Enfilade! - End of First Period

Well, here I am in Olympia, Washington attending yet another annual NHMGS Enfilade! convention. I ran the Actium game with 7 players (one guy sneaked in ;) ) - no problem though. Only one player had played Black Powder or Hail Caesar before - which the command activation for the Actium game is based upon. However, everyone seemed to pick up on the rules by the third turn or so. I lost track of how many turns we actually played, but we continued even after both Antony, and later Octavian were killed. Cleopatra survived till the end, but never made it off the board - a Victory Condition. No matter, all the players gave the game a thumbs up and had smiles the whole time. I will be incorporating a few mods to the game tomorrow morning when I run it again. One will be to allow Cleopatra's squadron to get a free move even after a failed command role - which happened quite a few times in this game. Another will be to the Grappling rules - it will take one additional ship to attempt to grapple a ship each class larger than itself. The players themselves gave these opines during the AAR. Here's a quick shot of the game during mid-play.

Note the convention-safe plastic sheet over the Hotz mat. Go ahead, spill your drinks :)!

Here are a few games I was able to take pictures of prior to the start of my game. I still need to go back and get a shot of the huge Ligny game run by the White Rock Gamers from British Columbia.

Lloyd Bowler's Viking Run - a perennial favorite

Chris Craft's Agincourt game using Hail Caesar. Chris' game appropriately won Best of Period.

Gene Anderson's Martian Airship Raid game - and to think this is an Historical Gamers convention. Shame on you Gene :)

Doug Hamm's Waterloo - The Better Plan using General de Corps.

There are well over 100 games scheduled throughout the weekend. I know I won't be able to get pictures of all of them, but hope to post some quality shots. Oh, and GM's who host two or more games got this cool looking coffee cup below.