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Lion Rampant Tourny at Havoc XL

Hello folks!

2nd email newsletter this month, and its Focus is on the 2026 HAVOC convention …

Havoc is this upcoming weekend and scheduled for Fri March 27th, Sat March 28th, and Sun March 29th … and the convention is located at the Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel, 181 Boston Post Road in Marlborough MA.

Entry Fee for the the full weekend is $50 USD, and for Sunday only … $20 USD at the door … which means if a person only has the time to participate on Sunday for the Lion Rampant Tourney that starts at 10am, then you can!

Also … tourney prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place will be a pick from 6 different boxes of medieval era miniatures, including … Wargames Atlantic's Foot Sergeants, or any of Fire Forge's Western Army Mounted Sergeants, Military Orders Turcoples, Western Army Archers, Russian Infantry, or Gripping Beast's Arab Light Cav/Horse Archers.

The tourney uses Swiss System for the pairings across 3 rounds at 10am, 12:30, 3pm, each being 2 hrs and a half hour in between rounds, 6 possible tables, scenery provided, Scenario 1 with 24 point army lists from back of 2nd edition rules. Bring your own army or 6 loaner armies are "first come, first serve" or email gamespoet@aol.com. Beginners ok, under 12 with adult. Remember … STARTS SUNDAY 10AM!

So far, I've heard from a total of 3 persons planning to attend for just Sunday's friendly tourney, and as long as there is an odd number, then I will join in as well. 4 of us is enough for all to play someone different each round, although we'd love to have more players, and hope others like yourself can join us for the fun.

Besides the tourney, other Lion Rampant games or those using rules by the same author are …

A. Battle of White Plains, Oct 28, 1776 … Saturday, 2pm, 4 hours, Rebels & Patriots, 2 of 8 slots available.
B. Battle of Bouvines, 1214 AD … Saturday, 7:30pm, 4 hours, 2nd Edition (modified), 5 of 6 slots available.

Here is a link to Havoc sign ups … Havoc XL (2026)
(Game submissions are closed, but weekend badges and game tickets are still available.)

After we get past Havoc this upcoming weekend then we'll return to providing info on other Lion Rampant and associated events in our next issue.

By the way … this newsletter is for events in the Northeast that use Lion Rampant or any of the other associated rules using their format.

Here is a registration link for havoc.

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This should be a great way to spend your Sunday :)

We had a good first tourney at Havoc in 2025, and hoping for as equally a good one this year.

If ya can't make it for the whole convention, it's only $20 USD for Sunday at the door, and getting in 3 rounds of 2 hours each, half hour in between each.

We've been running a tourney in May at Huzzah! for years. And with this tourney, we're going to start tracking wins and losses by player and army used for publication in our Lion Rampant email newsletter, and quite possibly for a future tourney rankings system.

Besides at Havoc and Huzzah!, there are also tourneys being run at Council Con in Schenectady NY, and the hobby store called Fortress of Gaming in Albany NY.

We encourage a friendly atmosphere, with simple rules that even a newcomer can pick up quickly.

Looking forward to the LR tourney at HAVOC this Sunday starting at 10am!

And we got 24 point armies that folks can borrow for the day, first come first serve, so let us know.

Thank you for the update :)

The tables for Sunday's tourney at HAVOVC have some new terrain pieces I've completed recently.

I saw thi this morning, nice work :)

There was a large Lion Rampany in NY State last weekend, Council Con in Schenectady NY. GamePoet attended this one.

Actually … it was the Albany Spring Bash. ; )

10 players, 6 tables, lots of good games! We'll have a report out at some point. Cheers!