Spartacon Resurgent

        Spartacon dodged the weather bullet this year (much to my relief) and saw about  seventy-five gamers gather to breathe life in to the convention scene once more. With about a dozen games in the first two sessions there was plenty of games to participate in, I confess to skipping the third session as I had to drive home that evening. It was reassuring to see gamers gathering together and sharing a good time, the "new normal" notwithstanding.

 

I ran a game of Red Stars and Rising Suns 

with the Russians and the Japanese slugging it out over Nomonhan

 

 

this was a frantic battle between the nimble Japanese fighters and the rugged Russian aircraft

 and saw the superior skill of the Japanese give them a slight edge

 

Rod Cain ran a Battle of Marathon which had these two delightful triremes as an objective

 

the miniatures and layout were up to his usual superb standards

 

the Triumph! rules provide a fast game and a realistic outcome

 

on another table we found the Japanese and US fleets slugging it out

 at Empress Augusta Bay, this game was presented by Lawrence Smith

 

Joe Barrette presented the Battle of Culloden using Black Powder rules and

quite an attractive display of the 2.5D paper soldiers from the Peter Dennis offerings

 

en masse they are quite convincing, up close they take me back to my childhood

 

15mm Napoleonic combat, I didn't catch which game this was but

 the players were intensely involved and seemed to be rather enjoying themselves

 

Micheal Wedding presented Little Round Top and Devil's Den using  Johnny Reb III

 

once again I was running a game at the same time that this simply lovely Western Desert game was being hosted, I think that one of these years I will skip running a game just to have a chance to take part in this, the miniatures are very well painted and the game is very very well presented

 

 

 

Chris Maes presented a Tolkien-based scenario 

using Dragon Rampant rules and some very nice 1/72 scale miniatures

 

      Apologies to all the presenters that I missed. There were a good many games that I barely had a chance to glance at and I am sure that I missed a few entirely. I'm looking forward to next year and an even bigger show!