"HMGS War College at Historicon" Topic

FYI, the HMGS War College at Historicon 2010 features 17 PAGES of different speakers and seminars. It is a very impressive list. Highlights include scheduled presentations by David Glantz, Dale Dye and the Perry Brothers. For details, please go to the Historicon web site.

Here's the link: PDF link

47Ronin – that's twice that I've spent a few seconds doing what you should have done originally.

Jim

Thanks, Col. Campbell.

FYI, I've tried to link these things before and failed. I knew more experienced and capable hands (like yourself) would get it right.

Wow! I saw enough there to fill my convention up and that didn't include trips to the dealer area or games.

Great looking show is forming up.

Looks like lots of good lectures. I would like to see the Perrys.

Great program and is another reason that everybody needs to go to Historicon at least once.

Ronin, why not ask a friend to show you how to copy and paste?

Fascinating line up.
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Tim

Are these people paid to entertain the gamers or do they work pro bono. Game masters should be paid the same, if there is any.

This is a great line up of live History Channel presentations but I came to game and shop. Between running games 2/3s of Friday and Saturday and playing some on Thursday, not much time for seminars.

Perhaps there should be a separate admission charged for these to see if they really recover their costs.

Will native peoples be picketing the King Philips War program.

I don't see anything wrong with having such an impressive lineup of historical military speakers, nor if they are paid a speaking stipend.

Maybe what we should do is charge tournaments for all the space they take up, in relationship to the few gamers that occupy that space.

I don't believe that is a good idea either.

Part of HMGS's mission is to promote the study of military history. I think this fits that bill a lot better than some other atypical things that go on there, including matching armies up against each other in tournament play that never met on the real field of battle.

Everything at a convention has a cost that can be broken out to it. These lectures are usually packed, so you tell me how that is a bad thing.

Bob has done an excellent job on the War College. Hat off Bob, the cost for speakers is always an issue but it the board approves the CDs budget who do you hang?
VR
James Mattes

A lot goes on in our convention committee meetings. However, most of the work is between them and well after the budget is submitted. What is presented at the cons is a combination of oppertunities and execution of reliable standards. Regardless of where we put our available funds each part of the program is vetted and closely observed by each member. While we don't always agree on everything, once we come to a reasonable consensus, we all support the action. As we strive to get different perspectives when we are organizing a convention program, we keep in mind that we also have different tastes to please. If you don't see the use in something we do at the con…that's fine. Maybe it's not for you. If you see an event repeat or expand at Historicon, it is generally because there is a demand and we've gotten positive feedback on it. That's how we roll. If you have any good ideas you would like to share, we're listening. You might not see them right away, but when we have a spot along with the money and it fits the program…we'll probaly give it a try.

Neil Brennan
DD Historicon 2006-2010

Greetings from lovely Downtown Lancaster, PA, home of Historicon 2023.

Rather than start a new topic, it's time to update an old discussion. (Now you know why I don't put years on these topics when I start them.) What's 13+ years between posts? Perhaps a new TMP record?

For those who might be interested, what follows is a VERY brief summary of the War College lectures at Historicon 2023. For further details, please check the convention program or the Historicon Guidebook.

THURSDAY

10am The American Civil War In Indian Territory, 1861-1865 by HMGS member Jeff Schultz

11am A Splendid Failure: Designing A Post-American Civil War Game by Matthew Kirchman, Georgetown University Wargaming Society

Noon The Forsaken Fleet: The Demise Of The U.S. Asiatic Fleet by HMGS member Jeff Schultz

1pm Carnage And Glory In The American Revolution: Mapping The American Revolution From A Wargamer's Perspective by HMGS member and author David Bonk

2pm Surprise Attacks In The U.S. Navy Fleet Exercises by author Dr. Albert Nofi

3pm HMGS Wants You!--Volunteering At HMGS by HMGS Board member Frank Luberti

4pm Factors In Technological Innovation by author Dr. Albert Nofi

5pm Big Secrets Of The Little Big Horn by HMGS member and author Pete Panzeri

FRIDAY

10am Wargaming For World War I by author Dr. Albert Nofi

11am The PLAN's Nuclear Submarines-A Short History by author Christopher Carlson

Noon Adaptation And Improvisation: Logistics In East Africa, 1914-1918 by HMGS member Jeff Schultz

1pm Wargaming And The Army War College by Professor Brian Foster, U.S. Army War College

2pm Defending An Island Bastion: Saipan 1944-The Japanese Perspective by Professor Theodore Cook

