| Jamesonsafari | 01 Feb 2015 1:14 p.m. PST |
Hi! Don has gotten our website up and running again for another Hotlead Convention! hotlead.ca There are lots of games up already and info on the popular Bring and Buy. If you want to run a game please contact me (my email is on the contacts page of the site). James |
| boy wundyr x | 02 Feb 2015 8:10 a.m. PST |
Looking forward to being there, trying to get enough stuff done to host a 15mm Nap. skirmish game (Songs of Drums and Shakos). |
IronDuke596  | 02 Feb 2015 10:24 a.m. PST |
I am looking forward to it too. |
| bhall389 | 03 Feb 2015 5:06 p.m. PST |
I'll be there all weekend. Good times, good people. Brian |
| boy wundyr x | 12 Feb 2015 12:31 p.m. PST |
Saw your pictures on FB for your 6mm game Brian, looks good. Will there be a coastal game again? |
| bhall389 | 12 Feb 2015 8:29 p.m. PST |
Nope, no coastal stuff this year. I'm helping run a massive Full Thrust game on Friday night though. Then 6mm all day Saturday. |
| boy wundyr x | 13 Feb 2015 8:53 a.m. PST |
Cool, I'll drop by at least and maybe get into a game. |
| Anthropicus | 25 Mar 2015 6:58 a.m. PST |
So, I'm new to the area, but I do have a pile of DBA based 10mm ancients and a copy of DBA3. I've only played one game though. Is the scale for the tournaments strict, and do people mind teaching 2.2? |
| bhall389 | 25 Mar 2015 2:26 p.m. PST |
Hotlead is a very laid back and social con, I'm sure the DBA boys will be happy to help. |
| bhall389 | 25 Mar 2015 2:27 p.m. PST |
Since our Full Thrust game is cancelled, I'm running a Coastal Patrol game on Friday night. I'm almost ready… |
| boy wundyr x | 25 Mar 2015 3:01 p.m. PST |
I just saw that Brian, will try to get in. Just found my blog write-up from the 2012 game:
"I wasn't able to get into the Friday night game I had as a first choice (Skopje 1912, using Triumph of the Will rules), but I had a backup game in mind and was glad I did. That game was Coastal Patrol, found in Too Fat Lardie's Summer 2011 Special, and is a set of rules for WWII coastal actions. This game was the Royal Navy vs. Kriegsmarine, and saw seven of us go at it. When the game started (a night action), we were all on blinds, and only a couple of players knew who their teammates were. I was one of the ones in the dark (figuratively and literally), having to escort a slow as molasses German tanker from one end of the table to the other, with a converted trawler and a well-armed R-Boat to do it. The game got off to a fast and furious start at the other end of the table, at my end I played peekaboo with what turned out to be a comrade – a U-Boat unable to submerge. After various adventures that didn't involve me, I used my R-Boat to beat down a British Fairmile that had shot up the U-Boat, eventually driving it back off the table. However, as I was doing that a British MTB that I'd thought my comrades at the end of the table had dealt with scooted into the open and launched two torpedoes at the tanker. On my activation I blew him out of the water, but had to wait a turn for those torpedoes to intersect with the tanker…and miss! Each needed an 8 or less to hit on 2d6, and both times the player rolled 9s. That pretty much wrapped up the game as a German victory. The rules were fun and I'm going to have to round up my few 1/600 coastal ships soon." So, about $400 USD later I've certainly rounded up a few ships… I still remember those last two tense dice rolls. Tomorrow maybe I'll post my pics from last year's Hotlead…sheesh. |
| KeithinCanada | 27 Mar 2015 11:01 a.m. PST |
I won't be running the Battle of the Saintes game on Saturday morning
Will be running a Greek – Italian air game in its place
Sorry for anybody that was set on the age of sail
Keith |
| HuskerKnight | 29 Mar 2015 1:45 p.m. PST |
I attended on Saturday and had a good time – will definitely be back next year! |
says 'thank you' one more time.
