Drums at the Rapids 2019 PEL

 

May 17th & 18th 2019

 

1st Session - Friday 2pm. to 6pm.

 

Table 15 is now used for the Vendors Area only.  The Armory Hobbies and I-94 Enterprises are scheduled to attend.

 

Table 1 Gaslands - Motor mayhem in the dark near future. GM: Brian Webster

 

Table 2  Battle of the Metaurus Hasdrubal enters North Italy with reinforcements for his brother Hannibal but is intercepted by the Romans and must fight his way free. 2 – 7 players, Using Art de le Guerre, 15mm  GM: Steve Verdoliva

 

Table 3  Star Wars Miniatures Skirmish battles in the Star Wars Universe: Rebels versus Empire, Old Republic versus the Sith Lords, Republic versus Separatists, or Bounty Hunters going up against anyone with a name and price on their head. Up to 8 players can choose a pre-made squad to fight in famous locales like the streets of Mos Eisley, the Death Star, or the jungles of Endor.  GM: Jerry Teleha

4 open

 

Table 5 Triumph – Learn this set of rules for armies from ancient times to fight each other. Some similarities to DBA/DBM, but with wider army make-up and choices & random terrain layout. 45/90 minutes. Easy to learn, loaner armies available. 2-8 players. GM: Dennis Schroder

 

Table 6 set-up

 

Table 7  set-up Pirates! John Patrick – Rusty Parker

 

Table 8  Terminators!  Skynet has to finish mopping up the human resistance. Will they succeed? GM: Justin Lynch

 

Table 9  set-up Blackpowder

 

Table 10 set-up GM:Tom Oxley

 

Table 11 open

 

Table 12 Hoplite Warfare  GM: Doug Johnson

 

Table 13 open

 

Table 14 Set-up GM: Victor Hiris

 

2nd Session - Friday 7pm. to 11pm.

 

Table 1 Gaslands - Motor mayhem in the dark near future. GM: Brian Webster

 

Table 2  Battle of the Metaurus Hasdrubal enters North Italy with reinforcements for his brother Hannibal but is intercepted by the Romans and must fight his way free. 2 – 7 players, Using Art de le Guerre, 15mm  GM: Steve Verdoliva

 

Table 3  Circus Imperium GM:Jerry Teleha

 

Table 4 15mm Quatre Bra (British-French Napoleonic) using Warfare in the Age of Napoleon rules.  6 players preferred, but can make room for up to 8 max.  GM: Michael Wedding

 

Table 5 Triumph – Learn this set of rules for armies from ancient times to fight each other. Some similarities to DBA/DBM, but with wider army make-up and choices & random terrain layout. 45/90 minutes. Easy to learn, loaner armies available. 2-8 players. GM: Dennis Schroder

 

Table 6 TBA GM: Dave Elmore

 

Table 7   Title: Powder for the King  6 player skirmish game with 28mm models  Rules - Pieces of Eight (home rules)

Description: The French have given a Letter of Marquee to pirate scum in order to secure Spanish powder stores. The pirates will attempt to deliver the powder to the French. Can the Spanish stop this thievery and destroy this most unholy union?

GMs:John Patrick – Rusty Parker

 

Table 8  Terminators! Skynet has to finish mopping up the human resistance. Will they succeed? GM: Justin Lynch

 

Table 9  Blackpowder  6 players  28mm Napleonic The British army is retreating to Waterloo, Marshal Ney has order the French cavalry in to sweep the Allied armies from the field but Lord Uxbridge has shown up with the British Cavalry to cover the retreat so who will win will decide the fate of Europe. GM: Ted Bender

 

Table 10 Action in the Narrow Seas - It’s a dark and stormy night. Your patrol is on the way home after a night of searching for an enemy coastal convoy and finding nothing. But what’s that ahead? Small boat action in the channel as British Vosper MTBs encounter German Schnellboots. Rules: Cruel Seas. Scale 1/300. Players 6 GM Tom Oxley

 

Table 11 open

 

Table 14 Siege at Fort Meigs 28mm GM: Victor Hiris

 

 

1st Session - Saturday 9am. to 1pm.

 

Table 1 open

 

Table 2  10am. Battle of the Metaurus Hasdrubal enters North Italy with reinforcements for his brother Hannibal but is intercepted by the Romans and must fight his way free. 2 – 7 players, Using Art de le Guerre, 15mm  GM: Steve Verdoliva

 

Table 3 Circus Imperium Jerry Teleha

 

Table 4  set-up GM:Tod Kershner

 

Table 5  Pulp Alley 2nd EditionTitle:  These Are the Bots You’re Looking For: A Pulp Alley 2nd Edition SciFi AdventureFour players, four hoursDescription:The eee-vil Imperial Empire is planning to build a diabolical planet-destroying weapon called the Diabolical Planet-Destroying Weapon. Unfortunately, the space ship carrying the robot programmed with the only set of the weapon’s plans had to crash land on an Imperial Factory World on the toxic site of an abandoned manufactory. You are one of four leagues desperately attempting to seize the plans: the Imperial Empire, the spaceAmazons known as the Valkeeri, the alien Zenithians, and the dreaded Robot Legion. GM: Michael O’Brien

Table 6 TBA GM: Dave Elmore

 

Table 7  Title: Powder for the King  6 player skirmish game with 28mm models  Rules - Pieces of Eight (home rules). Description: The French have given a Letter of Marquee to pirate scum in order to secure Spanish powder stores. The pirates will attempt to deliver the powder to the French. Can the Spanish stop this thievery and destroy this most unholy union?  GMs:John Patrick – Rusty Parker

 

Table 8  set-up Jim Kopchak

 

Table 9 Blackpowder  6 players  28mm Napleonic The British army is retreating to Waterloo, Marshal Ney has order the French cavalry in to sweep the Allied armies from the field but Lord Uxbridge has shown up with the British Cavalry to cover the retreat so who will win will decide the fate of Europe. GM: Ted Bender

 

Table 10  Oyster. Missile armed F-4D Phantoms of the 555th Tactical Fighter Squadron encounter MiG-21s on 8 May, 1972. Rules: Check Your Six Jet Age Scale: 1/300 Max. Players 4-8 GM Tom Oxley

 

Table 11 open

 

Table 12 Hoplite Warfare  GM: Doug Johnson

 

Table 13 set-up ACW GM: Lowell Hamilton

 

Table 14 Siege at Fort Meigs GM: Victor Hiris

 

2nd Session - Saturday 2pm. To 6pm.