3pm John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy: But Wait, There's More! by HMGS member Robert Mosher

4pm M-10s vs. Panthers In Normandy And On The Wargaming Table by Professors Steve Waddell and John Stapleton, U.S. Military Academy

5pm The Custer Court Martial: A Debate & Dramatization by HMGS member and author Pete Panzeri

SATURDAY

9am An Introduction To The Coinage Of Post 1204 Byzantium by author Sam Cowell

10am Chinese Military History: Part 1-Ancient To 1928 by HMGS member Ching Chin

11am Chinese Military History: Part 2-1928 To Present by HMGS member Ching Chin

Noon A Most Gallant Resistance: The Delaware River Campaign, September-November 1777 by Professor Jim Mc Intyre

1pm Writing Historical Miniatures Scenario Books by author Timothy Tilson

2pm Oak And Ironclads by HMGS member Connor Marsland

3pm Fate Of The Recruits: The XV BDE Battalion Of Instruction In 1938 by Christopher Brooks

4pm Weapons Of The Herero War, German Southwest Africa 1904 by HMGS member and author Dr. Roy Jones

5pm 1932 Battle of Shanghai by HMGS member Ching Chin

6pm About That Grass And Other Tricks Of The Trade by author Dr. Albert Nofi

Enjoy the lectures. Hope to see you there.

P.S.--FYI, after 13+ years the link above still takes you to the Historicon web page.

For more on the War College, follow the links for "Events" and "War College".

Enjoy the convention.

Another Historicon, another list of War College lectures.

Enjoy.

THURSDAY

Noon "Battle of Shanghai 1932" by HMGS and NY Military Affairs Symposium Board Member Ching Chin

1pm "Wargaming Alternate Military Technologies at Gettysburg" by HMGS member and RAND analyst Dr. Sean Barnett

2pm "Festung 44--Hitler's Fortress Folly" by HMGS member Prof. Jeff Schultz

3pm "Operation COBRA from the ground up: George Wilson's experience in Operation COBRA" by West Point Prof. John Stapleton

4pm "LT George Wilson's War" by West Point Prof. Steve Waddell

5pm "D-Day Disaster" by HMGS member Pete Panzeri

FRIDAY

9am "China's Northern Expedition 1926--1928: Part I" by HMGS member Ching Chin

10am "China's Northern Expedition 1926--1928: Part II" by HMGS member Ching Chin

11am "From Hollywood to Historicon: Life at the Sharpe End--The Sharpe Story According to Rifleman Harris" by Jason Salkey

Noon "Buford's Cavalry at Gettysburg" by John Priest

1pm "Military Iconography in 13th Century Byzantium" by Sam Cowell

2pm "Attu 1943--The Japanese Side of Death before Surrender" by Prof. Ted Cook

3pm "Hunting U-Boats: Allied ASW in WWII" by HMGS member Martin Fenelon

4pm "The Dacians: More than Barbarians" by Payton Kelly-McNally

5pm "Rosebud to Little Big Horn" by HMGS member Pete Panzeri

SATURDAY

10am "Red Sea Crisis: The Houthi Problem" by Larry Bond

11am "From Hollywood to Historicon: Life at the Sharpe End--The Sharpe Story According to Rifleman Harris" by Jason Salkey

Noon "Iverson's Assault at Gettysburg" by John Priest

1pm "Three Raiders, Three Wars: Commerce Raiders 1862--1943" by HMGS member Prof. Jeff Schultz

2pm "The Machinery of Victory in WWII" by Connor Marsland

3pm "Daylight Bombing Formations and Tactics in WWII" by HMGS member Martin Fenelon

4pm "German Troop Types and Tactics in the Herero War" by Dr. Roy Jones

5pm "HMGS Wants You!--Volunteering at HMGS" by HMGS Board member Frank Luberti

Hope to see you there.

Another Historicon, another LONG list of HMGS War College lectures.

Enjoy.

