Saturday at the HAWKs BARRAGE Convention

 This past weekend was the HAWK's annual BARRAGE miniatures wargaming convention.  We had a good crowd for both days, and a great time was to be had! Here are some shots of a few of the games on Saturday.  For Fridays, photos, see here: Friday at BARRAGE.

 A Balin's Tomb game.

Ancient Galleys.

Flames of War Tournament

Battle of Hoth

Norman Dean's "The Plains of Peril"

A Gentleman's War

The HAWKs celebrated their 25th Anniversary at the con!

A view of the hall Saturday night.

Mark Morn's "What a Tanker!" game

The Bridge of Khazad-dum.  

Friday at the HAWKs BARRAGE Convention

   This past weekend was the HAWK's annual BARRAGE miniatures wargaming convention.  We had a good crowd for Friday, and a great time was to be had! Here are some shots of a few of the games on Friday.

Sam Fuson's "Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Blue Carbuncle" game using GASLIGHT rules

A War of the Roses Skirmish I ran using Feudal Patrol rules.

John Thomasovich's "Smolensk 1941: The Encirclement" game using modified KISS Rommel rules

Bill Slavicsek's Star Wars RPG game using the Star Wars Role Playing Game rules

Rob Dean's Medieval Mayhem game using homebrew rules.

Bill Molyneaux's 55 Days at Peking game using homebrew rules.

Roxanne Patton's Semper Adversor game using Combat Patrol rules

Mike Pierce's Flank Encounter 1862 game using Sharp Practice rules.

The BARRAGE '19 Website is Open for Registration!

    Just an update to let everyone know that the BARRAGE '19 website is open for registration!   BARRAGE is being held September 27-28 in Havre de Grace, Maryland.
    Gamemasters get you games in, as the grid will fill up fast; and players, now is the time to sign up to get the slots you want!

     Barrage is a low-stress gaming event, focusing on having fun with miniatures games of many different genres, scales, and sets of rules.  In the past we’ve had a half dozen dealers, a few flea market tables, over 200 attendees, and thirty or more miniatures games. 
     Full details at the BARRAGE Webpage: BARRAGE '19

Little Wars TV Visits BARRAGE

Little Wars TV was special guest at BARRAGE this year, where they ran a pair of great games, and did a lot of filming.  They have done up a recap video now, which I'd thought I'd share with everyone to give them an idea of what BARRAGE is like.

HAWKs Host Successful BARRAGE '18 Convention

   This past Friday and Saturday the HAWKs hosted their annual gaming convention, BARRAGE, in Havre de Grace, Maryland.  The event, running midday Friday to late Saturday night, was once again a big success for the club; with a record number of attendees, lots of beautiful and enjoyable games, and some great dealers.  Also, for the first time this year, the club was happy to welcome Little Wars TV to the convention. They ran two great games, did some interviews, and shot a bunch of footage while they were there.
     Here are some photos from throughout the two day event.

An overview of the hall on Saturday morning.

A War of the Roses skirmish game that I ran Friday afternoon.

A Battlegroup WWII game.

A modern Afghanistan game.

Duncan Adam's Napoleonic skirmish using Combat Patrol

Both days of the con there was a well-attended Flames of War tournament.

Zeb Cook's "Great Martian War" game, using GASLIGHT

Bill Molyneaux's beautiful Fort Pitt game, featuring hundreds of lovely old school French and Indian War figures. 

Naval action.

On Saturday, there was a very popular L'art De La Guerre tournament.

Buck Surdu is interviewed by the guys at Little Wars TV

Zeb Cook's Salerno WWII game.

A perennial favorite is Rich Heffner's Aerodrome game.

Sam Fuson''s innovative Adventurers of Sherlock Holmes scenario.

Brendan and Ed Watts' Eat Hitler game.

After the con, the HAWKs held their annual Pirate Tavern LARP.

The BARRAGE '18 Webpage is Up and Running!

   The HAWKs' have launched the BARRAGE '18 Webpage today!  Time to register to run a game or two, or just come to play.

   For those who have never been, Barrage is a low-stress event, focusing on having fun with miniatures games of many different genres, scales, and sets of rules.  In the past the con has had a half dozen dealers, a few flea market tables, as many as 200 attendees, and thirty or more miniatures games. 
   To learn more, be sure to visit the BARRAGE Webpage: BARRAGE '18

BARRAGE "Ghost Archipelago" Games

   At our club's 2-day regional gaming con, BARRAGE, this past weekend I GM'ed a game of Ghost Archipelago, and was Assistant-GM in one with fellow HAWK, Don Hogge, (in which I also got to play, to round out the player count).
   The first one, in which I was Assistant GM and a player, was Friday night.

The table set-up.  I was the center player on the right.

The Elf Heritor and his Archer scale the waterfall cliffs, as the Archer takes pot shots at the Human crew on the ground across the river.

A viscous game-long fight developed around the treasure on the ancient sacred pool, between the Halfling/Gnome crew and the Dwarven one.  Eventually the Dwarves won out. Though, the Gnome Heritor (seen standing on edge of the pool) did her share of damage. 

Meanwhile, the Gnome Warden dispatched my Heritor with a Projectile, as he was trying to leave with the temple's Central Treasure. 

The Gnome Warden was then immediately swarmed by the surviving members of my crew, and did not make it out alive.

The Dwarves thought they had things well under control until a rogue Snapping Turtle wandered onto the scene behind their entry zone, and proceeded to chew it's way through several of their crew, and claimed the central treasure for itself, since none of the other Dwarves dared go near it before the game came to an end.  

     The second game, in which I was GM, was run Saturday morning.

The Saturday morning game gets underway.

The view from the top of the waterfall cliffs.

Two crews battle over the river, as the Human's Storm Warden creates a pool under the Central Treasure on the snakewoman alter. 

A highlight of the game was the indefatigable little Gnome Heritor, who bravely defended the Temple's central treasure for several turns from an Elf crew.  The Elves' Vine Warden cast Warp Weapon on her, and ended up destroying her sword.  She then spent several turns still winning combats despite the -2 unarmed penalty, and used her Fling ability to toss the losing opponents off the top of the temple. 

Eventually the poor Gnome's luck ran out, as the numbers were stacked against her; but it was one heroic last stand.

Another highlight was this random Mountain Goat who entered behind the Human crew, and proceeded to munch it's way through several of the crew, before being brought down. 

      All in all they were two extremely fun games, with a bunch of great players.  I'm already looking forward to running Ghost Archieplago again at the next BARRAGE in September!