Flames Of War At Gen Con 2014 with Able Kompanie Able Kompanie recently held three Tournaments and an intro game event at Gen Con 2014 in Indianapolis, Indiana.  With thousands of games and events to choose from each year at Gen Con we found it best to offer a one-day twenty four player tournaments in each period rather than multi-day tournaments. We also run our very popular Stalingrad six-player intro game over the weekend. This gave players of all skill levels and interests a chance to get as much or as little Flames Of War gaming as they want.

Tickets to Stalingrad sold out as soon as they went on sale. The game was played on a beautifully sculpted board with buildings and terrain created and painted by the Able Kompanie members. We provided everything needed to play as well as two of our members to teach players how to play. We have created a ‘Capture the Flag’ kind of scenario so each side gets points each turn they hold any of the nine objectives with the objectives in the enemy’s area worth more points. Each player has a small combined arms force – though each of the Soviet players has either a Strelkovy or Shraaf Batalon!  It’s a big challenge for the much smaller German Veterans attempting to hold off the Soviet horde of Conscripts. This year most of the games were close finishes and all of the players had a great time learning how to play. Thanks to Battlefront, every player received an Open Fire Quick Start Guide and a plastic tank sprue.

We had thirty six different players participate in the three single-day tournaments.  Several hardy souls played in all three tournaments. Players came from Seattle to South Carolina as well as Canada and Germany. Our Thursday tournament is always a smaller point total for those players who want to play a ‘Cigar box’ army and then the Friday and Saturday are at the year’s point totals. There were sixty two different army lists played over the three time period representing forces from thirteen different nations. A big thank you to Battlefront for providing us with their travelling terrain for the twelve European and four North African Tables (switched out for Early-war and Mid-war). Missions were chosen randomly by a player chosen to spin Able Kompanie’s Spinning Wheel of Doom. Here are the results for the three tournaments:

Thursday's Late-war 1250 point Tournament Missions Played: Hasty Attack, No Retreat, & Encounter. Company Breakdown: 14 Infantry, 4 Mechanised, & 7 Tank. Breakdown by Nation: 10 German, 5 British, 4 US, 2 Soviet, 1 Canadian,  1 Free French, 1 Romanian, & 1 Finnnish.

Ranking Name Company 1. David Cuthbert British Infantry 2. Andrew Hopson Romanian Tank 3. Joe Lewis German Tank 4. Charlie Clay British Infantry 5. Bojan Zimoja German Infantry 6. Chris Johnson German Infantry 7. Jim McKinney Finnish Tank 8. Jeffrey Klodt British Infantry 9. Matthew Presson German Infantry 10. Todd Warren German Tank (Best Army) 11. Mike Brenneman US Light Tank 12. Mike Van O’Linda US Infantry (Best Sport) 13. Maurice Kent US Mechanised 14. Kurt Reese German Infantry 15. Mike Gregson Soviet Tank 16. Christian Bach German Tank 17. Mark Webb Soviet Infantry 18. Michael Heles British Infantry 19. Andrew Tillman US Infantry 20. John Flournoy Free French Mechanised 21. Tyson Swigart British Infantry 22. Daniel Bryan Canadian Armoured Recce 23. Nicholas Pacholski German Mechanised 24. Ron Hanson German Infantry 25. Scott Dyer German Fallshirmjäger

Gen Con 2014 1550 point Early-war Tournament Final Standings Missions played:  Counterattack, No Retreat, & Encounter. Company Breakdown: 13 Infantry, 3 Mech, 3 Tank, & 2 Fortified. Breakdown by Nation: 4 German, 4 British, 3 Japanese, 3 French, 3 Finnish, 2 Soviets, 1 Italian, & 1 Greek.

Ranking Name Company 1. Joe Lewis Japanese Infantry 2. Mike Brenneman British Infantry (Indian) 3. Jim McKinney Finnish Infantry 4. David Vigor Soviet Infantry 5. James Cook Greek Fortified 6. Jeffrey Klodt German Tank 7. Charlie Clay French Reconnaissance (Co-Best Sport) 8. Tyson Swigart German Infantry 9. Chris Johnson Japanese Infantry (Best Army) 10. Doug Rosson Finnish Fortified 11. Kurt Reese Japanese Infantry 12. Doug Wood German Infantry 13. Phil Cook Italian Infantry 14. Garrett Hunter French Reconnaissance (Co-Best Sport) 15. Peter Hairston Finnish Infantry 16. Scott Erny German Infantry 17. Mike Gregson British Tank 18. Chris Fretts French Reconnaissance (Ringer) 19. Daniel Bryan British Infantry 20. Mark Webb Soviet Infantry 21. Haynes Rosson British Tank

Gen Con 2014 1485 point Mid-war Tournament Missions played:  Breakthrough, Pincer, & Dust up. Company Breakdown: 7 Infantry, 3 Mech, & 6 Tank. Breakdown by Nation: 4 German, 4 British, 2 US, 2 Soviet, 1 Romanian, 1 Hungarian, 1 Italian, & 1 Finnish.

Ranking Name Company 1. Andrew Hopson Romanian Tank 2. Chris Johnson Soviet Infantry 3. Charlie Clay Italian Infantry 4. Jim McKinney Finnish Infantry 5. David Vigor Soviet Tank 6. Chris Fretts US Armored Reconnaissance (Best Sport) 7. Thomas Reuter Hungarian Infantry 8. Kurt Reese German Mechanised (Best Army) 9. Doug Rosson British Infantry 10. Michael Heles British Infantry 11. Tyson Swigart German Mechanised 12. Mike Brenneman US Tank 13. Mike Gregson German Tank 14. Doug Wood German Tank 15. Daniel Bryan British Infantry 16. Matt Omiccioli British Tank

Look for our tournaments and events again at Gen Con 2015! ~ Able Kompanie.