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Title: BottosCon this weekend in Vancouver, BC
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on November 01, 2018, 10:29:51 PM
BottosCon  (https://sites.google.com/site/bottoscon/)is 3-day (mainly) wargaming con in New Westminster (greater Vancouver area) this weekend.  I'll be running games of Pendragon, Sails of Glory, and Federation Commander.

I'm also hoping to sell off as much of my late friend's collection as I can.  Another friend is helping with the transport and sale as I can't get all of it in my car.  I think this is about half of all of it.

Just finished packing up his stuff.  Here's hoping the convention location has a dolly available...

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Title: Re: BottosCon this weekend in Vancouver, BC
Post by: mirth on November 02, 2018, 05:24:45 AM
^damn. That's what it's going to look like when I go.
Title: Re: BottosCon this weekend in Vancouver, BC
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 02, 2018, 06:42:59 AM
^damn. That's what it's going to look like when I go.


we'll need panorama mode to get all of yours in the picture
Title: Re: BottosCon this weekend in Vancouver, BC
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on November 03, 2018, 03:44:55 AM
Man, setting up the tables was a beast.  Had a good day and sold $2600 worth of games though!  $7500 more to go....


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Title: Re: BottosCon this weekend in Vancouver, BC
Post by: bob48 on November 03, 2018, 05:39:42 PM
I spy a copy of Ardennes '44 - I would have snapped that one up!
Title: Re: BottosCon this weekend in Vancouver, BC
Post by: Staggerwing on November 03, 2018, 05:55:28 PM
Ohhhhh... Achtung Spitfire!

Let us know what's left over afterwards.
Title: Re: BottosCon this weekend in Vancouver, BC
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 03, 2018, 06:28:37 PM
wowza!
Title: Re: BottosCon this weekend in Vancouver, BC
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on November 04, 2018, 01:30:30 AM
Two days down.  Managed to sell about 1/3rd of the collection so far.  I'm always surprised by what goes and what doesn't  I definitely don't have a head for business as many of the titles I thought that would have been snapped up are still available while others that I suspected would never sell were gone within hours.

Here's what's sold so far:


7 Ages: 600 Years of Human History
Betrayal at Baldur's Gate
Sails of Glory
War of the Ring
Guam: Return to Glory
Advanced PTO
War in the Pacific + Expansion
Sons of Anarchy: Men of Mayhem
Scythe: Art Connoisseur Edition
A Distant Plain
Colonial Twilight
Elusive Victory
Newtown
Samurai
Caesar: Conquest of Gaul (+ Warrior Queen exp)
Caesar in Alexandria
RAN
Hoplite
SGBoH Battle Manual
Tyrant
Men of Iron
Sweden Fights On
MBT
MBT: BAOR
MBT: FRG
Next War: Korea
Next War: Taiwan
Next War: India-Pakistan
Next War: Poland
Next War: Supplement #1
Infidel
Bloody April:  Arras France 1917 (+ Eagle of Lille exp)
Sword of Rome
Churchill
Heroes of the Nam X-Maps
Heroes Against the Red Star X-Maps
Day of Heroes X-Maps
Heroes of the Pacific X-Maps
Lock 'n Load Tactical Solo
Heroes of the Nam
Day of Heroes
Days of Villany
The Bear and the Jackal
Heroes Agianst the Red Star
Heroes of the Pacific
Hube's Pocket
Burma
Reluctant Enemies
Beyond the Rhine
Kingdom of Heaven
Conan (+X-Bowmen & Yogah of Yag)
Conan: Nordheim
Tokyo Express
Pacific War
The Expanse
Pandemic: Legacy Season One Blue Box
1985: Under an Iron Sky
Gloomhaven
Nightfighter


And here's what's left:

