{"id":8991,"date":"2019-07-16T09:11:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T09:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=8991"},"modified":"2019-07-16T09:11:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T09:11:46","slug":"armies-for-kids-at-historicon-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/2019\/07\/16\/armies-for-kids-at-historicon-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Armies for Kids at Historicon 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The recipients of the free armies and Chris Johnson, this year’s GM.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At Historicon 2019, the Harford Area Weekly Kriegspielsers hosted another Armies for Kids game. \u00a0This year’s GM was Chris Johnson.<\/p>\n

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The game in progress.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I think this is the eighth or ninth year we have done this. \u00a0We paint six sets of armies, one for each “side.” \u00a0We package those along with rules (Milk and Cookies Rules<\/em> from Big Battles for Little Hands<\/em>), rulers, dice, paper terrain, and other goodies. \u00a0The game is a participation game for kids under ten years old. \u00a0When the game is over, each of the kids gets to take home a full set of painted figures and all the accessories.<\/p>\n

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A closeup of some of the action.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The idea is that hopefully these kids go home and start playing games with their buddies. The kids at the convention come with their parents, so in many ways we are preaching to the converted; however, we hope that these kids go home and introduce their little buddies to wargaming.<\/p>\n

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The kids and all their swag.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We only had five kids this year, but we were prepared for six. \u00a0Do these kids look happy to you? \u00a0A couple of recent years we’ve had trouble getting enough kids for this project. \u00a0Maybe we’ll need to put it away for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At Historicon 2019, the Harford Area Weekly Kriegspielsers hosted another Armies for Kids game. \u00a0This year’s GM was Chris Johnson. I think this is the eighth or ninth year we have done this. \u00a0We paint six sets of armies, one for each “side.” \u00a0We package those along with rules (Milk and Cookies Rules from Big … Continue reading Armies for Kids at Historicon 2019<\/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\/8991"}],"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=8991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}