Tickets are available for SquareBASH! 27

NOW

SquareBASH! 2027

Friday 29th to Sunday 31st January

At the Europa Gatwick Hotel

Come and join us at SquareBASH!

For three full days of historical board-wargames and strategy boardgames.

Any game from any publisher on any subject, be it historic, fiction or fantasy!

We will be reserving four large conference rooms for this second SquareBASH! with the potential to accommodate up to 130 delegates.  Please register your interest and we will keep you informed and let you know when tickets go on sale.

Ticket price for 3-days gaming: £89.50 to include:-

• Reduced delegate B&B room rate (single £55.00 / twin £65.00 / double £65.00). You will receive a delegate code as soon as you have purchased your ticket to be able to reserve a room. There are plenty of rooms available. There are also plenty of other hotels in the Gatwick area.

• Complimentary mid-morning & mid-afternoon tea/coffee pastries/cakes/biscuits plus a sandwich and hot chips lunch, on each day, included with the price of your ticket.

• Ample free parking.

• Bar available in function room, plus on-site restaurant.  The Coaching Halt pub 5 mins walk away from hotel with a great bar and restaurant menu.

• Full accessibility with lifts for wheelchair users.

• Free Prize Draw, with games donated by sponsors.

• Bring & Buy stand (bring along your own games to display and sell on!).

• Any size table bookable for Mega-Games.

• The convention is not aimed at figure wargaming, only board wargaming.

• All day gaming until the early hours Fri/Sat/Sun. Last out turn off the lights! The hotel offers 24-hour security to keep your games safe.

• You can bring as many games as you like to the convention, from any publisher, though broadly speaking they should be historical/wargame/strategy/sci-fi based. For example, Dune Imperium would be fine, Wingspan probably not. Though there will be no policing of what people are playing we just want it to be an opportunity for people to play these types of games.

• There will be an organiser published, this will be in the form of an online spreadsheet that everyone can access, like a google doc. We plan to launch this two or three months before the convention, it will give all attendees chance to post up games they are bringing and wanting opponents to sign up for, it will include details like name of game, how many players needed, time and day of proposed game.

• There will be a game finder system at the event, which will allow people who don’t have anything arranged to get into a game that still has spaces on the day.

“For me, the event was superb.  Ninety people attended - not bad for a first time.  The hotel was surprisingly good for £50 a night B&B - clean, comfortable bed, decent shower, welcoming staff, easy parking, decent beer and good quality tasty food.  The evening carvery at £12.50 was great value.

For the gaming, Andy and Caroline Rourke have been the perfect hosts.  The organisation was phenomenal and the attention to detail very close.  Those that arrived on Thursday could have started playing after lunch and apparently will only be thrown out at midnight on Sunday.  Tea/coffee with pastries or biscuits were provided each morning and afternoon, with a sandwich lunch - it took me back to business conferences.  And all included in the £75 conference fee.  The raffle (drawn at 18.00 so not clashing with dinner) was generous: yours truly and Gerard each won around £250 worth of games, and Caroline also ran a Scrabble Challenge, of which yours truly was the joint winner, walking away with a bar of chocolate.  Peregrine was one of several designers/developers who had the chance to further playtest their forthcoming games, while another budding designer brought a dice tower the size of a beer crate and the weight as if it were full of bottles. The only downside was the barely adequate lighting in the upstairs gaming room, but Caroline said they're working on that for next year.  Nevertheless, everyone I spoke to could not speak highly enough of the experience” – Richard Levell

DIRECTIONS:

-              Travelling from the North; Junction 10a M23

-              Travelling from the South; Junction 10 (double-back to J10a)

-              10 minutes by taxi from Gatwick airport

-              5 minutes by taxi to Three Bridges station, Crawley

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