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[Peter M. Skaar]

I will be hosting a Mein Panzer demo game at Southwest Con in Tolleson, Arizona on Saturday, October 7th.  My game is set in North Africa in 1942 and is called Cruisin' for a Bruisin'.  The game is going to be a tank battle and is designed to get new players into the game as well as anyone else that may have played before but wants to have a simple, fun game.

The game will pit the Afrika Korps against the 8th Army around mid 1942.  The 2 German players will each command a reduced tank company of Panzer IIs and IIIs while the 2 British players will each have a reduced company of Crusader IIs.  This is actually a pretty good match-up as the Panzer IIIs and Crusader IIs have pretty similar stats overall.

In order to prep for this event, I will be doing a solo game at my place in order to shake the bugs out and make sure that the game will run smoothly at the convention.

I will be posting some pictures of my solo game here as things develop.  Stay tuned.

[Peter M. Skaar]

Southwest Con has been cancelled.  I will plan to run my Cruisin' for a Bruisin' scenario on October 21st at Imperial Outpost game store in Glendale, AZ.

[Kenny Noe]

Bummer!!  Good luck at the store.

[Peter M. Skaar]

Thanks, Kenny!  My solo game continues in prep for the game at Imperial Outpost on the 21st.  I have 2 people interested so far and hope to have at least 2 more for the game. 

[Peter M. Skaar]

Here are a couple pictures of the layout for Cruisin' for a Bruisin'  and the initial forces for each side.

[healey36]

Nice undulating terrain for the desert, Peter. Looks great, as does the OOB components 

 

Any idea why the con got bagged? We've got Fall In! rolling up in November...I'm hoping to make that.

[Peter M. Skaar]

Hi Healey

I have not heard the reason as to why the Con was cancelled.  I have heard some speculation but nothing official.  It would be nice to know what really happened with that.

In the meantime, I will be doing a solo Mein Panzer game with pictures on my own thread here.  This game is in prep for a game I will be doing on October 21st at Imperial Outpost in Glendale, AZ.

[healey36]

Thanks for the update, Peter; the equipment and terrain looks sharp (as always).

 

Here, HMGS' Cold Wars 2024 has been cancelled. My understanding is they had trouble finding a new venue, a director, and the number of volunteers may have been an issue. I suspect costs are through the roof as well. It's a March event, so sometimes weather can be problematic. A lot of effort goes into organizing these cons; hopefully we've not seen the last of Cold Wars.

 

I look forward to reports re: the solo run-through.