dale. So not very Brigade related, but we’ve always both been very keen on Tolkein. There are also modern, medieval, WW2 and other games on show.<\/p>\n

The Open Day isn’t a conventional wargames show in that there are no trade stands – just games. However, since we’ll both be there, if you wanted to put in an order and collect it from us on Saturday to save on postage, feel free – you can join in a game or two while you’re there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you may be aware (we mention it often enough) we’re both members of Maidstone Wargames Society. 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