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Galley Warfare at ScrumCon 2024
The Naval Battle of Alalia 535 BC
Sometime in the decade between 540 and 530 BC, a combined Etruscan Punic fleet of one hundred and twenty warships faced off against a Greek fleet of only sixty ships from the Greco Corsican colony of Alalia . The battle, called the Battle of Alalia, was fought just off of the North Eastern coast of Corsica. Despite the numerical advantage, the Etruscan Punic…
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ScrumCon 2024 was a great time
Exapanded by a day, Expanded in space
ScrumCon, the annual convention of the Second Saturday Scrum Club, was held on 29-30 March, 2024, at the Silver Spring Civic Center in downtown Silver Spring, MD.
That’s right, we expanded to two full days of gaming. This was a bit of a risk for an all volunteer organization that legitmately has only like seven guys in it. The venue is not cheap and the…
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#5thEd#Conventions#D&D#Miniatures#roleplaying games#RPGs#ScrumCon#ScrumCon2024#Silver Spring MD#tabletop#wargames
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What Jim Ward meant to me
The designer of Metamorphasis Alpha and Gamma World has passed
James M. Ward passed away the day before yesterday. Rumor was going around he was already at GaryCon, held this weekend, but I have no idea if that’s true. I think it would have added a level of versimilitude to his death if he had passed away at a convention honoring the works of his old company, TSR, and specifically bearing the…
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Metagaming Concepts is on Internet Archive
Not every game, but many of them
I was surprised to see that the Internet Archive is now a repository for most of the output from the Metagaming Concepts Microgame Line. Microgames enjoyed popularity during the 1980s and have seen a revival with the popularity of tabletop games in the 21st century. The term generally refers to board games or wargames which were packaged and sold with…
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Row, Sink or Crash: my SCRUMCON Game Event
Greek and Etruscan gallies row for their lives in the Mediterranean Sea!
As you might know by now, SCRUMCON, the Scrum Club’s local gaming convention, will be expanding to two days this year and will be a the same location as last year, at the Silver Spring Civic Center, Silver Spring MD, on 29-30 March. Details and registration here.
Last ScrumCon, I ran a game of OGRE MINIATURES. I think it…
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Playtesting some old school and current RPG adventures for GaryCon
My friend Scott McKinley is a very creative GM and puts a lot of work into throwing games at GaryCon. Part of the up front work is playtesting his adventures. I volunteered to lend a hand recently. There were two adventures: one using the Gamma World 1st ed. RPG rules from TSR and the other the more modern Dungton Crawl Classics from Goodman Games.
Postapocalyptic Punxsutawney Peregrination
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Post Apocalyptic Gang: The Non-Sequitors
After playing my friend Joey McGuire’s game THIS IS NOT A TEST, it struck me that it would be useful to have a gang of sorts to play in that genre with. I adore the old roleplaying game from TSR called Gamma world. and in a fit of nostalgia I procured the most improbable group of characters to band together to explore a ruined landscape, Gamma World…
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Fall IN 2023 in lovely Lancaster PA
Sorry this is a bit late, but they always are these days!
A couple of whirlwind days in PA
Last weekend I took a long weekend and headed up to Lancaster VA for the 2023 rendition of FALL IN, our miniature wargaming convention. From the jump, I was in a bit of a rush and did not succeed in getting the game I intended to run (The 2023 Junkwaffel Classic) ready for FALL IN. I had ordered a big terrain piece from Etsy, they swore it would make it 2-3 weeks…
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Guidebook for Fall IN 2023 available
Download away!
HMGS Fall IN 2023 is right around the corner and that means another rendition of the digital Guidebook app for our show. If you are unfamiliar with Guidebook, this short video will give you the marketing schpiel about features, functions and applications. We have been using Guidebook for eleven years now, so many of you are familiar with the features we use and don’t use already.…
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Knee deep in the Cold War at Tank Farm, Nokesville, VA
I went to the Americans in Wartime Experience “Tank Farm” Open House recently and posted the exhibits dating from WW2 in this post. Due to the post getting really, really long, I decided to postpone the rest of the non-WW2 material for another post, Here we go. While the museum doesn’t have nearly as many postwar vehicles as it has World War 2 vehicles, but it does have some significant…
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Pushing the Limit
By Walt O’Hara
Footage Source: Pathe News Reels
That spirit never died
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Open House at the "Tank Farm" in Nokesville
Last weekend, I had a great day out on my own. We tried to attend the Open House at the Americans in Wartime Experience Museum located just south of Nokesville, VA, about 40 minutes away. The museum’s objective is to:
The Americans in Wartime Experience will educate students (and other visitors, of course). It will honor all who served our nation during times of conflict. And it will inspire us…
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M3A1 Stewart backing out to hit the track from Walt O'Hara on Vimeo.
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