"HMGS Midwest at Gencon" Topic

To all those who are Gencon bound, be sure to stop and see us. We are co-located with the Ottawa Red Shirts (another premium gaming group).

On hand will be Steve Fratt-President running 6 x Star Wars games one from each movie.

Thursday 6:00 PM
Star Wars Episode I: Phantom Menace – Battle of Naboo Star Wars: Queen's Gambit, mega-sized Ed

Friday10:00 AM
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones – Battle of Geonosis-homebrew, mega-sized Ed

Friday 7:00 PM
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith – Raid on Coruscant-homebrew, mega-sized Ed

Saturday 10:00 AM
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope – Battle of Yavin X-Wing, mega-sized Ed

Saturday 7:00 PM
Star Wars Episode V: Empire Strikes Back – Battle on Hoth-homebrew, mega-sized Ed

Sunday 8:00 AM
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi – Battle on Endor home-brew, mega-sized Ed

John Bobek will be doing:

Thursday 10:00 AM and Thursday 4:00 PM
6mm Napoleonic's – Napoleon moves on Austria, 1809!-The Games of War, 2007 Ed

Friday 10:00 AM and Friday 4:00 PM
Stop the Russian Bear: An Introduction to WWII Armor -The Games of War, 2007 Ed

Saturday 9:00 AM, Saturday 2:00 PM, Saturday 7:00 PM
Lee is on the Move-The Games of War, 2007 Ed

Kevin Cabai will be GMing:

Thursday 3:00 PM and Friday 8:00 AM
Operation Theseus-Battle of Gazala Jagdpanzer, 2nd Ed

Friday 5:00 PM and Saturday 9:00 AM
LOTR-The Kinstrife Light the Beacons-Chainmail, 1st Ed

Sunday 8:00 AM
Orc's Drift-Chainmail, 1st Ed

Come join us and help bring mini's back to Gencon!

This is very good news for all HMGS members, good job Midwest.

It is good to see the leadership of HMGS get word out to other cons. Keep up the good work!

It's good to see two key board members of HMGS Midwest "lead from the front"

Well done!

Anyone know if you have to buy event tickets for these games or if you just stop by the area and sign up?

You can do either, there is always room for one more.

I would love to have a reason to go to Gencon, if historicals start making a presence that is significant, I might go.

If historical games are on the rise, I think that I would much rather drive to Indy than to North Jersey if they move HCon there.

Will there be a similar effort at Origins next year by HMGS?

Currently HMGS-Midwest plans to attend: What-Khan, Rockford, IL, Game-Hole Con, Madison, WI, Winter War, Champaign, IL, Gary Con, Lake Geneva WI, Adepticon, Schaumburg, IL, Nexus Game Fair, Milwaukee, WI, and of course Gen Con's 50th anniversary next year. We do not have plans….yet for Origins.

Just to add and not to take the spotlight from the HMGS return, but there have been many Historical miniatures games run at Gen Con since it came to Indy .
Just a few of the groups doing them
19 & One (over 2400 hours of historical gaming- 50 + games )
Abel company (Flames of War- 9 games)
N.O.V.A.G (6 games )

One thing I would suggest for next year is that you do your own game submittals because HMGS is not listed as a searchable club – so only those that have registered for the game know it is you.
Also next year perhaps more Historical games ? Every Historical game is another chance to show the hobby off

TWC -in terms of numbers – our(19 & One) historical games sell out in the first hour of the event registration being open . not finished doing all the numbers but we had over 500 gamers play our historical games .

grtbrt is right there are many groups that run historical games. There was also a Fight the Skies group running a large amount of events. I am hoping the other HMGS chapters will see this as an opportunity. We were able to inform a number of attendees about HMGS who were unaware of us. (some even from the Chicago burbs, gasp) At Gen Con we co-locate with Red Shirt Games from Ottawa. Thanks for the idea, we will get HMGS in our description next year.

To put things in perspective:

"So mark your calendars and be ready to go to GaryCon.com to get your badge reserved! "

Gary Con Prices

Silver Badge $65.00 USD (1000 Available)
Gold Badge $130.00 USD (150 Available)
Platinum Badge $500.00 USD (12 Available)
Diamond Badge $1,000.00 USD (4 Available)
Spectator Badge $20.00 USD (50 Available)
Youth Badge Free (100 Available)

Kcabai
The other thing that will help is a large HMGS Banner along with promo sheets (not sure if you had them -I didn't get by until late Saturday )

If you are interested in conversing off line my e-mail is
kevin19andone@gmail.com

Met some of the HMGSMW crew at Gen Con. Also, Aerodrome Ace Of Aces had a tournament there. 3 tables,one doing a BSG inspired dogfight.

ok ,what is BSG ?