As soon as ToonCon was over,
during a few moments that dealing with the renovations weren’t completely overwhelming, I
started thinking about what to do this fall/winter game-wise (and there’ll be
another post about that shortly) and that, ultimately, got me thinking about
next year’s Wargaming Birthday Bash. This year will be the 10th
Annual Wargaming Birthday Bash – so I’ve been thinking it ought to be something
big… but what?
Here’s what I’ve done over the
previous years:
(I wish I could have dug out some pictures of the eariler ones - as I'm sure i have them somewhere... but that was a previous computer and they're all stored on CDRs and burried in boxes under many, many more boxes somewhere in one of the rooms with less renovating going on... maybe I'll do a "Looking Back" post in February and be able to dig them out then...)
(I wish I could have dug out some pictures of the eariler ones - as I'm sure i have them somewhere... but that was a previous computer and they're all stored on CDRs and burried in boxes under many, many more boxes somewhere in one of the rooms with less renovating going on... maybe I'll do a "Looking Back" post in February and be able to dig them out then...)
2005 – Operation Biting: the Bruneval Raid – I think we used
Flames of War – with 20mm figures - we had just heard of Flames of War and
hadn’t even been able to track down a copy of the rules and so played it with
the Quick Reference Sheet I downloaded of Battlefront’s website!
2006 – France 1940 – Flames of War
2008 – MiniCon - John’s
Horse and Musket game, North
Africa – Blitzkrieg Commander, Savage
Worlds Sailing Ship Battle, Rippers
Werewolf Hunt, and Read
Dawn: Northern Alberta – Cold War Commander
2009 - Hordes
of the Things
I’m kind of tempted to run a Hordes of the Things or De
Bellis Antiquitatis campaign… though a skirmish campaign of sorts also seems
appealing (to me at least…) or just another Mini Con with a half dozen assorted
different games (miniatures and board games) played over a weekend…?
Here are some of the possibilities:
HOTT/DBA Campaign
The campaigns are always fun and
draw out a lot of folks. I’m kind of leaning towards HOTT because the state of
DBA seems a bit up in the air at the moment. Part of me wants to go nuts and
finish up a pile of Greek Hoplite armies and run a Greek Myth inspired
campaign... Or there’s always the good old Dark Ages…
Skirmish Campaign
This would be a series of linked
scenarios using Force on Force or Ambush Z or Tomorrow’s War (or even Savage
Worlds, but probably not). Players would control a couple of teams of…
whatever… and a “hero” or team leader? And have limited reinforcements over the
campaign. Could be head to head or
co-operative. I think I’ve floated this idea before but no one seems to really
be willing to commit to show up like they do for the DBA/HOTT campaigns.
Mini Cons
So many games so little time…
Why not play a bunch I haven’t gotten to play in forever over the space of a
weekend… I could dig out Contemptible Little Armies for some Great War Action
and/or Ever Victorious Armies for some Colonial Action…. A HOTT mega-battle…
Something Horse and Musketty - or get John to bring out his 40mm 1850s toy
soldiers for Wargaming Nineteenth Century Europe… a game of Force on Force
and/or Ambush Z… a couple of those board games I’ve been dying to play for a
while (Age or Conan, etc)?
One Big Board Game?
I have Axis and Allies 1940
(Europe and Pacific). It looks like it might take a whole weekend to play…
I guess I need to settle on a
weekend as well…. 22-23 February or 1-2 March…?
HOTT and fantasy Greeks- go for it!
ReplyDeleteI agree! More HOTT for the people!
ReplyDeleteHoTT is what I'm kind of leaning towards... Not sure if I'd have enough Greek Myth armies done by then...
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