Southern Front Wargaming Convention

 

 

  Southern Front 2021 has come and past! This is one of the smaller conventions that Kalissa and I try to attend. As silly as it sounds, this convention tends to be one of the harder conventions to get to, despite being only and hour and a half drive. Yes, this is held in Raleigh, NC, which in pretty close to us. However, the amount of events that interrupt this convention of the years was amazing. Most of them were hurricanes, so this one is the third on we have been to after knowing about it for ten years. We were have to be there!

    I like to think of Southern Front as the spiked punch bowl of historical wargaming. It is small with around about 60 to 80 people, but it is blessed with some grand historical gaming. It was about 90% historical games with some (I think) heavy hitters of the hobby in eastern U.S. There were a lot these guys I see running games at other major conventions, own miniature companies or write rules. I find it really cool to ask rules question to the writers themselves. Though, we only showed up for the Saturday part of the show. I was told I missed out of some awesome games on Friday. It was pretty full for a Friday. Saturday had a lot going on. I only shot a few photos and forgot most of the evenings games. I regret that, since there were some interesting medieval games going on. Anyway, here was what I took.

Nashcon 2021

 

  And yet another convention has come and pass for Kalissa and I. We went to one of the few conventions on our list in a while. Normally, in June, we head out to Historicon, but they have moved that in November. And that means another Historicon we will miss. However, Nashcon 2021 had moved to a great time for Kalissa in timing, since it is the beginning of the school year. She had a day off to make a three-day weekend. Because of this, she decided to run the Bolt Action Tournaments in Nashcon. Some other friends who have been running were happy to let her, since they big fans of our previous tournaments. It also means that they could play in the tournament. 

    As a review, I must say I had a great time at Nashcon. They moved it to a new venue the Sheraton Music City Hotel. It was a rather fancy hotel with lots of large rooms with very nice lighting. They had quite a few tournaments going on other than ours. Lord of the Rings, Age of Sigmar, Flames of War, to name a few. They had about 550+ people there at the show. Friday was just as busy as Saturday. Even as Kalissa and I were packing to head home, there were still games running and a couple of huge tournaments on Sunday. It was a great show, so I hope they keep it up. Here are some of the photos I had taken when I was not involved in a game or the Bolt Action Tournament. Enjoy!