The South East London Wargames Group, meets every Friday, at the St Laurence Church Hall, 37 Bromley Rd, Catford, SE6 2TS, between 19 00hrs. and 23.00hrs.
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CLUB FACILITIES.
The club has a coffee bar where you can buy such refreshments as, tea, coffee, and canned drinks. For those of you with a sweet tooth, we also have crisps and chocolate bars.
The Club owns a large amount of felt gaming cloths in various colours which include Black, Blue, Sand and of course Green. We have an enormous amount of terrain available every meeting: buildings in all scales and periods; trees in 25mm & 15mm; hills of all shapes and sizes; walls, hedges, fields etc. are all available.
We have on site parking at the club for around 30 cars and m/cycles
SELWG membership is open to all those interested in wargaming, modelling, Trading Card Games, Role Playing Games (inc LIVE RPGs) and political & military history in general. The Club aims to further the hobby by actively visiting shows and conventions around the country and recently in Europe also.
You can now enjoy full SELWG membership through a junior membership scheme which was introduced in 2001 and is VERY popular!!
New membership is £50, if new members join after the 31st of August each year, it's only £25. Also students in full time education, receive the same benefits above
You may visit SELWG free the first 3 times and thereafter at £5.00 per visit, for non-members.
So, why not come along and join one of the oldest, and definitely the largest, established clubs in the country, you will be made most welcome. Just look out for the duty committee member wearing the yellow, yes I did say Yellow, sweatshirt, when you arrive.
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The South East London Wargames Group, or SELWG for short, is a Wargames Club. That means we meet up as a group and play games, usually with a military based theme to them, either; historical, set at any time in history, or, based on a fantasy/sci-fi scenario; set in the future, or past, like the imaginary worlds of, Lord of the Rings, The age of Conan, Dan Dare, Doctor Who, and a multitude and myriad of other scenarios, that anyone's mind can conjure up.
So what is Wargaming.We use a number of systems for this purpose:
Figures. Metal or Plastic, to represent objects in real life, or fantasy/sci-fi, men/animals/creatures/aliens, tanks/dragons, ships/space ships, or planes. These are usually painted and assembled by their owners, and moved over terrain, set out by the players, using a set of rules to simulate actual combat.
Terrain. These can represent 3 dimensional structures, or natural features, in varying forms or scales. The most popular being, 25/28mm, 20mm, and 15mm, ie; buildings, hills, trees, rivers, fields, and so on.
Board Games: These usually come as a set package, with most, but not always, as flat pieces of 2 dimensional card,
Role Play: These games involve the player acting out a role within the games structure, like being in a play, with the game acting as the stage. We have had some memorable games using this type of system, Two cowboy games set in a frontier western town, where in the first game the players totally ignored the advancing Mexican army as they were to busy stabbing each other in the back, until it was nearly to late to organize any resistance, and even then, the backstabbing still went on. The second scenario we ran, was a cowboy Cthulhu game, yet again set in a frontier western town, where mad scientists, devious cultists, and the cream of the undead met our players, again lots of feeding other players to the monsters, to survive.
Re-Enactment: Technically, not done within the club premises, or as a group activity for the club. This is where individual club members join other groups to enact out, and fight battles, in real time. Dressing up in uniforms from many varying periods, from ancient times, right up to the modern day.
Computer Games. Used mainly to assist the players in large/small terrain games, to facilitate in the more complex calculations, ie; a game like, Rob a Bank with a Tank, used the computer to work out the firing damage to the vehicles.
I hope these discriptions have been some help to the non wargamers that come across the site, and apologise to any parents out there, whose children suddenly become interested, hey, it's either us, or a set of drums, think about it.
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Pic's, 1, to 5, show the area around the church/hall, ample off road car parking.
Pic 6 is the main entrance.
Pic 9 shows the coffee bar, and the entrance to the main hall just to the right of the woman in the pic. the left hand door in pic 9 leads to the coffee bar room seen in pic's, 7/8.
Pic 11 shows the corridor and storage cupboards leading off from the right hand side of pic 9, and also the entrance to the Jubilee room in pic's 13/14.
Pic 15 shows the main hall, all 2000 + sq ft of it.
SELWG has moved, after 36 years at Grove Park youth club, we have moved to a new, much larger venue.
As from Friday the 13th of April 07, you will be able to find us in our new home, at the; St Laurence church centre, 37 Bromley rd, Catford, SE6 2TS.
The new venue is less than 10 mins walk from 2 mainline BR stations, Catford, and Catford Bridge, is less than a 3 min bus ride from Bellingham mainline BR station, and the route is served by over 20 buses that stop right outside our door, and a host of other buses that go through Catford.