CoH: Awakening the Bear 2nd Ed (+ The Marsh map)
CoH: Price of Honor - Poland 1939
CoH: Storms of Steel! - Kursk 1943
IDF: Arab-Israeli Wars
The Siege of Jerusalem
Great War at Sea: Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905
Saipan: The Bloody Rock
The Speed of Heat
Age of Reason: Primer
Zorndorf
Leuthen
Brandywine & Germantown
Lobositz: First battle of the Seven Years War
The Battle of Monmouth: June 18 , 1778
The Battle of Fontenoy
The Battle of Prague: The Empty Triumph
Achtung Spitfire
Whistling Death
Harpoon 4 (+White Ensign, South Atlantic War, Persian Incursion, Dance of the Vampires exp)
Air Superiority
Air Strike
The Rise of the Roman Republic
Carthage
Prussia's Glory II
Cuba Libre
Fire in the Lake
Liberty or Death
Falling Sky
This Hallowed Ground
Downtown: Air War Over Hanoi
The Burning Blue
Enemy Coast Ahead:  The Dambuster Raid
Enemy Coast Ahead:  The Doolittle Raid
Typhoon!
Barbarossa: Army Group South, 1941
Barbarossa: Army Group Center, 1941
Barbarossa: Kiev to Rostov, 1941
Barbarossa: Crimea, 1941-42
Ardennes '44
Espana 1936
Fighting Formations
Red Badge of Courage
Dead of Winter
Twin Peaks
Gringo! - Mexican War (+ Battles w Gringos exp)
Great Battles of Alexander
SPQR 2nd Ed  (+ Barbarian exp)
Great Battles of Caesar (+ Veni, Vidi, Vici exp)
War Galley
Cataphract (+ Attila exp)
Devil's Horsemen
Alesia
Chandragupta
Gergovia
Labyrinth (+ The Awakening expansion)
This Accursed Civil War
Under the Lily Banners
Panzer 2nd Edition
Panzer Exp.1 - Eastern Front
Panzer Exp.2 - Eastern Front
Panzer Exp.3 - Drive to the Rhine
Sekigahara
Silver Bayonet - 25th Anniversary Edition
Pax Romana: The Ancient Mediterranean World
Onward Christian Soldiers
Wilderness War
Empire of the Sun
The Battle for Normandy
The Battle for Normandy Expansion
The Conquerors: Alexander the Great
Wing Leader: Victories 1940-1942
Wing Leader: Supremacy 1943-1945
Outbreak: Undead Annual #1
Outbreak: Undead Starter Kit 2nd Ed.
All Things Zombie: Reloaded
The Greatest Day: Gold, Juno, & Sword Beaches
Last Blitzkrieg
Last Chance for Victory
Enemy at the Gates
Tunisia I
DAK 2
Burma 1st edition
Guderian's Blitzkrieg II
Korea: The Forgotten War
Case Blue
Baltic Gap: Summer 1944
The Blitzkrieg Legend
Tunisia II
Operational Matters:  An OCS Guide
Conan RPG sourcebook
Conan RPG Fields of Glory tiles
Conan The Barbarian RPG
Conan The Thief RPG
Conan The Mercenary RPG
Conan The Book of Skelos RPG
Conan Player's Handbook RPG
Urban Operations
Dead Reign: Graveyard Earth
Dead Reign rulebook
Dead Reign Sourcebook One: Civilization Gone
Dead Reign Sourcebook Two: Dark Places
Dead Reign Sourcebook Three: Endless Dead
Dead Reign Sourcebook Four: Fear the Reaper
Dead of Winter:  A Crossroads Game
Car Wars
Zombies
Sniper! 2nd ed
5th Fleet
Flashpoint Golan
The Walking Dead: The Board Game
The Walking Dead: The Prison
Ghost Panzer
Lords of Waterdeep
Command at Sea 4th Edition Rules
CaS: Mediterranean Fleets
CaS: American Fleets
CaS: Bywater's War
CaS: Gruppe Nord
CaS:Home Fleet
CaS:La Guerre Naval
CaS:Rising Sun Forms 10
CaS:Shattered Armada
CaS:Steel Typhoon
CaS:Supermarina I
CaS:Supermarina II
CaS:The Emperor's Fleet
CaS: South Atlantic War
Phoenix Command (+ Artillery System, Russian Roulette, High Tech Weapons, Ultra Modern Firearms, Adv Damage Handbook)





Title: Re: BottosCon this weekend in Vancouver, BC
Post by: bob48 on November 04, 2018, 06:06:03 AM
If not for the shipping costs (and the inconvenience of packing stuff) I would have taken Ardennes '44 off your hands :-(
Title: Re: BottosCon this weekend in Vancouver, BC
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 04, 2018, 06:56:03 AM
If not for the shipping costs (and the inconvenience of packing stuff) I would have taken Ardennes '44 off your hands :-(


I know u.s. postal rates to the UK a ridiculous.


Are they is bad from Canada to the UK? Is there some benefit from being a commonwealth Nation?
Title: Re: BottosCon this weekend in Vancouver, BC
Post by: Staggerwing on November 04, 2018, 07:00:26 AM
If The two Enemy Coast games, and Aching Spitfire and Whistling Death don't sell I'll gladly buy them.
Title: Re: BottosCon this weekend in Vancouver, BC
Post by: bob48 on November 04, 2018, 08:21:22 AM
If not for the shipping costs (and the inconvenience of packing stuff) I would have taken Ardennes '44 off your hands :-(


I know u.s. postal rates to the UK a ridiculous.


Are they is bad from Canada to the UK? Is there some benefit from being a commonwealth Nation?

I don't think there are any benefits at all. I once got a shipping cost from L2 Design and it was almost as much as the game.
Title: Re: BottosCon this weekend in Vancouver, BC
Post by: trailrunner on November 04, 2018, 09:21:52 AM
Yeah, I've been looking for Ardennes '44 myself.  I might be interested in a couple of the CoH game (Price of Honor and Storms of Steel) too.

