Austin,College Station, Dallas, Ft.Worth,
Houston, Midland, San Antonio, Waco

LSHM San Antonio have had several Hordes of the Things events over the last few months, and we have a new schedule for the coming months. Events include a one-day campaign, Game Days (build armies/strongholds/make terrain/practice games) and a Double-Size HotT tournament, not to mention an open scale tournament at Chimaeracon in two weeks. Make sure to take note of the following dates if you want to join us:

–Sat, April 10 - Chimaeracon Open-Scale Tournament, 7-11pm (www.chimaeracon.com)

–SUNDAY, April 18 - HotT-Hammer Tournament, 11am-5pm Dragon’s Lair San Antonio (60mm frontage tourney)

–Sat, May 15 - HotT One-Day Campaign, 11am-5pm, Dragon’s Lair San Antonio (60mm frontage tourney; prereg at DesertScrb@aol.com)

–Sat June 5 - HotT Game Day - 11am-5pm, Dragon’s Lair San Antonio (army building, terrain making, stronghold building, practice games, etc)

–Sat, July 17 - Double-Sized HotT-Hammer Tournament - 11am-5pm, Dragon’s Lair San Antonio (48AP armies, 60mm frontage tourney)

If you have any questions you can email me at da(underscore)baron(at)sbcglobal(dot)net…

Take care,
chip
blog.baronaaron.com
(ps - sorry for the stacked images; if someone can tell me how to avoid in the future I’d be MUCH appreciative!)

FOWSA 4 went off as scheduled on Sep 12.
We had 19 participants divided into Eastern Front and Western Front divisions.
Three rounds were played using standard 1750 pt armies.

The missions used were as follows:

Round 1 - Free-for-All, 2.5 hr time limit
Round 2 - Hold the Line, 2.5 hr time limit
Round 3 - Player’s choice of Fighting Withdrawal or Cauldron
2.5 hr time limit

When the it was all done, the results were:

East Front Division:

Andy Blozinski Gvardeyskiy Tankovy Batalon Soviet 1 Best Eastern Front
Chris Kitchen StuG Batterie German 2 Best East Front German
Thom N Strelkovy Batalon Soviet 3 Best Soviet
William Boykin Panzerkompanie German 4
David Coon Panzerkompanie German 5
Joe Shaffer Motostrelkovy Batalon Soviet 6

West Front Division:

Mike Gomez Rifle Company US 1 Overall Tournament Champion, Best Painted Army
Joe Paquette Rifle Company US 2 Best Western Front
John Anhaiser Rifle Company British 3 Best Ally Western Front
Mark Reed Rifle Company Polish 4
Wes Knight Schwere SS-Panzerkompanie German 5 Best German Western Front
Ian Straus 2AD Tank Company US 6
Mark Cole Grenadierkompanie German 7
Ralph Chance Fallschirmjägerkompanie German 8
Everett Chun 3AD Armored Rifle Company US 9
Adam Aguilera Panzerpionierkompanie German 10
Hal Rudd 21 Pz Panzergrenadierkompanie German 11
Chris Arnold Rifle Company US 12
Dave Beeson Panzerkompanie German 13 Sportsmanship

Since this event is a regional qualifier for US nationals, our top 3 overall

1 Mike Gomez
2 Joe Paquette
3 John Anhaiser

will be qualified to participate at Nationals. Congrats Guys!!

The tournament organizers would like to thank the following people/organizations:

Battlefront Miniatures for their generous prize support and publicity

Our host venue, Dragon’s Lair Games and Comics for providing space and tables,
generous prize support and for judging the Best-Painted
Army contest.
Thanks Rich, Cliff, Brian, abd Ellen.
A special thanks to Rich for picking up the pizzas

Lone Star Historical Miniatures for providing administrative support,
and additional prize support

Thomas N. for providing the voice for announcements
and additional prize support

Thom, Wes, David, and James for staying late Friday to set up

Mike and Joe for providing very nice terrain setups

Everyone who helped clean up after the event

All-in-All FOWSA 4 was a great success, and all involved had a great time.
Thanks again, and be ready for FOWSA 5 next September!

We are going to have a doubles Flames of War tournament in San Antonio on Saturday, January 31^st, 2009, and you are invited. Sign-in is at 10AM, and play will begin at 10:30AM.

