Cangames 2016 - Random Games...a little pic heavy

Howdy folks,

Over the Canadian May long weekend, every year, many descend upon Ottawa for a few days of laughs, tears, and even some gaming...this year marked the 40th kick at the cat for the Cangames crew and marked my 8th venture to the convention.

As always, I truly enjoy seeing the various tables and vendors...I definitely appreciate the talent that goes into our hobby...and the creativity that I see from the RPG and boardgaming folks.

This post is just pics of the random games that I did NOT participate...there is only so much gaming time in the weekend and I cannot get to them all.

However, if you'd like, here are a few links to folks who were quicker on the blogging draw than I was:

Terry over at Miniature Mayhem
Mike over at Mike's Wargaming Blog
The Scribe at Generic Gaming Goodness

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the pics.

Some Bolt Action fare...I believe this game was heavy on the recent tank rules...

Some race day action...they had a good turnout with all cars getting drivers...

Dungeons and Dragons adventure gaming from the Red Shirts...

Reminiscent of Fortress Louisburg from last year, Ed again outdid himself with another British, French, Acadian, and American Indians colonial actions with the Siege of Fort Beausejour. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Napoleonic action with a few THOUSAND 15mm figures... 

28mm Pulp adventure with Cangames staple Rubberboots... 

 

 

Sadly, I can't recall the ruleset for this game...they had about 4 tables set up with varying terrain...IIRC the terrain was from Dwarven Forge and looked impressive...sewers, town square, and more

 

 

Homegrown Star Trek rules from an Ottawa local...always popular 

 

A funny thing happened on the way home from Cangames...just a little thing called ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!!! 

 

 

 

 

That's all for the randoms...battle reports next...

Cangames 2015...random weekend shots...pic heavy!!

Howdy all,

Well it's been one week today since CanGames 2015 came to town...if memory serves me correct this was the 39th year of the con.  Some of you may recall my reports from Cangames 2014.  Continuing from last years goals of GAME GAME GAME...I, well...I gamed.

This year I signed up for 5 games (3 last year...), had a great time with all of them...there were a couple of repeats as I do enjoy particular GM's and rulesets.  I did step out and try a couple of different sets...enjoyed them.  As well, I got the chance to meet allies and adversaries from games past...this years Cangames had a few new vendors at the marketplace...in fact I purchased some craters and laser cut bases from 6 Squared Studios.

Anyhow, throughout the weekend I took the chance to take as many pics as I could...this year there seemed to be even more great looking games...some very fabulous tables...it was awesome to see!!

to the pics...

Batman Miniature Game demo... 

 

Dungeons and Dragons...I believe...nice looking layout...28mm

 

Every castle needs a library... 

 

These stores desperately needs some ale!!  

 

And every castle needs a random body strapped to a table...

 

My buddy Duncan ran a Hail Caesar scenario in 28mm...great looking terrain piece 

 

 

 

Great looking figs as well...

some NSFW...however, just in case, I was able to edit out the arses of the fanatical 'Fight While You're Naked' clan... 

 Face of Battle...20mm World War 2 from Michael Ball.  Michael consistently lays out a great looking table every year showcasing his published ruleset.

   

 

 A very impressive scratchbuilt model of Fortress Louisburg in 28mm by my buddy Ed...if I recall correctly it is approximately 8 feet wide...he used the Musket and Tomahawks ruleset.

 

While I did not participate in this one, my buddy Mike posted his battle report from that day already. 

The Governor's mansion... 

 

Great looking siege guns... 

 

 

Flames of War in 15mm...Battle of Kursk, put on by my buddy Serge... 

 

A very impressive offering of Battle of Liegnitz using a homegrown Warmaster variant by my buddy Nick...I couldn't help but be impressed...all together there are around 2000 miniatures on the table...all in 15mm...

 

This impressive group is squaring off against...

  

This massively impressive group...here is my attempt at a panoramic shot to capture them all...

  

View of left of centre...

...view of centre...

 ...just right of centre...

...extreme right view.

 

random shot so you can see the great looking paintjobs... 

 

 

 Zombies in a mall in 28mm (I think )...very popular, well put together homegrown rules by Matt Collins...

 

Warmaster, Battle of Five Armies...I wanna say 6mm, but not sure...

 

Spaghetti Western in 28mm...homegrown rules from Gilbert Collins...