Strategicon - Gateway Sept. 6th

[lawndart]

I'll be demoing AE-WII all day Sunday, September 6th at the Strategicon-Gateway convention in Los Angeles. I'll be willing to give demos, or play against any army you care to bring. I'll be around on Saturday as well, but won't be running anything official that day - but would be willing to play in any sort of pick-up game.

Hopefully, I should have a copy of the Occult book with me.

The official convention blurb:

Stop by any time during the day to learn how to play the pulp WW-II skirmish game AE-WWII. Choose to play with American sci-tech mechanical forces, German Genetic abominations, or forces using only historical weapons. Learning the rules and playing a demo can be done in an hour or two. All figures for the demos will be provided - just drop by willing to learn a fun & quick skirmish game!

[lawndart]

Gateway has now come and again. On Sunday, I gave three AE-WWII demos to four people, in addition to fielding questions from interested onlookers.

The Strategicon folks used the concept of a "Miniatures Bootcamp" this year, in which several miniatures games were demonstrated side by side. I thought this worked out very well this year - there was much more foot traffic in this area of the convention as people were dropping by often to play and learn some quick miniature games. One of the demos I gave was to a father and his high-school age son who had never played a miniatures game before but were grabbed by the AE-WWII board I had set out. They had a great time and decided to purchase their first miniatures games (albeit it was Space Hulk, not AE-WII, as they had read about it beforehand). I'll take creating some new miniature wargamers as a small win.

I'll definitely be back at Strategicon/Orccon February, and hope the convention sticks with the Miniatures Bootcamp. I plan to spend one day on demos, but hopefully one of the nights I'll schedule a game for people with existing armies...or even a small tournament. If any current players think they would be interested in a game and/or tournament, please let me know!


Phil

[lawndart]

It turns out the father/son team I gave a demo to enjoyed it so much that they wrote about it on BoardGameGeek (and attached a picture! boardgame.geekdo.com/geeklist/45902/item/1034411#item1034411