Historicon 2024 RECAP 

Moby Dick sounds like such a creative endeavor. Would love to see it. Great to see the kids too, mine want to come next year lol…

Hey Mark! Would LOVE to see some more coverage of the Moby Dick game!

The Napoleonic naval game and the Arnheim 28mm game were really stunning. And your D-Day diorama was outstanding!

Yes on Mody Dick. And did you get anything or pictures of the 28mm Battle of Strasbourg.

Looking forward to the Battle Of Britain games. I live in the South East of England so you'll be battling over my home 😆🇬🇧 "Beware of the Hun in the Sun" 😉👍🏻

I enjoy all of your videos. I saw in your recap of Historicon, that you ran a game of War of the Roses, the game where the three kids won the day. Have you written a set of rules for the War of the Roses? I would like to get a copy some how. Thanks

There where two Arnhem bridge games. A CoC version run by Lard America and a Bolt Action one. The one with the mirror was the BA version. Both were excellent presentations. Thank you for the kind comments about Moby Dick, “He Rises!”

Look like an awesome array of games, lots of scales and periods represented

Ahhh, the yearly trip, glad you enjoyed

Congrats Carl and Charlie!

Loved that Strength and Honour Battle of Philippi. My favorite new[er] rules system. I like the 2mm blocks though I prefer 6mm.

Fantastic coverage of the convention! Seems like it was a blast and I’m glad y’all had such a great time. A request: you guys and everyone else have said the Lard Zone was incredible to see. If y’all have the footage, could y’all make a dedicated video of the Historicon 2024 Lard Zone? I’m sure everyone else would love to see more of that spectacular area!

Patreon with you guys sounds great, look forward to that 👍👍

One thing I noticed was the Saturday night session was very empty. It used to be the big finally, with everyone getting in the last game of the weekend, and then a number of later games. This year I saw @ 25% of the tables in use. All the halls were empty, and the games didn’t seem that full. Seems Saturday afternoon is the last really big session. I guess the crowd is packing up early.

I actually came here on the off chance you'd mention the Moby Dick game. I would love to see that.

I was able to watch the Moby Dick game for a bit. Love to see more about it.

16:21 that game has troops bigger than the buildings. That could be an interesting discussion, mixing scales.

That would be cool to see a longer version o the Moby Dick game.

A video on the Moby Dick game would be awesome, love your channel guys, thank you

Nice to know that the one point lead the Luftwaffe had after the morning game was recovered

Love the video! I hope to go to one at some piont they look so fun!

Thanks for the video Mark, I would love to see you guys play a game of American war of independence.

The Convention looks awesome and no matter what genre or scale, the miniatures looked fantastic, and I know a lot of love & effort went into making/painting them for display and play and even tho I am not a Sho-Gun type of guy, the Japanese model shown in the intro to this video looked super! And I do mean all of the buildings and terrain and not just the figures. I would also say that playing with a double-blind system and having a game-master/referee running it is just super excitement for players and gives a better "feel" for real warfare. In the mid 1980's when I was in the U.S. Nay, we played Avalon Hills Flat Top game a lot using 2 games in 2 different rooms and a Ref and a chain of command for the different Task Forces and man oh man was that a blast, always on pins and needles and I encourage any gamers or clubs out there to play Flat Top or similar games like this that can be adopted to a double blind system because it brings so much more realism into it and all of the planning & tactics involved far out way the eventual roll of the dice. Yes, the Arnhem 28mm game looked great and the bridge/buildings looked so great. The Viking game looked interesting too. And it was great to see younger players whom I know need extra attention to keep them involved, but they are the future of our beloved hobby and I highly encourage again gaming groups & clubs to include and foster them to be involved. I know it sounds corny to say it, but I loved seeing people dressed to impress and wearing uniforms/helmets/playing the part 😜 When I used to host a gaming session at my home many years ago, I would hang about 4-5 different Military Flags on my front porch to show it was game day 😁and I always provided drinks & snacks and made big feast of a meal so that everyone would stay longer and not leave just to get something to eat. Some play-by-play reviews of games like the Midway & Battle of Britain would be great for all of us to see that couldn't attend. One of the guys who served on my Navy Destroyer was descendent of Gen. Burgoyne, he was 4th or 5th generation I believe, and I used to give him much grief about it because his ancestors were land lubber's in the Army and he was a sailor now and whenever we played Axis & Allies, we assigned him to play the U.K. 😛

Looking very much forward to seeing more videos out of you guys. There was a Ragnar game that looked interesting

Huge fan of Strength and Honor which I play at 6mm. So much fun to play epic battles. Would love to see Moby Dick game as hearing it in Huzzah 😂 but not able to play it.

Thanks for the video!

Thursday night games sounds great

Very nice video like always!

Definitely want to see more video of the Moby Dick game!!!!

A BRIDGE TOO FAR - We did this battle-game here in K.C. Mo. a while back on a 40-foot long table in 20mm tanks and infantry with 30 Corp starting at one end of the table and Arnhem bridge at the other end of the 40-foot table with ALL the rivers, bridges, and towns to fight thru during the 3-day convention !! A once in a life-time wargame to be a part of ?? :-)

Thanks for the recap, good video. I would love to see more on the Moby Dick game.

ROW WELL 41 AND LIVE - We've done a Roman/Greek Pirates ramming-galley game here in K.C. Mo. with white Roman and gray Greek Pirites based on the BEN HUR movie naval battle with about 20 multi-sized galley ships on each side with an island chain going down the middle of the table giving each side choices about WHERE and HOW to apply their ships thru each channel gap or around to get behind the enemy fleets with lots of ramming/boarding hand-to-hand melees, and catapults firing rocks and pots full of GREEK-FIRE to start fire on the ships !! :-)

Would you consider making the midway scenario materials available? I’d love to run this for my club.

Definitely want to see more about the Moby Dick game. However, if there's a Bartleby the Scribner game, I would prefer not to.

I've seen a few vids about Historicon 2024, and naturally they all comment on the Jim Purky (AKA Der Alte Fritz) 54mm Pickett's Charge game. There is NO QUESTION it was visually stunning! However, I just have to wonder how interesting a game it actually was? Seems like it would just involve the Confederate players marching straight across the board, and the Union players just shooting artillery, and eventually rifled muskets at them. Then, in the end, the Confederates would finally try to charge home...

Any leads when that lardies Arnhem book for Chain of Command is coming out.

I'd like to see more on the Moby Dick game please.

I want to know about the Dien Bien Phu game do you have any contacts on that one?

Did you see anything on Carnage and Glory

Tell us more about the MOBY DICK game. The story is an American classic, so would like to hear (and see) how it was gamed. Thanks👍🏼

It’s a shame that you didn’t record any video or cover games except on Saturday.

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What is that Dien Bien Phu game???

Yes more about Moby Dick game!

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