Friday, February 22, 2013

GenghisCon 2013

This past weekend was one of the local conventions called GenghisCon. My friend and I hosted numerous games, most of them using the Force on Force rules as a basis.

On Friday I helped my friend Matt run a near future game called "The War of Southern Aggression".  Was a fun little skirmish between two equal forces.  I believe the South one with some very aggressive tactics.  The North force seemed to be way too conservative and allowed the South to get much better fire lanes.


Saturday I ran 3 games of Force on Force based on the Cold War Gone Hot supplement.  The scenarios were sort of a 3 stage invasion by the Soviet Union.  Scenario 1 represented the initial invasion and the blocking/delaying forces that NATO would have to use in order to try to stem the Red Tide.  Scenario 2 was a retreat by NATO forces along with strategic town/city defenses.  Soviet companies would plan to surround and crush all resistance.  Scenario 3 was the NATO counter-attack into the overextended Soviet Forces.  These battles were very quick and bloody.  My first real dive into engagements involving multiple vehicles on each side.


Then on Sunday I hosted 1 game of Force on Force based in Afghanistan.  The scenario was for the British forces to escort a person of interest back to base.  Of course the Taliban had other ideas...


Was a very fun weekend, but I am glad it was over.  Work has been kicking my butt, so preparing for this convention was very hard and stressful.  I did not get nearly as much done as I would have liked to.

I will plan to write at least one blog post a week.  I have written out a plan for what I want to get done this year and in the next few months.  Going to set aside a few hours every week to work on miniatures.

I was curious if people would be interested in a detailed review of how to play Force on Force.  Basically it would be a multiple post guide that goes through an entire turn of Force on Force and the different aspects of the game.  I was either thinking pictures with explanations or maybe try to webcam it.  Any thoughts?

If you guys would like to see anything in particular let me know too!  

2 comments:

  1. Nick, great to see you back posting. It would be even better to see you back at the shop playing. A detailed FoF guide would be great. It's the kind of thing I look for when I'm looking at a new game.

    I hope your plan for the rest of the year includes 28mm Salamanca. Since I was divided on what to do, and you showed interest in that, that's where I'll put my efforts come mid-summer.

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    1. I would love to get in some games with you guys, but my work schedule is terrible right now. Might change come summer. 28mm Napoleonics is definitely something I am interested in, but I am not sure I have any room for it until late this year at the earliest. I wrote up a list of what I have that I would like to work on and it is daunting. I will say that 15mm sci fi is decently high on my list.

      Definitely brainstorming ideas for a play guide though.

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