With our local conventions still cancelled the group and I decided to take matters into our own hands. We rented an event room at a local hotel for the weekend and spent it gaming. This is our third "CabinCon" - which we do when for whatever reason we don't get to a local convention.
We did this at the DoubleTree hotel in Newark, California. The event room was really great and overlooked the pool area.
Friday we kicked of with the battle of the Fords of the Isen using a lightly modified version of Games Workshops War of the Ring rules. We played Struggle of Empires after that which took us late into the evening. Saturday we played the Battle of Corunna using Empires at War. After that we got out some tanks and played What a Tanker. We had a great dinner and then played board games into the evening. We wrapped up on Sunday with Napoleonic Naval. Overall we had a great weekend.
Fords of Isen
I've been looking forward to this game for some time now. It was great to get it to the tabletop. Dan, Roy and myself ran the Isengard army while John and Wade ran the Rohan defenders. This was a very close fought battle. Rohan pulled off a minor victory in the final turn.
Battle of Corunna
We've had a bit of a hiatus from Napoleonic games, so it was great to get back to the period. Roy put together a great scenario for this battle. The British need to evacuate units to the port while the French advance. I played on the British side and did my best to stem the tide of advancing French. The French pulled off a victory in the game.
Napoleonic Naval
We pulled out the big ships to play Beat to Quarters. The Spanish/French fleet took on the British. Each fleet had six ships, 4 third rates and 2 first rates.
The HMS Victory met a similar fate to the HMS Hood. The Spanish 1st rate Santisima Trinidad fired a broadside on the HMS Victory and scored a critical hit, which resulted in the magazine exploding and the shop sinking.
Unfortunately I wasn't on top of the pictures for the weekend. I didn't get any of the What a Tanker game and just forgot to take more pictures of the other games. I was busy playing and enjoying myself.
What a great idea in general, and some superb looking games!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely brilliant Jay! Did you have any curious onlookers poke their heads in asking what the heck you guys were doing lol?!
ReplyDeleteWhat scale are those ships?
Lol, some curious glances, but we kept the doors closed most of the time. Those ships are 1:300 from Old Glory :-)
DeleteI am happy you were able to enjoy this, and the perfect weekend to do so. Great photos and thanks for sharing. I am going to pocket this idea and see if my friends can’t pull off same.
ReplyDeleteCheers
Kevin
It cost us about 200 each since we kept it small, but it was worth it. We had the room all day from Fri to Sun. Great way to get some focused gaming time in.
DeleteSome great looking games and a great weekend gaming 👍
ReplyDeleteJust wonderful! The LoTR game is particularly inspirational
ReplyDeleteThank you! :-)
DeleteGreat looking photos
ReplyDeleteThanks Mr. Shed :-)
DeleteY’all put on some good games. Sounds like fun.
ReplyDeleteI used to organize things like this at my house but it’s been awhile. Mainly because of COVID but also for a far worse reason....having small children. 😀
lol ... that's why we go to the hotel (and stay at the hotel) ... no kids ... except this time we had our older kids with us, but they just mostly hung out at the pool.
DeleteWhat a wonderful set of games and superb photographs Jay. More power to you and your mates for taking the initiative and hiring the room.
ReplyDeleteThanks Carlo! With so many cancelled conventions and things improving significantly here it was about time we all got together for some gaming :-)
DeleteJay, all your games are exceptional, as we have all come to expect:-), but what really caught my eye was the docking system for the Corunna game. Who's the maker?
ReplyDeleteHeya Steve!! You are a big part of these games!
DeleteThe Corunna setup is from Crescent Root Studio:
https://crescent-root.com/pages/Product/28mm/waterfront/waterfront.html
Some great looking games and a great way to get some gaming in.
ReplyDeleteThanks Tony!
DeleteWhat a great idea. If you can't get to the convention, get a small convention to come to you.
ReplyDeleteThe Corunna battle looks excellent as does the naval engagement. what scale are those ships, they look huge?
Thanks Anthony! The ships are 1:300 from Old Glory :-) They are a sight to behold all lined up.
DeleteA perfect venue, fantastic terrain including the river and port, quality and quantity of wonderfully painted figures, and those ships are the icing on the cake.
ReplyDeleteThanks Pat! Had a great time playing through the weekend - I hope you are getting some gaming in.
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