TaKtiCon 2025

 November 9th and 10th saw the first ever TaKtiCon take place here in Kansas City at the KCI Expo near the new Kansas City airport, well, old airport, new terminal. Since we are new we had decided to start with 2 days and see how things went before we expanded. All in all, it went as expected, which was a good thing, and we are in planning for 2025. I will apologize ahead of time for the sad state of my pics, but, I was pretty busy, and did not get a lot of time to take many. 

Our centerpiece this year, and something that will continue on was the SAGA North American Grand Championship hosted by Mokan SAGA. We had 20 players from all over he midwest come out to test their mettle against some of the top players in the country. Here are a few shots of the action.

We also had a great Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game tournament hosted by the Great Plains Middle Earth League

And the KC Tankers hosted a Flames of War Late War tournament.

 We had some great vendors as well. Wiley Games was on hand with a booth, and running their new Victorian Sci-Fi Rules, and Warlord Games had a nice booth of stuff for sale along with running some Blood Red skies, Achtung Panzer, and Bolt Action.

Along with them we had Wantz, selling custom dice,  Huscarl Miniatures with a great bunch of printed and painted buildings, and Enigma Enterprises selling some beautiful 3D printed figures. We also had some purveyors of gently used miniatures and some other 3D printed buildings.

Huscarl at the end Wiley Games to the left

Victorian sci-fi

Warlord Games

Victorian sci-fi by Wiley Games

Wantz at the end

Some Blood Red Skies by Warlord Games

Yes there were some non tourney games as well

Vietnam in 54mm Force on Force

ACW riverine ops
 

There were a few more games that I did not get pics of.  I did manage to spend a bit of money. Picked uo 7 boxes of Fireforge Forgotten World, and a couple of the older Bolt Action campaign books.

Overall it was a good first effort and we are looking forward to next years event. No solid dates as yet, but it will be around Veterans Day here in the US (Nov 11)

Here are links to some of the groups and events noted above

TaKtiCon FB Group - Link

TaKtiCon Web Page - Link

Mokan Saga FB Page - Link

Great Plains ME League FB Page - Link

KC Tankers - Link

Wiley Games - Link

Warlord Games - Link

WantZ - Link

Enigma Enterprises - Link

Definitely looking forward to next year! Hope to see you there.

Hobby Update August 2024

 I decided to do things a bit differently with my blog. Its been 4 months since I posted last and it seems like a bother at times, or repetitive, to me at least. So, I just don't do it. But, inspired by some others, I am going to do it more as a monthly hobby update covering gaming, painting, reading, and purchases. The painting will always be stuff from a couple months prior that I just based and finished. Basing is one of my biggest hurdles and there is generally a delay when it comes to that part. Right now I have the entire armies for Albuera waiting to be based, as well as a large portion of the Battle of Falkirk Muir. It will probably get caught up some by the end of the year but probably not completely. So, lets get started!

Gaming

This is easy, there was none. We had a lot going on last month and early this month, so, I kinda took the month off from doing any gaming. May get back to it this month, but certainly next.

Painting

The time I have for painting has diminished for the forseeable future, but, I still get a decent mount of painting each day. Here is some stuff from this spring.

First up Spanish Civil War

Carlist Requetes

Carlist Requetes

Carlist Requetes

Militia

Militia

Militia

Republicans

Italians

Up top are Carlist Requetes, a bunch of militia and Republicans in the middle, the last 5 pics are all Italians. All figures are the old HPC.

Here we have a bunch of Mexican American War American militia and mounted rifles. These are all Old Glory 15s, with flags from The Virtual Armchair General.

Reading

Finished a couple of good books this last month The first is a holocaust related one called The Lost

While the outcome is the same as most Holocaust reading, the authors journey to discover their fate was quite interesting. A more thorough review can be found here

The other book I finished was this fantastic volume

Absolutely loved it, a somewhat more complete review is here

Purchases

This month saw a few book and gaming purchases. I did get a few figures, a box of Perry ACW cav for a Bushwhacker project, a few sprues of Warlord Pike & Shotte foot for my 30 YW project, and a handful of 15mm ACW just because they were such a great deal.

I also got this KS in the mail

I look forward to going through this. I like the period, and these are supposed to be great rules for it.

I also picked up a few books

Got these new from Daedalis Books for under $10 each. I think the total was under $40 including shipping.

There were some eBay finds as well.

I have been picking up the Pacific editions as I find them at a price I like. I found a three book lot including one of the European books, and they threw in the Bulge book for free. Some nice pickups overall.

Well that's it for this time. See ya at the end of the month!