 

Table 1  Bush War in Rhodesia  Rules: Wars of Insurgency Players: 4 Scale: 20mm Event Sponsor: First Command Wargames  Description: The Selous Scouts have called in the location of a group of ZANLA insurgents. The players take on the role of the Rhodesian Fire Force sent to eliminate the GM-run ZANLA. Alouette helicopters insert sticks of infantry while a paratroop drop aids in cutting off their escape. Learn this fast, fun modern skirmish rules set. In addition to the normal four player slots, I will have two slots available for sign up at the table only for players to volunteer to control the ZANLA insurgents. GM: Mike Demana

 

Table 2  (Check for start time) Battle of Dirkstein 1760- This battle see's the late war Prussians trying to hold off an attack by an Austro-Russian force. 10mm using For King or Empress. 2 to 8 players. GM: Steve Verdoliva

 

Table 3 Star Wars Miniatures Skirmish battles in the Star Wars Universe: Rebels versus Empire, Old Republic versus the Sith Lords, Republic versus Separatists, or Bounty Hunters going up against anyone with a name and price on their head. Up to 8 players can choose a pre-made squad to fight in famous locales like the streets of Mos Eisley, the Death Star, or the jungles of Endor.  GM: Jerry Teleha

 

Table 4   Death in a Country Lane Description: The Union attack on the sunken road position at the battle of Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862.  Easy, fast-play rules.Number of players:  6-8 Rules: American Civil War 101: Not War But Murder (Wargames Vault). Figure scale: 1/72  GM: Tod Kershner

 

Table 5  TBA GM: Mike Reese

 

Table 6  TBA GM: Dave Elmore

 

Table 7 Possible  extension of Pirates! GMs: John Patrick – Rusty Parker

 

Table 8 15mm  AWI Will use geo-like hexes as usual.  Rules: Hold-the- Line, 6 players  Start time 1 pm time slot on Saturday, Playtime 3 hours GM: Jim Kopchak

 

Table 9   “High Value Target (HVT) in sight” HISTORICAL PERIOD:   Modern  FIGURE SCALE:   28mm RULES:   Wild Geese (Living on the Front Line)  PLAYERS:   3-6 GAME DESCRIPTION:    US Special Forces try to snatch an HVT in an undisclosed country.  Too bad some other folks want him too…. GM: Jim Wonacott

 

Table 10 TBA Jim Casey

 

Table 11 open

 

Table 12 Hoplite War GM: Doug Johnson

 

Table 13   The Battle of North Point, MD, Monday, 1814.  Six players, Regimental Fire & Fury rules using the War of 1812 variant rules, with 6mm Baccus miniatures.Maj. Gen. Robert Ross’ British Army had defeated American forces at Bladensburg, Maryland on 24 August 1814, then occupied Washington D. C. and burned the White House. His next objective was the port city of Baltimore, Maryland. The British Army and Naval commanders decided on a two prong attack, Ross’ Army would land at the tip of Patapsco Neck at North Point and marched northward on the North Point Road towards Baltimore to capture the batteries protecting the harbor while the British Navy would approach the city and subdue Fort McHenry with an artillery bombardment. American Maj. Gen. Samuel Smith, commander at Baltimore, sent his best militia brigade under the command of  Brig. Gen. John Stricker southward down the North Point Road to oppose and delay the British land force heading toward Baltimore.

The opposing forces met on the Bouldin Farm where the width of the peninsula was only a half a mile wide.  Stricker’s 3,200 man brigade was on the defense behind a post and rail fence that was improved with fieldworks.  Ross’ 5,000 man army approached in march column and had to deploy before engaging the American defensive line.  The Americans fought well,  however, the British prevailed but with 371 total casualties compared to the 213 total American casualties.   Ross continued on to Baltimore the next day in oppressive heat, but his weary and exhausted force was in no condition or strength to defeat the extensive entrenchments constructed to protect the city or the large American militia force that defended them.  The British naval forces were also unsuccessful in their attempt to suppress Fort McHenry, but the night attack and bombardment inspired Francis Scott Key to write a song known as “The Star-Spangled Banner”.  GM: Lowell Hamilton

 

Table 14  Medievo Universale  GM: Victor Hiris

 

3rd Session - Saturday 7pm. To 11pm.

 

Only the tables in the Classrooms will be open for games.

 

Table 1  Bush War in Rhodesia  Rules: Wars of Insurgency Players: 4 Scale: 20mm

Event Sponsor: First Command Wargames  Description: The Selous Scouts have called in the location of a group of ZANLA insurgents. The players take on the role of the Rhodesian Fire Force sent to eliminate the GM-run ZANLA. Alouette helicopters insert sticks of infantry while a paratroop drop aids in cutting off their escape. Learn this fast, fun modern skirmish rules set. In addition to the normal four player slots, I will have two slots available for sign up at the table only for players to volunteer to control the ZANLA insurgents. GM: Mike Demana

 

Table 7  The 20th  Annual Toledo War of 1835