Renowned military affairs author and speaker John Gresham passed away over the weekend.
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If you can’t find something you enjoy doing at the show, you’re just not trying hard enough.
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There are all sorts of stuff you can do at a game convention. You can play games, shop for games (and accessories!), hang out discussing games with other gamers… all things you can do at home, but made easier by the concentration of the gamers in one place. Things you can’t do at home, though, are the bigger destination events that you need a convention to support. The Command Post Wargame events are a destination event.
There’s plenty of information about the Command Post Wargames here. What we’ve got for you in this article are the details of this year’s mission, and a look at the teams in action.
The depth and breadth of games at the con is incredible. There are all manner of cards, minis, counters, meeples, boards, books, tables, and terrain spread throughout the convention
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Dubbed “Fort Kickass” by the GrogHeads Central Command crew, our little patch of concrete in the gaming hall was the nexus of some excellent wargaming at Origins 2016. While it’s not the overwhelming dominant presence in the gaming hall like it was in 1978, anyone who says that “there’s no wargaming at Origins” is just flat-out wrong. Hex-and-counter, card-driven area, or minis-on-terrain, we had wargames in spades.
More to the point, we had the Grogs!
And our GrogHeads crew has their own thoughts about Origins 2016, as we asked them (1) “What’s the coolest thing you saw?” and (2) “What was the thing you enjoyed most?”. Here’s what they told us…