Historicon 2008 Pt. 2

Thursday continued.

After the Far East tourney it was time to travel to the H.o.t.T Universe where my Isengard army would be facing off against the undead, the Galctic Empire, and the Trade Federation!

Alex Bostwick's Undead army

My first match was against ABos, who trounced me.  Alex was astonished at my rolling 12 “1’s” in a row.  Ouch!

Greek Alex attempts to steam-roll my army.

Alex Halkiadakis was my next opponent. This game ended pretty quickly, with Count Dooku getting encorceled by Saruman.

NExt up, I played David McDonald and his (almost) all shooter army.  I forgot to take pics, but David played very well and rolled some good dice (he managed to bring back Vader after I encorcelled him).  So I went 1-2 in my first HotT tourney.  Thanks to Mike Oneil for running it.

David Kuijt's lovely Ice Barbarians

Next up was Hannibal at the Gates run by Mark Poz.  I took my Syracusans and went 2-2.  First off was Larry Chaban’s Later Carthos.

Top-down view. Final rolls were 6-1

Next up I played some lad who just learned the game tha day.  He was pretty excited to be fielding his hoplite army.  I won this one 4-0.

A big fight between terrain features.

Next was a tense battle against Tony Aguilar’s Polybian Romans.  This battle was marked by a littoral landing at the rear of his army.  Tony smacked me in this fight, 4-1 I think.

Our lines never met!

My last fight of the tourney was against Rich Gause’s Gauls.  Rich played like a madman, even after he lost his general.  Final score was 5-3G.

Rich turning my flank, sans general.

Tomorrow I post reports from Friday.

FYI, I will be selling one of my Marian Roman armies with a camp and two elements of spear to morph into Polybian.  Shoot me an email if you are interested. portertm @ gmail dot com

Historicon 2008 Pt.1

First off, let me say that I am sorry I did not have daily coverage of the con; my hotel had no Internet access.  Like last year, this was a great con, made so by all the great players that our community is known for.  I really feel that I have made some lasting friendships.  The great highlight for me was taking home my first plaque for winning the Asian theme with my mighty Mike’s Models Koreans!  I also learned a heck of a lot this time around.  As I said several times: I came to Historicon not having a clue how to field a Medieval army, and left really enjoying them. I also rolled really, really bad dice this week.  So bad, that my dad actually went to the dealer area to buy me new dice and a new dice cup!

In addition to these reports, I have updated the Victory & Defeat page to reflect my Games at Historicon.  I went 8-8 this year, a far cry from my 9-2-1 record for 1-on-1 DBA from last year.   I’ve least been able to manage 1 tourney win per Historicon.

I have no pictures from Wednesday night, given that I was totally exhausted and forgot my camera in the car.  I played 3 disastrous games with a loaner army courtesy of Ron Giampapa.  After that, I went back to the hotel to rest.

The next day was a bit better.  The first event was the 2000 Years of Far East Wars themed event.  I took my Koryo Koreans for a spin and did well, suffering only one defeat against a historical match-up: Ron’s Post-Mongol Samurai.

My first battle against Rich Gause and his Tribal Mongolians.

Second battle vs. Ron’s Samurai.

My final battle.  Again, I forget the details…I remember by Arty and bow slaughtering many horsemen.

More to come soon!

Historicon Coverage

Wednesday begins my coverage of DBA at Historicon.  Like last year, I plan on daily pictoral updates and reports.  Sunday’s info may be done on Monday.

With my departure to seminary coming in three weeks, I have decided (for various reasons) to lower my internet profile a tad by using a handle and new user ID.  The new handle is: Athanasios, my patron saint.

I also wanted to say that I have passed 70,000 hits in a year and a half of starting this blog.  THank you so much for stopping by, and I hope you continue to enjoy the blog.  Of course, I thank Chris Brantley of Fanaticus for routinely directing traffic here.

See some of you in two days!  (Now. back to painting…)