MAYHEM 25 CONVENTION

 

The main gaming area at the start of the Saturday morning games. The room would become more busy as the day wore on. 

Greetings, dear reader(s).  This last weekend (April 11-13) while our friends in the UK were attending their premiere event, the Salute Show in London, we here in Northern New England were indulging in our own modest convention, Mayhem, held in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Here is a brief report on the goings on. 

Did I mention that we were in Northern New England?  This was the view out my hotel room window on Saturday morning. The snow would eventually let up just before noon: what better place to be on such a day than indoors playing games? And speaking of games, here are some shots from Friday and Saturday. I didn't catalog them while shooting (nor do I have the time to do so now), so I'm afraid that they'll have to speak for themselves. They will, however, give a sense of the range and quality of the games on hand. As usual, you may clix pix for BIG PIX...

Our Game Club Games

Once again, the "Conspirators" were present in force and hosted multiple games and played in many others (your humble correspondent included).

AJ, of AJ's Wargaming Blog, brought his Electronic Brigadier system to the con...

...his expansion into the American Civil war was on display in his 5 player Wheatfield at Gettysburg game (left), and he also ran his tried and true American Rev version in an an 8 player Freeman's Farm game.

Phil put ancients on the table in his Battle of Teleman, 225 BCE game (left). Later, he could be found donning a tricorne in Rich Wallace's Carnage and Glory AWI game.

Our Napoleonic contribution was provided by Robert R (left), who ran a 15mm Battle of Mockern (North side of Leipzig, 1813) game, and Dr Dick, who ran his 6mm Bavaria Ablaze (Davout at Ratisbone) game. 

Michael B provided some big ship pirate adventure with his 28mm Blue Waters, Bloody Pirates (the Governor's Daughter) game. 

I ran two games. On Friday evening, I put on my Borscht and Goulasch Chocolate Box Wars game. Unfortunately, I was busy setting up and then facilitating the game, so the only image I can offer is this one--if you squint you will see my game in the background against the wall (that's me leaning over the table in the black and white club shirt) .

I also hosted my Joust for the Fun of It game. I have run this game at all three of the Mayhem conventions to date, and it is becoming something of a Saturday Night fixture. I hope to bring it to the Mayhem '26 convention and continue the tradition. 

Excelsior!