THURSDAY

9am Walking the Battlefields of the Peninsular War by Karim Van Overmeire

10am Doughboys on the Eastern Front: Wilson's Russian Fiasco by Professor Jeff Schultz

11am The Battle of Pavia--Creating a Convention Game by Martyn Kelly

Noon Hearing Impaired for the Gamemaster by Kevin Kelley

1pm Japan's "Lost War" in Summer 1941: Simulated War Analysis by Professor Ted Cook

2pm Bunker Hill--Troubled Birth of the American Army by Martin Fenelon

3pm The Other Side of the Hill 1944 by Louis Rotundo

4pm "We Can Still Lose this War": WW2 Near-Fatal Allied Mistakes by Pete Panzeri

5pm A Soldier's View: Johan Ewald in the Philadelphia Campaign by Jim McIntyre

FRIDAY

9am The Battle of Klokotnitsa and Shifting Economies by Samuel Cowell

10am Against a Common Foe by Sean Barnett

11am US Army in the Pacific in WW2: LTG Robert C. Richardson, Jr. by Army War College Professor James Scudieri

Noon Hellenistic War Elephants by Connor Marsland

1pm Colonel William Thompson: First Colonel of the US Army by Army War College Professor John Bonin

2pm Flying Tigers to 14th Air Force by Martin Fenelon

3pm Parker's Revenge by Arthur Slade

4pm The Dacians: More than Barbarians by Payton Kelly-McNally

5pm A Trip to the Battlefields of Leuctra and Chaeronea by Professor Alexander Stavropoulos

6pm The Army in 2050 by Dr. Nathan Barrick

9pm Dunn-Kempf, 50th Anniversary of the US Army's Wargame by Army Command and General Staff College Professor Mike Dunn

SATURDAY

9am HMGS Volunteer Opportunities by Cliff Brunken and Brenda Zartman

10am Western Approaches Tactical Unit-Tactics and Training by Christopher P. Carlson

11am Anti-Submarine Warfare and the Cold War by Dr. Norman Friedman

Noon The Culture of the Partisan in the Seven Years' War by Jim McIntyre

1pm Morenga's Private War: Fighting the Kaiser, 1904-07 by Dr. Roy Jones

2pm Pineapple Air Force-7th Air Force in WW2 by Martin Fenelon

3pm The United States Navy Fleet Problems: 1923-1940 by Dr. Al Nofi

5pm A Trip to Three Persian War Battlefields by Professor Alexander Stavropoulos

Hope to see you there.

I enjoy watching these on streaming.

FYI, 650+ gamers enjoyed watching the lectures live and in person at Historicon 2025.

Next up: the HMGS War College at Fall In 2025.

Hope to see you there.

Another year, another amazing list of lectures at the HMGS War College at Historicon 2026:

THURSDAY

9am Dacians: More Than Barbarians

9am Solitaire War Game Design Discussion

10am Along The Embattled NY-Penn Frontier, 1778-1779

11am Wargamers' Favorite Movie Quotes

Noon Ukraine: Four Years Of War

2pm Loyalist Military Service: "The Good Americans"

3pm The Revolution At Sea-Thank God For The Privateers

4pm Red Bank Battlefield: The Disappeared Dead Of A Revolutionary War Battlefield

5pm The Battle Of Pydna 168 BCE, Legions vs. Phalanx

6pm British Grenadier And Light Infantry Battalions

7pm "HMGS Wants You!"-Volunteering At HMGS

FRIDAY

9am Battles Never Fought: New Scenarios For The AWI

10am 60mm ACW Presentation On Strategy And Tactics

10am Red Bank Battlefield: The Disappeared Dead Of A Revolutionary War Battlefield

11am The Battle Of Brandywine

Noon The Queen's Rangers, 1st American Regiment, 1776-1783

1pm Fire & Fury Panel On How To Design And Publish Wargame Rules

1pm They Called It Kriegspiel? Translation: Wargame

2pm 60mm ACW Presentation On Strategy And Tactics

2pm The Brigade Of Guards

3pm Follow The Tanks, The Battle Of Fuentes de Ebro, SCW

4pm The Battles Of Germantown And Paoli

5pm The United States Navy Fleet Problems: 1923-1940

SATURDAY

8am HMGS Volunteers & Outreach Opportunities

9am "The Artillery Never Gained More Honor": Royal Artillery

9am Army War College: Project Shadows And Steel

10am The US Army And Philippine Army In The Philippines 1902-1942

11am From Parade Ground To Battlefield: The British Army 1776-1783

Noon Lt. General John Burgoyne And The 1777 Saratoga Campaign

1pm Warning Signs: Prelude To Global Naval War

2pm An Overview Of African Americans In The Continental Army

3pm Cowpens & Guilford Courthouse: Same Tactics, Different Ends

4pm China's Northern Expedition 1926-28

5pm China In World War II

For details on the lectures and speaker biographies, please go to the HMGS War College section of the Historicon 2026 web site on Table Top Events ("TTE").

Enjoy the lectures. Hope to see you there.