Monthly Archives: June 2017
Gaming Nostalgia – Digital D-Day
#TBT at GrogHeads!
Avalon Hill does digital, as your push your pixels onto the beaches of Normandy.
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Origins – Raffle Winners
Who went home with their prizes from #Origins2017? ~
Brant Guillory, 27 June 2017
Photos by Corrinne Mahaffey
One of our highlights every year is the end-of-Origins raffle. Everyone who plays in a ticketed event with us gets their names thrown in the cup for a raffle prize, to go along with the table prizes we’re giving out all convention long. Some of those guys are in there 4 or 5 times, too! Why? Simple – we’re rewarding the wargamers who sit down and play a bunch of games with us!
More accurately, the vendors who donate their kind and generous support to our events are rewarding those gamers that are sitting down to game with us.
This year we had prizes for the raffle from Enterprise Games/GMT, DVG, Dust Tactics, Academy Games, Flying Pig Games, LNLP, and more, to go with a bunch of GrogHeads t-shirts. We would’ve had more to give out from the great folks at LPS, High Flying Dice, Collins Epic, Lost Battalion, and Proving Ground, but our gamers had already snatched up those prizes earlier in the show!
This year we even experimented with live-tweeting the raffle, which went about as well as you’d expect it to, based on a last-minute decision.
So without further ado, our winners, and some scenes from the raffle itself.
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Origins Convention Report – Lock ‘n Load Publishing
Catching up with David & the crew at #Origins2017 ~
Michelle Owczarski, 26 June 2017
We’re still working our way through our Origins 2017 reports, even though we’re over a week past the show!
With a staggering release of 30 new or updated titles, Lock ‘n Load Publishing earns this reporter’s “Most Ambitious” prize for Origins 2017.
Due to shipping issues from the printer, David Heath said he had a limited number of each title air shipped to meet expectations for his booth. Even so, response has been strong with approximately 40% of convention stock sold on the first day.
Brand-new to Lock ‘n Load Publishing is the Lock ‘n Load Tactical Solo set, a card-based tactical rules AI, called AEO, or Artificial Enemy Opponent, allowing a player to enjoy any of the Lock ‘n Load titles in solitaire mode.
Origins – Costumes!
The costumes at #Origins2017 took on an extra bit of ‘oomph’ this year ~
Corinne Mahaffey, 25 June 2017
In addition to our annual gallery of costumes, this year’s Origins also saw something special for the GrogKids, as two of them entered the kids’ competition in the costume contest – and placed 1st (Ian) and 3rd (Edward).
More costumes within…
Origins – Thoughts from the GrogCrew
What did our guys bring home from #Origins2017? What was the coolest thing they saw? ~
GrogHeads Staff, 22 June 2017
We asked our crew at the GrogHeads Central Command (AKA Fort Kickass) to chime in with the coolest thing they saw at Origins that wasn’t GrogHeads-related. Most of them dropped us a line or so. One of them expanded his thoughts. And one of them wrote a bunch.
First, the loot, as photographed by some of our GrogHeads
Bullet points!
- Coolest non-Grogheads thing…discussing and/or playing three in-development wargames with the designers.
- The coolest thing I saw was Rogue Cthulhu gaming group. All of their events were very good and it was well organized.
- Coolest thing I saw this trip was a 6′ x 3′ rubber backed carpet, that was the game board for Quartermaster General!
Some longer thoughts:
Ian won the kid’s section of the Costume contest with his Dwemer Armor (made by Ian, Corinne, plus additional help from grandma and grandpa.) And Edward Owczarski took third place in the same event! Yes! 😀
