I Have Been To....Cold Wars 2025

And it is indeed a cold Sunday morning here in the Duchy. I suppose I'll take a brisk walk later, though, to work off the calories I've consumed this weekend. 

So, how was the convention? Was it worth the slightly more than two-hour drive and the cost of three nights in a hotel? 

The short answer, is, yes, it was worth it. The slightly longer answer is, but I need to better plan my hobby time overall. 

The Eisenhower complex is very spread out, fortunately, my club's area was in the main ballroom/conference room area. But some folks were truly spread out throughout the hotel. So, some folks did do a fair amount of walking. 

The standard of the games was excellent. There were some truly wonderful ones to look at. 

A small sampling:

The Battle of Wyse Forks in 54mm by Bill Molyneaux. 

Also in the same area, a game called "the Battle of the Silk Road, Weird Science in the Ancient World"

There some very fun light-hearted games, like a Western Gunfight with large Playmobil figures. 

Tom U. put on this magnificent Battle of Red Bank, NJ game from the AWI. The modelling was phenomenal. 

A giant game with Vikings. There was another with Romans versus Cherusci and another with Dark Age Irish crashing about the table. 

The theme for Cold Wars was "American Civil War - 1865" and Mark Z. ran this good sized game on Saylor's Creek. I particularly love the railroad bridge. 

Finally, I was able to run my game on Saturday afternoon after spending the morning manning my table in the flea market. I had eight, including two kids, a brother and sister, who played with their dad and uncle. The kids each walked away with a painted gunboat each. They were good kids. It was a fun, but short game. The Union Navy did much, much better than I expected. 

And I got an award... 

Thanks go to Frank Preziosa, the Convention Director, and his team who did a great job putting Cold Wars together. 

Finis.