Where? Dragon’s Lair Comics, 7959 Fredericksburg Rd #129 San Antonio 78229. Which is on the northwest side of town, on the edge of the Medical Center, in a strip center on the west side of Fredericksburg Rd at Medical.

Period? Late War only.

Registration: Pre-registration is encouraged (email to Ian Straus, istraus@texas.net) If you have questions, and to see the detailed tournament rules, call (210) 637-7063 evenings or email.)

Fees: An entry fee of $15, payable at the door. Sign-in is at 10AM, and play will begin at 10:30AM. Profits from this tournament will go to buy building models suitable for FoW, which will be donated to LSHM to be located and used at DL/San Antonio.

Number of teams: The tournament will have even numbers of teams. If an odd number of teams appears, preference will be given to those who pre-register first, and then to any ”swing team”. If a team pre-registers and volunteers to be ‘”swing team”, ready to play or not as needed to make an even number, and ready to play both Axis and Allied, they will receive the following preferences: One victory point added to their tournament total, and the option to add or subtract 1 pip each round to any setup die roll to determine attacker or defender.

Teams and Armies:

Teams must be composed of two players and must register with a team name as well as their personal names.

Armies: A team will operate an army of two companies, with each of the two players operating one company. The two companies must be from the same side in WWII (Axis or Allied) and must be a historically sound pair: that is, on the same side in the same theater of war, so US and British is allowed but British and Soviet is not.

Army Size: 2,400 points for each team of two players. If airpower is bought it will be only one pool of dice for the team. The larger company can not exceed the smaller company’s points by more than 200. For example if 200 points is spent on air support, then that leaves 2200 and so the smaller company can be no smaller than 1000 while the larger can be no larger than 1200 points.

Lists: Each team will submit one single pair of lists reflecting their two companies. The list headings must show the team name, the list sources, the nationality, and the specific company source lists with book and page number. Players must bring a copy or printout of their list source (book or PDF) for the umpire’s and opponents’ inspection.

After a scare early in the week from Hurricane Ike, FOWSA 3 went off as scheduled on Sep 13.
We had 22 participants divided into Mid-War and Late-War divisons. Four rounds were played, with
rounds 1 and 2 being played with 750 pt. armies on 3ft X 4ft half-tables. Rounds 3 and 4 were
played using standard 1500 pt armies.

The missions used were as follows:

Round 1 - Free-for-All, 750 pts, 1.5 hr time limit
Round 2 - Hold the Line, 750 pts, 1.5 hr time limit
Round 3 - Player’s choice of Fighting Witdrawal or Breakthrough 1500 pts, 2.5 hr time limit
Round 4 - Encounter, 1500 pts, 2.5 hr time limit

When the dust settled, the results were:

Mid-War Division:

Mike Gomez US Rifle Company 1 Best Mid-War General
John Anhaiser Italian Compagnia Motociclisti 2 Best Axis Mid-War
Jim Mundt Italian Compagnia Bersaglieri 3 Best-Painted Army
Mark Cole German Pionierkompanie 4
Bill Brock German Panzerkompnie 5
Thomas N Soviet Strelkovy Batalon 6 Best Allied Mid-War
Matt Kibbe German Panzerkompnie 7
Hal Rudd Soviet Tankovy Batalon 8
Dave Beeson US Rifle Company 9
Alec Aaron German Fallschirmpionierkompnie 10

Late-War Division:

Joe Paquette US Rifle Company 1 Overall Tournament Champion
Stewart Yee British Armored Squadron 2 Best Late-War General
Everett Chun US 2AD Tank Company 3 Best Allied Late-War
Ian Straus US Tank Company 4
Ralph Chance German Panzerkompnie 5 Best Axis Late-War
Royce Bullock German Panzerkompnie 6
William Boykin German Panzerkompnie 7
David Coon German Panzerkompnie 8
James Chance US Tank Company 9
Adam Aguilera German Panzerpionierkompanie 10 Sportsmanship Award
Mark Reed Soviet Rota Razvedki 11
Chris Dingley French Companie de Tirailleurs 12

Our overall winner, Joe Paquette, was participating in his first Flames of War tournament.
Great job Joe!

