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Spring 2012 Newsletter THE LOCAL NEWSLETTER FOR THE HMGS-Midwest MINIATURE WARGAMING ENTHUSIAST VOLUME 4 ISSUE 12 SPRING 2012 BOD Update - Spring 2012 by Jeff Cohen I want to thank everyone in- ments and events to bring in volved with the planning and many local gamers that have running of the convention. not attended past conven- They all do a great job, and they sacrifice their time with no real compensation. We do INSIDE THIS not pay our volunteers. But I S S U E : they do get to enjoy the same great brownies that our Game BOD Update 1 Masters enjoy. Little Wars is much more than the volun- LW 2012 - My 2 teers, its success also comes Take from the vendors that attend all your friends. For those and have supported us for so that wish to be part of the LW 2012 2 many years, and the Game team, just contact me. AAR Masters who run all those great games. It is also about This year’s Wounded War- Crace’s Race 3 those that attend the conven- rior Silent Auction, thanks to tion, the players that enjoy our dealers very generous And the Win- 5 themselves and leave with a donations brought in a little ner is…. smile and another great tale tions. We also look to add over $600.00. ALL proceeds Infantry Tac- 7 to tell of great victories, or more Parent/Child events on go directly to the Wounded tics 1550—1815 defeat due to those bad die Sunday, making that day Warrior Project. rolls. even better for those with LW 2012 16 children. We plan on having Photo Album 17 The future of the convention family packages available looks very good. We are now through the Pheasant Run Treasurer’s 18 in a very nice facility that Resorts for those that would Report easily meets our needs. We like to be able to turn attend- Gaming Op- 19 plan on holding the conven- ing a convention into a fam- portunities tion on the last weekend of ily vacation. April each year. This allows us and those that support the To do this we need every- convention to do some real one's help. Help in recruiting events and running games. planning and to schedule Dealer Area—LW 2012 events and tournaments. We We also need help in getting want to continue to grow in the word out on the conven- size. To concentrate on bring- tion. Posting flyers at hobby ing more great events and shops, and anywhere tournaments to the conven- that High School & College tion, and to build the number Students frequent (these are of events scheduled on Friday where the future of the hobby and Sunday. On Sunday we is). In addition we need post- look to bring more tourna- ings on websites, and telling P A G E 2 Little Wars 2012 - My Take! by John Barsanti—LW Convention Director Another “Little Wars” has successfully concluded and I would like to say how pleasant it was to see so many people at- tending, especially those I have come to know from attending the convention over the years. It takes a tremendous amount of behind the scenes work to make a convention like “Little Wars” a success and we are fortunate to have a staff that understands what it takes to make the convention work and does it. There are too many to mention individually; their names are listed in the convention program and many of you know who they are because when you had a question they were the ones who answered it. I would also like to thank those who put on the games we “As in all all enjoyed. I know that they spent a tremendous amount of time preparing for their games and gave additional time at the battles the convention putting them on. I hope they all realize the pleasure they gave us by their efforts with no reward other than dead and our thanks and a brownie and I hope that they will be back with games next year. wounded I would like to add my personal THANK YOU to those volunteers and game masters; without them we wouldn’t have a came chiefly convention as successful as this one was; and it was undoubtedly successful. Attendance was up, the games were excel- from the best lent and plentiful, and the venue was great as many of you told us. The comments received have been very positive and and the we appreciate them. The Board of Directors and Staff are already working on next year’s convention, planning improve- brave... .” ments and working on changes suggested by you, the gamers. We hope to build on this year’s success to increase atten- dance and offer the finest gamming in the Midwest, if not the country. If you would like to help contact any of the Board --Field of Directors. The organization is always in need of people who can help us make this a better convention. Marshal Lord Carver I look forward to seeing you all next year at “Little Wars” April 26-28, 2012 at the Dupage Expo Center. -- . Little Wars 2012 AAR! by Steve Rysemus—LW Events Manager As John put it above we have closed the books on yet another successful Little Wars convention. Just to give yet an- “War must be other view on this convention, I wanted to take some time to give my views. To all the judges that volunteered to run carried on some great games, THANK YOU ALL! We really cannot have a successful con without you. This year we had about systematically 190 events in total including four War College events. This is up from last year’s convention. We also had some 30 dealers including some new ones that we have not had previously. From what I have heard, most of our dealers had a , and to do it pretty good weekend. you must have men of Any time a convention changes venue there are growing pains. Yet Little Wars continues to pull people from all of character the country. I know we get some people from as far away as California and Montreal just to mention a few. All you had to do is to stroll through the parking lot to see the out of state license plates to know this. We had some great activated by games with beautiful terrain, the free Paint-N-Take was back for it’s second year. And we see the same young folk principles of that have been with us for some time now that are now turning into young adults that are very rabid about playing with honor... .” minis! --Gen George Rest assured we are hard at work already on the 2013 convention. We have our dates, same location and new plans. One of our goals is to expand the Friday and Sunday events. I think you would agree that both Friday and Sunday had Washington much more to offer this year and had many more people on site than in the past. Feel free to offer suggestions to help -- . us build that up, whether by offering more tournaments, or by involving more local clubs and schools. We are always looking for ways to increase these days. Once we do, then we can start to think about holding a four day convention. How great would that be? Please check out our website, as pictures are getting posted there from the con. Also keep your eyes there for more changes to the website as well. We are thinking about adding some new pages. HMGS-MIDWEST VOLUME 4 ISSUE 12 P A G E 3 Crace’s Race - A Nav-Con 2011 AAR by Roger Reynolds This scenario was based on the possibility that the Japanese Port Moresby invasion force did not turn back after the air battles in the Coral Sea in May 1942. Historically, a combined Australian and American cruiser-destroyer group under RAN Admiral Crace had been sent to intercept the invasion group. Had the Japanese continued on, they may have met; perhaps just south of Normanby Island, coming out of the Goschen Strait, entering Milne Bay as they round the eastern tip of New Guinea. Distant escort for the Japanese unit consisted of the IJN’s 6th Cruiser Squadron and a couple destroyers. Possible reinforcements were available from the convoy escort. The RAN/US force consisted of the heavy cruiser HMAS Australia (8-8” guns), light cruiser HMAS Hobart (8-6” guns), heavy cruiser USS Chicago (9-8” guns), and three American destroyers; the PERKINS, WORDEN and WALKE . The cruisers started in line ahead, with the destroyers a half-mile ahead in line abreast. About 15 miles, bearing about 345° relative, just coming out of the haze, were the enemy. The Japanese cruisers; AOBA, KINUGASA, KAKO and FURUTAKA (all 6-8” guns and 8 torpedoes) were in line. The destroyers WAKABA and YUGURE (both 5-5” guns and 6 torpedoes) were about a half-mile to port. On the First Turn the two lead IJN cruisers turned left, the rest moved straight ahead at full speed to confront the enemy. The American destroyers slanted towards the Japanese, with HOBART following them. AUSTRALIA and CHICAGO turned left and closed up. Turn One gunnery went to the Japanese as HOBART was struck four times by AOBA and once by KINUGASA. These 8”ers started a bad fire amidships, as they ignited the float plane refueling point. On Turn Two , HOBART veered sharply to port as her fire fighting teams swung into action.
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