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