We also ran a table contest, which had 5 entrants. Mike Gomez won the Best Table prize.

The tournament organizers would like to thank the following people/organizations:

Battlefront Miniatures for their generous prize support and publicity

Our host venue, Dragon’s Lair Games and Comics for providing space and tables,
additional prize support and for judging the Table contest and the Best-Painted
Army contest
Thanks Amy, Rich, Cliff, Brian, Becky, Bob, and Ellen

Lone Star Historical Miniatures for providing administrative support, additional
prize support, and printed flyers for publicity

Thomas N. for providing the voice for announcements, additional
prize support, and for all the encouragement and support

Ian Straus, for providing table contest rules and judging criteria

Chip Aaron, LSHM President, for picking up the pizzas, gotta feed the troops!

Thom, Ian, Ralph, and James for staying late Friday to set up

Everyone who helped clean up after the event

All-in-All FOWSA 3 was a great success, and all involved had a great time.
Thanks again, and be ready for FOWSA 4 next September!

Announcing the third annual Flames of War - San Antonio Tournament, otherwise known as FoWSA 3. The tournament will be held on Saturday Sept 13 , 2008 at Dragons Lair Comics 7959 Fredricksburg Rd # 129 San Antonio,Texas (Fredricksburg Rd and Medical Dr).

The Tournament will cost $15.00 For Lone Star Historical Miniatures members and $20.00 for non members with the additional $5.00 going to a one year membership in L.S.H.M. Tournament fees will be payable on day of event at the door. Lunch is included in the entry fee. On the day of the event, registration begins at 09:00 AM and play begins at 10:00 AM.

There will be 4 rounds played this year. The first two rounds will use 750 pt lists on 4′ X 3′ tables with each round lasting 1 hr 30 min. The third and fourth rounds will be standard 1500 pt battles lasting 2 hrs 30 min.

The Tournament will consist of both Mid and Late War Divisions using 1500 point Armies built from the Army books and official PDF lists available as of 15 Aug 2008. Prior to 5 Sep 2008 two lists based on the same company type may be submitted. After 5 Sep only 1 list will be accepted. Also, when composing your lists, please create750 pt lists to be used in rounds 1 & 2. These lists must be subsets of your 1500 pt list(s)and must contain at least a company HQ and 1 combat platoon. You may reduce or increase the number of squads or vehicles within a platoon in order to get as close as possible to 750 pts. but you may not use a platoon not included in your 1500 pt lists. Please Email all army lists or questions to Biff Coon at biffc@sbcglobal. net.

Prizes will be awarded to Best overall player, best Axis, and best Allied players. In event of a tie in any area, the tournament staff will determine the winner by other means. There will also be a table contest. Details in the July announcement.

This post is being made in order for me to informally solicit information concerning folks’ intent to participate in the OwlCon 2008 FOW Tournament.  As a member of the HaHMS (Houston chapter) and bvhm (College Station chapter) Yahoo groups I have posted a Yahoo poll to gather this information from those chapters.  This post is an attempt to address those of you in other chapters who do not subscribe to the aforementioned Yahoo groups.

Whether you have pre-registered with OwlCon or not or previously emailed me or not regarding your plans to play in this tournament, would you please add a comment to this post if you plan to play in either the mid-war event on Saturday Feb. 9th, the late-war event on Sunday Feb. 10th or both events.  There is no need to comment if you have no intention to play in these events.  There is also no need to comment if you are a member of either of the aforementioned groups (you would presumably have seen the relevant poll).

If you know of someone who does plan to play will you please ask them to add a comment as well.  I’m trying to reach as many FOW players as possible in all the chapters/areas touched by this forum and I’m sure there are many like me who don’t often visit the lshm site.

Thanks for your time.

–Andy (OwlCon 2008 Historical Mini Chief)

By Dave da Webhead

Last Sunday we ran our first Warmaster Ancients tournament in Austin. We had 22 participants which was an excellent turnout. This was a single day event with 3 rounds each two-and-a-half hours long. The point system was cabbaged from the Warmaster Fantasy tournaments that the San Antonio club have been running for years.