Let us know what you have left over.
Title: Re: BottosCon this weekend in Vancouver, BC
Post by: BanzaiCat on November 05, 2018, 07:53:40 AM
I regret having sold my copy of The Dambuster Raids myself. I had decided I was going to sell one of them before I moved out (that or The Doolittle Raid), and The Doolittle Raid won out, just because it seemed to have a lot more to it.
Title: Re: BottosCon this weekend in Vancouver, BC
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on November 07, 2018, 12:42:01 AM
Bit of a mess sorting things right now.  Games stored at a friend's house as I don't have room so it will be a few days until we sort ourselves out and decided what do to with the rest of the collection.  Hopefully we'll have an inventory and prices up within a week.
Title: Re: BottosCon this weekend in Vancouver, BC
Post by: BanzaiCat on November 07, 2018, 07:38:05 AM
 :bigthumb:
Title: Re: BottosCon this weekend in Vancouver, BC
Post by: bob48 on November 08, 2018, 05:00:17 PM
If you happen to have a copy of GMT's 'The Spanish Civil War' tucked away then I would be seriously interested in it.
Title: Re: BottosCon this weekend in Vancouver, BC
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on November 08, 2018, 07:59:41 PM
Sorry, no.  There was one called Espana 1936 in there but it went missing with 7 other titles.
Title: Re: BottosCon this weekend in Vancouver, BC
Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on November 10, 2018, 04:19:52 AM
Some random shots from a few games I ran over the weekend at the Con. 

Tide of Iron.  Meatgrinder scenario.  My opponent played as the Soviets.  It was his first time at the con and his first time trying out wargaming (he got into the hobby via MtG, Euros, and Warhammer 40K).  He lost badly as he wasn't familiar with concepts such as overwatch, suppression, using smoke, etc but he seemed to enjoy the game and was disappointed to hear it was out of print.

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Sails of Glory.  There's a guy who comes to the con every year and somehow manages to end up on my team.  Every year, he is somehow able to get himself into a position where I end up ramming him and sinking him, ruining the game for both of us.  I thought I was free of the curse this year as I made sure we were on opposite teams but a newcomer showed up and whined up a storm because he wanted to play the ship I was commanding.  I reluctantly agreed and ended up on the same team as Mr. Crashypants.  He took a frigate and I made sure I was well behind him.  He managed to get way out in front, charged 3 enemy ships of the line my himself, got blasted and (I still have no idea how this happened). somehow managed to do a 180 (I never would have thought it was possible to turn that sharply in SoG) and cut right into my line of sail whereupon I rammed into him, sank him, damaged my ship, and got sunk two turns later.  I really have to stop running this at cons....

Our three Spanish 1st rates are at the bottom of the screen (mine's in the lead).  Crashypants' frigate is in the middle of the map making a beeline for the HMS Victory while two other British Ships of the Line angle to cut off our rear-most ship.


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Federation Commander.  I put a lot of work into designing this scenario and wrote up hidden mission orders/objectives for each side.  Play-tested it with several groups beforehand and everyone who tested it had a blast and said it was an excellent scenario.  Sadly, it didn't come off well at the con.  One of the players had a tonne of experience with Star Fleet Battles but had never played Federation Commander before.  They share a common lineage but Fed Commander is a much faster playing, streamlined (some would say dumbed down) reboot of SFB.  This player was commanding the main Romulan ship and he assumed that the shield reinforcement rules worked the same in both versions (but never asked for clarification about this).  Each turn, ships get an energy pool from which they allocate power to various systems such as weapons, engines, etc.  In Star Fleet Battles, you can save energy and use it to reinforce your shields when you take fire.  You can also do this in Fed Commander but to a much lesser extent.  Typically, a ship will get say 36 points of power a turn.  In SFB, you can dump as much power as you have saved into your shields to absorb damage so this guy saved up 20 points.  In Fed Commander, you can only buff your shields up by the amount of batteries your ship has (4 is typical).  Due to this misunderstanding, this guy put himself in front of two Federation frigates and ate 6 overloaded photon torpedoes at close range which crippled his ship and pretty much ended the scenario on an anti-climatic note.  Oh well.  At least it looked pretty and drew a lot of spectators...(especially with my little moon that lit up with different colours)

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Despite a few setbacks in the big minis games I ran, I enjoyed myself quite a bit at this con.  I was able to sell off a good chunk of my friend's collection and get almost $4,000 for his wife.  Got in a really fun game of Ascendancy.  Ran a game of Pendragon which was fun.  Played the hell out of Down in Flames: Lock-On at the sales table.  Chatted with a lot of gamers and made some new connections.  Ate too much, drank too much, didn't sleep nearly enough, and won a free game as a door prize. Looking forward to next year.



Title: Re: BottosCon this weekend in Vancouver, BC
Post by: bbmike on November 10, 2018, 08:18:34 AM
I would have loved to been there to watch Sails of Glory and Federation Commander.  :bigthumb: