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HISTORICON July 24 - 27 2008
Where: Lancaster Host, 2300 Lincoln Hwy East, Lancaster, PA (800) 233-0121
Description: The "mother of all miniature conventions."Don’t miss this one! HMGS-East presents four days of historical miniature gaming, plus hundreds of dealer exhibits and flea market tables. The MECCA of the miniature hobby. CGC will be very well represented at Historicon.

ConnectiCon August 1 - 3, 2008
Where: Connecticut Convention Center on Columbus Boulevard in Hartford, CT.
Description: ConnectiCon is New England's largest pop culture event of the summer! Expecting nearly 6,000 members and boasting over 7,000 hours of events; and focusing on the genres of anime, gaming, web-comics, science-fiction, fantasy and related genres, ConnectiCon is bound to have something of interest for everyone in the family

N.E.G.A.CON August 2 - 3, 2008
Where: University of > Maine of Farmington, in Farmington, Maine,
Description: Welcome to N.E.G.A.-CON, the new gaming convention for New England! We will be featuring role-playing, tabletop war gaming, card gaming and a ton of other activities! We strive to provide a great variety of gaming experiences as we welcome your suggestions. Funds raised will benefit the UMF alumni scholarship fund. For information, you can email information@ne-con.org or drabuano@yahoo.com





World Boardgaming Championships August 5 - 10, 2008
Where: Lancaster Host, 2300 Lincoln Hwy East, Lancaster, PA 17602
Description: Six full days of round the clock gaming. Over 1300 attendess will participate in Tournaments, Open Gaming, Dealer Exhibit, Game Auction, Fleas Market and much more.

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Dreamation January 24 - 27, 2008
Where: East Brunswick Hilton, East Brunswick NJ
Description: Over 400 Events in EIGHT continuous gaming tracks...
RPGA Network Gaming featuring 15 events including Living City, Living Death, Living Arcanis, Living Force, Living Greyhawk, Call of Cthulhu and D&D! Wargaming featuring Warhammer 40,000, Warhammer Fantasy Battles, Mage Knight, MechWarrior, HeroClix and much more! Board & Card Gaming featuring Poker, Spades, Chess, Checkers, MONOPOLY, and much more Collectible Card Gaming featuring L5R, Shadowfist, Magic: The Gathering, MLB Showdown and much more! Pencil Puzzles and Word Games, featuring crosswords, cryptograms, rebuses and more! Computer Gaming featuring networked computers for multiplayer action and adventure gaming! Video Console gaming featuring your favorite video games in the fighting, adventure and action genres!

TOTALCONFUSION February 21 - 24, 2008
Where:Mansfield Holiday Inn, 31 Hampshire Street, Mansfield, MA (508) 339-2200 (Mansfield is about 20 miles Southwest of Boston).
Description: Largest convention in New England. Over 400 scheduled games and events, among them RPG including TC Realms, Living City, Living Greyhawk & RPGA, Puffing Billy, miniatures, board games, LARP and dealer exhibits.
 

GMT GAMES EAST 2007March 8, 2008
Where: Crowne Plaza in downtown White Plains, NY
Description: GMT games, games, games. GMT board and card games --- and only GMT games. No tournaments, but games are being run constantly, some scheduled, as well as open game areas. GMT will also be there selling their games, and several designers will be running games, as well as putting on demos of prototypes of games under development or in consideration by GMT.

COLDWARS March 7 - 9, 2008 Where: Lancaster Host, 2300 Lincoln Hwy East, Lancaster PA 17602 (800) 233-0121
Description: HMGS East premier spring event. Over 2,000 attendees, 100 dealer exhibits and hundreds of minature events.  Including special guests, ancient tournaments and a painting contest. A CGC favorite!m POC: POC: Walt OíHara, 10730 Burr Oak Way, Burke, VA 2015. (703) 503-9833.  E-mail: coldwarswalt@linuxmail.org

ConnCon XX March 27 - 30, 2008
Where: The Holiday Inn Select is in Stamford, CT, at 700 Main St.
Description: Multigenre convention. Fun for the entire family.

Havoc XXIV April 4 - 6, 2008
Where: MaironisPark in ShrewsburyMA. For additional information check the Havoc website at:
Description: Our friends at BattleGroup Boston present their annual convention of miniatures and boardgames. Historical and Fantasy miniatures, board games, card games, and dealer exhibits.

Northeastern Epic Armageddon Tournament June 21 2008
Where: Time Machine Hobby, 71 Hilliard Street, Manchester, CT 06042
Description: Come join us for what we hope will be the first of many Northeastern Epic Armageddon Tournaments, NEAT I.

Hosted by Time Machine Hobby, 71 Hilliard Street, Manchester, CT 06042. This is a one day event on Saturday, June 21st 2008 from 9:00AM to 10:00PM.

