Nashcon 2012 held in Nashville (well, just South of the city) Tennessee, is the HMGS –MidSouth premier event. As always, it is Memorial Day weekend. This year May 25, 26,and 27. It has been running for decades.
hmgs-midsouth.org/nashcon
Every year my good friend Bob Duncan runs a game often with his son Sam. And unless he off with some girl, my son Ben and I run a game. Bob and I each try to put on mega-games with at least a dozen players. Here were are with some of Bob's navy. I am on the left of the photo here, and Uncle Bob is on the right ( where he usually is ~ ).
This year we are going to put on a combined game with half (!) the game room reserved for the Friday night spectacular. There is only one game that can qualify for such a magnificent event: Gunboat Diplomacy.
This game has dozens of ships fighting it out in open water. The ships are scaled for….wait for it….28mm! Some of the battle cruisers are three feet in length. Range for some of the big guns is almost 10 feet.
The vessels are circa 1900. Everything was moving very quickly back then and technology was producing a great race between fire power, armor, and speed.
Here are some photos of the ships in a game we ran years ago on gym floor.
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We will use about 60 foot of table space with my patented virtual donut game board design: you sail off the short end of the table and you can appear at the other end after one turn on the "transition" table.
The scenario is still under development but will involve the British Far East fleet coming to blows with the Germans who are bent on domination of the Pacific. We plan on the two teams choosing vessels in grade school pick up fashion. You pick one ship, then I pick a ship and so forth with no looking at the ship logs in advance. That super cool, multi-gun vessel could be a rusted hulk. That inconspicuous sloop is actually armed with hidden torpedo tubes.
More later as we plot and scheme. Make plans to come to Nashcon this year. Always a blast.
