Flames Of War at Gen Con 2016

Able Kompanie Flames Of War at Gen Con 2016
Great events run by Able Kompanie
With Chris Fretts 

Able Kompanie had a great time at Gen Con 2016 this past weekend, running three Flames Of War Tournaments and our Stalingrad intro game. Each Tournament was a single-day three-round event for up to 30 players. We rotate the time periods each year and this year we were chronological with Early War on Thursday, Mid War on Friday and Late War on Saturday.

Check out Able Kompanie's tournaments at last year's Gen Con...

We keep to the one-day format to allow players plenty of time to experience the rest of Gen Con over the weekend. Nevertheless, a significant percentage of players choose to play in two or even all three of the Tournaments. For those those players, we award a Top General prize for whoever ends up with the most Victory Points over the weekend.
Flames Of War at Gen Con 2016

Mission selection for all of Able Kompanie’s Tournaments is determined by our Spinning Wheel of Doom. The division of the wheel is done by the TO and gives him a little leeway to guide the mission selection while still keeping it mostly random. It’s also more fun for the group to watch it spin rather than someone picking a mission by rolling dice or picking a chit from a bag.

 

 

Sometimes more random than others (Right 

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Tables

Terrain was provided by Battlefront, making it far easier to put together the 15 tables for the Tournaments. We changed out the desert tables for the Late War Tournament.
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Tournament Results
Thursday – Early War, 1125 points
Missions: Dust Up, Cauldron & Encounter
  Player Army Nationality Company Type  
1 Peter Hairston British Honey Armoured Squadron  
2 Chris Novak German Pioneer Kompanie  
3 Loe Lewis Japanese Hohei Chutai  
4 Chris Fretts French Colonial Infantry  
5 David Vigor Soviet Strelkovy Batalon  
6 Jim McKinney Finnish Jalkavakikomppania Best Army
7 Bojan Zimonja Soviet Inomarochnikiy Tankovy Batalon  
8 Garret Hunter French Escadron do Reconnaissance  
9 Will Yankausky Japanese Hohei Chutai  
10 Richard Novak Soviet Strelkovy Batalon  
11 Michael Heles British LRDG  
12 David Yllanes Italian Compagnia Bersaglieri Best Sport
13 Dick Hurchanik Finnish Jaakarikomppania  
14 Doug Wood German Mittlere Panzerkompanie  
15 Chris Stearns Polish Pulk Kavalerii Zmotoryzowanej  
16 Stephen Weber German Infanteriekompanie (Heer)  
17 Benjamin Mulick Polish Piechoety Company  
18 Lawrence Wright Australian Commonwealth Rifle Company  
Top Early War Generals
Peter Hairston’s British Honey Stuart Squadron
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5-2 against Joe Lewis’ Japanese Infantry
5-2 against Doug Wood’s Mittlere Panzerkompanie
6-1 against Jim McKinney’s Finnish Infantry


Chris Novak’s German Pionierkompanie
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6-1 against Chris Stearns Polish Pulk Kavaleril Zmotoryzowanej
3-4 against David Vigor’s Strelkovy
6-1 against Bojan Zimonja’s Inomarochnikiy Tankovy


Joe Lewis’ Japanese Hohei Chutai Infantry Company
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2-5 against Peter Hairston’s Honey Squadron
6-1 against Michael Heles LRDG
6-1 against Will Yankausky’s Japanese Infantry


Below: The Early War players.
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Friday – Mid War, 1700 points
Missions: Surrounded, No Retreat & Dust Up
  Player Army Nationality Company Type  
1 Andrew Hopson Romanian Companie Tancuri  
2 Jim McKinney Finnish Jääkärikompanie  
3 Doug Rosson Finnish Jääkärikompanie  
4 Joe Lewis American Tank Company Best Army
5 Chris Novak German Panzerspähkompanie (Heer)  
6 David Yllanes Italian Battaglione Bersaglieri  
7 Peter Hairston German Pantherkompanie (Heer) Best Sport
8 Doug Wood German Panzergrenadierkompanie (Heer)  
9 Robert Klemic American Armored Rifle Company  
10 David Vigor German Pionierkompanie  
11 Scott Dyer American Tank Company  
12 Joel Hassler British Armoured Squadron  
13 Mitch Ewing German Panzergrenadierkompanie (Heer)  
14 Scott Erny German Panzerkompanie (Tunisa/Italy)  
15 Stepher Weber British Parachute Company (Italy)  
16 Richard Novak Soviet Strelkovy Batalon (Red Army)  
17 Andrew Haas American Tank Company  
18 Keith Goreham German Panzerspähkompanie (Heer)  
19 Jason Stubbs American Rifle Company  
20 Daniel Bryan Italian Battaglione Bersaglieri  
21 Dick Hurchanik German Panzergrenadierkompanie (SS)  
22 Harlow Stevens American Rifle Company  
23 David Rushford German Panzerkompanie (Tunisa/Italy)  
24 Alan Wright British Commando (Italy)  
25 Michael Heles British LRDG  
26 Mike Mansfield British Motor Company  
Top Mid War Generals
Andrew Hopson’s Romanian Companie Tancuri Tank Company
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5-2 against Joel Hassler’s British Armoured Company
6-1 against Daniel Bryan’s Italian Bersaglieri
5-2 against Chris Novak’s German Panzerspäh


