Blast from the Past: Flames of War Historicon 2016

 As the pandemic continues to rage, I am continuing to share images and stories from the club's past, until we can all get together and game on the regular again safely.

In the past, when Flames of War 3rd edition was THE game with a vibrant tournament scene, Eric of the I-95 Gamers ran a doubles tournament on Thursday during Historicon, a sort of warm up for the national tournament that was run on Fridat and Saturday.  

Allen and I (Paul) played as a team during the I-95 doubles tournament at Historicon 2016 (Allen in I appear in the video at the link, during the tournament, at the 5:35 mark. I'm in the neon yellow shirt, he's in the dark green, on the right). 

Many of the club members played in the team tournaments, I don't recall everyone who played that year (please, comment below with the other teams!)  but I know Chris and Ken also played that year, in matching humorous shirts. The I-95 doubles tournaments were more relaxed, and frankly more fun, at least for me, then the national tournaments.  

In 2016 it was a Late War tournament.  Allen ran a company of Soviet IS-2s, and I ran a Cossack company.  We didn't do particularly well, we lost the first game hands down, but we managed to win the last game.  The middle game still kinda sticks in my craw. It was a 'fair fight' mission, the other team basically sat and shot at us, never trying to seize objectives, then they asked for the victory based on losses, despite never going for the objectives. The game should have been called a draw.  But They played on our sense of sportsmanship and took the win.  But, as Allen later said, "No reason to end a game with animosity. It be what it be either way it was enjoyable. lol"

So, we end with 1 in and 2 losses, rather then a 1-1-1 record, and Allen, of course, was right. 

Here are some pics from our games.

Allen, Rudel is still strafing your IS-2s!

I really liked the way my Cossack figures came out. 

Love the look of my 
Katyusha rocket launchers in
this picture.

Dismounted Cossacks facing Nazi armored cars...

Allen's IS-2 and tank riders were wonderfully painted.
Sadly, they all burned... in this game!

Cossacks charging machine guns... ended as one would expect...

Our advance was stymied!

In the final game we just massed everyone 
in one spot and charged forward. We thought
someone would survive to seize objectives and they did.
At the top you can see our Valentines.

IS-2s and Cossacks on the march!

Our lone victory! Bloody but ultimately successful.

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