(Note: I have some reports that the inline pictures are not viewable on this post. They are to me, that’s a little mystifying, but it might be a permissions issue– I’m using Google Photos instead of Flickr for this post. Here is a link to every picture I took, which is public: https://goo.gl/photos/3GzUcNgKknah5hFQ9)
Today was NOVAG’s Quarterly Game Day (Winter 2017) held as usual at the Centreville Library. This is the big meeting room facility at the library and it can hold roughly 9 setups for miniatures games, roughly equivalent to a 5 x 8 table at a convention (somewhat smaller). This gameday was fairly well promoted on Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere and attendance was fantastic– every table had something on it and every game ran the length of the gameday (pretty much), from about 1 to 5.
Ron Prillman Routs some Russians. I think.
I’ve posted the PEL elsewhere, and every game but two (the Space Hulk and Russo-Polish game) was played.
Okay, maybe it was some Americans.
… and Dave Luff is astounded at the results!!
Jason Weiser runs his game with Mike Pierce in the background. Okay, yeah, it was Eastern Front. The green paint job fooled me.
This was Battlegroup World War II “The End of the Iron Dream”.. looks like everyone enjoyed themselves. I like the fire effect Jason was using with a flickering tea lamp under the smoke cloud.
Peter Schweighofer was there with his new rule system aimed at kids, Panzer Kids Deluxe. This looked like a blast from where I was sitting. Tons of kids at this game con, this is a great sign!
Brian Dewitt, kind of an iron man of running games at cons and gamedays, took a break from Chariot Racing and Ancient Galley Warfare, to make a game about Medieval Siege Warfare, the Siege of Skipton Castle. I like Siege games, for some reason– and this looked like it was a hit with the younger set.
There was also a modern game of Force on Force going on in the corner, called The Battle of Yampil. This was run by the Byrne brothers and seemed sparse in infantry and dense in armor vehicles.
Elsewhere, Roy Jones ran Sword and the Flame (Sand Dunes of Zwarfontein) NOVAG’s own Tim Tilson ran a War of the Austrian Succession game (15 June 1746. Piacenza), and Dennis Wang reran his cool variant of Air Force / Dauntless that used a tablet client to make moves. It’s a fun game, more on it here.
What was I doing? Oh, I was busy. I actually came to play in Dave Markley and John Koprowski’s Russo Polish War game, which is a favorite period for me. They had cancelled but that was fine– as I came in I noticed Mark Fastoso, a GM I associate with running historical games, had set up a Napoleonic skirmish game using many Alternative Armies FLINTLOQUE game figures and DRAGON RAMPART (modified for Napoleonics) as the rules. I asked if had space, he said “sure, wanna play?” and I said “I”m In!”. This proved to be a good time– first time for me using both Flintloque miniatures (which are charming!) and the Dragon Rampart rules, which make total sense to me and are a blast. Bear with, here on the many pictures of this game, this is where I was for most of the day and I only nicked off to snap a few of other games now and then.
See the rest of them here in this GOOGLE PHOTOS album!
I tried Facebooking live on here which I posted publicly to the Facebook Alternative Armies group in three parts: ONE TWO THREE (I made this public share specifically so it could be viewed by everyone).
and compiled it all here on a YT, but it’s kind of small:
In summary, a great time and it’s always fun catching up with people you don’t see that often, even locally. Kudos to the organizers, another fun event.
Third Point of Singularity 