Bolt Action Staging Area - getting ready for Cancon 2026

No matter how long you have to prepare for a competition, it somehow always sneaks up on you.

What you need is a Staging Area.

So we are hosting a Demo Gamers Bolt Action Staging Area.

This is for new and old players, aimed at preparing for Cancon 2026 in January 2026. Bring your own troops so you can test them in battle before the competition. Now, that's a radical concept!

Try some crazy ideas when you can learn from the results. Remember, if it's crazy and it works, it's not crazy.

We will be in Wingello, NSW, on Thursday to Friday, 22-23 January 2025, playing from 10:00am to 4:00pm

You can join us for one or both days.

CONTACT US 
to book your place.

Limited spots available!

(All visitors are welcome)

FULL DETAILS click here

This two day event is a great introduction to Wargaming and Bolt Action:

9:00 to 9:30am: Arrive

10:00am to 12:30am: Game 1 - up to 6 tables of 2 to 4 players each

12:30am to 1:30pm: Lunch - BYO or enjoy the wonders of the famous Wingello Village Store.

1:30am to 4:00pm: Game 2 - up to 6 tables of 2 to 4 players each

 What:

January 2026 Bolt Action Staging Area 

When:

22-23 January 2026

Where:

57-59 Camden Street, Wingello, NSW, 2579

How Much:

$20.00 per person, covers one or both days. Bring cash on the day.

All participants get a free figure sprue, typically 6 men per sprue.

Why:

Because it’s great fun.

Who:

The Demo Gamers

https://thedemogamers.blogspot.com.au

Bolt Action Boot Camp - November 2025

It's time for more Bolt Action Boot Camp goodness.

Our graduates are testing their mettle in competitions and it's time to hone skills!

So we are hosting another Demo Gamers Bolt Action Boot Camp.

This is for new and old players, aimed at playing games and learning in with different boards. We will be playing two of our boards, updated for the Version 3 rules:

The Battle for St Mere Eglise (D-Day)

Pegasus Bridge (D-Day)

We will also have extra boards depending on the number of recruits joining us.

We will be in Wingello, NSW, on Saturday 22 November 2025 from 10:00am to 4:00pm

CONTACT US 
to book your place.

Only 16 spots available!

(All visitors are welcome)

FULL DETAILS click here

This one day event is a great introduction to Wargaming and Bolt Action:

10:00am to 12:30am 

Game 1 - each table has 4 players with 600 point armies

12:30am to 1:30pm

Lunch - BYO or enjoy the wonders of the famous Wingello Village Store.

1:30am to 4:00pm

Game 2 - each table has 4 players with 600 point armies

 What:

November 2025 Boot Camp 

When:

22 November 2025

Where:

57-59 Camden Street, Wingello, NSW, 2579

How Much:

$20.00. Bring cash on the day.

Why:

Because it’s great fun.

Who:

The Demo Gamers

https://thedemogamers.blogspot.com.au

Who are the Demo Gamers?

 

Our First demo game at Cancon 2014

It has been over 11 years since we started The Demo Gamers. Well due for a refresher of who we are!

We started the Demo Gamers in 2013 when Bolt Action was still in the first edition. I started wargaming when I was 12 (many years ago) and despite gaps due to work and family, continued to enjoy playing with my growing lads. 

Wargaming is a great hobby in which to invest time and effort. You meet other players, challenge yourself with tactics and strategy, overcome difficulties with mismatched forces and the luck of the dice rolls, improve hand-eye co-ordination with modelling and painting, and discover history when researching the forces with which you battle.

We used the Demo Gamers to bring other people into historical wargaming using the easy to play Bolt Action rules.

Our first demonstration game was at Cancon 2014 with 3 tables, including:

• Battle for the Beer Factory
• Stone Hotel, and
• Battle for Pegasus Bridge

This was a lot of work, but the results were great. Looking back, we count many of the current players of Bolt Action as our graduates, having had their first taste of Bolt Action at these demo games.

The 2025 generation of Demo Gamers

We continued doing demo games for the next few years building up our skills at introducing new players into the swing of things and understanding the rules and mechanics by the end of turn one, making good tactical decisions by end of turn two and running their own games from that point onwards.

The Demo Gamers have run our "Boot Camps" at Cancon, MOAB, and other conventions. With a gap of a few years as the lads had other interests, we have restarted the Demo Gamers with Sebastian and Peter.

We have run our impressive demo games at wargaming events, as well as our own one off events like a Boot Camp for beginners in Albury, A Bolt Action tournament in Albury, Scenery and Boot Camp in Wingello, and more.

Our latest Demo game was at Victorius 25.

Our aim is to encourage new historical wargamers and we are successful at this. 

It is an all volunteer effort, the only charge is for our Demo Gamer run events to cover costs. Everything else is self funded with marvellous support from the gaming industry traders which recognise the life time benefits of each new player we bring in to the hobby.

If you want to contact us, leave a comment on any of our posts or via Facebook.