"MINI WARS Convention Oct. 11 & 12 in Fullerton, California" Topic

Calling all tabletop miniature GAME-MASTERS throughout the Southland, whether you're in…

Greater Los Angeles…

Orange County…

The San Gabriel Valley…

The Inland Empire…

Or beyond…

Your presence and that of your awesome games is hereby requested at HMGS Pacific South West's MINI-WARS 2025 convention, to be held on Saturday October 11th & Sunday October 12th at:

California State University, Fullerton
Titan Student Union – University Conference Center, Portola Pavilion
800 N. State College Blvd, Fullerton, CA 92831

Yes, this year we are very happy to be returning to the site of some of our greatest conventions of the past, Mini-Wars' once and now future home on the campus of Cal State Fullerton! Featuring FREE PARKING, dozens of good restaurants nearby on Chapman Avenue, and Conveniently located less than a 20-minute drive from Disney Land and Knott's Berry Farm Amusement Park, and less than a half-hour from Huntington Beach & Newport Beach (two of the nicest beaches in Southern California), a half-hour drive from Downtown L.A. & 1-hour drive to Santa Monica Pier.

Here's a LINK to the convention page on the Table Top Events website:

link

In celebration of the upcoming 250th Birthday of the U.S.M.C. less than one month after the convention, the theme for Mini-Wars 2025 is: SEND IN THE MARINES!

All Game Master hosting games featuring Marines will be eligible for a special award for Best Theme Game.

For anyone interested in learning more about HMGS-PSW, here's a LINK to our organization's website:

hmgspsw.org

Of course, we also need PLAYERS for all those games, because no GM wants to be left alone at his table, especially at a con! So if you're looking to play in one big game or a dozen, come on over!

As usual for Mini-Wars, events will range across the gamut of historical land, air & naval wargaming, along with various fantasy, sci-fi and horror games, and will include a FLAMES OF WAR Tournament and possibly a DBA Tournament as well.

And that leaves only one more thing for me to do: post a ton of pics of past Mini-Wars in an effort to convince you to join us at Cal State Fullerton for a great weekend of hobby fun and games -- as well as healthy competition, history, fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and some laughs (not necessarily in that order!)………….

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE ONE OR PREFERABLY BOTH DAYS!!!

How well attended, both for GM's and games is this convention? It'd be a roughly 4.5 hour drive for me and I'm curious what to expect.

It's about 400 miles away, so we probably won't go. Have a great convention!

We will miss you, Oberlindes, but thanks for the well-wishes!

Lascaris, Mini-Wars is not a big convention, but we are making a push to increase attendance. I wish we'd been able to start promoting it to the gaming public sooner so people could have more time to plan, but hopefully we will manage to do that next year. This year we are hoping for 200 attendees. We generally have about 50 games over the course of Saturday & Sunday. I'm not sure how many GM's we usually have, but a lot of us run games throughout both days, so it's less than 50. I will say, despite being small, we generally have a pretty good selection of games of almost every types. RE: drive times, I drive 7 hrs. from my place in Los Angeles to run games at SAND WARS, our slightly smaller convention in Mesa, AZ, but, hey, I don't claim to be sane! I hope you can make it, but if not, thanks for taking the time to ask your questions.

I drive 17 hours (each way) to go to Historicon, so 4.5 hours would be a very short trip for me. But from Wisconsin to Fullerton is what I consider "a bridge too far". I do like the pics that you posted though. Looks like a lot of fun! Best wishes for a great turnout.

Thanks, Perris0707, you are a wargamer after my own heart! Back in 2011 & 2015 , I drove 1,900 miles over 3 days (each way) from Los Angeles LA to Metairie, Louisiana LA to run games at Colonial Barracks conventions, just outside New Orleans. Still, I agree that Wisconsin to Southern California is "A Bridge Too Far," which is our loss! Speaking of bridges too far… you may have noticed a few of the pics l posted came from a big Market Garden game I helped a friend run at last year's Mini-Wars to commemorate the 80th Anniversary.