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.

Historicon 2016 Rocked Part 3

Starting positions for our last game we played in on Sunday.

       Again, this post is just more of a re-cap on highlights of the convention. Kalissa and I have made it a tradition to play a game together on the Sunday, since our first Historicon four years ago. In this case, we played a game of Beneath the Lily Banners for our final convention. We played the Battle of Penny Burn Mill during the first days of the siege of Derry. It was hosted by Barry Hilton and Clarence Harrison. I am not sure how they reacted to Kalissa and I. But I must say, it was a fun rule set to play, especially, when you get to play with the writer of the rules. Needless to say, wife did kill off Capt. Adam Murray by drowing him in a swamp. He was our commander! However, we did make for a good scrap, since the winner of the game had to be decided by playing Black Jack. We ended up winning. This made the Sunday worth it, despite the sadness of a fun convention ending. We look forward to next year.
    Here are some more photos. Enjoy!
 

This was the board that won "Best In Show". Orthez 1814 in 10mm.