Looking Forward to Historicon 2016

By Mitch Reed

Summer brings the heat, humidity and mosquitoes here in Northern Virginia, and along with this comes one of the biggest conventions of the year.  Historicon is put on by the folks at the Historical Miniatures Gaming Society and takes place  this year on 14-17 July.  Hosted at the Fredericksburg Expo & Convention Center in Fredericksburg Virginia, Historicon is one of the largest gaming events in the country.  I have been going to the event since it moved down from Pennsylvania a few years ago, and it is something I look forward to all year.  This year the theme is “Cavalry - Mounted Warfare through the Ages” which does not mean for us in the Flames of War community that we can only play with Recce lists.

For the FoW crowd, Historicon is a “must do” event; each year the convention hosts many tournaments or pickup games during its 4 day span.   The biggest FoW event at Historicon is the annual National Tournament hosted by Battlefront.  This two day (Friday-Saturday), six game event takes place in one of the three major FoW eras, and the 2016 Nationals is a 1420 point Late War competition.  I have not played in this tournament in 3 years due to my commitment to coach rugby, however I can tell you how exhausting and fun the Flames of War Nationals are.  Battlefront hosts 4 of these events a year, with the venues rotating eras and one event held in Canada.  It does bring out the best players in the country and is a true test of your mastery of the game.   Even playing in the Mid-Atlantic area where we are flooded with events, this event always stands out.  It’s a great way to meet FoW players from other parts of the country; I still stay in contact with the Pittsburg, Raleigh, and Canadian players I have met via this event.  I would also recommend this event for new players, while it will suck to lose a majority of your games, it is a great way to learn the game through a fire hose.

So we drove all the way down from Philly and forgot the dice??

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Historicon Mid-War Doubles!

By Eric Lauterbach

Luke having out of control fun!!!

 Another great year at Historicon! The WWPD crew joined in the fun with 70 players in the doubles tournament.  The Mid-War event had each two man team playing roughly 1000 point companies, joined up to make 2000 points on the table.  The doubles event is always a good time.  Playing with a friend takes some of the hard work off you. If you have never tried one of these tournaments, I would recommend it greatly.  This year I allowed each team to pick a team nickname and I was not disappointed with what they came up with!  Probably have to keep that for next year.

"Throck of War" fighting the hordes of team "Lots of Dead Guys"

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Cold Wars Pic Dump

Welcome to beautiful Lancaster Pennsylvania! It's a Dutch
Wonderland!

By the WWPD Team

Twice a year the WWPD crew heads on up to the Amish Paradise that is Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This time around we're there for Cold Wars, the Historical Miniatures Gaming Society annual winter convention.

We spend a long weekend playing all sorts of games and hawking our wares to unsuspecting buyers in the bucolic backdrop of rural southwestern PA.

Sure, it's about throwing down awesome games of Flames of War, Bolt Action, Saga and other such goodness but it's also about hanging with friends, gallivanting about a decrepit old convention space with more stairs than people and spending more money than we really should. Tough gig right?

This time around we were able to participate in numerous events including a Flames of War doubles tournament on Friday with an interesting final round where you broke your 1000 point army down into 600 points and played on a 3x3 table. A two round Bolt Action tank company tournament and a 3 round 1000 bolt action tournament. Not to mention tons of board games, card games, drinking, and of course, a pod cast.

Below is our pic dump of all the fun, hope you enjoy perusing them at least half as much as we enjoyed taking them!

Flames of War, 2000 point doubles tournament. 

Throck's Hungarians. Partnered with Bruce Nemet to bring the Zrinyi pain. 

Jesse and Miles from Showcase Comics try to find an answer to the question, "Is there such a thing as too many T-34's?"

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Luke's Historicon Picture Dump

by Luke Melia

There is really not of Flames of War here.  I figured you would get enough of that from all of our other sources.  There is so much to do at an HMGS convention I wanted to give a good overview of just a few of them.

This is the night before with some warm up gaming of Spartacus in the mines.  We were joined by Jeff, Flint and Mike Raper.  Jon pulled off a win at the last second, even though he phoned it in.

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Fall In 2012 Picture Dump #1!

This one doesn't quite compare with Joe's upcoming post, but I figured I'd dump my pics as well!  Lots of great gaming to be had.  Thanks to the crew of WWPD, HMGS, I-95, and everyone who came to have a good time with us!  The live show went well and will be posted shortly.

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Pictures from Historicon!

Here's a picture dump of some pictures Dirty Jon and I took at Historicon.  A lot of these were posted on our Twitter, so if you aren't following us- fix that!


Off we go!

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