The 2015 SYW Convention was hosted recently at the Waterford Estates Lodge in South Bend, Indiana. The SYW convention is growing and gaining momentum and had record attendance this year with a great bunch of gamers and vendors! The featured guest was well-known SYW expert Dr. Christopher Duffy. I didn’t attend the convention, but some of my friends did and here are some of their pics and posts! All pictures were taken by Jeff Knudsen and used with his kind permission.
Dean West running a great looking game of his 15mm “Final Argument of Kings”. FAK is based on John Hill’s “Johnny Reb” game system.
The SYW in India – Juergen Olk’s great looking 28mm game!
A close up of some of the SYW in India action! Juergen uses a variant of Ken Bunger’s “Tricorne” rules.
Jeff Knudsen’s naval game, based off the action near Lagos in 1759. Jeff’s ships are scratch built and mostly made of paper. They look great!
A close up of Jeff’s fantastic paper ships.
Jeff makes the ships and runs the wonderful website War Artizan. Head on over to his site to check out more great sailing pics, instructions on how to make the ships, and rules. It’s a great gaming resource! link
Patrick Lebeau’s wonderful 25mm AWI “Battle of Eutaw Springs” game. Patrick will be bringing this game to Nashcon in May 2015.
Patrick’s game was a modified AWI version of John Hill’s “Across A Deadly Field”.
A huge 25mm Great Northern War game by Danny Fogelman and Ken Bunger using “Beneath the Lily Banners”.
The FIW on the Ohio frontier – a great looking 25mm “Song of Drums and Tomahawks” game by Mike Stelzer.
Herb Gundt and Thom Osborn’s “Brother Against Brother” AWI skirmish game on a CBB mat. They really make the mat look fantastic and this game won the annual “Jim Mitchell” award!
A close-up of the AWI skirmish game “Get them wagons runnin’!”.
The convention is known for its high quality games, camaraderie and friendly gamers. If you haven’t attended yet, next year needs to be the year!
Michael Matthews, who attended the con, did a great write-up on some of the games at the convention. It can be found on his excellent blog “Campaigns in Miniature” here!
Thank you to Jeff Knudsen for allowing us to share his excellent pictures of the convention! I just posted a few teaser pics here, but if you would like to see more of his SYW Convention pics, check out his Flick page here – link
Good Gaming! Cory @CBB