Hammerhead will be going ahead as planned.

Earlier this week the bridge at Kelham was closed because of an accident. I just thought I'd mention that the bridge is now fully open.

Full information on the Hammerhead 2013 show and a downloadable version of the Bring and Buy form have been uploaded here: Hammerhead 2013 Show Information

Mantic Games in association with the GCN are set to hold the very first official UK Dreadball tournament in early February, however there is a twist, the tournament will be held in two halves at two separate shows one week apart.

• First half, (round 1), to held at the Vapnartak show at York Racecourse on 3rd February.
• Second half, (round 2), to be held at the Hammerhead show in Newark, Nottinghamshire on 10th February.

The winner of the first half and the winner of the second half will be invited to Mantic HQ (date to be organised), for the play off to decide the grand champion of the very first official Mantic Games Dreadball tournament.



Registration for the tournament is on the day at the relevant show, just go and register your interest with the Mantic Games Outriders who are manning the tables at each show and they will look after you.

Cost of entry to tournament is free, normal show entry price applies.

Hopefully we will see loads of interest in this tournament, so if you already play Dreadball and want to join in the tournament, want to learn to play Dreadball, or just want to know more about the game, then come along to one or both of the shows and join in, everyone is welcome.

The organisers are pleased to announce that Hammerhead 2013 will take place once again on the 10th February 2013 at Kelham Hall Newark, Nottinghamshire. As with our all our previous Hammerhead show’s, this show will focus on visitor participation. There will be in excess of 25 games covering the full genre of tabletop gaming, historical, science fiction and fantasy, figure and board gaming. Last years trophy winners included a French-Indian Wars Skirmish and a Witch Hunting game.

As ever all visitors participating in games will receive free Draw Tickets. The GCN also intend to have a full have-a-go figure painting sessions. To tempt attendees to spend their cash, we will have approximately 34 traders in attendance at the show, including some of the top manufacturers and agents.

There will also be the ubiquitous and always popular ‘Bring and Buy’ expertly run once again by Wargames Emporium, downloadable booking forms will be available closer to the date of the show. Later in the afternoon, we will be hosting the free Draw for which winners will get vouchers to spend with the Traders at the show.

The first 600 visitors through the door will receive the unique show bag and free figure sprue. All Visitors will receive a free draw ticket.

Facilities at Kelham are very good, free and plentiful parking, a snack area and bar, as well as a decent café with a large dining room. All table and event planning takes consideration of the need for disabled and wheelchair access.

New for the 2013 show, we are now able to offer discounts for multiple tickets purchased ahead of the show and have the facility of Paypal for both these and traders.

All Trade and Show Enquiries may be made through: Dave Wise or Tony Barnes

Dave Wise
GCN Secretary
COGS Chairman
Hammerhead Show Organiser

Well, another Triples show has come and gone, held at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield, near to the Meadowhall shopping centre, this is the third year that Triples has been held in this venue. For those that do not know Triples is a long running show hosted by the Sheffield Wargames Society over a weekend, it used to he held at the University of Sheffield but moved to a more suitable venue three years ago. The EIS venue is airy light and easy to get round, with good parking and easy access to the M1 and road/rail/tram links, although for the first time there was a parking fee of £3.50 per vehicle, which came as much as a surprise to the show's organisers as to the visitors by all accounts.

The main reason the show is held over a weekends is because of the tournaments, there were at least three running, for ancients, in various scales, and its hard to do that with a one day show. Plenty of traders attend this show and if I am not mistaken this is the quite possibly next largest UK show after Salute. A good selection of traders selling a diverse range of products which would keep most hobbiests happy. There were some good games on show too, and a really spectacular WW1 Games based on the batle at Mons.

In attendance at the show for COGS were Dave Wise, Anthony Barnes and Terry Cook. The club was there over the weekend running a participation game that Dave and Anthony have devised and written. This is a small scale rule set initially called 'Blood Feud' set in the Victorian era and features various factions of mutants, monsters, manics, circus freaks, vampires and fairy tale characters in teams dueling it out in an arena for supremacy. Its a bit like 'fight club' for lunatics, its fast paced and great fun to play. We had four 2 foot by 2 foot arena boards sets up and we were kept pretty busy all weekend, we had another of our club mates Terry help us out again and he did a stirling job, running several games each day for us, at several points over the weekend we had all four boards in action at the same time, which kept us on out toes.

The icing on the cake though came right at the end of the weekend, two GCN clubs took the honours for best participation games at the show. COGS was presented with 1st place with Blood Feud, which came as a complete surprise, although as mentioned the game was very popular with attendee's, and to complete the double with 2nd place a new club to the GCN who only joined the network in April, Heathens and Peasants from Doncaster running a 28mm wild west game. So well done to them and a really good result for GCN clubs.

All in all a really good weekend, and a show to look at coming to in 2013 if you have never been before.

A Gallery of photos from previous shows has been added to the site. Please see the menu to the left.

For to various reasons, but mostly the expense of the current venue and reduced member attendance, from 9th January 2012 COGS will be meeting at a new venue. This will NOT be the Winding Wheel as previously advertised, but will be the Parish Centre at Stonegravels.

Please see the COGS Club Information and COGS Meetings Dates pages for further information.