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Friday Games  

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Session One:  Friday 1:00 pm through 5:00 pm

Game Title:             Baltic Gap
GM's Name:            Henry Robinette
Game Type:             Board
Number of Players: Up to 4
Brief Description:   Baltic Gap Depicts the Soviet drive into Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania, during the summer of 1944.  1st Baltic
Front is advancing westward through the shredded German line, and will sooon threaten all of Army Group North with encirclement.  This game will play all day Friday and Saturday.

Game Title:              The Battle for Normandy   (Theme Game) 
GM's Name:
             John Reed
Game Type:              Board 
Number of Players:
  4-6
Brief Description:   The Battle for Normandy is a game that represents the climatic campaign in Normandy from D-Day, June 6,
1944 to the first week of August, 1944, at primarily batallion level. This game will be played all day Friday and Saturday.

Game Title:               Battle of Britain
GM's Name:              Jerry Boles
Game Type:               Miniatures
Game Scale:              1/300
Rules Used:               "Blue Sky"
Number of Players:  10- Beginners Welcome
Brief Description: Hitler's bombers are headed for England.  Can the RAF's Spitfires and Hurricanes turn back the Luftwaffe's He-111s or will break through the British defenses.

Game Title:                  Double Trailer Park Wars     
GM's Name:                 Deb Kohten & Kell Sowers
Game Type:                  Boardgame 
Number of Players:      6-10, ages 13+, no experience needed
Brief Description:        Two times the flamingos, six times the fun.  Build your trailer park and fill the mobile home with all types of folks.  Remember not to put the meth lab next to the cops or you will lose residents as well as your flamingos.  The park with the most birds wins... if you survive the tornadoes, bombs, and subversives kicked out of other players' parks.

Game Title:              When the Navy Walked Against the Alien Menace    
GM's Name:             Robert Adams
Rules Used:               "When the Navy Walked"
Game Type:               Miniatures
Game Scale:              15mm
Number of Players:  6
Brief Description:    The great powers of Germany and England allied with the Sky Pirates, Atlantians, and dinosaurs and battle the alien menace of the Overlords.  Can they hold their line or will the aliens overcome the allies land Ironclads and Walkers with their Tripods and deth machines?  When the Navy Walked is a strategic game of Victorian Science Fiction where the players take the reigns of massive armies and their stem powered machines.  Developed by Robert Adams.   This game will be played during Sessions One & Two.

Session Two:    Friday 6:00 pm through 10:00 pm

Game Title:             "Battle of Spring Hill", November 29th, 1864     
GM's Name:             Bob Moon
Game Type:              Miniature
Rules Used:               Fire & Fury, Regimental
Game Scale:              28mm American Civil War
Number of Players:  Minimum of 5 up to 7
Brief Description:    General John Bell Hood was mad as Hell!  During the morning, he had brilliantly maneuvered most of his Army
of Tennessee into the rear of the retreating Union army under Scofield.  By 3pm Cleburne's veteran brigade was poised to assault the critical road junction at Spring Hill thereby cutting off the Yankee line of march towards Franklin/Nashville, with an opportunity to destroy the larger Union army piecemeal.  But why, Hood wanted to know, had the assault not begun?  Other notes:  Players under 16
welcome, with a playing adult.

Game Title:               A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Rommel 
GM's Name:              Jerry Boles
Game Type:               Miniatures
Rules Used:                "Blue Skies"
Game Scale:               1/300
Number of Players:   8- Beginners Welcome
Brief Description:     The Luftwaffe Transport Command is trying to airlift badly needed supplies to Rommels's Afrika Korps.  P-38 of the 15th Air Force intercept the aerial convoy.  Can the JU-52s and ME-323s hand on long enough for reinforcements to arrive or will this turn into a "Mediterranean Turkey Shoot"?

Game Title:               Saving Ryan's Privates, Part I- Omaha
GM's Name:              Chip Coffey
Game Type:               RPG 
Rules Used:                "Behind Enemy Lines"
Number of Players:   4
Brief Description:     Captain John Miller and his squad of Rangers land at deadly Omaha Beach and try to survive long enough to move inland.

Game Title:               MegaCon Bike Race
GM's Name:             Joe Caso
Game Type:              Warhammer 40K
Game Scale:              28mm
Number of Players:  Up to 20
Brief Description:    Warhammer 40K bikes will be used to race aroung a figure eight track.  First player to complete 3 laps wins.  Choose your bike; fast, normal, or heavy.  Racing, shooting, ramming, and hand-to-hand combat will be expected to take place.  Bring your own bike or use one of the limited number of bikes provided.