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Command Con V
Grant Shelter, Jefferson Barracks County Park
November 14, 15, 16, 2003
(Located off Gregg Road)
Starts at noon on Friday and 9:00 am Sat/Sun

Miniatures & Gaming Con

"Featuring miniature gaming from every era including ancients, Napoleon, Civil War, the World Wars, and the modern era.
We offer battles on the land, at sea, and in the air. All ages are welcome."

Sessions begin at noon Friday, November 14, and at 9:00 a.m. Saturday and Sunday.
The annual Big Muddy HGA general membership meeting is 12:00 p.m. Saturday, November 15.
Silent auction Saturday
Awards for best games, presentations, etc.
Admission for the weekend is $15.00

The following is a partial event list as of 11/10/03. Please stop by to see latest events.

GM	*Session*	*Table #*	*Event Name*	*Era*	*Genre*	*Type*	*Rules*	*# Players (min / max)*		*Event Description*
Pat Connaughton	F 2	4	A Spoiling(ed?) Raid	Future	land	miniature	Net Epic; Warhammer40K	2	8	Renegade Marines and assorted rabble ambush a slow moving imperial supply column. Easy Picking�yea, right.
Bob Roby	F 2	5	Axis and Allies	WWII	land	board game	Axis and Allies	2	5	Standard version of the old stand-by. Can you do the impossible and make the world safe for fascism?
James Kantor	F 2	6	Blow Me Out of the Sky	Modern	air	miniature		2	8	Basic modern air combat. Take up a F-14, F-16, F-18, SU-27, Mirage, (or any other modern jet) and try to stay alive. Open to anyone.
Tony Zafiropolous	F 2	9	Return to Iraq	Modern	land	board game	Europa	2	5	March-April 2003. The Iraqis attempt to salvage some dignity by inflicting political damage before the coalition achieves its objectives.
Jon Bancroft	F 3	1	Outpost	Other 19th c.	land	miniature	Sword and Flame	2	6	Sudan. The relief column has moved on to their objective. They have left a fortified supply depot behind at El Sreka to support their advance. The depot must be held or the Relief column will not achieve its objective. Come play out the last time an imperial power imposed its will in the Moslem world. Anglo-Egyptian
Larry Freeman	F 3	3	Breakout Campaign Part I: The Worst Has Happened! 1944	WWII	land	miniature	Combat Command	4	6	Your counter-attack has failed and your unit commander says it is every man for himself. Can you make it back to your own lines or will you end up as a prisoner of war or worse? Western Front, 25mm.
Pat Connaughton	F 3	4	Smackdown on the Ol' Mississippi	ACW	air	miniature	Raiders and Blockaders	2	8	Union ironclads run a gauntlet of Confederate shore batteries and ironclads.
Terry Callahan	F 3	7	Action in the Barents Sea	WWII	naval	miniature	Ship Base III	3	6	Attack by the Scharnhorst on a Murmansk convoy. Protecting the convoy is the HMS Belfast and destroyers. A British battleship group is also on the prowl.
Pat McGarrity	F 3	8	Boxer Rebellion 1900	Early 20th c.	land	miniature	Sword and Flame	2	8	A small force of mixed nationality, military and civilians, are defending a portion of the international legation area against Boxers and Chinese Imperial troops. Outnumbered and outgunned, what chance does the sole "international gun" have in defending the compound against Chinese-manned Krupp 75mm guns?
Harold Wones	Sa 1	2	Battle of Fort Donelson	ACW	land	miniature	Fire and Fury	4	6	Match yourself against U.S. Grant and the campaign that made his name. Can the Confederate get himself out of a hopeless situation?
Bill Doelling	Sa 1	3	Breakout Campaign Part II: Eluding the Bear, 1944	WWII	land	miniature	Fix Bayonets!	6	12	1944: Hans Hube's entire Panzer army is cut off. Not content to wait out his fate, Hube makes a breakout attempt, but not in the direction the Soviets expected. Following initial success, the Soviets have caught on and are rushing reinforcements to stop him. Eastern Front, 15mm
Mark Johnson	Sa 1	4	Napoleon's Spanish Ulcer - Return to the Peninsula	Napoleonic	land	miniature	Bonaparte	2	6	The British have landed their expeditionary force to support Spanish Royalists and indigenous militias. French and allied occupation forces are scattered, trying to keep partisans in check, so only limited numbers of the Empire's forces are available to challenge the invasion. The question at hand is whether the British can establish a lodgement, or if they will be thrown back into the sea. You must do your best with the available forces.
