Origins 2019 - a 21-game spree at the Ares booth!

[matt56]

Origins this year was a busy time at the Ares booth! Between Peter(Teaticket), Jim(rhodie80), and me, we ran 20 games over the 5-day convention...a wee bit more than we are used to running! Our friend Bill(oldguy) from our local Wright Flight group ran one, too, kicking us up to a 21-game extravaganza I had hoped to take more pictures as the weekend progressed, but that simply didn't happen. Luckily, Jim and Peter were snapping cameras quite a bit, and Karl(Jager) was taking pictures and notes on the games he partipated in - no doubt they all will post the fruits of their labors in due course. Below you will find shots from several of the games I ran, along with a couple of pics of Jim's last game on Sunday...

Here is the Ares booth at a calm before the storm - after our first game...the Aerodrome banner proudly on display!



These two shots are of my first game at noon on Wednesday - a RN destroyer (modeled convincingly by our own Clipper1801) dead in the water being attacked by German naval land-based aircraft and defended by RNAS pilots. The cardboard in the second photo is the ship 'card' I made for when planes overlapped the boat...





These next pictures are from my Tripods versus Tripods game - the premise was that the humans had captured a couple of tripods and had turned them on the Martians. Four Martian tripods took on two captured tripods and six late-war fighters...













As I mentioned elsewhere, the Martians are quite tough when allowed to roam unrestrained by terrain - very pretty models that look very cool on the table. The Martians destroyed their four objectives and gave the humans rather a thumping. The two big Martians (the Cuttlefish and the Scarab) are particularly tough.

More pics in the next post - I didn't want to overload this one...

All the best,
Matt