STOP PRESS! STOP PRESS! Photos of the first day of NapCon have been posted on the Kapiti Fusiliers website. Click here to see them.
As a result of NapCon, and as an effort to foster the hobby of Napoleonic wargaming in New Zealand, a new YahooGroup has been set up, called Napoleonz. Join this group if you would like to partake in discussions about anything to do with Napoleonic gaming in New Zealand.
Prize Winners:
Best overall demonstration game in any scale: Dallas Eves and the Wanganui crew.
Best presented army in 25mm: Roly Hermans (Kapiti)
Best presented army in 15mm: Mark Thorpe (Hawkes Bay)
Best terrain: Brian Fowler and his Wellington group.
Best vignette/individual in 15mm: Paul Mounsey
Best vignette/individual in 25mm: Roly Hermans (Kapiti)
Older news (more here too):
Please note we have a new venue address. It is Saint Brendan's School, corner Sutherland Crescent and Palmer Crescent, Trentham (by the racecourse).
For those uninformed with this concept, this is a weekend of gaming Napoleonics in any scale with any set of rules available, preferably the more the merrier.
This is the opportunity for us all to get together and rediscover Napoleonics, and to see what the other end of the country is doing with which rules and whose figures.
The objective of this weekend is for persons to attend and show off their handiwork over a couple of days of friendly display and participation games. This will give the perfect atmosphere to see what is available out there, to sample these rules first hand and perhaps get an idea on any potential rules for use in convention competitions.
There will be eight trophies presented, as voted by all present:
- best overall demonstration game in any scale (this is the main prize of a Napoleonic artillery piece)
- best presented army in 25mm
- best presented army in 15mm
- best terrain
- best vignette in 6mm
- best vignette/individual in 15mm
- best vignette/individual in 25mm
- best vignette/individual in 54mm
My thanks to all those persons who have assisted in getting this concept off the ground and my apologies if we couldn't get the venue closer to your home club. Without the financial support of a hosting club our resources were limited. Thanks to Allen Yaxley who has approached St Patrick's College and secured these premises for a modest sum. The availability of tables and equipment and the proximity to our brothers in the South Island were the key motivators to any decisions.
As per normal conventions we will need a registration fee, which has been set at $30.00 per person participating. This is to cover the hall hireage and the purchase of trophies. It must be stated that this is a non-profit weekend and the registration fee is set to cover all eventualities. If sufficient numbers attend, then potentially we could hope for a refund to some degree.
- Friday 2 September 5-9pm (setting up)
- Saturday 3 September 8am-6pm
- Sunday 4 September 8am-4pm
There are plenty of cafes, restaurants and food outlets within walking distance. On the evening of Saturday it is hoped to organise a function - this is yet to be advised.
All interested persons are requested to contact me as registrar and book in your table sizes, requirements, rules you will be using, in what scale, if you have spare troops etc, how many persons involved, if you have a participation game or a display game, and so on.
Mark Thorp
61 Seddon Crescent
Gisborne
06-867-2078
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