Little Wars 2026 23 - 26 April

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Little Wars 2025 After Action Report

 

            Is little Wars worth it? As long as you do not expect to play is specialist games tourneys. There are very few tourneys at this Con. Yes. Even games that are booked you can get into. 80% had walk up spots available. I did not experience a single dickhead player. 

            The hotel is great. Rooms available on points up until the day of the Con. It is sort of close to the airports. 50 buck urber. The food situation is total shit. The hotel bar is almost ok. The service is slower than whale shit. The food in the gaming hall is bullshit. There was a taco girl bring food to your table. I did not use it. There is no place you can walk to to eat. You'll need to find a ride.

            Cigars can be smoked right out side. Nice bench in the sun when it is warm enough.

            The mid west crew has some very nice games, beautiful tables, and original games. One game was on the back set of a movie stage, and the Chinese movie game. 3 different modern rule sets were played. AWI and ACW all day. ECW, cowboys.

            There are an absolute cubic butt ton of Naval warfare games. There were two with subs hunting convoys. I massive ancient greek ship battle. Serval WWII ship on ship.

                                                                    Save the Date 2026

                I bought a bunch of shit. I wasn't going to......but there I was minding my own business and some clown was sell an estate. An estate of a dude that played soldiers. So I bought a star fort and ACW 15mm bands. Most the star fort made it home. 10-15% I had to leave with Chicago Matt to hold for me.

                After that I returned to minding my own business until By fire and sword guy was staging two new rule sets one for greek warfare and the other F&IW.

                Neither got me. The 2nd edition bFaS did.  Everything but minis Rule book, army book, cards........And they sell Anno Domini. I had to get a fatty. I dropped the most money here.

    

                I bought a Greek ship for SAGA terrain from Brian.

                Then the new Warlord Samurai book and the pike and shot rule from the estate guy. I did all this before playing pike and shot. For Black Powder it was ok, not terrible. I am not a BP fan at all. I will try it for Samurai. and see. It has to be great or I will sell the rules. The Samurai book I will keep. I think some of the special rules can be moved into the Warmaster historical samurai list.

 

THE MOUNTAIN

Bought = 88 + an army

Sold = 138 + 2 armies, 12 terrain

Painted = 109

28mm = 42

20mm = 0

15mm = 0

10mm = 0

Epic = 9

Terrain bought = 41

Terrain painted = 31

Printed Terrain = 27

Minis Printed = 0

Games 

Played = 5

Games hosted = 0

Books 

Bought = 5

Read = 6

2024

Bought = 739, 2 armies

Sold = 553, 29 detachments, 7 armies, box set

Painted = 556   

Little Wars 2025 Saturday

 

            My first two games of the day ended with no shows. I played Epic HC finally. It is a wicked dumbed down version of Warmaster. There is little to no favor. The rules system is a convention only

 set of rules.

Other Games this day

            Another round for the Word Bearers. This time it went south quickly for them. Chicago Matt had the same list. I took a list with suits and an AX-01. I screwed up and placed a unit on overwatch that could not be placed on overwatch during set up. The Tau took the Termie telli losing a Path Finder unit. After that Tau shooting and AX-01s caused an end of turn 2 concede. 

THE MOUNTAIN

Bought = 88 + an army

Sold = 138 + 2 armies, 12 terrain

Painted = 109

28mm = 42

20mm = 0

15mm = 0

10mm = 0

Epic = 9

Terrain bought = 18

Terrain painted = 31

Printed Terrain = 27

Minis Printed = 0

Games 

Played = 5

Games hosted = 0

Books 

Bought = 0

Read = 6

2024

Bought = 739, 2 armies

Sold = 553, 29 detachments, 7 armies, box set

Painted = 556   

Little Wars 2025 Friday

             A wedding on St Lucia at Coconut Bay. The resort all inclusive. Pools are sweet. The beach ain't so bad. You are not drinking above Glenfiddich. The food is average cruise ship. There are places you can pay to eat. We did not. 

            Non of which is important. I flew on points down and a return trip to O'Hara, Chicago landing at Midnight. A mate picked me up. In return he get to bunk with me on site. It is a Sheridan, Marriott property and I am on points. My flight back to PA is Points.

            There I was minding my own business. Chicago Matt, my son, is standing there with this sign.

            I got up at 8am after getting to the hotel by 2;30am for a game that did not show. I only played push of pikes.

Good looking games

                                        

                Tau on Word Bearers action. I lost both 1st and 2nd turn initiative rolls. The 1st turn was questionable. 2nd turn I felt pretty good. The Word Bearers conceded at the end of 2. The Tau had shoot them up enough to limit the control of objectives.

THE MOUNTAIN

Bought = 88 + an army

Sold = 138 + 2 armies, 12 terrain

Painted = 109

28mm = 42

20mm = 0

15mm = 0

10mm = 0

Epic = 9

Terrain bought = 18

Terrain painted = 31

Printed Terrain = 27

Minis Printed = 0

Games 

Played = 3

Games hosted = 0

Books 

Bought = 0

Read = 6

2024

Bought = 739, 2 armies

Sold = 553, 29 detachments, 7 armies, box set

Painted = 556