Southern Front 2019 Photos

     For the second year in a row, Kalissa and I managed to make it to another Southern Front Wargaming Convention. It is the closest one to us held in Raleigh, NC, which is about an hour from us. Last year, we made it for the first time after Hurricane Florence pasted us by. One road heading north out of Fayetteville, NC happened to open that morning of the show. Since we liked it, we went up for this year's for a couple of hours. I did not get to play anything, but it was more to hang out with fellow wargamers. Plus, I managed to shop a little for one of my Historicon 2020 projects with Sash and Saber. And I bought some terrain from Battlefield Terrain Concepts. Despite knowing how to make my own terrain, I still like to support our hobby vendors. Anyway, these are some of the photos of the mid-afternoon games. Enjoy!

AAR:Congo: Kong Says: No!

     I decided to hate myself a little further in gaming by painting the Forrest Tribe for our Congo game. As I may have mentioned before, Kalissa did really well with this faction when she first played the rules at one of the Historicon conventions. So I kind of took my time on them after I figured out how they played. However, the time had come to experience this faction in their natural habitat with a scenario to capture Kong. I believe this is the second mission that is in the book. I did not really read it. For if I did, I would have really knew how much of an uphill battle this was going to be.
    I ran the White Man Expedition to capture or kill Kong, the spirit of the jungle. The forrest tribe were the defenders. I would come in to roll for fatigue from my march somewhere. Of course, I killed off one of my men just with this roll first thing! As the game played, I was not shooting very well, but Kalissa was. I thought that there was a chance she might move in for melee, since one group of my was reload their muskets. In the end, this happened to be true, but with Kong that I did not know had range of me. Yeah.....he killed the unit in one attack with no survivors. And thus, the downhill went. I was able to kill quite few tribesmen, but with no prevail to any fully dead units. Kong had 8 lives that I took down to 4. I had seven turns to do this, but only four rounds to shoot. Needless to say, I did not win. It was definitely an interesting game. Anyway, here are some more pictures. Enjoy!