I actually got to play in this tournament and brought my vaunted Indian army to the fray. I got my hiney handed to me by Bob Huey in the first round, managed to fight Chip Aaron to a draw in the second round, and managed to beat Marty Wolverton (but didn’t break his army) in the third round. All the games were a lot of fun and the entire event had a pretty relaxed atmosphere.

Left: The tournament attendees (sans me - someone has to take the picture)
Middle Left: One of the game rooms as the tourney gets underway.
Middle Right: The other game room packed with players.
Right: My hapless Indians getting slaughtered by Bob Huey’s Romans.

Left: Bob Huey (black t-shirt) savors his victory over my Indians.
Middle Left: Another shot of the players happily wailing on each other’s armies
Middle Right: Aren’t those elephants going the wrong way?!??
Right: Chris Dingley (seated) and Chip Miller (standing)

Here is the list of players. The top 3 finishers are noted as is the door prize winner (a 1000 point Egyptian Army box) and the Best Painted Army Prize.

The Players and Their Armies

Alvaro Erize	Britons	First Place	Mike Fischer	Palmyran	Second Place
Nathan Hook	Sarmations	Third Place	Rob Smith	Late Republican Roman	Participant
Jason Olsen	Norman	Participant	Francisco Erize	Late Republican Roman	Participant
Blake Radetski	Qin Chinese	Participant	Bob Huey	Late Imperial Roman	Participant
Chris Dingley	Parthian	Participant	Lance Hardaway	Alexandrian	Participant
Jim Mundt	Carthagenians	Door Prize Winner	William Boykin	Late Republican Roman	Participant
Jose Santos	Norman	Participant	Dave Bennett	Indian	Participant
Steve Metze	Carthagenians	Participant	Marty Wolverton	Byzantine	Participant
Dave McClellan	Early Republican Roman	Participant	Cameron Radetski	Saxon	Participant
Chip Miller	Early Archamenid Persian	Participant	Chip Aaron	Alexandrian	Participant
John Anhaiser	Spanish	Best Painted Army Prize	Dan Becker	Norman	Participant

An interesting side-note is that the winner of the tournament Alvaro Erize was on holiday from his native Argentina visiting his brother Francisco. He won the tourney with a borrowed army he had never played before.

Left: Dan Becker really gets into the spirit of things.
Middle Left: Blake’s Qin Chinese
Middle Right: Part of Rob Smith’s Roman army painted by Chris Dingley (per Rob’s comment)
Right: Part of Rob Emith’s Roman army actually painted by Rob

Left: Alvaro Erize and Nathan Hook had an epic battle for first place in the third round of the tourney. Alvaro came out on top and Nathan took third place.
Middle: Rob Smith presents John Annhaiser a gift certificate for best painted army
Right: Rob presents Jim Mundt with the big door prize, a 1000 point Egyptian army box

Left: Rob presents Nathan Hook with a gift certificate for winning 3rd place
Middle: Rob presents Mike Fischer with a gift certificate for winning 2nd place
Right: Rob presents Alvaro Erize with a gift certificate for winning 1st place

By Dave da Webhead 

We met last Saturday at Dragon’s Lair in San Antonio for the annual LSHM business meeting.  The meeting was very well attended this year.  I didn’t get the exact number but I am guessing that there were about 15-20 folks in attendance.  We got all the boring business stuff out of the way, elected new officers and then got down to the important stuff, the gaming.  There was a WWII skirmish game, a Bloodbowl game or two, and I ran my Victoriana Sci-Fi game, When Dreadnaughts Ruled the Sky.  Richard Wheet took a lot of pictures and put up a web album which you can check out from the following link:

http://www.millenniumcon.com/LSHM_annual_%20meeting/index.html

Here are a few teaser pics from Richard’s web album.

       

 

By Dave da Webhead 

The annual business meeting is next saturday so this week marks the beginning of our annual membership drive for LSHM.

Dues for LSHM are $5 and are good for the calendar year.  LSHM is an umbrella organization supporting its member chapters.  Membership in LSHM is not required to join an LSHM sponsered chapter, but it is highly encouraged.  You contributions support the web site as well as the Millennium Gaming Convention.

We currently support gaming clubs in Austin, San Antonio, College Station, Houston, Kingwood, Killeen, Waco, Dallas/Fort Worth, and Midland.

