It's been a busy old week...

Before I launch into this week’s waffle, just a quick word about this time of year in the UK.    The April/May period is always one of extreme pressure at Baccus HQ.   We kick off with Salute, which is like a huge wargamery black hole, sucking time and effort into itself.   We’ve only just started to recover from this event and then we fall headlong into the Easter holidays, which creates two consecutive short working weeks and usually coincides with staff taking extra days off, (post-Salute recovery mode), and when we finally lurch over the line into May, we have two bank holidays ate each end of the month.    To say that this usually creates a few problems with getting orders out in a timely manner, is an understatement.   All of which brings us to the magic order number for this week, which currently stands at #28737.  

This is a record for us, not just in the sheer number of orders turned around in a week, but also by volume of metal involved.   Prior to packing and processing, orders are delivered to the admin team in plastic bins.   In a good week we will process around 16 or 17 of these bins.   Last week, we processed 23 bins.    Well done to the team, Tony, Tom and Andrew for casting the little chaps and to Lindy for single -handedly getting them all sent on their way!

I will shortly be posting a list of the shows that we will be attending for the rest of the year....

I’ve got a Golden Ticket…

Hi there, I’m Lindy and I’ve taken over the update for this week.   To be honest, I do most of the real work around here, so it’s only fair.   I’ll do the boring bit this week, so I will let you know that the current order number is #28605.

Now read on…

'What are you working on?'

After last week’s frantic flurry of new releases, it’s going to be a quieter update this week, but first, we have the magic order number, which this week stands at #28547.

As you may well know, Baccus travels to a lot of wargames shows.   If there is on overwhelming subject of conversation and endless source of requests and queries, it is, ‘What are you working on at the moment?’.  It’s a fair enough question, and here, for the benefit of all of you who can’t collar your friendly purveyor so small fine scale figurines, is a sort of Work in Progress report.   (No piccies, so it’s sort of boring visually.)

Lots of new bits and pieces for you

Welcome to the belated weekly update, as last Friday saw us in route to London for Salute.  Last week’s magic order number stood at #28476.  We will be back to our usual slot this Friday.

Many of you may have received a strange email from us referring to a voice message.  Please ignore the contents and delete the email.  Our address has been hijacked and used to send out malicious messages.  Many apologies for this, but it’s been beyond out control.   Many thanks also to those who contacted us to query the email.  I am catching up on replies, but I will contact each and every one of you.

Let’s move on to some more positive wargamery sort of things…

This week, it’s all about Salute

Just one week to go before the second biggest date in the Wargaming World.  (The MOST important date is, obviously, the Joy of Six on July 14th).  Yes, it’s the immovable object that is Salute at the Excel centre.    Our stand is prosaically labelled as TB09.   If you can’t find us immediately, get yourself to the Warlord Games stand and turn right – we’ll be there.

We will be introducing three new sets of figures at the show, with general release coming the week after

Yes, another Joy of Six update.

The Joy of Six website has just been updated.   More games and traders have been added to the list, and it is shaping up to the be the biggest event yet.   We've already got more games booked in the record number we had last year.   The subjects range far and wide from Greek mythology, via a few rampant Emus, stopping off at WW2 and finishing up with a future far, far away.  

The games range from the enormous to the compact and bijou, and the majority are there for you to join in and roll some dice.

The usual suspect traders are signed up with some more in the pipeline and we've got two thirds of our celebrity panelists ready for the afternoon Q&A session.

If you've never been to the Joy of Six, make this the year to make good.   There is something there for everyone.

A long-ish Easter post, but a good one!

It’s Easter, and the Baccus team are preparing for a few days off to indulge in eating large amounts of oviform cacao bean extract delicacies and generally chilling out.   So as not to let them off too lightly the Management have not spared the lash and I can say that we have reached order number #28430.  

Let’s see if I can give out a couple of metaphorical Easter Eggs to mark the holidays.

One of those Good News/Bad bNews posts

Many thanks for all the messages and emails about the Gendarmes sculpts featured in last week’s updates.  Sorry, but there is some time before we convert them to something that you can buy, but at least you have an idea of what to expect. 

This week, we have a mix of good news and bad news and more previews for Salute, but first, we have this week’s order number which stands at #28348.

Let’s start with this week’s Salute preview.  This time around, the subject is Ottoman Turkish cavalry of the Great Northern War.

One of those Good News/Bad News posts

Many thanks for all the messages and emails about the Gendarmes sculpts featured in last week’s updates.  Sorry, but there is some time before we convert them to something that you can buy, but at least you have an idea of what to expect. 

This week, we have a mix of good news and bad news and more previews for Salute, but first, we have this week’s order number which stands at #28348.

Let’s start with this week’s Salute preview.  This time around, the subject is Ottoman Turkish cavalry of the Great Northern War.

One of those Good News/Bad News posts

Many thanks for all the messages and emails about the Gendarmes sculpts featured in last week’s updates.  Sorry, but there is some time before we convert them to something that you can buy, but at least you have an idea of what to expect. 

This week, we have a mix of good news and bad news and more previews for Salute, but first, we have this week’s order number which stands at #28348.

Let’s start with this week’s Salute preview.  This time around, the subject is Ottoman Turkish cavalry of the Great Northern War.