Saturday, July 25, 2026

Historicon 2026 Friday Games


Outside the Dealer Hall. 








King's Mountain, by David Manley








One of 6 (!) sessions of Wagram. 













Board/Miniatures WW2 combo game 


Princeton by Jim Purky - note the Grenadier Miter!

Milton's 15 mm FoB3 Lutzen game, Friday version - I played in the Thursday night version as French (we got stomped). 


More Lutzen



I played in the Friday AM  Princeton game, on the far left of the Patriot front. 

I had 3 units of Continental infantry, but no artillery. 


We advanced upon their position fairly aggressively. 

Rest of the battle.

Back to my corner of the field; my first volley was very lucky - something like 5 hits on 6 dice. 

The British and hessians seemed to have the better of it on pour far right. 

Elie converged British Grenadier and Light companies were tough, but our numbers were pretty compelling. 

British are very hard pressed on our left. 

Action on the near and far right.

One of my units fails morale - hardly shocking with over 50% losses... but they di their job. 

My British opponent charges my line!

Patriots are prevailing in the left center. 

Action off n the Patriot Left again.

The British right center has been vaporized; shortly after the British unit with its refused left will retreat after tasking volleys from 2 of my Patriot units. 

Checking in at Lutzen near the end. 

HMGS Next Gen action. 




Circle the Wagons!








The new space downstairs was awesome - much bigger than before the renovations were completed, great lighting, etc. 








Sea Peoples and foes. 

This Colosseum is just awesome with the myriad of spectators!





Hobby U; note the assortment of Scotches belonging to the Little Wars TV guys!

For Adolfo... look, whale boats (inside joke), and none other than Moby Dick. Calling Captain Ahab!

8 comments:

  1. Loads of great looking games there. Jim's Princeton game really looks quite superb.

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    1. It and Trenton) were both very striking; I've done winter games myself but never created whole armies with winter basing!!!

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  2. Nice mix and the Princeton game looked great

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    1. Lots of AWI games (with it being the 250th Anniversary and the Convention theme), but plenty of other games of many different types as well!

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  3. That colosseum does look very impressive with all the effort put into the spectators. The Princeton game looks very effectively done. Some of the photos almost look like they were taken in black and white.

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    1. One thing about snow gams is that all that white biases the automatic settings on a camera so that everything else tends to come out more dark than it actually is. Still a battle in the snow is pretty white, grey, and dark anyway!

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  4. Superb pics, some great AWI games - i could look at these all day. Many thanks

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    1. Glad you enjoyed them; best estimate is 20% of games were AWI this year, so the Theme has a big impact!.

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