GaMExpo was kind of a bust as far as people who wanted to play minis games. The wargaming room was upstairs, away from the rest of the convention, so foot traffic was sparse. On the bright side, I got to see some other games that people were GMing, like this setup for
Sharpe Practice.
Although the rules are more aimed at an earlier period, the person running the game was using it for a Napoleonic scenario.
And the semi-historical pirates game
Blood & Plunder had a nice Spanish settlement set up.
There was also a superhero game, X-Men vs. Avengers, so everyone could play the good guys.
This had nice modern-day town terrain. I think that's Nightcrawler from the X-Men on the roof.
There was also some
BattleTech--more precisely,
Alpha Strike, a sped-up, stripped-down version of the game that gets rid of the rivet-counting but still feels like playing giant stompy robots.
The scenario was a king of the hill-type game, where you got points for keeping near the objective markers.
I also set up my Monopolis map, but I didn't get that much use out of it. More in a later post.
That's a shame they stuck you "in the corner" and out of sight, especially for visual events like miniatures gaming. I would think twice before GM'ing a game at such a Con again; indeed, there is a convention the other side of the state that used to be great for us, but when they went all genres, it just didn't seem they care to give us miniature gamers the support we need, so, I haven't run a game there (or attended) for several uyears. Perhaps I'll give it another try this Fall.
ReplyDeleteSharp(e) Practice is designed for Napoleonic skirmish gaming. The buil;dings in the Pirate game are from Old Glory, foamcast, and are quite nice. If bought as a set, there is a 40% discount, IIRC, so not too pricey if gotten that way.