| Mooseworks8 | 04 Aug 2017 8:16 p.m. PST |
Recruits
Reaper Con
Border Wars What others? |
 piper909  | 04 Aug 2017 8:31 p.m. PST |
Gamehole (Madison, WI, each November) |
| rmaker | 04 Aug 2017 8:36 p.m. PST |
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| Cyrus the Great | 04 Aug 2017 9:47 p.m. PST |
Depends on what you want in a convention. I like Adepticon. |
 Doctor X | 04 Aug 2017 10:22 p.m. PST |
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| Tgerritsen | 05 Aug 2017 4:21 a.m. PST |
GenCon is the biggest Midwestern Convention. There's also PAX South in Texas. It's hard to pick a favorite. |
| robert piepenbrink | 05 Aug 2017 4:24 a.m. PST |
Did we suddenly stop being the Miniatures Page? Gencon for "gaming." Little Wars for miniatures gaming. |
| Garryowen | 05 Aug 2017 5:35 a.m. PST |
I agree with Robert P. Tom |
| TheDesertBox | 05 Aug 2017 5:58 a.m. PST |
Food for thought, Robert: GenCon typically has more miniatures vendors and games than Little Wars. Perhaps not by percentage of the whole, but certainly in absolute numbers. |
 Murphy  | 05 Aug 2017 6:20 a.m. PST |
Gecnon is still a "Gaming convention" but with so much more…however I've been learning lately (once again) that "bigger isn't necessarily better". I am still likoing Little Wars more and more. |
| rmaker | 05 Aug 2017 9:10 a.m. PST |
GenCon has long since ceased to be a "gaming" convention. It's a media convention where gaming goes on as part of the action. As proof, look at who the author guest of honor is – Charlaine Harris, who writes vampire romance novels. |
| robert piepenbrink | 05 Aug 2017 11:12 a.m. PST |
Box, at what point does the ore become too low-grade to mine? And I'm primarily a historical miniatures gamer, which makes it even worse. We'd have to grow to be a rounding error--only of course at Gencon, we don't grow. |
| PzGeneral | 05 Aug 2017 12:57 p.m. PST |
You guys complain about GenCon…..don't get me started on ORIGINS! |
| TheDesertBox | 05 Aug 2017 3:11 p.m. PST |
I'll counter with a variation on your own initial post: Did we suddenly start calling ourselves the Historical Miniatures Page? Not that it matters. It's an opinion. Mine just happens to be the correct opinion. ;) |
| Murphy | 05 Aug 2017 4:08 p.m. PST |
GenCon has long since ceased to be a "gaming" convention. It's a media convention where gaming goes on as part of the action. As proof, look at who the author guest of honor is – Charlaine Harris, who writes vampire romance novels. rmaker: with a program book of over 300 pages and over 800 gaming events of different types, i'd say you were wrong. Also, if you know of any bestselling wargames authors, please let Gen Con know… |
| Tgerritsen | 05 Aug 2017 8:10 p.m. PST |
The OP asked about gaming conventions, I answered with two in addition to the ones above it. When did it become incorrect to answer the question being asked in a topic? Forgot about Origins as well. I've been to most listed thus far, and played minis, including historical minis at each I've attended. I got my start in historical miniatures playing JagdPanzer at GenCon in 1984. I played first edition Harpoon with Larry Bond himself at GenCon 1985. Incidentally I played General Quarters at Gary Con this year, and Tractics II as well. But hey, I guess that doesn't count amongst the elite among us who feel that only true historical gamers can play at true historical conventions. Meanwhile, I'll keep playing what I like where I like. |
| huron725 | 21 Aug 2017 3:09 p.m. PST |
Does SYW convention count? That is my absolute favorite. Ok in all fairness that is the only convention I've been to in 15-18 years. :) |
discovers a better way to fill in hollow plastic bases.
