After Action Report
Back in record time. Includes stopping for gas and food and a little girl pissin on every bush from Chicago home.
God dam AdeptiCon has gotten expensive. It is still a close run thing between driving and flying. It takes a day either way. It was 245 in gas and 68 in tolls. The food at the site was stupid expensive. That is out of the roach hot boxes or from the bar. Dinner off site was just as bad. I can't say about the hotel prices as we were on points.
That we ain't a mouse. I had the kid with me. She is expensive and picky. Her expense is countered by me not drinking my face completely off and finding a purple haired trucker. We did see her smoking. Funny that is the same place I found her last time. COVID was not kind to her!
We did the volunteer loading of bags. Last time they gave out food tickets. The kid ate free the whole time.
AdeptiCon has changed too.
They need a new venue!
The split gaming areas, locations created a situation where you weren't going between the sites. We never saw the historical location. We never knew B&P was being played. They need a location that can hold everyone.
The parking, even after being expanded, is a shit show. There are 100 spot too few. No one was giving up a spot to go anywhere. Some parked and then cabbed it back and forth from their hotels.
The hotel suffers from no one wanting to work. The service is not to the level of the chain. Individuals would disappear. Servers would get lost. The trash was over flowing.
The event needs to be catered. The food on site is park park junk. It sucks! There are not enough location to get food. There are no beer venders.
Why I won't return.
AdeptiCon has turned into a pay to play. The more you pay, the more you get. In years past, they didn't sell tickets to travel agents. If you buy the package, then you have access the all the events prior to anyone else. Games fill up fast. When they are full before opened to the public. That is a problem.
We loaded the bags. There were people that got everything. And there were people who got less and those who got jack all. There is no way they don't know what they have volume wise prior to selling weekend passes. You could have been a VIG and gotten everything the guy next to you got or you could have gotten far less! It was worse for the next level down.
Now I sell everything I get from AdeptiCon. Everything. It is listed the night I get it. This years was amazing. VV was kicking around scoring all sorts of shit. So much a 20 pound box is going to the church for the raffle.
The location blows. Same place next year is an auto No-Go.
The prime drawers for us have been decreasing year after year. We play Epic, Warmaster, Cruel Seas, B&P, and Historics. Historics and B&P were off site. Epic had 6 which is close to avg. Warmaster took a dump. Now both Epic and Warmaster lost all but one of the local players. There is no Man of War any more, No FoG. There are not enough games for us.
Playing pick up is all well and good, but I can get pick up at home. I have hosted larger tourneys at my house. We roast a pig leg. It is not worth going out to play pick up for 4 days.
It is near dam impossible to get into one off games. They are held 3 or 4 times during the weekend, but you cannot get a spot. The wait list is 30+ deep. Which leaves you with playing demo games in the vendor hall, put on by vendors.
The vendors are not sponsoring or running their games. No 1666, No Oil Wars, No Arena Rex, No BFaS, None of the Battle Front. They are there, but nothing. Only two ran 2x2 foot demos. No big games. Small Wars had vendors running games and big games all weekend! Opps, Nappy had action going no stop on full size tables.
I play dead games. I don't expect prize support. The still living games had fuck all. With the exception of B&P. Man those dudes, every dude, had hands full of goodies. I did not see that with any other system.
