NT: ROCK CON 2010

[afilter]

I attended Rock CON this weekend in Rockford,IL. I was only able to make it Friday Evening due to family commitments.

Linked up with some new game friends I met a couple weeks ago at NACON. Special thanks again to Battlefield Hobbies for hosting the Naval Thunder "battle of Cape Spartivento" Italy Vs UK.

In addition to playing I was able to make it around a get a few picks of some of he other great gaming events that were going on including FoW, several fanatsy venues and a very unique home brew game called Queen Anne's war (Pirates in 28mm) with some of the best homemade terrian I ahve seen.

Battle o
Facilities:


Cape Spartvento-Ended in a draw after UL drew early blood taking down 4 Itallian cruisers and eventually a IT BB. The Itallian BB fire was overwhelmig and badly mauled the HMS Renown and HMS Ramillies(Very outmatched).




Flames of War:



Old West Game:


Queen Anne's War (28mm Pirates):





Next year I will make sure I have this event on the calendar so hopefully I can make it longer. The little I saw seemd very well organized and the facilities were great.

[warchariot]

Looks like a lot of great games.

[shigure]

In the NT game, what did the white smoke vs. the black smoke represent?

[afilter]

Oct 24, 2010 22:53:10 GMT -5 shigure said:

In the NT game, what did the white smoke vs. the black smoke represent?

They were the two colors of smoke since smoke only lasts two turns you would lay down a string of white and black. At the end of the turn pick up the black and end of the next turn pick up the white. It worked pretty well.

[shigure]

I had an idea that was might be what they were doing with the two different colors. Thanks for confirming it.

The pirate game looked like fun with the traditional garb.

[Bluebear]

Those buildings in the "Old West" game were from "Whitewash City". They are .pdf files that you download; and once you have them you can print as many as you want. I've got a lot of them and they aren't all that hard to construct either.

Nice products!

www.erichotz.com/whitewash.html

The designer is Eric Hotz (of Larry Leadhead fame) . . . and he also has a lot of Roman galleys that you can download and build too:

www.romanseas.com/

So, if any of you are interested in 1/300 scale Galley Warfare, you can build fleets (and cities) fairly inexpensively. However I do believe that his version of galley rules have received less-thsn-glowing reviews . . . so you might want to use your own favorite rules . . . or maybe Harry will want to write some . . . but NOT until he's finished "NT: RISE OF THE BATTLESHIP II".


-- Jeff

[warchariot]

I tried to play the galley rules at Historicon a couple of years back and felt it was way to slow. In fairness, he was teaching the rules to a group of six or eight, so it may move quicker once you get to know know to play, but still, this is an era I have always loved, in fact I wrote some rules a long while back...wonder where they might be...um

[shigure]

In the galley rules, what weapons did they have available besides ramming and boarding? or did this include latter history when galleys were armed with cannons?

[Bluebear]

shigure,

The paper models are from the "Roman" period, and although they go relatively late, it is pre-cannon. That being said, the ships are really neat as a look through the online .pdf catalog will show:

www.romanseas.com/rs_catalog.pdf

Note that it takes a few moments for the .pdf file to load. Anyway, decide for yourself about the ships.


-- Jeff

[jchen101]

Wow - I grew up in Rockford, and never knew about Rock Con. My parents live less than a mile from the venue. Admittedly I've been away for 20 years now... But I can't help but feel that I missed out....oh for the internets back then! I know I would have enjoyed some naval thunder back then even...

[Bluebear]

jchen101,

Hmmm, next year you could attend the Con without having to pay for a hotel room . . . lucky you!


-- Jeff