Wyre Forest Gamers

The next midweek club meeting will be on Tuesday 27th October at Hartlebury Village Hall.

The next Sunday club meeting will be on 1st November at Hallow Scout Hut.

See below for more details. To view a summary of the games played at our most recent meetings please click here

Proposed meetings for 2026: -

The plan is to hold two club Sundays per month: -

First Sunday of the month at Hallow Scout Hut, near Worcester. We will be holding all-day events at this venue on selected Sundays.

Third Sunday of the month at St. Ambrose, Kidderminster.

Please check the Diary and Events page for details of currently confirmed bookings. All dates are subject to change and members are requested to check regularly the group email for any revision of plans.

What's New

• The annual club Christmas meal will take place on Saturday 5th December (7:00pm) at the Yeliz Turkish Restaurant, The Old Rectifying House, North Parade, Worcester, WR1 3NN. The event is open to all members and those that have not already confirmed attendance can contact the club secretary to add their names to the list.

• The club held its first midweek gaming afternoon on 18th August at Hartlebury Parish Hall. The hall is a spacious and well equipped venue, close to Kidderminster and not too far from Worcester. At the inaugural session we had ten gamers taking part in three games. The hall has been booked for 27th October, 24th November and 29th December and the last event will be free of charge. Registered members can add games in the club game management system in the usual way.

• After a suggestion from John F, a 'Hints and Tips' page has been added to the website (the link is on the Scenarios, Rules and Services page), to which members can place ideas regarding products, books, painting and modelling techniques, tools and shortcuts. If you want to share your ideas with the group, please send your suggestions to me and I will add them to the page. 

• The Barons' War Wargame Convention took place at Wallace House, Oat St, Evesham WR11 4PJ, on 16th and 17th May. The club ran a display game on both days, a Vikings vs Saxons battle featuring 28mm figures and terrain from Bryan's collection. The club won second prize for 'best display game in the show', a tribute to all the hard work that Bryan and others put in to both days. A brief account of the show is available on the Diary and Events page and more pictures of our game and other displays can be seen in the Gallery. 

• The club Annual General Meeting was held at St Ambrose Parish Hall on Sunday 19th April. Minutes of the meeting are available here.

• Paul B has issued a painting challenge to club members for 2026. In his own words: -

As previously mentioned each year I always get inspired by the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge, where painters spent three months painting their projects and various themed ‘challenges’.

So I’d like to do something in a similar vein but without the competition element. It’s just for fun, there’s no winners and losers apart from us getting new models to the table. There are no rules, paint what you want, if you can’t meet the monthly theme substitute something else, I’ve been deliberately vague with the titles. Above all, share pictures on Facebook and on the email group.

More details can be found on the club Facebook page.

• Graham has produced a set of WWII rules inspired by his friend Dave Chubb, who was a member of the club for several years until his death in October 2023. You will find the rules here and I am grateful to Graham for permitting them to be available on the site.

• Nick's latest set of rules are now on sale. 'Twilight of the Emperor' covers the period 1800-1815 and provides detailed rules for recreating large-scale battles of the Napoleonic era. More details can be found at Wyre Historic Books.