{"id":5460,"date":"2016-07-18T14:54:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T14:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=5460"},"modified":"2016-07-18T14:54:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T14:54:42","slug":"hawks-games-at-historicon-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/2016\/07\/18\/hawks-games-at-historicon-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"HAWKs Games at Historicon 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

In addition to the Combat Patrol(TM)<\/a> games already noted in a previous post<\/a>, the HAWKS ran many great games at Historicon 2016.<\/p>\n

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Geoff Graff's WWII naval game <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Another view of Geoff's game. Note the moving fog banks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dave Wood’s 28mm Game using Fate of Battle: Look, Sarge, No Charts: \u00a0Napoleonic Wars<\/em>:<\/h2>\n
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Dave's 28mm version of Fate of Battle: Look, Sarge, No Charts: Napoleonic Wars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Another view of Dave's excellent figures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Setting up the game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In this scenario the British, Spanish, and Portuguese were trying to capture two key bridges from the French. \u00a0I didn’t watch the scenario in detail, but I am pretty sure the the Allies beat the French.<\/p>\n

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In the Look, Sarge, No Charts<\/em> family of rules large chart cards are replaced by labels on the backs of the bases and some special dice. \u00a0While a number of gamers have a visceral reaction to the labels, this greatly speeds play. \u00a0Those how have tried<\/em> the rules seem to agree. \u00a0I make my labels in a more neutral color which makes them just a bit harder to read but improves the aesthetics greatly.<\/p>\n

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In this picture you can seem some of Dave’s bases have the more neutral colored labels, and I don’t think they stand out at all on the tabletop. \u00a0They are certainly less visible than a bunch of large pink rectangular chart cards on the table.<\/p>\n

Eric Schlegel’s Hogwarts Themed Game<\/h2>\n
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Eric's Hogwarts themed game using (I think) a modified version of Blood and Swash or GASLIGHT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Normally Greg Priebe runs the kinds of games that seem to attract the few female gamers at the conventions. \u00a0Since Greg wasn’t at Historicon 2016, one played in Duncan’s WWI game and my Warsaw Uprising game, two played in Don’s WWII Battleground<\/em> game, and four played in Eric’s Hogwarts capture-the-flag game. \u00a0Eric has now taken the crown from Greg for the most women in a HAWKs game. \u00a0(Greg has had more in the past, but he wasn’t at Historicon to defend his crown!)<\/p>\n

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I don’t really know anything about how the game ran, except that everyone seemed to be engaged to the end and seemed to be having fun.<\/p>\n

Don Hogge’s Battleground WWII Game<\/h2>\n

Don ran a historical scenario in which the Americans were forcing a river crossing against German opposition. \u00a0Don had his usual Battleground WWII \/ Don Hogge groupies plus a few newcomers.<\/p>\n

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Look, Kaiser, No Charts<\/h2>\n

Duncan Adams ran two WWI games with his 1914 variant of Look, Sarge, No Charts<\/em>, which takes element from both the WWII and ACW version of the rules in a very effective way. \u00a0The pictures below probably mix the two games, but you will get the idea…<\/p>\n

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Duncan places dozens of small hill on his terrain to represent small folds in the earth and partially counteract gamer questions about “why can’t those guys see or shoot at those other guys.” \u00a0This is Duncan’s way to compensate for the “pool table” effect, and it works very well.<\/p>\n

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Tekumel<\/h2>\n

Bill Acheson organized a track of games based on M.A.R. Barker’s Empires of the Petal Throne<\/em> \/ Tekumel mythology. \u00a0There were a couple of land battles and a naval battle. \u00a0This one was a gladiatorial style skirmish with six-inch tall action figures as proxies for the various strange Tekumel characters. \u00a0Bill is really good at repurposing toys for war-games.<\/p>\n

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WWI<\/h2>\n

Steve Gelhard ran a game using his popular WWI rules. \u00a0The terrain and figures looked great. \u00a0All the players seemed to really enjoy themselves.<\/p>\n

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Modern Skirmish Games<\/h2>\n

Mike Byrne used Force on Force to run a game based on modern Iraq. \u00a0 Patrick Byrne also ran a modern Chechnya game on the rubbled city terrain, but sadly I didn’t get any pictures of that game.<\/p>\n

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Orthez<\/h2>\n

Duncan and Dave ran a 10mm Fate of Battle game based on a portion of the Battle of Orthez in the Peninsular campaign. \u00a0Duncan had spent a weekend making the specifically-shaped hill for the scenario.<\/p>\n

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The blue masking tape does not represent a river. \u00a0This was used to mark the edge of the playing area.<\/p>\n

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Muskets and Tomahawks<\/h2>\n

Don ran a large Muskets and Tomahawks game. \u00a0 These rules are easy to teach and learn. \u00a0The players seemed to really enjoy themselves. \u00a0I’m sorry I didn’t get more pictures.<\/p>\n

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HAWKs Room Summary<\/h2>\n

I didn’t get pictures of every HAWKs game. \u00a0I didn’t arrive until later on Friday, and I was running four games back-to-back on Saturday. \u00a0As usual, I think the HAWKs made a strong showing and ran a lot of fun games. \u00a0The HAWKs room had 41 scheduled games (which is a bit light for us) run by 11 game masters. \u00a0I personally ran five; although, I had only planned to run four. \u00a0I don’t have the final numbers of events that were run at Historicon, but 40-50 (the HAWKs room average) usually constitutes between 5% and 10% of all the games at the show (not counting tournaments). \u00a0Rumor has it there were ~550 games, so let’s say the HAWKs ran 7.5% of the games at Historicon 2016. \u00a0If there were 2000 attendees, that means that 0.5% of the attendees (HAWKs) ran 7.5% of the games. \u00a0I consider that a strong showing for one club. \u00a0Few if any will show up in the glossy UK gaming magazines, but I think they were of at least average aesthetic quality and above average game quality.<\/p>\n

What is the HAWKs room?<\/em><\/span> \u00a0For almost 20 years, we have run enough games at the big three HMGS East conventions to justify putting all our games in the same room. \u00a0This does not mean that there aren’t other games run by non-HAWKs in the room; it means that if you are looking for a fun game run by a HAWKs member, you don’t have to wonder where to look. \u00a0It also means that we can easily find each other if we are sharing terrain or playing aids or forget something. \u00a0Over the years we have developed a loyal following, and there are folks who spend most of their time at the conventions in the HAWKs room.<\/p>\n

If you like the HAWKs room, you will also enjoy our two-day mini convention in late September. \u00a0See www.hawks-barrage.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In addition to the Combat Patrol(TM) games already noted in a previous post, the HAWKS ran many great games at Historicon 2016. Dave Wood’s 28mm Game using Fate of Battle: Look, Sarge, No Charts: \u00a0Napoleonic Wars: In this scenario the British, Spanish, and Portuguese were trying to capture two key bridges from the French. \u00a0I … Continue reading HAWKs Games at Historicon 2016<\/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\/5460"}],"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=5460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}