"HAWKs Expeditionary Force Attends HUZZAH!" Topic

This past weekend a group of the HAWKs headed up to South Portland, Maine to attend the HUZZAH! gaming convention. For the past few years the HAWKs Expeditionary Force has tried to attend a regional con, within a day's drive of our base in central Maryland, to expose our games and rules to folks who don't often get to play in our games at the HMGS-East conventions we usually attend. In the past we have all headed to the con in one vehicle; but this year, due to a number of folks combining the trip north with personal vacations or other business, we ended up for the most part travelling separately. As the only two members who were just heading up for the three days of the con, Eric Schlegel and I shared a ride up. It took us 9 hours to make the trip from Maryland to Maine, and we rolled in to the hotel around 4:00 PM Thursday afternoon.

I had a good time at the con. It seemed well organized and had good attendance. In fact, we were all surprised to see a large turnout for the Sunday morning session, and attributed it to the number of local folks attending. There was a nice selection of dealers, and I liked the raffles held each day. (I actually won a box of painted 15mm ACW!) If I had to pick nits, I really don't like cons organized by sessions. If you aren't there for the start of a session, you miss out and need to wait 5 hours until your next opportunity to get in a game (which happened to me a couple times).
In the final analysis the weekend was a big success for the Expeditionary Force, and the HAWKs will certainly be back in the future for this fun convention

For the full report and more photos, see my blog:
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Nice AAR and pics.
Thanks Chris!
Clif

We were very happy to see you guys at the con and I thought the tables and figs you brought along were great!
Bob

Looks like a lot of fun! (*sniff*)

Looks great, we will miss you guy at Nashcon this year.

I had great time playing in the "Not Quite Seven Years War" game. Fun rules and great looking figures.

I had great time playing in the "not quite Seven Years War" game. Fun rules and great looking figures.

I was impressed that the HAWKS drove up from Maryland. Hope you guys enjoyed the con.

Thank you all for the kind remarks! We had a great time and will surely be back.

This was not the first time this convention has seen members of the HAWKs, but this was certainly the largest group of them visiting up to this point.

Their games looked wonderful, had plenty of player action going on, and I had the opportunity to play in one of the games with Seven Years War almost flat figures, and it was quite the game! : )

Thank you gentlemen for taking the time, effort, and expense to be part of Huzzah! 2015.