I don't think any of us really knew what to expect as the last time we did anything like this was at Warfayre which used to happen at the Cornbow Hall in Halesowen and in those days we just had one game running which was Formule De, I think it was me, Mike and Dave C and was probably in the day before we had the room at the Conservative club.
So we each took along a selection of games, I'm glad I had the wheels on my bag as it weighed a ton, mainly due to the presence of Battlestar Galactic and Eldritch Horror, neither of which were played.
As it turned out I think most of the people passing had either the time or the interest in what we were doing, being much more interested in all the set piece wargames most of which had beautifully created terrain and nicely painted figures. That said we did manage to keep playing of most of the six hour time when the con was open.
Mike stuck to the shorter games and I know that he played Carcassonne and Love Letter, also Infiltration with me and Nottingham with me and some others. Scott I think played some in Mike's games early on before joining me in a 4 player Power Grid game on the UK map, later on he introduced Castles of Mad King Ludwig to 3 others. I started with San Juan, before the Power Grid game which just won by the skin of my teeth, having 3 coal plants when there was no coal left at the end. After that and lunch it was Nottingham and Infiltration which we started before and finished after the Nottingham game.
All in all it was an enjoyable day, although if we repeat it I hope to be a bit more organised, particularly with some kind of notice to identify our table, that said I did print off a few flyers which I distributed around our space and I notice half of them had disappeared by the end of the day.
Following are a few pictures of what went on.
Games in Play
Power Grid
Possibly not good for the environment
Castles of Mad King Ludwig
Infiltration
It was always going to be tricky getting passing none hobby boardgamers to join in with a game they have never heard of. You did well to find even one volunteer. If you were playing for 6 hours I would call it a successful venture.
ReplyDeleteI have the metal table number holders from GamesExpo if you ever want them. They are great for holding up notices "Next game starts at 11:30. Would you like to play?" or whatever.
I've got some (non-digital) pictures somewhere of the Formule De game. I can't remember the exact date but I sure we had started at the Conservative Club as Alex is on a couple of them and he didn't come to my house in the early days
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