We’re back, baby! Several years ago, I made it to the Barrage gaming convention hosted by the HAWKS wargaming club in Havre de Grace Maryland. This was actually the first place I ran a full convention game, my Viking raid game (Viking Raid on Iona Abbey- Scenario Rules). The last couple of years fall has […]
Academic busts have been making pretty quick and easy display projects, but it is easy to get lost in the weeds. They also lack some of the narrative opportunities of other kinds of mini art. So I think the key for me is to not get lost in this multi-month iteration with them at the
Yet another epic 2025 convention! The Nova Open has really grown into a cool cross-genre, cross-game event hosted in DC (interesting historical tidbit, at the very hotel where Regan was shot) that has become a staple of my gaming year. And the number one thing about it that I love is that I can take
This was our first venture out into the world of conventions for 2026- hopefully we will go to fewer than last year haha ( Cons of 2025! ). We braved the snowcrete and cold of February to drive up to Lancaster. That’s right, this year they moved Cold Wars to the Wyndham on the edge
So I made some more progress on the historical wargaming project no one asked for- the Great Northern War! It’s gonna be great, and hopefully it will get people interested in this corner of history largely forgotten outside of baltic countries. But more on that later! Right now, I finished up a block of pikemen
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So 2025 has been a crazy year of cons- hopefully I will get some brief recaps of each and an overall perspectives piece pulled together for the end of year! But with the madness of the end of year coming up, I did manage to get one more con squeezed in – PAX Unplugged 2025!
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So it has been a very busy her with a ton of cool cons, and I’ve been drowning a bit hobby-wise with big pushes for UnionCon and other life things. But, I had the opportunity to run up quickly to Fall-In by HMGS in Lancaster PA. While I love historicon and the downtown convention center
The greatest gaming convention Brookville Maryland has ever seen returned in 2025 returned twice as big and ready to rumble! More to come on the con itself, but thought I would start with a little after action report for the 1941 Raiders of the Malta Convoy game I ran on Saturday. I’ll do a post
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In anticipation of Unioncon 2025, the second edition of the greatest gaming convention ever held in Brookeville Maryland, I’ve been rapidly finishing my forces for the Battle of Monocacy, 1864! General Lew Wallace, most famous for writing Ben Hur, is in charge of the Middle Department and VII Corps, based in Baltimore, MD. With the
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I’m getting ready for the next convention game I’m planning to host, a chance for players to learn more about and engage with the Battle of Monocacy, a battle in the US Civil War that occurred just outside of Fredrick Maryland. The beleaguered Union Army had to throw together a blocking force to slow a
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