The remaining rooms reserved for Nashcon at our negotiated low price are going to be opened up to the general public which means your chance at getting the discount is quickly dwindling.
Call the hotel directly to get your reservation locked in: (615) 261-6100
Price is $110/night
Mar 29
You can and should pre-register your room at the Marriott for Nashcon now?
The hotel show-rate is $110/night and this includes two buffet breakfasts at their excellent restaurant. For this rate call the hotel directly. Do not call the 1-800 number as they do not have the special deal at the corporate booking level. The number is (615) 261-6100.
The Marriott is a fantastic hotel with great service, rooms and location! However at this rate the rooms won’t last forever so please sign up now!
See you at Nashcon!
by the Nashville Cats !
Those familiar with previous Nashcons ( held this year Friday, May 27, 2011 thru Sunday, May 29, 2011 just outside Nashville ) are aware that my son and I usually put on one “bucket ‘o dice” monster game with some 24 feet of troops or ships. In previous years we played the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, the Russian attack at the River Alma in the Crimean war, a massive German invasion of Great Britain in WWII and – last year – saw the return of the ever-popular Pirate Game. Read the rest of this entry »
1- Teams will consist of 2 Team Members. Each Team Member’s army will consist of 750 points or less. Using a shared Force organization chart.
2- Team Members MUST use the same army list throughout the tournament.
3-The Warhammer 40,000 5th Edition Rules , Games Workshop Errata and FAQs will be used.
4-New codices that are released prior to May 1st, 2011 will be allowed
5 -There is no painting scores so unpanted models welcome.
6- no double special characters
Various changes were made from the last update.
1- Teams will consist of 2 Team Members. Each Team Member’s army will consist of 1500 points or less. Using the standard Force organization chart.
2- Team Members MUST use the same army list throughout the tournament.
3-The Warhammer 40,000 5th Edition Rules , Games Workshop Errata and FAQs will be used.
4-New codices that are released prior to May 1st, 2011 will be allowed
5 -There is no painting scores so unpanted models welcome.
6- no double special characters
Marian Roman Army Ready for Battle
Baxter at Wargames has come through yet again for the DBA crowd and donated a couple of excellent prizes. This year we will have a Thematic Byzantine army and Post Mongol Russian armies up for grabs. Personally I’m coveting the Byzantines so plan on competing given the chance. There may also be some more prizes as well, but I’ll save that announcement for a rainy day…Look forward to seeing you all at Nashcon.
David Crenshaw
Jan 24
To any interested players,
I am planning on hosting a Flames of War tournament at Nashcon this year. I was planning on making the time period late war at 1750 pts since our previous tournament two years ago was Mid war (1500 pts). Unfortunately, the Flames of War guys have basically broken the points system in the late war (which are nearly impossible to keep balanced anyway) by releasing new books that repoint the Western Front (US,UK, Germans) and not the Eastern Front (USSR). Now some of the changes were fair(armored halftracks were overpointed), but some are absolutely ridiculous cheap as a Nebelwerfer battery is now the only artillery to take over medium or heavy mortars, 105s, 88s, etc… based on points. Of course, the new books compendium actually sold out before they even shipped as the “tourney” players now have access to vastly improved TOEs for fewer points. On the other hand, the mid war period is effectively now set in stone.
So, I am now thinking of having another mid-war tourney, maybe at 1750 or 1250 to be a little different instead, even though a lot of the current emphasis by players is the late war period. The other idea is to limit the tourney to certain late war TOE books only. I would appreciate any suggestions
Thanks,
David Cliffel
Given that the theme for NASHCON 2011 is the American Civil War, there were two only two options for my annual convention Mega game: A European Intervention Scenario in 28mm and a highly revised Ironclads game in 15mm. I last ran the Intervention game in 1996 ! There were hundreds of English, French and Confederate miniatures mixing it up with hundreds of Yankees, Austrians and Prussians. It was fantastic but the thing was so huge that it broke up into several discrete battles on the 24-foot board. Perhaps I may yet run this at some future convention if I can get a team of folks to help me lay thing out.
So that “left” the ironclad game I ran about 4 years ago. This is certainly not a small game. I have about twenty 15mm ships which can be deployed on the 20 foot blue tarps. The rules are a variation of Bob Duncan’s Gunboat Diplomacy which has been around for years and has always resulted in wonderful games. Being designed for the later steam and coal era the vessels bristle with serious shell-firing artillery. This is heart-stopping wargaming at its best.
My first attempt at a variation of Bob’s rules was the ever-popular Barnacle Bill; A Pirate’s Life for Me. That produced the artillery rules which allowed folks to fire at will. The next step was to move two hundred years forward and have some ship duels on the rivers of the American Civil War.
The last ironclad game “worked” but the scenario was flawed. A premature submarine attack sunk the Hartford and clogged the river channel. The ships came to a halt and shot each other to pieces. There was just not enough maneuvering to create excitement.
“Excitement” was solved last year with my 28mm Pirates game and the virtual doughnut board. This allowed a ship to sail off one end of the board and reappear at the other end. I will use a variation of this for Nashcon so there will be plenty of “room.” More later, for now, here are some photos of the fleet. All are in 15mm. Some are Old Glory and others are resin display models which I waterlined. David Raybin
