Go Ahead . . . Con Me!

Kaarin Engelmann | February 21, 2006  | 0 comments  | Print  | E-mail

Multiman Publishing lists many Advanced Squad Leader (ASL) events on its tournament web page (link), including the West Coast Melee in Irvine, Calif., Nor’Easter in Massachusetts, and Bitter Ender in North Carolina. Unlisted opportunities to play include the Central Texas ASL Club’s event in Austin (link) and BPA’s Recon mini-con.

Enlightenment is BPA’s Age of Renaissance tournament. Last year’s event (the eighth) hosted 25 players, including 13 of the 30 top-ranked players. In 2006, the con will include an introductory tournament for GMT’s Manifest Destiny. Other mini-cons (link) include D-Day (for Avalon Hill’s Breakout Normandy) and Waterloo (for GMT’s Napoleonic Wars).

BPA’s Winter Activation Meeting is a targeted mini-con for two-player, card-based strategic boardgames, such as GMT’s Paths of Glory and Wilderness War, Avalon Hill’s Hannibal: Rome versus Carthage and We the People, and Columbia Games’ For the People.

While conventions aren’t the only way to feed a wargaming addiction, they appeal to me mostly because I rarely get to play otherwise, but also because I’ve made many friends and discovered new favorite games. If you have another convention that you enjoy, please pass the word to me.

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Author’s Information

Kaarin Engelmann (kengelm@yahoo.com) is a freelance writer and editor based in Springfield, Virginia. She is part of Engelmann Military Simulations and currently serves on the board of directors for the Boardgame Players Association (link), which sponsors the World Boardgaming Championships.

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