ConquestSAC - Day 2

I got to the con around 10:00 AM. Another advantage of a local con is that I can come and go as I please. My first task, after talking to some friends, was to check out the Vendor room. For a first year con, the vendor room was not bad. I've seen worse. There wasn't a huge selection of board games available. Even Great Escape Games, located near the con, didn't have a lot of board games on display. I did find one vendor selling Pizza Box Football and the PBF Expansion Set. As I had heard good things about this game, I grabbed both the game and the expansion. I was scheduled to run a game at 1:00 PM, so I didn't want to get involved in anything major. I played some more Down In Flames - Dragons and a memorable game of Havoc: The Hundred Years War.

At 1:00 PM I ran a game of The First World War. This is a light wargame and we ended up with two games being played. One a four player game and the other a two player game. Both games ended early. The four player game ended early when the Austro Hungarian player (that would be me) failed a surrender role and ended the game. The second game ended after two turns when the Allied player decided this wasn't his type of game and surrendered. The session ended early but overall I think it went pretty well.

Next I got to try out Pizza Box Football. I played the basic game and after some initial confusion the game flowed smoothly. The game is basically all about rolling dice and looking up a table for the result. There's not much strategy to the game other than trying to outguess your opponent's play call. Still, for what it is, it is a fun little game, if taking in small doses. I can play and enjoy the game for about an hour. After that, I start to get bored with dice rolling and playing calling. PBF will make a good "beverage & snack" game.

At 6:00 PM I ran a game of Winds of Plunder. This is the euro game scheduled to be published by GMT Games sometime this year (hopefully). It's a fun little game. It's not well known yet but once the players start to play, they seem to enjoy the game. More than one player mentioned he would buy a copy if it were available for sale at the Con. That's a pretty good recommendation.

After the WOP game I headed out to dinner with Matt. After dinner we returned to the convention, but after wandering around a bit, I decided to call it a day and head home. Saturday, the 2nd day of the convention, seemed well attended. The gaming tables were full all day long and attendence looked very good to me. Hopefully this is a good sign and the convention will return in 2007.