Everyone in LSHM can post articles and pictures on the LSHM web site and I encourage chapters to make use of this.  Even if you have a personal gaming site or blog, feel free to post notices here pointing to updates on your site.

If you would like to join LSHM for the 2007 calendar year, click on the following link and fiil out and submit the form.  You can pay by Paypal or by mailing us a check or money order.

http://millenniumcon.com/members/Registering_member_on_Webpage.cfm

From an email by Ed Youngstrom

Ray and I really enjoyed putting on the LPE game at Millennium 9. We were already planning a much bigger game, and we now have a blog dedicated toproducing that game. So please drop by at
http://huzzahm10.blogspot.com

 

Take a look around (not that it will take long right now) and leave a note.

And if you’re interested in participating, especially if you have unit(s)you want to bring along, let us know.

Editor’s Note - I think its Great that folks are thinking about and planning for Millennium 10 already.  I’ve been thinking about doing a War of the Spanish Succession scenario, perhaps Almanza or a piece of it.  I put a link to the blogspot on the navigation menu so folks can find it once this article goes into the archive.
 

By Dave da Webhead

I just made a web album of the pictures I took at the CounterAttack Flames of War tournament in San Antonio.  There were 22 participants and a ton of prize support for the event.  Tomas told me that everyone was going to win at least one prize and I saw a lot of books, miniatures, and even a couple of MP3 players that Ira (owner of Battlefield Games) had donated to the event.  Click on the following link to see the web album:

http://www.lshm.net/albums/counterattack06/

Counterattack! is LSHM-San Antonio’s second Flames of War tournament. Make plans now to participate. 

When:  Saturday, September 9, 2006

Where:  Dragon’s Lair San Antonio, 7959 Fredericksburg Rd @ Medical, San Antonio, TX 78229, ph(210)615-1229

Army Lists:  1500pts Midwar, using the 2nd edition rules

Entry fee: LSHM Members: $15 if you pre-register.  $20 at the door
                Non-members:   $20 if you pre-register. $25 at the door  includes LSHM membership

Prizes awarded to overall commander, then top Allied player and top Axis player, plus some other prizes and awards TBA

Send army list send army lists and/or any questions to Thomas at Aphex30@grandecom.net

We have room for 28 players currently, but we might have access to much more room once Sept gets here. Some spots are already taken so if you are interested in attending, drop Thomas an email at the address above. 
 
Click on the following link for latest updates and information:
http://minecrtv.home.texas.net/FowSA/

Ed Youngstrom ran demos and games of GW’s Lord of the Rings miniature rules at Chimaeracon in San Antonio last weekend.  He sent me some pictures to post to the website.  Here is the link to an album I made from his pictures:

http://www.lshm.net/albums/ccon06

 

From a post by Chip Aaron in the LSHM-Texas yahoogroup list

March 28: Big Battle DBA War of the Roses - Steve Schifani
From Steve: “The game is built for up to 6 players, but the grid makes it move much faster than free-floating DBA, so we can play more than once in an evening. Ken Sidenblad and I usually get in 3 games in a 2-2.5 hour period, so I’d bet 2 games are easily attainable. I’m also willing to put this on at other times for those interested in how 25mm BBDBA plays. Feel free to contact me if you’re looking for an ancients/medieval game that isn’t demanding with regard to effort and/or figure count.”

The rest of the month (14th, 21st) is still open and unscheduled. Chimaeracon is the 24-26 and features several tournaments, including Warmaster, DBA and HotT, with FoWFest coming up second weekend in April. I’m up for running Warmaster as a GM or opponent, as well as DBA or HotT. Alec, Richard and Mario are the FoW officionados so I’m sure they would be willing to run FoW, also. However, if anyone would like to present a game on either Tuesday the 14th or 21st, they are welcome to post it here.

From a post to the LSHM-Texas yahoogroup by Chip Aaron

Feb 14 - Flames of War - Alec Aaron (NOTE: Valentines Day)
Feb 21 “Pirates” collectable card ships - Matt
Feb 28 - Wargods of Aegyptus demo - Rick Beidleman
March 7 - Confrontation demo - Ken Ott
March 14- Seven Years War - Mark Reed

The San Antonio chapter meets on Tuesday evenings at Dragon’s Lair Comics and Games.