James Kantor	Sa 1	6	Carrier Strike	Modern	naval	miniature		2	8	Remember the board game? Now take a bigger map and throw in more carriers and planes.
Pat McGarrity	Sa 1	7	Commando Raid	WWII	land	miniature	G.I.	2	6	France, 1943. Having successfully blown up a German radar station British commandos are to be extracted from a sleepy coastal village; but instead of finding an empty harbor, the commandos discover an armed trawler and a couple of patrol boats. Before the Royal Navy can send in the landing craft, the Commandos will have to deal with this new threat. Are you up to the challenge?
Rich Wright	Sa 1	10	DBM tournament: 15mm, single list with 400 pts; 3 games over two sessions beginning at 9:00 a.m.	Ancients	land	miniature	DBM (standard 3.0 rules)	16		This open tourney will be played with standard 3.0 DBM rules with a twist to the scoring to be announced at the tourney. Out-of-towners will NOT play each other so the pairings for the 2nd and 3rd rounds will be different than at other tourneys. You will play with a single list so bring your best army combo. Armies will be in 15mm using the standard 4 foot by 6 foot playing area.
Mike Dotson	Sa 1	12	Green Jungle	Modern	land	miniature	Charlie Company	2	8	Viet-Nam - 15mm; any level of experience welcome
Larry Salazar	Sa 2	1	Heilsberg	Napoleonic	land	miniature		2	6	The French begin another offensive. Out-numbered, Murat attacks. Can the jaeger on the heights hold them for the Russians?
Jon Bancroft	Sa 2	2	French Foreign Legion	Other 19th c.	land	miniature	Sword and Flame	2	6	Fort Zinderhof will not fall while Sgt. Markopf can defend it. "Quickly! Send another up the tower, we must know where they are attacking and how many! "
Kevin Mayden	Sa 2	3	North Africa: Italians versus Americans	WWII	land	miniature	Command Decision	2	8	The Italian job c. 1942
Mike Doelling	Sa 2	3	Starship Battles	Future	naval	miniature	FASA	2	6
Mark Johnson	Sa 2	4	Napoleon's Spanish Ulcer - Return to the Peninsula	Napoleonic	land	miniature	Bonaparte	2	6	The British have landed their expeditionary force to support Spanish Royalists and indigenous militias. French and allied occupation forces are scattered, trying to keep partisans in check, so only limited numbers of the Empire's forces are available to challenge the invasion. The question at hand is whether the British can establish a lodgement, or if they will be thrown back into the sea. You must do your best with the available forces.
Orlando Jones (OJ)	Sa 2	5	Axis & Allies: Xeno Expansion	WWII	other	board game	Axis & Allies	2	6	The Xeno games expansion includes new maps, new nations, and more!
Bruce Hill	Sa 2	6	182 Meter Hill	Early 20th c.	land	miniature		2	6	This 15mm Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) scenario takes place on one of the hills overlooking Port Arthur. You can command the Japanese who seek to take this important hill, or you may choose to dig in as the Russians to hold the high ground and the honor of Russia. Players who want to have fun are needed.
Terry Callahan	Sa 2	7	Bombers over France	WWII	air	miniature	Blue Sky	6	8	A raid to knock out German airfields in occupied France.
Steve Hood	Sa 2	8	Tiger!	WWII	land	miniature	I Ain't Been Shot, Mum!' by Too Fat Lardies	2	8+	US armored task force will be attempting to break thru strong German positions with Cats on the prowl. The game uses a unique card activation and initiative dice system allowing for numerous tactical decisions to be made while keeping the rules easy to use: Fast, furious and fun!"
Joe Shaffer	Sa 2	9	Panzer Lehr Attacks	WWII	land	miniature	G.I.	3	6	Based on Heroes of Omaha from Skirmish Campaigns, this is a 3-scenario campaign covering 2 sessions. Play in one or more scenarios.
Rich Wright	Sa 2	10	DBM tournament : 15mm, single list with 400 pts; 3 games over two sessions beginning at 9:00 a.m.	Ancients	land	miniature	DBM (standard 3.0 rules)	16		This open tourney will be played with standard 3.0 DBM rules with a twist to the scoring to be announced at the tourney. Out-of-towners will NOT play each other so the pairings for the 2nd and 3rd rounds will be different than at other tourneys. You play with a single list so bring your best army combo. Armies will be in 15mm using a 4 foot by 6 foot playing area.
