Middlesbrough Gamers Club

[Gandalf]

Middlesbrough Gamers Club meets at the St Marys Centre, 82-90 Corporation Road, Middlesbrough TS1 2RW between 6.00 pm and 10.00 pm every Tuesday and Thursday and on the first Saturday of the month between 10.00 am and 6.00 pm.

A good range of books, board games, figures, terrain and other resources belonging to the club are available for use.  Activities in the club vary from card games such as Magic the Gathering and World of Warcraft to role play and table top wargames including DBX, Blitzkrieg and Cold War Commander, Disposable Heroes, WAB and WFB.  The club is friendly and welcoming with an emphasis on participation and .  Members are generally interested in trying out new things.

More information is available from our web site at http://www.m-gc.co.uk/cms/page.php?3

[goat major]

i'm old enough to remember the middlesbrough wargames club when it was at Prissick Base every Saturday 

[Sandinista]

i'm old enough to remember the middlesbrough wargames club when it was at Prissick Base every Saturday 

I remember that club from '79 - 85/6ish dozens of 25mm ancient gamers happily playing WRG 5th edition, I even remember putting a game on at a show in the town hall.
Moved to Hemlington library for a while that's about when i started drifting away

[Leon]

We had a nice letter from a customer a while back saying how he'd first started buying our figures at the Town Hall show years ago.

[Sean Clark]

Anyone from the club with more pictures of the League of Ratsburg game you did last year? Or tips and ideas for someone wanting to do something vaguely similar

[goat major]

Sandanista that's the period I used to go regularly - though I was more of a d&d player than an ancients gamer at the time.

[Gandalf]

Anyone from the club with more pictures of the League of Ratsburg game you did last year? Or tips and ideas for someone wanting to do something vaguely similar

I'm not sure whether I'm familiar with the game you mean but can you spot it among these pictures from Smoggycon 2009?
http://www.m-gc.co.uk/cms/e107_plugins/autogallery/autogallery.php?show=Smoggycon_2009

[17-21l]

Yes yes- this is all well and good, but can you safely say that our cars would be safe whilst driving into Smogborough.

[Leon]

Yes yes- this is all well and good, but can you safely say that our cars would be safe whilst driving into Smogborough.

As long as you keep the car moving it's fine...

[17-21l]

Ha ha - happy days mate 

[Gandalf]

There is extra security on the car park but even so, don't leave anything on view in the car.  We had a bit of concern last year when one of the traders left their SATNAV on the dashboard but we got hold of him before anything happened.

[scrutonsmog]

The "old" club started at Bertram Ramsey school in 1969ish, when me and a friend were caught reading a wargames book in a chemistry class.
Luckily the teacher simply told us to go and see the Art teacher, Derek Boyle, who also collected toy soldiers and so it started. At one point we had nigh on 100 members.
Unfortunately things drifted and a lot of us hit our early 20's: got into reenactment, footie, marriage etc. Shame.

I was clearing out my office last week and found various medals from club competitions from the early to mid 70's.

Whilst I've been involved in a couple of clubs in Sussex nothing compares with some of the huge games we ran back then. Hopefully I'll start popping into the new club in the New Year.

Cheers

John Thompson

[Ferb]

Hi,

Just tried to sign up to your website but I keep getting a "Doesn't appear to be a valid email adress message" I've tried three different email addresses but still had no luck signing up.

Any help would be appreciated,
Ferb

[Gandalf]

I'm not sure what to suggest but I'll have a word with the chap that looks after the web page and see what he come up with.

[Ferb]

Ok thanks