 Jim McKinney’s Finnish Jääkäri Infantry
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 6-1 against Robert Klemic’s US Armored Rifle Company
6-1 against Richard Novak’s Soviet Strelkovy
3-3 against Doug Rosson’s Finnish Infantry


Doug Rosson’s Finnish Jääkäri Infantry
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 6-1 against Mike Mansfield’s British Motor Company
6-1 against Doug Wood’s German Panzergrenadiers
3-3 against Jim McKinney’s Finnish Infantry


Saturday – Late War, 1550 points
Missions: Cauldron, Pincer, Encounter
  Player Army Nationality Company Type  
1 Chris Stearns Polish Szwadron Rozpozanawczy Dywuzji  
2 Chris Novak German Panzerspähkompanie  
3 Peter Hairston British Armoured Squadron  
4 Andrew Haas German Panzer Kampfgruppe (Trained)  
5 Chris Fretts Soviet Hero Strelkovy Polk (Red Army)  
6 David Vigor Soviet Strelkovy Batalon  
7 Patrick Wasmer Soviet Hero Tankovy  
8 Will Yankausky German Hermann Goring StuG Batterie  
9 Dick Hurchanik Finnish Jääkärikompanie  
10 Stepher Weber British Parachute Company Best Army
11 Jim McKinney Polish Szwadron Pancerny  
12 Eric Deutsch German 512. Schwere Panzerjägerkompanie  
13 Daniel Bryan Soviet Tankovy Batalon (Red Army)  
14 David Yllanes British Rifle Company (50th)  
15 Doug Wood German Panzer Kampfgruppe (Trained)  
16 Richard Novak Soviet Legkiy Samokhodno-Artilleryiskiy  
17 Christian Bach American Medium Tank Company (3rd A.D.) Best Sport
18 Joshua Miller American Rifle Company (99th I.D.)  
19 David Rushford German Sturmkompanie  
20 Keith Goreham German Panzerspähkompanie  
21 Clay Knuckles American Light Tank Company (2nd Cavalry)  
22 Alan Wright British Armoured Car Squadron  
23 Jackson Simon German Schwere Panzerkompanie (506.)  
24 Garrett Hunter American Tank Company (9th)  
25 Marcus Elliot British Commandon (Orne)  
26 Joel Hassler British Armoured Recce Squadron (11th)  
Top Late War Generals
Chris Stearns’ Polish Tank Company
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 6-1 against Joel Hassler’s British Armoured Recce Squadron
5-2 against Doug Wood’s Panzer Kampfgruppe
4-3 against Patrick Wasmers Hero Guards Tankovy


Chris Novak’s German Panzerspähkompanie
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 5-2 against David Yllanes British Rifle Company
7-0 against Chris Fretts’ Soviet Strelkovy
2-1 against David Vigor’s Soviet Strelkovy 


Peter Hairston’s British Armoured Squadron
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3-4 against Dick Hurchanik’s Finnish Infantry
6-1 against Christian Bach’s US Tank Company
5-2 against Daniel Bryan’s Soviet Tankovy


Below: The Late War players.
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Gen Con 2016 Top General – Peter Hairston
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Early War – British Honey Armoured Squadron  - 1st Place
Mid War – German Panther Kompanie – 7th Place
Late War – British Armoured Squadron – 3rd Place

Best Armies
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Jim McKinney's Finns won best army for Early War. We don't have a picture of that army, but here are his MW Finns.

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Joe Lewis’s Mid War US Tank Company

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Stephen Weber’s Late Waw British Parachute Company

Stalingrad Introductory Game
We also ran six sessions of our 6-player Stalingrad intro game. This is our sixth year running this event, and it always sells out within hours of tickets going on sale. Two of our Gamemasters show these mostly new players how to play the game, focusing on the basics of Move, Shoot & Assault.
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 Each player has a small force of infantry and a tank or gun platoon.  We have modified the scoring for this game giving each side points each turn they hold objectives on the table to keep up the competition throughout the session.  They receive more points for holding objectives on the opposite side of the table.  Hopefully we sparked some new players to take up the game. In the six sessions we had three Soviet and three German Victories.
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Thanks to all the players who came out to our events. We had about 80 individual players, between in the three tournaments and the Stalingrad game. Thanks to all the members of Able Kompanie who helped to put together a great weekend of Flames Of War gaming. And a big thanks to David Griffin and Battlefront for helping us out with terrain and prize support.

~ Chris. 


Last Updated On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 by James at Battlefront