Nashcon 2009 After Action Report

Nashcon 2009 has come and gone. Overall it was a success with many very interesting games being run, a great turn out of vendors and few issues with the location. Turnout was adequate. I did not get a chance to see every game in play, but for the sessions I wasn't there, there were some great games I heard about.

From Nashcon 2009

I arrived on Friday at about lunch time and set up my Wings of War game. I had 10 aircraft on the table. I also had a German aerodome, trench lines, two observation balloons and 3 AAA batteries. The 6 Allied aircraft needed to attack everything in sight with their bombers first bombing the Aerodome and then taking damage assessment photos. The game got exciting when I, as the Germans, miscalculated my immelmen turns and ended up having most of my aircraft tailed! Oh the humanity. While I did manage to put the hurt on several allied aircraft, that initial mistake ensured that my planes would be shot down before any allied aircraft were. That left it up to the AAA batteries and the trenchlines... While several near hits were made by the AAA, no further damage was done. With the remaining time the Allies made a nearly clean sweep of the Germans.

Next to me was a beautiful Minas Tirith game put on by Keith Jordan using HOTT. I believe it was the Battle of Pellenor Fields which he ran again on Saturday.

That evening I played in another WWI air game put on by Richard Houston (of famous Houston's Guns, Houston's Ships and other ventures). This one was massive with 100 air craft models at 1/300 scale involved in giant bomber attacks and fighter furballs. The rules were fun with enough detail to give some interesting tactical problems!

I heard that the Battle for Hoth game on Saturday Morning was a lot of fun with the Rebels gaining a slight victory over the Empire. Way to go! Bob Moon ran several 40mm FIW games and they are remarkable. He came all the way up from Florida to run these and they are fun and inspiring. The terrain detail alone is amazing. The figures are just gorgeous.

I attended the DBx clinic held at the convention on Saturday afternoon and that was great fun. There they taught the rules to any DBx game you were interested in. I have already played some DBA and liked it so I thought I would give HOTT a try. David Crenshaw brought two incredible armies he had just recently painted up and they were phenomenal to look at. I played two games using each army once. I have to say I am hooked on HOTT. I have a ton of fantasy figures I've collected. Some really oddball stuff! Finally they have a use.

David Crenshaw wrote up a nice report with photos of the event. I suggest giving his blog a view to see the photos and read about the 2009 Open DBA Championship. Congratulations to David Cliffel for his overall win!

One can't help but mention David Raybin's Combat Captain game which ran on Saturday night. This massive game involved 28mm scale figures and depeicted a small part of Operation Sealion with many reports on the web already. The rules are fun - without a doubt. They have some great innovations and are a good set of convention rules as they are easy to pick up and produce decent results.

From Nashcon 2009

ON the business side of things we had a membership meeting and election. The new set of BOD officers consists of:

Voting board members:
Gerald Swick, president
Bryan Connolly
Al Gaiser
Mike Randall
Bryant Williams

Non-voting members:
Neel Woodall, secretary
Mike Peccolo, treasurer

General Counsel: David Raybin,
Hollins Wagster & Raybin

That concludes the Nashcon 2009 After Action Report.