SoAC 2024: a great weekend

[Duncan Head]

I enjoyed the 2024 Convention enormously. Many thanks to everyone involved in organizing it, to everyone who put on a game or gave a talk (or indeed both!) and to all the attendees who helped make it a success.

[Duncan Head]

I played:

- My first game of Pandemic Fall of Rome on Friday night. Guided by Richard Jeffrey-Cook, a collection of first-timers managed to scrape a victory.
- Ray Briggs' Breach and Scutcheon rules on Saturday morning, my Roman legion beating up some Cisalpine Gauls as my colleagues' troops fell apart around me.
- Not a game as such, but John Drewienkiewicz and Matt Bennett's session on how to refight Maldon on Saturday afternoon. Some very useful ideas.
- Wolves in the Forum, John Bassett's map/committee game of Roman Republican politics and civil war in 43 BC, on Sunday morning. It's been ages since I played anything in this style. In fact we more or less fended off civil war, nobly preventing the spilling of Roman blood (at least for now).
- Nick Harbud's game of Oi Navarcoi! on Sunday afternoon. A fast and furious trireme fleet-action game, in which my ships ended up fleeing or at the bottom of the sea.

[Imperial Dave]

sounds like a grand weekend Duncan

[Keraunos]

It was indeed a great weekend - not least because I got to sink a lot of Duncan's ships 

A brief report of Day 1 proceedings can be found here

And day 2 proceedings here

[Nick Harbud]

- Nick Harbud's game of Oi Navarcoi! on Sunday afternoon. A fast and furious trireme fleet-action game, in which my ships ended up fleeing or at the bottom of the sea.

Duncan was unlucky inasmuch as he found himself fighting two-thirds of the enemy fleet with half of his own side's squadrons, whilst Graham Evans took the other half and unsurprisingly managed to duff up a single squadron, having got the drop on them with a flank attack!

However, all the players readily picked up the rules from a double-sided QRS and heartily entered into the spirit of the game.

    

[Imperial Dave]

Awesome write up Kim....i might pinch it

[Trebian]

An excellent weekend, despite Nick not understanding how our tactics in "Oi Narvacoi!" came so close to success. Duncan was troubled by his usual hapless dice rolling.

[Trebian]

...and for those who expressed concern for the loss of limbs during the Dance of Death I have succeeded in recovering and reattaching all but one of the missing arms.

[Nick Harbud]

Everyone should read Graham's blog on his weekend here.

 

[Dave Knight]

This was my first visit and I had a great time.  All the speakers were excellent and the games enjoyable.  It is a bit of a trek from Scotland and I was actually glad that I left after lunch on Sunday as otherwise the drive home would have been more difficult.  I hope to come again and if I do I would stay the Sunday night to get in Sunday afternoon gaming.

[Keraunos]

Awesome write up Kim....i might pinch it

Be my guest - I've added a link to a report on Day 2 - but it pales beside Graham's post

[Imperial Dave]

I may pinch both...

[Trebian]

Please, yourself. If you want more pictures I have a few. and I expect you'll want a clear picture of the Edgcote booklet cover.

Won't you.

[Imperial Dave]

Thank you