""Campaign Headquarters" (CHQ) Obit" Topic

This news is a bit old – about two months – but I did a check thru the TMP files and saw no mention about it. Many probably know CHQ as a miniature and gaming hobby shop in the Hampton Roads (Norfolk, Virginia) area. Others may know it as a very long time dealer attendee at HMGS East historical gaming conventions, and it in fact was one of the original dealers from day one going back to when the conventions began thru to the Penn Harris days and again thru the move to Lancaster and Gettysburg for Fall In. The shop itself carried half historical minis and mags, half science fiction fantasy and comics. It had two gaming tables where groups could reserve a time slot for a game and the shop was a mainstay for sailors from the nearby naval base at Norfolk. The shop originally was two in fact; one in Newport News and the main one in Norfolk (going back many years here on this one) and one of the main owners was a very good friend, Jan Warner, who many know as a long time member and dealer at the HMGS East conventions. About 15 years ago only the Norfolk shop remained, but you could still find good selections of my own Thoroughbred ironclads, Langton, Viking Forge, Leo Walsh's TCS items and rules, MWAN mag, along with many others.
About two years ago Jan and partner (Tom) sold their remaining interest to new owners. The new owners were not 'historically' minded (i.e. it wasn't their forte) so although the name remained, CHQ disappeared as a convention dealer attendee.
Apparently the new owners ran into some financial problems and the business management consortium that owns the block of buildings CHQ rented from locked the door and forced them out. So what was once a thriving, then struggling, operation quickly was no more under the new management.
Now anyone visiting Norfolk who drives by the old haunt will see a new store – Atlantis Games – one of three in a local chain of gaming shops with little or no historical miniatures presence.
So, another one bites the dust.
Toby Barrett

I too remember attending Historicon convention with them back in 1984 and the show was at Carrolton MD. Another friend gone.

Rudy Nelson
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