I fought and fought with it. Tabletop said games were full with tickets/spots showing available. Only to appear in my cart after telling me to get on a list.
Well this is what I got. Almost every FoF game
Convention Registration for Historicon 2026 will open for all attendees on Friday, May 15th at 12:00 PM EDT. Game Host, Volunteer and Vendor badges are already being entered by staff and those individuals should receive notification soon (and definitely before Event Tickets & Merch are available on May 26th).
HMGS has created an "Attendee Registration Instructions" overview: https://hmgs.org/conventions/tte-attendee-registration-instructions/.
If you are a non-Member, you can click on the "Get/View Your Badge" option on the Attend dropdown menu for Historicon 2026 on TableTop.Events.
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Little Wars is out. Looks like I will be going to Israel again.
It is held in my town. 15 minute drive. And this year I will miss it. I have missed HistoriCon, Fall In, and now Cold Wars. Sad state when I don't say go fuck yourself, I am playing soldiers.
I chose to miss AdeptiCon last year. I am not going this year either. It is not the new location. I would fly in either way and stay on points. There is just not enough time off.
I will be at Little Wars. It smaller and not the shit show AdeptiCon is. I will be flying in.
The XXVIII annual Epic tourney was held in the usual spot The Portal in Mansfield, CT. There was 18 players and we were missing the NYC crew and only one NJ guy showed. 1 from ME. 3 from PA came up. They suffered a terrible drive once across the Hudson. I was lucky and working in Albany. My drive was a short easy 2hrs Friday at noon.
Coach's Steel legion took top spot. Mars and Dark Eldar were 2nd or 3rd.
I had submitted two list. With no work up games, I couldn't decide what to field. I did not have a nailed down schedule prior to the event. I sent in Tau. As I can play them with little study and a Sallie list.
Being the Dick that I am I made everyone play corners. I had a plan. Where there Blitz went determined where my 2 objectives in their half went.
In the tourney my first game was against Tim. Grudge match, we played at last year's tourney. The blue was used in this game. He had IG. I did much better, but still lost 3-0 BTS, Blitz, DTF.
Next was a game of bad things. I had Chris and his Grey Knight. No part of the plan was used as everything dropped. 3 teleported on my left flank. I lost the initiative roll. Chris failed to activate. I ate two of them nicely. He landed a Thawk and with a retain sent 2 detachments to the foam. The other 2 Thawks and friends came down. We both got bloodly. Those friends took off in Thawks. Everyone rallied at the end of turn 2. I won initiative finished the left flank. Chris landed all but smashed the right flank. A lone busted rhino was engaged by a Thawk. The rhino dished out box car after box car won the engagement. Then the space craft came last activation, hit nothing ad drop podded the Blitz and T&H. Sallies 2-0. Chris's BTS got away with a single stand.
Third game was with NJ Darius. Darius had Squats with him. The pink was used in this game. I held a Tactical for drop, garrisoned one group of termies and teleported the other. I had T&H in turn one and the gate was swinging home. It took 4 detachments to wall off Darius. All where busted and down to one or two stands. The last Tactical and Dev ran a blocking action in turn 3. Sallies with TSNP and T&H. 2-0
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There are no plans for an Epic tourney or a Warmaster tourney.
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