Scott Showalter	Sa 2	12	War Machine Demos	Modern	land	board game	War Machines	2	8	Drop by and learn another system in the 'modern' miniature era. Prepare for the War Machine Box tourney on Sunday!
Michael Doelling	Sa 3	1	Battle of Isandlwana "Wet With Yesterday's Blood"	Other 19th c.	land	miniature	Sword and Flame	4	12	In camp overlooking the border between British Natal and the Zulu kingdom, the officers of the 1st Battalion of the 24th Regiment dined with the officers of the 2nd Battalion of the same regiment. The two battalions of the 24th had not fought side by side before and now, for the first time in the regiment's history, they would campaign together. That little dinner was to celebrate that fact and to mark a darker anniversary for the 24th. Thirty years before, the regiment had fought a battle against a Sikh army, losing over 500 officers and men and the regimental colors. The gathered officers drank a toast to its memory � "To Chillianwallah - and that we may not get into such a mess again this time!" Within a fortnight not one of the officers of the 1/24th was still alive; they lay dead in the grass at the foot of a distinctive rocky outcrop known as Isandlwana. With them lay over 1300 British and allied troops together with a thousand Zulus.
Jon Bancroft	Sa 3	2	Sticks 'N Stones	Ancients	land	miniature	Sticks N' Stones	2	10	Dawn of time: two prehistoric tribes claim the same valley but only one will remain when one-eye is swallowed by the mountains.
Larry Freeman	Sa 3	3	Breakout Campaign Part III: Fight to the Fin(n)ish, 1939	WWII	land	miniature	Combat Command	6	9	Deep in the woods and cut off from hope lies one of the few intact Soviet Rifle Companies. The Finns have surrounded this 'Motti' and after watching the cold and hunger take its toll, they feel the time is right to crush the serpent once and for all. This will be a no-holds barred match to decide the campaign victor. Scale: 25mm, Russians versus Finnish, 1939.
Mark Johnson	Sa 3	4	Napoleon's Spanish Ulcer - Return to the Peninsula	Napoleonic	land	miniature	Bonaparte	2	6	The British have landed their expeditionary force to support Spanish Royalists and indigenous militias. French and allied occupation forces are scattered, trying to keep partisans in check, so only limited numbers of the Empire's forces are available to challenge the invasion. The question at hand is whether the British can establish a lodgement, or if they will be thrown back into the sea. You must do your best with the available forces.
Kurt Linke	Sa 3	5	Canvas Eagles	Early 20th c.	air	miniature	Canvas Eagles	2	14	The game is very similar to Blue Max by GDW. WWI air combat using 1/72 scale miniatures.
Corey Paris	Sa 3	6	Lord of the Rings: Hold the ford!	Medieval	land	miniature	LOTR: The Two Towers	2	6+	A group of Elves and Men must hold the river ford against the orcs until the wounded can get to safety.
Dave Harrison	Sa 3	7	Operation Goodwood	WWII	air	miniature	Command Decision	2	6	The British offensive to break-out of Normandy. One of the biggest armored engagements on the Western Front.
Adam Jones	Sa 3	8	Action off Sandy Hook, July 1812	Napoleonic	naval	miniature	AJ's special formula: Modified Ships O' the Line and Wooden Ships and Iron Men.	2	9	Commodore John Rodgers sailed from New York to avoid the British naval squadron sailing to blockade the city and trap the American warships. The British arrived too late to stop his squadron's escape, but they did encounter the U.S.S.Constitution. She eluded capture with a now famous move of using her ships boats to pull her away from the becalmed British force. What would have happened had Commodore Rodgers waited for orders to sail and met the British force sailing to blockade New York? WE SHALL SEE......
Joe Shaffer	Sa 3	9	Panzer Lehr Attacks	WWII	land	miniature	G.I.	3	6	Based on Heroes of Omaha from Skirmish Campaigns, this is a 3-scenario campaign covering two sessions. Play in one or more scenarios.
Bob Stusse	Sa 3	10	Winged Defenders of the Crown	WWII	air	miniature	Mustangs and Messerschmitts	2	6	A mixed RAF Fighter Command flight (Spitfires & Hurricanes), takes to the skies to defend the crown against Luftwaffe aviators flying Bf-109E4 and Fw190A3. Game system uses 1/72nd scale model aircraft and stands on wheels to accurately depict aircraft in flight.
