HAWKs Host Huge Zombie Mall Game at Har-Con

     This past Saturday, the HAWKs attended the HAR-CON convention put on by the Gamers Guild and Anime Club at Harford Community College, the local county's community college.  This con is a multi-genre con, with video games, role-playing games, card games, board games, miniatures games, anime, and cosplay.   This year's theme was Post-Apocalypse and Zombies, so we decided to run our big Zombie Mall game.
     With the success of last year's large French and Indian War game, we decided we would once again make our main effort a large game where interested gamers could come to the table at any time, be assigned a group of survivors and a mission, and enter into the game with one of the HAWKs to help tutor them in the rules, and then leave whenever they wanted.

     We arrived early to set up, and it wasn't long before we had our first players.  As the day continued we were pleased with the number of folks who stopped by to play, and the consensus was that we had more players this year than in years past.  Attendance at the con as a whole also seemed to be really high.
      Buck Surdu and I, as co-authors of the Zombies by GASLIGHT supplement,  were also asked to take part in a panel discussion on the Post-Apocalypse theme, along with a local author and film-maker.

       The club had a great time as usual, and we are looking forward to returning for another big extravaganza game next year.

     Another HAWKs run game at the con was Kevin Fischer's Sci-Fi Alien Invasion Game using his beautiful collection of 1/144 Gundam models.

1812 Zombies by GASLIGHT Game at Cold Wars

After his Saturday morning Dr Who game at Cold Wars, Greg reset his table for his afternoon Zombies by GASLIGHT game using the similar set up and many of the same figures.

S-267 - Corpse & Musket: Napoleonic Zombies by
GASLIGHT - Theme Game
Sat. 2:00 PM, 4 hrs, 6 players
GM: Greg Priebe with Todd Harland-White and HAWKS
Napoleonic 28mm, Rules: GASLIGHT
The year is 1812 and Napoleon's once great army is now in retreat
following the invasion of Russia. Can you guide your ragged band
of French stragglers to safety in the face of Russian patrols,
freezing temperatures and your own fallen comrades raised from
the dead by the curse of a vengeful Haitian priestess?
Children under 14 only with a playing adult.

Russian and French troops prepare to do battle with little knowledge of what lurks in the woods.

French and Russian cavalry is set upon by a horde of the undead.

A french officer is set upon a fights off two of the undead.

A horde of Zombies breaks from the woods and goes for a column of French troopers.

An overview of the table. Greg had made dozens of great Napoleonic zombies by combining the plastic Mantic Zombies set with a Victrix French Napoleonic set.

Two of the players conduct close combat. The afternoon sun gives the table a dramatic wintry look.

A swirling melee as the game reaches its final stages.

Napoleon Blownaparte and His Napoleonic Zombie Band

Back at Historicon 11, I picked up a set of Eureka Miniature's first Corpse & Musket line release: Napoleon Blownaparte and Napoleonic Zombies. When a friend decided to do a Napoleonic Zombie Retreat from Russia 1812 game at the upcoming Cold Wars convention, I had a reason to paint them up.

The original Eureka release only had seven figures in it, and I wanted a GASLIGHT sized unit of ten, so I set about finding three more figures. The first was an old metal French standard bearer that I had picked up at a flea market and whose bandaged head, I felt, marked him as a good zombie candidate. The other two I made from a couple Victrix plastic French Infantry bodies and arms, and some bits left over from a pack of Wargames Factory Zombies.

On the left is one of the Victrix conversions, in the center is the Eureka Napoleon Blownaparte complete with cannonball hole in him, and on the right is another one of the great figures from the Eureka set, which is actually a vignette cast as a single piece depicting a zombie biting a French soldier in the head. Brains!

These are three more of the Eureka Zombies. The one on the left is intended to be holding a standard, but I liked him better without it.

Here is the game they are for:

S-267 - Corpse & Musket: Napoleonic Zombies byGASLIGHT - Theme Game, Sat. 2:00 PM, 4 hrs, 6 playersGM: Greg Priebe with Todd Harland-White and HAWKSNapoleonic 28mm, Rules: GASLIGHT