PacifiCon Game Expo Report

The PacifiCon Game Expo has come and gone for me.  Our merry group headed there early Friday and got in some serious gaming.  We had a lot of fun through the whole weekend!

The primary game I hosted was for my War of the Ring revised rules.  This was a large game that was meant to really see how the revisions to WotR really stood up in a large battle with a lot of different troop types and capabilities.  The good news, it work REALLY well - I have some minor typos and cleanup do to but the result was very promising.

War of the Ring

I ran a scenario that involved a large Mordor force supported by Easterlings and Corsairs of Umbar.  Gondor and Rohan - supported by a large Gondor Fiefdoms forces, made up the good guys.  I had 4 players per side (8 players total) and the battle was an absolute bloodbath from turn 2 onwards.  I had planned for 6 turns, but we called it at the end of turn 5 (oh, the carnage!).

Pictures below of the action.  First set of pictures are from my fancy SLR camera, then pictures from my phone ...

WW2 Naval - Convoy Attack

Roy Scaife ran his new WW2 sub hunting game.  This is a special modification of his rules that are based on Victory at Sea.  This game was a ton of fun.  I played 1 of 3 escort groups which each consisted of a cruiser and 2 destroyers.  My  ruiser was sunk, but my destroyers did their jobs, sinking 2 U-boats.  In total we sunk 4 U-boats, but lost 3 convoy ships.

WW2 Bolt Action

John Lantz hosted a WW2 Bolt action game.  Germans had to assault a Russian Village occupied by light Russian forces and partizans.  I played a support group with some mortars and managed to rain down some excellent fire on the advancing Germans.

Necromunda

I managed to host a little unofficial Necromunda game just before heading home.  I wanted to refamiliarize myself with the rules.

Other Games

We played lots of board games.  I continue to love Foundations of Rome ... my playmat arrived since our last game.  The mat adds a lot of visual flavor to the games.

Matt Hilzendrager ran his beautiful Sudan game, and several other standard games occured throughout the weekend.

I snapped some pictures of other games going on as well ...

There you have it.  Another great weekend of gaming in the books.