Titan	Sa 3	T	Road Kill Rally Progressive Mini's Tourney	Future	land	miniature	Road Kill Rally		10
Harold Wones	Su 1	1	Battle of Pretz	Early 20th c.	land	miniature	Volley & Bayonet	4	8	In the midst of the Verdun Campaign, the German Army made numerous attacks on the surrounding towns and villages in an effort to cut the French fortress off from friendly lines. On the north side, near the Dupray Forest was the village of Pretz. An insignificant speck of a battle. Only one person would ever be remembered from this bloodbath, a feisty new battalion commander named Erwin Rommel.
Jon Bancroft	Su 1	2	Sticks 'N Stones: Reprise	Ancients	land	miniature	Sticks N' Stones	2	10	Dawn of time: two prehistoric tribes claim the same valley but only one will remain when one-eye is swallowed by the mountains.
Bill Doelling	Su 1	3	Breakout Campaign Part IV: The Ruhr in My Pocket	WWII	land	miniature	Fix Bayonets!	2	10	1945: The Allies have breached the Rhine and are driving hard to envelope what will be the largest mass of enemy troops during the entire war - the Ruhr pocket. In the van is the 3rd Armored Division under General Maurice Rose driving hard for Paderborn to linkup with the US 9th Army to the north. What the 3rd Armored didn't realize what that Rommel's protégé Fritz Bayerlein commanded the Panzertruppen inside the pocket and he was just not content to let the Amis have their way.
Mark Johnson	Su 1	4	Napoleon's Spanish Ulcer - Return to the Peninsula	Napoleonic	land	miniature	Bonaparte	2	6	The British have landed their expeditionary force to support Spanish Royalists and indigenous militias. French and allied occupation forces are scattered, trying to keep partisans in check, so only limited numbers of the Empire's forces are available to challenge the invasion. The question at hand is whether the British can establish a lodgement, or if they will be thrown back into the sea. You must do your best with the available forces.
John Claus	Su 1	6	Red Storm Rising	WWII	land	board game	Red Storm Rising	2	4	Tom Clancy's story of Gotterdamerung '80's-style
Joe Shaffer	Su 1	7	Karpilovka Bridgehead: October 1943	WWII	land	miniature	Battlefront	4	6	A scenario from the Battlefront rulebook. The Soviets have seized a bridgehead; the Germans must destroy it fast.
Jim Ebert	Su 1	9	War Machine Tournament	Future	land	miniature	War Machines		32	Starter Box Tournament; registration at UGG&H booth.
Pat Connaughton	Su 1	10	Battle at Elam 3245	Future	other	miniature	Full Thrust	2	8	Fleet action in space! A skirmish between Alliance scouts and Imperial border patrols escalates into a real battle as commanders keep throwing forces into the fight.
Doug Hedley	Su 2	2	Second Annual East-West Challenge: Cedar Creek	ACW	land	miniature	Fire and Fury	4	8	In one of the most complete surprise attacks of the American Civil War, a Confederate army surprised a Union army asleep in its Missouri encampment. And in one of the most complete reversals of that war, General Phillip Sheridan rode to the rescue, turning a route into a decisive Yankee victory.
Mark Johnson	Su 2	4	Napoleon's Spanish Ulcer - Return to the Peninsula	Napoleonic	land	miniature	Bonaparte	2	6	The British have landed their expeditionary force to support Spanish Royalists and indigenous militias. French and allied occupation forces are scattered, trying to keep partisans in check, so only limited numbers of the Empire's forces are available to challenge the invasion. The question at hand is whether the British can establish a lodgement, or if they will be thrown back into the sea. You must do your best with the available forces.
Bob Roby	Su 2	5	Axis and Allies	WWII	land	board game	Axis and Allies	2	5	Standard version of the old stand-by. Can you do the impossible and make the world safe for fascism?
Steve Hood	Su 2	6	Tiger!	WWII	land	miniature	I Ain't Been Shot, Mum!' by Too Fat Lardies	2	8+	US armored task force will be attempting to break thru strong German positions with Cats on the prowl. The game uses a unique card activation and initiative dice system allowing for numerous tactical decisions to be made while keeping the rules easy to use: Fast, furious and fun!"
James Kantor	Su 2	7	War Pigs	Modern	land	miniature		2	6	Army Men on the table! Use plastic army men and try to defend the green outpost against the tan menace or try to remove the oppressive green presence from tan territory.
Pat Connaughton	Su 2	10	Take That Station!	Future	other	miniature	Full thrust	2	8	Alliance Commerce Raiders sniping at merchant ships aim to take out an Imperial supply base before Imperial forces arrive.