Origins 2023 Countdown ~ Consolidated Wargame Event Grid

Armchair Dragoons PAO, 24 May 2023

Registration for Origins 2023 is up & running, and to help out our fellow wargamers, we’ve pulled an event extract of wargaming, and wargame-related, events beyond just ours.

To help wargamers planning their schedules, here’s what we’ve identified broadly as the ‘wargame’ events at Origins Game Fair, 21-25 June 2023 in Columbus, Ohio.

A few caveats:

• There’s always a chance that something else gets added to the schedule (especially the War College) but this extract was pulled based on the events that were released for registration as of 22 May
• There are multiple pages to this table – it’s over 360 events!
• This is a mixture of seminars, minis games, some regular tabletop games, some map-&-minis games, and pretty much everything we could try to rope in that’s not just semi-organized “who wants to play something” geeklists
• These were tagged as “Wargame” or “War College” or were tagged as “Historical” and then we filtered out the RPGs.  There are a few in here that are flagged as “Sci-Fi” or “Strategy” but are still wargame-related, as you’ll see, and then we added the current NSDM events and some others that looked wargame-connected.  When in doubt, we made some judgment calls, but usually to screen in something that might not be a full-fledged ‘wargame’ rather than screen something out that might be of interest
• We did not provide room locations as many of these are changing, including ours!  So do not get locked into the location listed on the Origins registration site, as there are some definite changes to be made.
• Event numbers are fixed / good to go.  Those should not be changing at all
• We did not include descriptions because that would make this table way too big
• We did not put the Battletech events this year either, because that would’ve doubled the size of the table

As we’d noted previously, this table does not include any events we plan to run “off the books” that were organized after the submission deadline was passed, or the BGG meetups or Geeklist games.  Additionally, this does not include the inevitable ‘pick-up’ games of ASL or M’44 or other popular wargames that’ll get organized in the Board Room as people check out those games to play.

ORIGINS 2023 COVERAGE

WARGAME HQ EVENTS ~ MiD PREVIEW EPISODE ~ WARGAME HQ EVENT PREVIEWS ~ ADVICE FOR ROOKIES ~ CONSOLIDATED WARGAMING EVENT GRID ~ EXHIBITOR SPOTLIGHT ~ THE MAILBAG
SETUP & FIRST GAMES ~ ABOVE THE SHOW ~ DAY 1 REPORT ~ DAY 2 REPORT ~ DAYS 3 & 4 REPORT ~ EXHIBIT HALL ~ GAMEPLAY PHOTOS ~
WARGAME HQ EVENT REPORT  ~ THE SPIRITUAL SOJOURN  ~ CONVENTION PHOTOS  ~ AAR
DISCUSSION FORUM THREAD

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At the Origins Game Fair, what a sight!
Wargamers come to play day and night,
Dice & counters in hand,
They conquer the land,
Till their armies are put up for the night.