HAWKs Host First invitational Gaming Day

    This past Saturday the HAWKs hosted their first ever Invitational Gaming Day.  This came about after some regular attendees of the HAWKs BARRAGE convention, from New Jersey, asked the club if it would be possible to get together on a more informal basis this October for a friendly day of gaming, after this year's BARRAGE had to be rescheduled to January '18 due to a mess-up with the venue's scheduler.  We ended up with a nice crowd of over 30 gamers from the HAWKs, New Jersey, and some from Western, MD and Pennsylvania.

     We used the meeting hall in the church where we run our regular meetings, and set up six full sized 8' x10' tables, and scheduled for two blocks of games; the first from 9:00AM- 1:00PM, and the second from 2:00PM to 6:00PM.    The games offered spanned many historical periods, as well as both the Fantasy and Sci-Fi genres. It was big success, with everyone having a great time, and there's already talk of doing it again!

Don Manser's beautiful Pickett's Charge game using Fire & Fury.

John Mitchell's Operation Barbarossa game using Bolt Action.

Sam Fuson's Sherlock Holmes puzzle solving game using G.A.S.L.I.G.H.T.

Heated pile on pile action in Jamie Davis' Magic Carpet Racing game using a Future Race and Blood & Swash hybrid.

Eric Schlegel's Sméagol's Ferry game using modified Blood & Swash

Don Hogge's Rumble in the Jungle game using Congo.

Greg Priebe's Clone Wars game using the new Star Wars supplement for  Combat Patrol.

Cliff Brunken's Battle of Germantown 1777 game using Black Powder.

John Hollier's 15mm Napoleonic game using Shako 2.

Zeb Cook's 1939 Winter War game using Combat Patrol.

     Thanks to the GM's and gamers for making this such a success.  From the onset we decided we wanted to keep it simple, so there was no food service (we ordered some 3' subs from a nearby Subway for lunch), and no flea market.  It really was a great low key and informal chance for gamers to get together for an excellent day of gaming.