{"id":3199,"date":"2014-09-14T12:24:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T12:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=3199"},"modified":"2014-09-14T12:24:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T12:24:39","slug":"barrage-2014-was-another-huge-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/2014\/09\/14\/barrage-2014-was-another-huge-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrage 2014 Was Another Huge Success"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\""Argh!"<\/a><\/dt>\n
“Argh!” Geoff says, “If you did’t attend Barrage, you’re a scurvy bilge rat!”<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

Barrage 2014 was another major success. \u00a0We had a record or near-record number of attendees and 16 tables full of game that ran from 0900 until after 2100. \u00a0Again Age of Glory and On Military Matters came and set up dealer tables. \u00a0We had to set up additional flea market tables on they fly to handle the demand. \u00a0The Flames of War tournament had 18 competitors, 17 of whom were pre-registered. \u00a0Once again we had a successful snack bar that provided hot dogs, drinks, pizza, and other food and snacks throughout the day at a reasonable cost. \u00a0For additional information about Barrage, you can check out\u00a0http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/Buck_Surdu\/Barrage.html. \u00a0The breadth of events was quite good, with games spanning the ancient period through modern Afghanistan. \u00a0Below are some pictures from the event.<\/p>\n

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\"Jeff<\/a><\/dt>\n
Jeff Wiltrout’s soccer game in full swing<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

Several of the HAWKs enjoyed this interesting soccer game.<\/p>\n

\"Chris<\/a>
Chris Palmer's 100 Years War battle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Roxanne<\/a>
Roxanne Patton's Bataan game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A view of some flea market tables<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Rob<\/a>
Rob Dean's dark ages game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Battlegroup<\/a>
Daniel Erdman's Command Decision game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Beau<\/a>
Beau Geste by Ed Watts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Muskets<\/a>
Muskets and Tomahawks demonstration games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Noah<\/a>
Noah Guibault's Dungeon Hack and a somewhat long view of the gaming area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Dave<\/a>
Dave Wood's battle of Orthiez (1814)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Daniel<\/a>
Battlegroup Kursk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Tim<\/a>
Tim Tilson's Sangshak scenario<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Eric<\/a>
Eric Schlegle's ACW kids game. As the number of kids was small, his game ended up with mostly adults. This picture also shows a bit of a long shot of the gaming area.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"War<\/a>
My War Rocket kids game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Norman<\/a>
Norman Dean's "Encounter at Jebora"<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Two<\/a>
Two opponents in the Flames of War tournament<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Geoff<\/a>
Geoff Graff's Lego pirate barroom brawl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As usual, we have a dedicate table established for games targeted at younger gamers. \u00a0Although the number of younger gamers was lower than we would have liked, the kids who participated all had a great time.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A lull in the action at the snack counter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Mike<\/a>
Mike Byrne's Force on Force game with Chechens vs. Russians<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Brian<\/a>
Brian Cantwell's ancient naval game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Kurt<\/a>
Kurt Schlegel's battle of Corinth game using A Union So Tested<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"My<\/a>
My G.A.M.E.R. WWII skirmish game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My WWII skirmish was a bit of a surprise. \u00a0I planned the game for 6 players, and I wasn’t sure if the game would fill with an 1800 start time. \u00a0Not only did the game fill, but I had to add troops at the last minute to make room for 10 players. \u00a0I think the games as quite successful. \u00a0People keep asking me when the rules will be available for purchase. \u00a0I have been developing this for myself, and having just finished the three-year slog to get Bear Yourselves Valiantly ready for publication, I’m not sure I’m ready for another rules publishing project. \u00a0WWII skirmish is a crowded field, with Force on Force and Bolt Action being the big players with hard cover books and a lot of marketing oomph. \u00a0Too Fat Lardies have the UK market sewn up. \u00a0I’m just not ready to try to suffer the slings an arrows of biased reviews and TMP sock puppets right now.<\/p>\n

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“Argh!” Geoff says, “If you did’t attend Barrage, you’re a scurvy bilge rat!” Barrage 2014 was another major success. \u00a0We had a record or near-record number of attendees and 16 tables full of game that ran from 0900 until after 2100. \u00a0Again Age of Glory and On Military Matters came and set up dealer tables. … Continue reading Barrage 2014 Was Another Huge Success<\/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\/3199"}],"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=3199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}