Miniwars 2017 Sunday October 1st

As for most cons Sunday is a lighter day but we still had great attendance. with plenty of games and shopping available. The Warhouse from Long Beach had been in our room on Saturday, and they were joined by Scale Specialties who moved over from the main dealer room since we did not rent that room for Sunday. The Guild House was also in attendance on Saturday.

Here we are back setting up for Sundays games.

This game was another Market Garden game around Nijmegen. I don't recall the name of Steve Phenow's rules, sorry Steve!

Next up is a beautiful Pike and Shotte Italian Wars game. Lots of Landsknechts including the famed Bandera Negra

There was some ongoing games of Lion Rampant. A great way to get beginners into the hobby.

Also a Napoleonic game of Saalfeld in 28mm. More info and pictures can be found here Wargamer Rabbit

Again on Sunday we had the boardgaming room that was active as well as the other room that featured an X-Wing tournament, a sailing ship game, and Wings of Glory games, including one with King Kong

There was also a WW2 naval game that I participated in. It was hosted by Ed Kettler, who I got to know over the course of the con, great guy!, He is a co-author of the rules with Larry Bond and Chris Carlson. It is a detailed set of rules and I had a good time despite the Brits sinking the Haruna. The scenario presupposed no European war and the Japanese not attacking the US. So the Japanese were facing an remodeled Hood with a British fleet. The poor Haruna got hammered.

Last but not least was a  well attended Team Yankee tournament. Again this was sponsored by Battlefront and Brookhurst Hobbies. The organizer Troy Hill stepped up big time for us after the death of Tim Keennon or Treasurer and the original organizer for this tournament. Troy even got this tournament designated a regional qualifier.

Overall it was a very successful con, over 140 unique participants. Tons of great and constructive feedback. I feel a few tweaks and we could have a really fantastic con next year. For those that may be interested, keep your eye on our website http://www.hmgspsw.com/ for our next event. Miniwars 2018 will be at the same venue and it will be in October. Thanks for taking a look and I hope to see you there next year.

Miniwars 2017 Saturday September 30th

Miniwars 2017 occurred on September 30th and October 1st at the Cal State Fullerton Titan Student Union Center. It is a very nice facility and It was great to see our con back to two days and in a facility like this. As one of the organizers I was there all day both Saturday and Sunday and got a good look at everything that was going on. I did not get any pictures out side the main room, but, we did have a board gaming room that featured a large Supremacy game on Saturday and another room that hosted various games throughout the two days. The board had decided to do our con in conjunction with the Orange County IPMS Chapters Orangecon. It worked out great with there being a large dealer/Flea Market room between the two event. lots of good stuff to buy for both groups.

Here are some of the pictures from Saturday;

Setting up Saturday Morning

This game was a post/end of war tech grab with the Russians and the US trying to get the tech and prevent the other side from getting it. Additional info on the game and another take on the con can be found here Wargamer Rabbit 

Here is a SYW game using Osprey's Honours of War rules. We had decided early in our planning to feature Osprey and had several Osprey games going on during the weekend. Osprey, in turn, gave us generous prize support for the con. I got to play in this one and enjoyed it very much.

This is a 6mm game of Gettysburg. The rules I think are a homebrew set. This game went on both days. It deviated from the original battle, in that, the battle lines went perpendicular to what really happened.

Next up is a Market Garden game using the unpublished Fire and Manuever rules.

There was also this gorgeous Black Powder game of Aspern Essling. gobs of 28mm figures on the board.

Here is another Osprey game Of Gods and Mortals.... looked like good fun. A couple youngsters were playing in this one and appeared to have a great time...

We also had some X-Wing demos and a FOW Late War Tourney that was sponsored by Battlefront and Brookhurst Hobbies.

I closed out Saturday with a game of Cthulhu Wars. Yeah, Yeah its' not historical, but it was fun none the less.

Since there is so much I will do a separate post for Sunday!