Crisis 2026 – Part 1
Last weekend, on Saturday November 7th, Crisis 2026, the Air Power Edition, was hosted in Sint-Niklaas, for the third time at the new location of 't Bau-huis. Crisis isn't hosted by the Tinsoldiers of Antwerp alone; once again they teamed up with the local HQ Gaming Club.
We travelled by car and, as you could read in Arriving in Sint-Niklaas for Crisis 2026, spent the night before in the town centre, so it was just a short drive to the venue in the morning. Admission was 15 EUR, and you could park for free right at the hall, with more spaces in the surrounding side streets.
Lots and lots of traders, as you can see on the floor plan, and plenty of gaming clubs as well. And as usual the club provided proper catering, with a bar for drinks and food, along with a frituur right in front of the venue.
As for the theme, I didn't really find much of the Air Power Edition at the show. Apart from Air Raid at the Ambush Miniatures table, it barely showed, and to be honest I had expected a lot more dogfights, dragons battling in the skies or something along the lines of Crimson Skies.
Crisis 2026 – Part 2
Now that we have covered the show and the traders in part 1 of our CRISIS 2026 coverage, let us move on to the clubs, their tables and the two trophy winners.
The Dutch/Belgian TooFatLardies Network, also known as Lard Arnhem or ClogLard, had It's not easy being King by Jasper Oorthuys on display, covering Dauncey's last stand at Oosterbeek, part of the Battle of Arnhem in 1944.
The scenario was played using the Chain of Command rules, and if you are interested in the Lardies rules, give ClogLard a try next year. It's an event for everybody who plays TooFatLardies games or wants to get to know them. You don't have to know the rules or bring miniatures, the game hosts take care of that!
Arriving in Sint Niklaas for Crisis 2026
Friday afternoon, around 3 pm, we arrived in Sint-Niklaas. Florian and I met up with Tobias and Evelien of Team Würfelkrieg and Torsten of CONflict Rheinland, and I was really happy that a proper tour worked out again. In the last years there were always some short notice cancellations among the people joining me, like back in 2022, when I ended up being the only one arriving from our area for LARDwerp. This time the whole crew made it, and like in the Prelude to Crisis 2024, I want to give you a little insight into everything around the show before we get to Crisis itself.
Sint-Niklaas has the largest market square in all of Belgium, and our hotel was located right next to it. Very convenient, as the car park is just beneath the Grote Markt, so we could leave the cars there and explore the town on foot.
Prelude to Crisis 2026
The days are getting shorter, the evenings at the painting desk longer, and there is one date in November that has been marked in my calendar for quite some time now. On Saturday, November 7th, the Tinsoldiers of Antwerp and HQ Gaming open the doors for Crisis 2026, and of course we will be there.
Here are the key facts for the show:
- Date: Saturday, November 7th 2026, 10:00 to 17:00
- Venue: 't Bau-huis, Slachthuisstraat 60, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
- Admission: 15 EUR
- Organisation: Tinsoldiers of Antwerp and HQ Gaming
- Traders: more than 40 exhibitors
- Floor plan: available as PDF on the event website (subject to changes)
- No event miniature and no bring & buy this year
Crisis has been a fixed point in my event year for a long time. My first visit was back in 2011, when I still drove to Antwerp in the early morning and back home the same evening. It did not take long until we realised that a single day is simply not enough, and the show turned into a proper guys weekend with an arrival on Friday, a tour through the Flemish city and the traditional evening at the Bier Central. If you want to dive into that history, have a look at my Throwback to Crisis in Antwerp from 2020, a year in which the show was cancelled like so many others.
The years after were not easy. Covid forced a break, and Brexit made things a lot more difficult for the British manufacturers and traders, who used to be one of the defining features of Crisis. In 2022 we went to LARDwerp instead, a smaller convention at the club house of the Tinsoldiers, organised together with the TooFatLardies. And in 2024 Crisis was finally back, with HQ Gaming joining the organisation and a new home outside of Antwerp.
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