Coming to Joy of Six 2026...

With one week to go the Joy of Six 2026, here at Baccus HQ are just a wee bit busy.  As well as organising the show itself, we’ve also got to go through the usual business of getting the Baccus trade stand ready for a big show and on top of all that we are preparing for the release of various new codes and ranges.   But, before that a magic number, #34675, and a bit of an explanation.

New for JOS26

Two weeks to go the biggest date in the 6mm wargames world and we are gearing up to our busiest weekend of the year.  But first, the inevitable order number, currently standing at #34622.

As organisers of the show, we have one or two little jobs to over the Joy of Six weekend, but we also have to wear our Baccus hats, and we always aim to get something new to release at the show.   This year will be no exception, and we’ll be previewing these over the next couple of weeks.

Joy of Six 2026 Floorplan

The Baccus weekly updates will be Joy of Six updates for the next few weeks, but first, as ever, we have this week’s order number standing at #34575.

Lindy has finally finished the floor layout for JOS26, presented here for your delight and delectation.  She actually thought that it had been completed last week until she found out that I’d underestimated the size of two of the trader’s stands and got three games tables down with the wrong dimensions.  Suffice it to say that I was not Mr Popular when she found out.

Coming really soon....

This week is all about the upcoming Joy of Six show, but we can’t get on with this until revealing this weeks’s magic order number which currently stands at #34531.    Now let’s get on with the real business of the day.

With just under a month to the Joy of Six 2026, here at Baccus HQ, we are nailing down the final details for the day.  Lindy has just about finished ed the monumental task of fitting all the various games, demonstrations, Q&A sessions, trades stands and demonstrations into the available space.   Having completed a task that Heracles might have looked at and said, ‘I’ll pass on this one chief, if it’s all the same to you’, she has now completed the staff job rota, which is a similarly impossible task given the number of jobs that need doing and the tiny number of people available to do them!

We are all packed and ready.

Welcome to another weekly Baccus round up starting with the traditional order number reached, which this week stands at #34457. 

The Joy of Six site has now been updated with a full list of games and traders, and I for one, cannot wait to see this show come to life.   We are adding a new item to this year’s show as we will be running sessions on how to base units – a topic about which we get a lot of questions

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It's Showtime!

Hello all, sorry, but no magic number update this week, but normal service will be resumed next time around.

There are two wargames shows in our sights, one coming soon and the other looming large on the horizon.   Firstly, we will be at Partizan in Newark next Sunday, I will issue the usual request for you to get collect order into us as s OK oon as you are able.    We will be bringing our Lens 1648 participation game along, so please do pop over and have a go at a quick, fun game.

We've been hiding our light under a bushel (apparantly...)

What contains 12 boxed starter sets, over 150 army packs and more than 90 booster, company and HQ packs?  The answer is coming shortly, but first, this week’s magic number which stands at #34394.

So back to the original question.  Given whose writing this post it’s probably fairly obvious, but the answer to the question is simple – The Baccus 6mm catalogue.   That’s an awful lot of choice in one place.     But what prompted this sudden attack of statistics?  Cue the backstory…

JOS26 - The pre-show Beer & Curry event

It’s another Joy of Six post this week, so let’s get the Magic number out of the way, and it currently stands at #34360.

The Joy of Six weekend will see wargamers from all over the world descending on Sunny Sheffield for THE Premier wargaming event of the year.  Forget your Salutes and your Historicons and your Partizans.  They are mere 28mm infested shades of the Real Thing.  On top of that only JOS offers the pre-show just for 6mm enthusiasts!

The ‘We aren’t at Salute, so here is a sale to compensate but it’s a week late’, announcement!

I suppose that the title sort of destroys the sense of suspense, so let’s get straight in with this week’s magic number which stands at #34310.  But you really don’t want to know that, you need to know more about our unexpected show of generosity.

The truth is that Peter completely lost the plot last year and cocked up the booking for a trade stand at this year’s Salute.  We know from the emails and calls that a lot of you missed our presence at this prestigious event, including a couple who hadn’t heard the news that we weren’t there and spent the day in a forlorn Baccus hunt.  Sorry guys…

From the Chief Executive

Part of my job as the dynamic, thrusting energetic chief executive of Baccus Megacorp Industries is to impart a dynamic, thrusting, and energetic feel to the weekly updates about the dynamic, thrusting and, yes, energetic business.  So, without further ado, here is this week’s thrusting, dynamic and energetic order number, which is #34299.