DieCon 17

Big Muddy Historical Game Event Schedule

Last Updated : 05/23

Game Session

Con Day

Game Title Game SystemGame Company Game TypeGMDescription
1 Friday Battle of Cape Henry - March 16, 1781 Action Under Sail Tabletop Games Miniature BM: Steve Lowry Era: Napoleonic Naval Combat with 1/1200 scale. General Washington is attempting to catch Benedict Arnold in Virginia by sending the French Fleet to the Chesapeake Bay. The British found out and sent their fleet and actually got ahead of the French to outside of the bay. Who will control the entrance to the bay?
1 Friday 1813-The Year of Nationalism Bonaparte Mark Johnson Miniature BM: Mark Johnson Era: Napoleonic Ground Combat with 25mm scale. Throughout 1813, France’s satellites struggled to accommodate their loyalty to Napoleon, the military threat of Coalition powers, and their national interests and preservation. Presenting battles from a hypothetical campaign in Eastern Europe. Active French occupation and fortress troops, and regional allied brigades, face off against Austrian and other Coalition forces.
1 Friday Battle in the Mist General Quarters 3.3 Old Dominion Game Works Miniature BM: Adam H. Jones III Era: World War II Naval Combat with 1/2400 scale. A generated fictional scenario taking place off of the cold and misty shore of Norway at the start of the German invasion in April of 1940. British and German forces stumble into one another while the Norwegians on shore try to figure out what is happening!!!
1 Friday The Great War in Africa The Sword of Africa Sergeants 3 Miniature BM: Blake Walker Era: World War I Ground Combat with 28mm scale. A company of German colonials take on invading Belgian Force Publique troops and their native allies in the jungles of Tanzania during September 1914. See who will win the opening battle for the Great War in Africa…
2 Friday Macau Incident-27 January 1799 Post Captain Old Dominion GameWorks Miniature BM: Ray Runge Era: Napoleonic Naval Combat with 1/1000 scale. The Macau Incident was an inconclusive encounter between a powerful squadron of French and Spanish warships and a British Royal Navy escort squadron in the Wanshan (or Ladrones) Archipelago off Macau on 27 January 1799. The incident took place in the context of the East Indies campaign during the French Revolutionary Wars, with the allied squadron attempting to disrupt a valuable British merchant convoy due to sail from Qing Dynasty China. 
2 Friday 1813-The Year of Nationalism Bonaparte Mark Johnson Miniature BM: Mark Johnson Era: Napoleonic Ground Combat with 25mm scale. Throughout 1813, France’s satellites struggled to accommodate their loyalty to Napoleon, the military threat of Coalition powers, and their national interests and preservation. Presenting battles from a hypothetical campaign in Eastern Europe. Active French occupation and fortress troops, and regional allied brigades, face off against Austrian and other Coalition forces.
2 Friday Disturbing The Peace Fistfull of TOWs 3 Ty Beard & Paul Minton Miniature BM: Adam H. Jones III Era: Modern Ground Combat with 1/285 scale. The Cold War turned hot when the Arabs and Israelis clashed in the 1973 Yom Kipper War. Initial Soviet gains in Europe were stopped and NATO slowly began to push back. Last week, a temporary hold was ordered as negotiations began in Switzerland to try to settle the conflict. Both sides held their ground and patrolled the area between the lines to keep tabs on the enemy. Last night in the no mans land between the NATO and Soviet forces near the village of Shwans...an aircraft appeared to crash. Both sides waited until dawn to check out the crash site after NATO and the Soviets agreed to allow a small recon unit from each side to approach the wreck.
2 Friday Giora's Shahak* (Israeli name for the Mirage III) Check your 6!: Jet Age Skirmish Campaigns Miniature BM: Terry Callahan Era: Six Day War Air Combat with 1/300 scale. Fifty years ago, the Six Day War was being fought from June 5 through June 10. After claiming two EAF MiG 21s, one Syrian MiG 21, and taking shrapnel in the leg on June 6, Giora Rom managed to extricate himself from the hospital and make it back to his squadron on June 7. After managing to get a doctors ok to fly, Giora launched on a ground attack mission toward Ras Sudr and Sharm-El-Sheikh. After take-off, the ground intercept controller ordered the Shahaks to turn north and drop their fuel tanks. Soon the Shahaks spotted several MiG 17s that were attacking two Israeli Super Mysteres.
2 Friday Intercept at All Cost Wings of Glory Ares Games Miniature BM: James Kantor Era: World War I Air Combat with 1/144 scale. Spotters at the front lines have reported a bomber strike inbound. Scramble to protect the base!
