OK, so it has been a looong while.. too long to go without posting. In my defense.... I have been doing a LOT of deck building and playing of VTES..... I warned it was another wicked hobby.... My collections contains over 35,000 cards with very limited commons.. so yes... lots and lots of uncommon and rare cards!
So, Historicon 2017 was pretty awesome... the registration desk went smoothly while there was internet...
There was a crap ton of games from all eras and genera's.... plenty of historic and fantasy of all scales!
Not sure what started the trend, but there was a LOT of skirmish pirate type games... and they were beautiful!
The scenery on the skirmish board was damn near museum quality!
Bolt Action WW2 skirmish.
This awesome game was a bit about history and a bit about some serious Mummy and monster action!
Awesome WW2 naval game.
Some Age of Sail games!!!
Jim's Gnome castle!
I am simply amazed at the quality of the gaming scenery at the shows.... the GM's have really stepped up their game here... literally!
This ship game looked more like a diorama than a game! Again... more skirmish pirate games going on....
Some ACW action.....
Team Yankee!! Cold War Germany
Another AWESOME naval game!
This tee-shirt needed recognized!
This was a huge table layout for... you guessed it.... another huge pirate skirmish game.... I seriously regret not getting into any of them!
More pirate skirmish games!
Napoleonic battles raged!
I got to play Spartacus with the guys back in the hotel room.... this game is nasty!!! If you think Diplomacy was full of backstabbing back room deals and assassinations.... it is time for it to move over and welcome in the new game to love and hate... Spartacus!!!! I got my arse handed to me!
This was a steam punk game... more like the "Wild, Wild West" or Victorian era.
The modeling was phenomenal!
One of my favorites... Circus Maximus.... who doesn't like chariot combat racing!
I have to say.. I was finally able to get into the beautiful Frostgrave game! It was good vs. evil.... and I, of course.... chose to play evil Skaven! Even thought the rules were exactly the same for all figures involved, playing the Skaven made me very happy. I had to comment on these pics and I realize it is pic heavy for this game, but now I know what it is to die happy.... never in my life have I ever been so hot on the dice!!! I incredibly, with the GM's own dice.... rolled no less than 15-20 NATURAL 20's!!!! I also failed quite miserably when casting some spells.. thus taking some damage to my caster and his apprentice, but when I really needed it, when the dice roll REALLY mattered.. a slight mouthing of praise to Khorne and the Great Horned Rat.... and BAM!!!! another nat 20!
Above and below... my rats.. and their stats.
Turn one.... ready to cast "quick foot" and race on into town!
The scenario we played was based off of the Lich Lord campaign.... In the following pictures, my Champion and apprentice leap up to be the first to challenge the Lich Queen and her minions.....
Some early loot... The unfortunate thing about the game, but something I love.... when you leave the board with treasure, you don't come back... you could however move it to the edge and then run it off later... "IF" you survived or someone else didn't come and take it!
I charged in and engaged the Lich Queen and her minions... rats are usually not so brave, but there was a lot of bling to be had.. AND... lots of delicious chocolate to be eaten if I could get the treasure off the edge of the board!!!
Of course, she summoned he skeletons to take me on... 5 to 1!!! 4 skellies and the lich queen... I miraculously won that combat!!!! Everyone was awestruck.. including myself!
Yes.. I won that combat and pushed the Lich Queen and her minions back!!!!
The 20's flowed forth form the blessing of the Great Horned One like water form a fountain!
Eventually my luck would run out and the Lich Queen did manage to kill my champion, but only after my allies were in place to join combat... will.. kill steal the Lich Queen who was down to 4 health!!!! My apprentice hides in the doorway casting spells to little effect.. but enough to draw her attention while my allies kill her!
I also managed to kill the large wandering monster which was the equivalent to a chaos rider on a great wooly rhino! The victory points were mounting for team evil!
The troll manages to finally come to my aid and strikes down the Lich Queen while she concentrates all of her spell power upon my apprentice!
Our gracious host and GM! I volunteered to bring the chocolate for his game at Fall-In! 2017.... gold coins form Romolo's chocolates in Erie PA!!! Simple the best!
As the climactic encounter for the game was defeated, I sent my rats to gather treasure to add to our VP's while the other war bands fought it out over street supremacy!
Another favorite of mine is the huge space hulk game that is put on Saturday nights... these guys are absolutely awesome... They also run X-Wing, Armada and a lot of other sci-fi games at the shows...they also manage the 40K based tournament games.... like Battlefleet Gothic and the 40K tourneys...
A special thanks to all they do! These guys absolutely rock! A friendly reminder to all that even though HMGS stands for Historical Miniature Gaming Society.. there is always plenty of other stuff going on! From board games of all types.. Euro and historic... to pulp adventure and pretty much everything else!
And thus closed another great show.... I literally have loads more pictures.... but these ones meant the most to me!
