{"id":2875,"date":"2014-06-17T15:17:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T15:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=2875"},"modified":"2014-06-17T15:17:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T15:17:31","slug":"hawks-armies-for-kids-project-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/2014\/06\/17\/hawks-armies-for-kids-project-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"HAWKs’ Armies for Kids Project, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For several years, the Harford Area Weekly Kriegspielers (HAWKs)\u00a0 have been running a really neat event at Historicon.\u00a0 In addition to the other games we run at the convention that are targeted toward younger gamers (we dedicate a table throughout Saturday of the con to only kids’ games) we run a special event.\u00a0 This event, the Armies for Kids game, involves kids who are under 10 usually using Milk and Cookies Rules (from Big Battles for Little Hands<\/em>).\u00a0 After the event is over, each kid gets to take away two complete, painted armies and some other goodies.\u00a0 In the past we’ve provided terrain pieces, rules, tape measures, etc.<\/p>\n

This year’s project is 25\/28mm Napoleonics.\u00a0 Using a combination of figures from a number donors, including the NASHCON staff, we have pieced together six sets for this year.\u00a0 Each kid who plays in the game will receive a French army and an army from one of the opposing powers.\u00a0 There are a handful of painted figures that couldn’t be made into units and a box of unpainted lead as well.\u00a0 During the game the game master (Eric Schlegel this year) will ask the kids some history questions.\u00a0 If they answer correctly, they get to take something from these extras.<\/p>\n

The picture at the top of this post shows some of the HAWKs working on Father’s Day to assemble the donations into armies, rebase many of the figures, and make small repairs.\u00a0 The picture below shows one of the armies being assembled.<\/p>\n

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This year’s donations included some old Scruby figures and other rarities that are the “missing link” between the toy soldiers of Little Wars and modern wargaming figures.\u00a0 Other donations include Calpe 28mm figures and some old “small 25’s.”\u00a0 We tried to match up figures by size in each child’s army, but it’s not perfect.<\/p>\n

Next year’s project will be 40mm ACW skirmish.\u00a0 We are building around a very generous donation of painted 40mm Union troops.\u00a0 If you have any 40mm Confederates you’d like to donate, or any other donations you’d like to consider, please contact me at surdu@acm.org<\/a>.\u00a0 The donations all go to kids.\u00a0 In very rare cases we’ve sold or traded some of the donations in order to purchase missing items to build complete armies.\u00a0 We think this is a really nice way to do something about the “graying of the hobby” beyond complaining about it.\u00a0 When you see the look on the kids’ faces, it makes the many hours spent during the year well worth the effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For several years, the Harford Area Weekly Kriegspielers (HAWKs)\u00a0 have been running a really neat event at Historicon.\u00a0 In addition to the other games we run at the convention that are targeted toward younger gamers (we dedicate a table throughout Saturday of the con to only kids’ games) we run a special event.\u00a0 This event, … Continue reading HAWKs’ Armies for Kids Project, 2015<\/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\/2875"}],"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=2875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}