3 Saturday Battle of Khalkhin-Gol Memoir 44 Overlord Days of Wonder Miniature BM: Ron Howard The Japanese Sixth Army was facing the Soviet 57th Special Corps, included Mongolian cavalry. At first, the battles were only short skirmishes. The clashes escalated into open warfare. The whold campaign lasted five months and ended in a Soviet victory.
3 Saturday 1813-The Year of Nationalism Bonaparte Mark Johnson Miniature BM: Mark Johnson Era: Napoleonic Ground Combat with 25mm scale. Throughout 1813, France’s satellites struggled to accommodate their loyalty to Napoleon, the military threat of Coalition powers, and their national interests and preservation. Presenting battles from a hypothetical campaign in Eastern Europe. Active French occupation and fortress troops, and regional allied brigades, face off against Austrian and other Coalition forces.
3 Saturday Attack on Sacketts Harbor, Lake Ontario - July 1815 Action Under Sail Tabletop Games Miniature BM: Steve Lowry Era: Napoleonic Naval Combat with 1/1200 scale. The British are attacking Sackett Harbor to destroy the primary American naval base on Lake Ontario. Can the Americans stop the British from destroying the fortifications that prevent the British from seizing the base and gaining control of Lake Ontario?
3 Saturday Fighter Sweep 1917 Canvas Eagle Eric Hotz & Phil Hall Miniature BM: Terry Callahan Era: World War I Air Combat with 1/72 scale. One hundred years ago during the summer of 1917, British and German squadrons contest the skies over the Western Front. Each nation flies the best fighters of the day; Sopwith Camels and Triplanes, Se5a, Fokker DR I triplanes, Albatros DV and Phaltz III duel with each other to wrest control of the air over the battlefields of France and Flanders.
3 Saturday Operation Bluecoat Command Decision - Test of Battle Frank Chadwick & Glenn E. Kidd Miniature BM: David Harrison Era: World War II Ground Combat with 1/285 scale. After two months of bitter combat in Normandy, Operation Bluecoat transformed the campaign into a war of movement. British and German armored divisions were flung against one another. The British advance was prepared by yet another heavy bombardment by the Allied air forces, but ground to a halt in the face of clever tactics by the often fragmented German defenders. The story of Bluecoat includes examples of virtually every type of Second World War armored combat: from infantry tanks to specialized flame-throwers and minesweeping tanks; from light armored reconnaissance units to the heaviest battle tanks of the Second World War.
3 Saturday Colonial German Marines vs. Masai Warriors in German East Africa The Sword of Africa Sergeants 3 Miniature BM: Blake Walker Era: Victorian Ground Combat with 28mm scale. Masai Warriors must defend their village from an encroaching company of German Colonial Marines in 1885 using The Sword in Africa rules.
4 Saturday Moments of Glory or Death Charioteer: Racing at the Famous Circus Maximus Two Hour Wargames Miniature BM: Glenn Wilson Era: Roman Chariot racing with 15mm scale. Four chariots start the race…only ONE will be the victor!!!!
4 Saturday 1813-The Year of Nationalism Bonaparte Mark Johnson Miniature BM: Mark Johnson Era: Napoleonic Ground Combat with 25mm scale. Throughout 1813, France’s satellites struggled to accommodate their loyalty to Napoleon, the military threat of Coalition powers, and their national interests and preservation. Presenting battles from a hypothetical campaign in Eastern Europe. Active French occupation and fortress troops, and regional allied brigades, face off against Austrian and other Coalition forces.
4 Saturday Battle of Dogger Bank - August 5, 1781 Action Under Sail Tabletop Games Miniature BM: Steve Lowry Era: Napoleonic Naval Combat with 1/1200 scale. The British fleet and Dutch fleet are both escorting convoys and the fleets collide in the North Sea near Dogger Bank. This was one of the hardest fought naval battles of the war but was inconclusive. Will different commanders make a difference?
4 Saturday Drop on Hettin IV NetEpic/GW Space Marines Net Epic Discussion Group Miniature BM: Pat Connaughton & Larry Salazar Era: Sci-Fi Ground Combat with 6mm scale. A Space Marine chapter is dropping from orbit to capture a crucial rebel control station and to disable a planetary defense cannon. Can the Marines complete the mission before the locals react and reinforce the rebels?
4 Saturday On the Perimeter: The Pecos Pocket All Quiet on the Martian Front Robot Peanut Studios Miniature BM: David Schaffner Era: Sci-Fi Ground Combat with 15mm scale. It is 1914 and the Martian onslaught on the southern front has begun again. Encircled in the Pecos Pocket, the Texas Army is holding on but the chance of relief diminishes daily. Command a Martian war machine or defend mankind against these predators. Welcome to the War of the Worlds!