Entrance is FREE!

New players and old hands are welcome, (we're only playing for fun and bragging rights after all). Even if you don't have an army, let us know and we can see what we can work out.

Three 3.5 hour rounds are scheduled with a one hour break between each.

Rules:
The Epic Rulebook and Swordwind supplement will be used, as well as the recently released Epic 2008 Errata and Epic FAQ 2008. All of these are available free here: http://www.specialist-games.com/epic/rulebook.asp

Armies:
Armies should be 3000 points and selected from army lists in the Rulebook or Experimental Rules sections of the Specialist Games Epic web site, or the Tactical Command forums. http://www.tacticalwargames.net/cgi-bin/forum/ikonboard.cgi

Registration:
You can register by sending an email to the.epic.gamer@gmail.com. Please provide your name, phone number and email address so we can contact you with further information about the tournament.

MEPACon November 2 - 4, 2007
Where: Holiday Inn Scranton East, conveniently located just off of Route 81, at 200 Tigue Street, Dunmore, PA, 570-343-4771
Description: Multigenre including but not limited to board games, CCG, RPG, LARP, plus historical and fantasy miniatures.
 

FALL IN  November  9 - 11, 2007
Where:  Eisenhower Hotels, Conference Center & Resort, 2634 Emmitsburg Road, Gettysburg, PA 17325, 717-334-8121 or 800-776-8349
Description: HMGS East  premier Fall event in historic Gettysburg. Over 2,000 attendees, 100 dealer exhibits and hundreds of minature events.  Including special guests, ancient tournaments and a painting contest. A CGC favorite!

ELLISCON XIX November 17, 2007
Where:  H. H. Ellis Technical High School, 613 Upper Middle St, Ellington, CT 06239
Description: Twelve Hours of Miniature, Board and Card Games: Military, Political, Fantasy and Transportation Games for only $8.00.

Ye Olde Gaming Week (YOGWe) November 19 -25, 2007
Where: Ye Olde Commons, Charlton, MA
Description: Features games of all genres from early in the morning  to late into the night. Play miniatures on the World’s Largest Wargaming Table! Play Chess with 4' high pieces! Live your dream in a facility devoted to the world of medieval LARP! For more information, go to the CGC Gaming News Online Forum.

BARRAGE XI Saturday January 13th, 2007
Where: To be held Archbishop Curley High School in Baltimore.
Description: : Barrage is a one day miniatures mini-convention - All periods and scales  from 9:00 'AM till 10:00 PM. Sponsored by the Harford Area Weekly Kriegspielers
As of this writing, Age of Glory, Iron Ivan Games and Pictors Studio have signed up for dealer tables.

In addition, guest author Scott Mingus will be signing copies of his book "Human Interest Stories of the Gettysburg Campaign"

FEES
At the Door $8
Prereg $6
GM & Prereg $4
Active military $2
FREE admission for Children under 13 (with adult)

Vendor / flea market tables are available. ($6.00 for 1/2 day, $10.00 USD all day plus admission)

Contact:
Todd Harland-White (Events) 410-757-8020 todd@alum.mit.edu
Geoff Graff (Vendors)410-557-2456 ggraff7@verizon.net
Duncan Adams (Registration) 410-647-5734 dnbadams@aol.com

Send registration and dealer fees to: Make checks payable to HAWKs
Geoff Graff
4027 Old Federal Hill Road
Jarrettsville, MD, 21084

Call or write for a Preliminary Events List.

Coming from North of Baltimore take I-95 South. About 3 miles below I-695 (the Beltway) at the I-95/I-895 split, get in the left lanes And take I-895. About 1/2 mile beyond the split take the Moravia Road exit. Turn right onto Moravia Road and go about 0.7 mile to Sinclair Lane. Turn left on Sinclair Lane and go about 1 mile to the school on the left.
OR take exit 32 South (Belair Road) off I-695, (the Beltway). This isthe exit just West of the I-95/I-695 intersection. Go about 3.5 miles to Moravia Road. Turn left on Moravia, and about 1 mile later right on Sinclair lane. Again, about 1 mile to the school on the left.

From South of Baltimore, take I-95 through the Fort McHenry tunnel. About 3 miles later take the Moravia Road exit. bout 2 miles later turn left onto Sinclair Lane, and again about 1 mile to the school on the left.
 
 
 

Intercon G March 2 - 4, 2007

Where:Chelmsford, MA
Description: New England's tenth Intercon and the largest all-genre all-LARP convention in the world,  We already have a bunch of exciting games, but we're still looking for a lot more, and we want to hear from you.

PrincCon XXXII: Falling WaterMarch 16 - 18, 2007
Where: Princeton University
Description: Princeton's annual 48-hour role-playing marathon! Sleep optional as always. Join our hardy crew of GM's for hours of inter-connected scenarios.