Tournament Report - Cancon 2018 - FOW

Cancon is hands down the largest Wargaming event on the Aussie Calendar. This year was the 40th Cancon and like those before it was not to be missed. Cancon, being a national event is the one weekend that draws players from all over Australia and occasionally overseas. Aside from the numerous competitions and campaigns, there are lots of participation games, a large board game area, traders, a 2nd hand stall, roleplay games and even Cosplayers. Something for everyone.

This year there were no less than 6 different FOW and TY events. In the past few years I had played during the day and night flames but this year I setting on Mid War v4. The total list of events were:

Mid War V4
Early War Campaign
Team Yankee
Team Yankee Campaign mm)
Night Flames Arab Israeli
Night Flames Late War`

I suspect the total FOW and TY numbers were down slightly on past years . We had a very healthy 22 players for MW. Given the newness of the rules and the fact that there are only 3 books out, I think this is pretty good.

Caunter Corner

Players could select 80 points of troops with up to 10 points of cards. Only the 80 points of troops counted towards reserve calculation.

I ran my newly painted Crusader company with some 17/25 pounders, Carriers, Infantry, Bofors and Hurricanes. Over the 8 games I played a variety of different forces - German Tanks,  German Infantry, German Armoured Cars, British Crusaders, British Grants and a US Tank force. The top four players were running British Crusaders, German Armoured Cars, German Infantry and British Grants. Every British army I saw seemed to have Scout Tank and this is still a problem. I think that is a pretty good spread and highlights that MW V4 is otherwise largely balanced.

Interestingly, I played against 2 different German lists with Tigers. Even at these low points, they can be a threat. I don't think they can work with DAK tanks but certainly can with infantry or mechanised Companies.

The MW tournament was well run in the capable hands of Trick and Ben. I didn't see any major issues or heated arguments. The hottest anyone got was the warm pavilion where the air conditioning struggled with 30 plus degree temperatures and too many sweaty gamers.

Darren's Bunkerflak

EW Eastern Front Campaign table

I didn't have a lot of time to look at the other FOW and TY events but I had time to snap a few pics. These events also seemed well attended and the players having a good time.

Nappy game on Monday

Trick doing TO stuff

Some of the lovely desert terrain.

Ben not doing TO stuff

It was this long...

Game: Team Yankee West Germans and Soviets

So for a variety of real life reasons, I haven't managed to play a game for a month. I was lucky enough to have a chance this weekend to play a game of TY. Even though I had to proxy my force, I couldn't resist taking some photos of the battlefield and my opponents Soviets.
It was a good, fun game and a opportunity to have a game whilst I paint up my army.
I hope you enjoy!

Tournament Coverage: Waffenbruder 2016 - Day 2

For day one coverage, please click here

Thanks to the Hasty Attack corespondent, here are some pics of day 2.

I understand David and Conrad won. Well done to them.

Deployment

Street Barricades

Defense set

Tankovy and the railway to no where

Tankovy on the attack

MOAB - Team Yankee

MOAB (Mother Of All Wargaming conventions) is the largest wargaming convention in NSW and probably the second largest in Australia after Cancon. It has always been based in the Sylvania Community Centre in southern Sydney.

MOAB promises a wide variety of vendors, tournaments, demonstration games and the famous bring and buy area. Over the next few days I will share some of what I see with a particular focus on Flames of War and Team Yankee.

Let’s start with Team Yankee. With recent releases of the new West Germans and Brits, there was quite a lot of buzz in the Team Yankee area. Peter from Battlefront was there handing out the new small format rule books.

Here are some of the photos I managed to capture:

A nice looking TY tabls. Despite only being published a short while, players have embraced painting figures and creating nice looking tables.

Check out the destroyed T72s and BMPs in the bottom RH corner!

What? A close up of the carnage? Sure, why not.

West Germans. The compitition allowed proxies and base coated to encourage as many new players as possible. Check out the excellent dice of war tins and dice.

Great to see the new roads along side some of the older WW2 terrain.

So, that is all I managed to snap and observe for TY today. I will be back soon with some late war photos and other happenings from MOAB.

Stay tuned.