Re: GZG East Coast Con Report

Rick spake thusly upon matters weighty: 

> Congratulations to Jon Davis, Mark Kochte and Gil Huan -- the first
> annual(?) east coast GZG convention was quite a success! I drove up on
> Saturday morning (from Washington DC) and drove back Saturday evening,
> so I can't comment on Friday or Sunday's events. Saturday, however,
was
> a hell of a lot of fun!

So were the other days. 
 
> Twelve people showed up, and we occupied a single conference room in
> the Brunswick Hotel. The games went very well -- I played Tom
McCarthy's
> Stargrunt/Kryomek scenario, and the bugs won hands-down, partly due to
> Thomas Barclay's miserable die-rolls (sorry, Thomas!).

There were 13 of us, an auspicious number if ever there was. And 
don't apologize - anytime troops that are steady and leadership level 
one leave the battle at the first time of hostile contact, and when 
my walkers die on impact rolls of 1 and 3, it tells me the battle was 
held under inauspicious stars (for the Human Force, at any rate). You 
guys ran bugs just like you should, and I really had the "Ohmigod, 
they're everywhere! We're all gonna die! Game Over!" feeling... 

> One thing I think deserves specific attention: everyone at the
convention 
> was making a serious effort to be good sports, whether or not they won
or
> lost their game. When I was trying to get some of my local friends to 
> drive up with me, one of their arguments against it was, "why should I
go
> all the way to Lancaster, PA just to get into rule arguments with a
bunch
> of gamers?" (and my response was, "...and how would that be different
from
> our weekly games?" :) However, we seem to have gathered together some
> of the best people in this hobby -- the level of sportsmanship was
quite
> high, and everyone gave their opponent(s) the benefit of the doubt
> whenever a questionable situation arose.

True. Good sports pretty much all around. I think I've made a few 
lasting friends here. Maybe next time we'll host one up in Ottawa, 
where all you yankees can come and enjoy the benefits of having a 
dollar worth a dollar and a half and where we have a good games store 
to blow your money at... *grin*

Thanks to all who organized this event and participated. Especially 
Jon D. who totally kicked my butt in another SG2 scenario and to Tom 
M. whose Minbari PA just slew my poor Gropos.... 

Tom. 
 
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