4 Saturday Ghosts in the Stars Star Wars: X-Wing Fantasy Flight Games Miniature BM: James Kantor Era: Science Fiction Spaceship Combat with 1/270 scale. Imperial pilots! Sources have reported Rebels activity in this sector. Take a patrol out and find them.
5 Saturday The Battle of Tamatave-20 May, 1811 Post Captain Old Dominion GameWorks Miniature BM: Ray Runge Era: Napoleonic Naval Combat with 1/1000 scale. The Battle of Tamatave, fought off Tamatave in Madagascar between British and French frigate squadrons, would be the final engagement of the Mauritius campaign of 1809 - 1811. A reinforcement squadron of frigates (loaded with troops and supplies for the French garrison at Mauritius) under the command of Commodore Francois Roquebert in Renommee, had been dispatched from Brest in February 1811. Unknown to the French, however, Mauritius had already fallen in December 1810 to a British invasion fleet. The reinforcement squadron reached Mauritius on 6 May, only to discover the following day that the island was now in British hands and narrowly escaped a trap laid by a squadron of British frigates ordered to pursue and destroy them. 
5 Saturday 1813-The Year of Nationalism Bonaparte Mark Johnson Miniature BM: Mark Johnson Era: Napoleonic Ground Combat with 25mm scale. Throughout 1813, France’s satellites struggled to accommodate their loyalty to Napoleon, the military threat of Coalition powers, and their national interests and preservation. Presenting battles from a hypothetical campaign in Eastern Europe. Active French occupation and fortress troops, and regional allied brigades, face off against Austrian and other Coalition forces.
5 Saturday The Joust At Lyons Joust Two Hour Wargames Miniature BM: Glenn Wilson Era: Medievil Tourney Combat with 28mm scale. Challenge France's finest knights at Lyons for honor and glory.
5 Saturday To The Death To the Sound of the Guns Tabletop Games Miniature BM: Steve King Era: Napoleonic Ground Combat with 15mm scale. A Saxon Guard brigade is ordered to hold a position against overwhelming odds. Will they hold against the advancing British, or will help arrive in time?
6 Sunday Attack on Kingston Harbor, Lake Ontario - June 1815 Action Under Sail Tabletop Games Miniature BM: Steve Lowry Era: Napoleonic Naval Combat with 1/1200 scale. The Americans are attacking Kingston Harbor to prevent the British completion of the third ship of the line on the lake to gain control of Lake Ontario. Can the British stop the Americans and gain control of the Lake?
6 Sunday 1813-The Year of Nationalism Bonaparte Mark Johnson Miniature BM: Mark Johnson Era: Napoleonic Ground Combat with 25mm scale. Throughout 1813, France’s satellites struggled to accommodate their loyalty to Napoleon, the military threat of Coalition powers, and their national interests and preservation. Presenting battles from a hypothetical campaign in Eastern Europe. Active French occupation and fortress troops, and regional allied brigades, face off against Austrian and other Coalition forces.
6 Sunday Attack on the Compound Classic Battletech Catalyst Games Miniature BM: Ron Howard The defenders of the Smoke Jaguar compound were outnumbered, but were veterans of previous failed attacks. The Light Horse Mercenary were out to rescue their leader, captured as he was on his way to a meeting with the leaders of Jade Falcon clan. This is a coordinated attack on a military compound to rescue their leader.
6 Sunday Going for Gold Full Thrust-Project Continuum GZG Games & Emerald Coast Skunkworks Miniature BM: Adam H. Jones III Era: Sci-Fi Spaceship Combat. A weak mayday from a civilian freighter has been received by both the Terran Alliance and Drindenzi Corporate. Both have dispatched a force to respond to the call for help.
6 Sunday Treasure Lust Letters of Marque James Kantor Miniature BM: James Kantor Era: Age of Sail Naval Game with 1/1200 scale. Spies have gotten word that the Spanish are sending out a convoy of gold-laden merchant ships with a light escort. Time to share some of that ill-gotten booty!
7 Sunday Hunt for Red Munster In Her Majesty's Name: Gothic The Ministry of Gentlemanly Warfare Miniature BM: Glenn Wilson Era: Gothic Sci-Fi Ground Combat with 25mm scale. One of Dr Frankenstein's creations has been spreading death and destruction. It must be stopped. Complications: Ruins (possibly an ancient/jungle deserted temple).
7 Sunday All Ashore That's Going Ashore Action Under Sail Tabletop Games Miniature BM: Steve King Era: Napoleonic Ground Combat with 1/1200 scale. A fictitious assault by the United State Marine Corps during the war of 1812, somewhere on the Great Lakes maybe? Can the small squadron of Royal Navy frigates stop the might of the new U.S. Navy?