Smoggycon 2011

[Gandalf]

Smoggycon 2011

Despite heavy snow last year, there is still enough left in the kitty for Smoggycon to go ahead!
Middlesbrough Gamers Club's third annual show will be held between 10.00 am and 4.00 pm at Southlands Leisure Centre, Ormesby Road, Middlesbrough, England TS3 0HG on Saturday 26th November.

Entry is a recession busting £2!

Free parking is available in the Leisure Centre car park.

Bring & Buy
Trade stalls
Participation & demonstration games
Competitions & tournaments
Refreshments including a licensed bar

Pictures of Smoggycon 2010 and more information about this year's show is available though the Middlesbrough Gamers Club website at http:// http://www.m-gc.co.uk/cms/page.php?3 and on the Smoggycon web pagehttp://www.m-gc.co.uk/smoggycon/index.html

Competitions, Participation and Demonstration Games

Beasts of Bolsover
Content is yet to be confirmed but the lads from Bolsoverwill be running participation games throughout the day.

Brain Candy.uk
Russ and Tim from Brain Candy will be running demonstrations of their recently released “Zombie Close” game.

Brompton Bankers
Bob and Russell will be running a skirmish demonstration of a Very British Civil War, what might have happened during the Abdication Crisis in 1938 with Britain and its Empire breaking up into factions such as the Anglican League, Liverpool Free State and the Army of the Scottish Republic.

Derwentside Wargames Group
Hammer Slammers demonstration game: Oil refinery assault

Generals and Kings
World War II Normandy 20mm demonstration game using Rapid Fire!

Hartlepool Wargames Club Impetus Competition
Hartlepool Wargames Club will be running the third leg of their Impetus competition at Smoggycon this year.

Independent Wargames Group
France 1944 15mm demonstration game using Flames of War and a Seven Years War 30mm game showcasing IWG’s recently released "A Nostalgic Whim" rules set

Middlesbrough Gamers Club HeroClix Competition
Paul Spencelayh, Steve Date and Simon Swinbank from Middlesbrough Gamers Club will be running a HeroClix participation game throughout the day in the Sports Hall where anyone without prior experience can come along and try out HeroClix and battle with a team of comic book Superheroes.

Newcastle Gamers
Newcastle Gamers will be showcasing some popular and innovative board games. All are welcome to participate.

Redcar Ironbeards
Allegedly inspired by Orky Races, a Middlesbrough Gamers Club participation game at Paradeground many years ago, Redcar Iron Beards will be encouraging people to take part in the thrills and spills of Bike GP, an exciting Warhammer 40,000 race participation game.

Redcar Rebels
Graham Cummings will be demonstrating Gripping Beast’s new SAGA rules for skirmish combat in the Dark Ages.

Yorkshire Coast Wargames
Yorkshire Coast will be running De Bellis Napoleonicis and Colonial era participation games

More details will be published as they become available.  At present, the following organisations have also expressed an interest in putting on a demonstration or participation game:

Northern ASL Group
Durham Wargames Group
Border Reivers
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Tyneside Wargames Club

Traders confirmed as attending include:

Ainsty Castings
Beasts of Bolsover
Caliver Books
Colonel Bill’s Wargames Depot
Dave Thomas
David Lanchester Books
Durham Pals
Figures in Comfort
Four A Miniatures
Games of War
Gamingfigures.com
Gateshead Gaming
GB & SD Hobbies
Graham Cummings
Graham’s Weurkshoppe
Ironclad Miniatures
Lesley's Bits Box
Minibits
MTFG Hobbies
Mutineer Miniatures
Northumbria Games
Old Glory Corporation
Pendraken
Stafford Games
Tumbling Dice
Under the Bed Enterprises
Warbases
Wargames Emporium
Wargames Recon Magazine
Worley Books

The following traders have expressed an interest in attending Smoggycon 2011

Battlefield Live: Modern Warfare
Dashing Dice Games
Hasslefree Miniatures
Irregular Miniatures
Mantic Games
Rathbone Games
Rubicon Scenics

[Red Orc]

Good luck, that looks like an awesome collection of stuff going on!

