{"id":1618,"date":"2013-02-17T21:14:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T21:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2013-02-17T21:14:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T21:14:59","slug":"fuson-con-ii-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/2013\/02\/17\/fuson-con-ii-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuson Con II (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"

My buddy Sam Fuson hosted “FusonConII” at the War Horse Farm in Gettysburg yesterday. \u00a0Dave Wood, Chris Palmer, and I ran games. \u00a0Most of the gamers were Sam’s friends and co-workers, but Duncan Adams (of the HAWKs) came along as well. \u00a0Among those attending were a couple of husband and wife pairs, a couple of father and son pairs, two brothers, and a niece and uncle pair. \u00a0There were sixteen gamers, all told. \u00a0The plan was for Dave, Chris, and me to run four games. \u00a0Chris ran two back-to-back GASLIGHT gamers, Dave ran a Look, Sarge, No Charts: Napoleonic Wars<\/em> game, and I ran a Look, Sarge, No Charts: World War II<\/em> game.<\/p>\n

\"25mm<\/a>
25mm LSNC: Napoleonics game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dave was play testing his Battle of Laon (1814) game as a play test for Cold Wars. \u00a0Dave wanted to show how you could easily \u00a0make use of an old 25mm Napoleonic collection to demonstrate that the barrier to entry for LSNC: Napoleonics is low. \u00a0You can see from these pictures that the old 25mm Minifigs, originally mounted for Empire rules, look very nice placed on magnetic “sabot” bases.<\/p>\n

\"Long<\/a>
Long shot of the 25mm table<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dave didn’t remount any of his old figures. \u00a0They were mounted on metal bases three or four figures across. \u00a0He stuck two of those “strips” of figures onto a magnetic base and then also affixed the LSNC: Napoleonics label to the magnetic base. \u00a0With a minimum of effort Dave was able to pull his old Minifigs out of mothballs and put on an enjoyable game.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A close-up view of Dave's 28mm cavalry bases<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This shot show how the “sabot” bases for cavalry look.<\/p>\n

Dave and I are working on a series of 1814 scenarios. \u00a0I ran one of mine, Vouchamps, last Friday night at our club meeting. \u00a0He ran Laon yesterday. \u00a0Vouchamps needs a little tweaking, but Laon went very well. \u00a0It was a near run thing. \u00a0When time ran out and we counted casualties, the Prussians had lost 6 bases, and the French had lost 5, while retaining possession of the road that would be used later to facilitate their retreat.<\/p>\n

\"Poles<\/a>
Poles and Germans vying for control of a small town<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After lunch, I set up a six-player Poland 1939 game using LSNC: WWII and my 10mm figures. \u00a0The game was supposed to be<\/strong> a Germans attack to seize a town along the Polish line of communications.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A long shot of the 10mm Poland 1939 Look, Sarge, No Charts: WWII game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Instead, Duncan in the Polish center went on the attack with his horse-mounted cavalry. \u00a0Duncan smashed through a German infantry battalion. \u00a0Then he got greedy and tried to run down a German anti-tank gun. \u00a0He took some casualties, and his heroic cavalry ran for cover.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A German infantry battalion getting hammered by Duncan's Polish blitzkrieg while the German armor conducts "slothkrieg"<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Meanwhile the German armor was trying to push their way across a river. \u00a0There were three bridges, and the crossings were only lightly defended by some Polish armored cars. \u00a0The German armor seemed hesitant to take casualties and did not advance aggressively. \u00a0As a result, most of the German armor was still on the wrong side of the River as Duncan was smashing the German center. \u00a0It doesn’t happen often that a player is completely wiped out, but in this game Alicia’s (orange sweat shirt) entire German infantry battalion was reduced to a single anti-tank gun section. \u00a0The game was a convincing Polish victory.<\/p>\n

\"Chris'<\/a>
Chris' Mars game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While these two historical games were going on in one room, Chris was running his two GASLIGHT games in the other. \u00a0I didn’t get pictures of Chris’ first game, but check out his blog (link at the top of this page) for his AAR. \u00a0This game was a Burroughs-only Mars game. \u00a0(Typically we do a Verne, Burroughs, Wells, etc. mashup.)<\/p>\n

\"Kathy,<\/a>
Kathy, Dave, and the back of Ed in Chris' Mars game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Even Sam’s bride-to-be got into the act. \u00a0This picture was taken just before a great white ape crawled out of cave and attacked one of Sam’s units in retribution for Sam poking fun at the GM’s singing.<\/p>\n

\"Ancient<\/a>
Ancient ruins on Mars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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My buddy Sam Fuson hosted “FusonConII” at the War Horse Farm in Gettysburg yesterday. \u00a0Dave Wood, Chris Palmer, and I ran games. \u00a0Most of the gamers were Sam’s friends and co-workers, but Duncan Adams (of the HAWKs) came along as well. \u00a0Among those attending were a couple of husband and wife pairs, a couple of … Continue reading Fuson Con II (2013)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}