Anyone Free for MiniCon 2012?
January 24, 2012 by beerogre
If you're free on Sunday 29th January and you can get to Barnwood in Gloucestershire (England) then why not check out MiniCon 2012?
There are plans for a Painting Competition, 40K Tournament and Mini Shuuro.
The guys from Mantic Games will be there along with Alessio Cavatore & River Horse Games (who'll be running the Mini Shuuro event), as will Precinct Omega, creators of the Skrapyard Skirmish Game.
This is the first Gloucestershire Miniatures Wargaming Convention and it's happening on Sunday 29th January from 10am to 4pm at the Gloucester Centre for the Deaf. The event brings together local clubs, retailers and manufacturers in a one-day event, designed to break down barriers between gamers, draw new people into the hobby and ultimately to get people playing games.
If you're going... drop a comment below.
I’ll be going only if someone is willing to fork over the cash for a flight from Canada.
Hope it all goes well.
Yeah, too bad there aren’t many great conventions in Canada. I’m about 2 hours west of TO, and unless you’re really into sci-fi conventions where you can meet Ed the Sock and play MTG…there really isn’t much going on.
Hmm, a 6 hour event and no schedule, but then again it’s only £2.50. I guess I could mosey on up and see what’s going on..
The schedule is really simple: 10am-4pm: participation games happen.
To my knowledge there are games of Operation Squad, Cutlass!, Warmachine, Sharp Practice, Skrapyard, Infinity, Saga, Flames of War, a pulp adventure game the rules of which have not been explained to me and something else I’ve forgotten.
This is our first attempt at an event and all feedback to improve next year is absolutely welcome, however harsh.
Redditch Wargaming Society will be in attendance hosting Cutlass! and Warmachine participation games. Even if you don’t intend on ever playing these games again come along and throw some dice.
So.. went, had a lot of fun, looking forward to next year already. It was great to see so many good-looking boards (in particular the one for the Cutlass game) and I finally got to try my hand at Infinity, Malifaux and Warmachine. It was also really nice to see so all that Ainsty Castings stuff, particularly all those lovely painted examples and I’m secretly glad that I’d left my wallet at home!