[Gandalf]

Thanks for that.  With a bit of luck, it will come together nicely on the day.

[Dave Knight]

With a bit of luck I might make it this year

[manic _miner]

 Hope the snow keeps away this year too.It stopped a few traders getting through.

[Gandalf]

Latest News about Smoggycon:

The following traders have confirmed their attendance at this year’s show:

Dashing Dice Games
Ironclad Miniatures
Irregular Miniatures
Rathbone Games
Rubicon Scenics

Due to commitments as a result in their relocation and expansion, unfortunately Stafford Games will not be able to attend this year.

[Gandalf]

Smoggycon 2011

HeroClix Competition

HeroClix is a collectable super-hero miniatures game produced by Wizkids. Players construct teams of superheroes and super-villains based on characters from Marvel, DC and Indy comic worlds such as DC’s Batman & Superman and Marvel’s X-Men and play out turn-based battles between them on a grid map.

Middlesbrough Gamers Club has a long tradition of playing HeroClix to national standard. Steve Date is the current National Champion and regularly attends and plays at the club on a Thursday night when HeroClix is run.

Paul Spencelayh from Middlesbrough Gamers Club will be running HeroClix participation games especially suited to beginners throughout the day where anyone, without prior experience, can come along and have a go.

In addition, from 1.00pm Paul will be running a (300 points) multiplayer "Death of Galactus" game, open to all-comers, with everyone playing on one large map in a co-operative attempt to fell the Mighty Earth-destroying Galactus. Participation prizes are available for good sportsmanship etc at Paul’s discretion.

Entry to the HeroClix Competition is free to anyone with paid entry to Smoggycon.

To enable a prompt start, entry is on a first-come, first-served basis.
All are welcome and previous knowledge of the rules is not necessary. Emphasis is on fun and fast paced action as well as good sportsmanship and participation. Spot prizes for various achievements such as first critical hit, first knockout etc will be awarded at the judge’s discretion.

For more information, please contact us by email at Middlesbrough_gamers_club@yahoo.co.uk or through our web page forum at www.m-gc.co.uk

Impetus Competition

IMPETUS is an innovative Rules set published by Dadi & Piombo http://www.dadiepiombo.com/impetus.html that contains everything you’ll need to play in Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance period battles.  The rules can be used for figures in any scale and use a basing system compatible with other popular rule sets. Impetus includes a point system for customizing your armies while remaining historically accurate.

Hartlepool Wargames Society http://hartlepoolwargames.co.uk/HWS/ will be running the fourth leg of their series of regional Impetus competition days at Smoggycon this year.  Entrants will qualify for Impetus World League Status

Entry to the Impetus Competition is free to anyone with paid entry to Smoggycon.

Competition Details

The competition format will be “Scottish Open”, ie the entries will be placed in four pools of four players based loosely on historical period, with some leeway to try and avoid placing players from the same club in the same pool. Each player will play the others in their pool, with the overall winner being the player with the highest aggregate score.

Scale will be 28mm / 300pts with armies taken from the Impetus rules, Extra 1-4 and website beta lists (except those beta’s superseded by Extra Impetus). Extra Impetus 4 amendments will be used, as will the “normal” tournament rules: ambushes, flank marches and Rolls of Destiny.

Although there are no restrictions other than above, players are encouraged to use classical period armies if possible to spotlight Extra Impetus 4.

Terrain will be fixed.

There is space for a maximum of 16 players, so if you are interested please contact Ken Natt by email on ken.natt@ntlworld.com  Entries will be dealt with on a first come, first served basis if the competition is over subscribed.

Registration will be no later than 9:30.  A full schedule and any further information will be posted here as the information become available http://www.m-gc.co.uk/smoggycon/index.html