December 21st, 2011 | 
Author: Mini-Wars Winter Campaign is Jan. 27th, 28th and 29th
The HMGS/PSW is gearing up for our first ever “Winter Campaign”. This convention will find us back at the “tried and true” Boy Scout hall in Glendale for the 27th, 28th, and 29th of January 2012. Please come celebrate the New Year with some great gaming and cool thing to see at our first con of the year! We also will have elections and much to discuss at the general membership meeting. Info on the convention as well as downloadable flyers and event registration forms are to be found by “clicking” the convention tab on the top menu bar of the HMGS/PSW home page (your on it). The Preliminary Events List is being worked on and will be up shortly. Please get your events in as soon as possible as a full PEL will attract more attendees! You can call me before you do the actual submission to Dave and I will list it to speed up the online PEL.
Speaking of elections those of you who are interested in serving the chapter please step up and let us know! You can post here yourself or write up a campaign and we will put it up for you.
Positions are (current incumbents listed for them as well)
President…Bill Witthans
Vice President….Harmon Ward
Secretary/Treasurer….Matt Denny
Convention Manager….Dave Dandridge
As far as I know all the incumbents are interested in serving at least one more term but please don’t let that stop you from running and voicing your opinions!
Would you trust people like this to run the chapter? Come and cast your vote!
Yours in Gaming,
Bill Witthans
President HMGS/PSW
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Poorly armed by Western standards the boxers gave a good account of themselves in battle but were very savage in their treatment of non-combatants.
Those of you who are frequent visitors to this page may have read some of the previous post on HMGS/PSW’s Demo Team putting on games and historical displays in conjunction with the Muzeo Museum in Anaheim, California. HMGSPSW’s vice president Harmon Ward has over the last few years developed quite a working rapport with the folks at the Museum that has allowed us to bring historical gaming out to the public as never before. If you’re unfamiliar with what has been going on down to Muzeo it works like this, when the Muzeo brings in an exhibit that we feel we can support with some form of historical gaming related to the period, members of the Demo Team and other volunteers from HMGS/PSW put on displays and games depicting battles from the era. So far over the last two years we have been involved in the exhibit “Treasures of Napoleon” and over the last few months “The Queens Gallery” a collection of Victorian art and artifacts from the collection of Dr. Howard and Linda Knohl. The museum has been really good and made quite an effort to help us showcase our hobby. We have had premiere spots in both galleries as well as access to display cases and audiovisual aids.
HMGS/PSW "Demo Team" members Rod Galati and Rob Abbo (right) along with interested Muzeo visitors.
When Harmon mentioned to me the subject matter current exhibit was Victorian England and told me he was looking for people to put on games from that period I was quick to volunteer myself and Doug Kendrick to put on our Boxer Rebellion game. Doug and I have put the Boxer Rebellion on almost a dozen times at several different conventions and game clubs throughout Southern California. I felt it would be a perfect fit since it was one of the last colonial battles fought by England during the reign of Queen Victoria. December 10 was decided for the day to bring the game down. This was an important decision as it was also the day of the downtown Holiday art fair so attendance was way up. We were given a beautiful space in the Muzeo theater right off the beginning of the exhibit. People entering the exhibit could not miss us! The room we had could not have been better, the walls were dark, they sent us a nice tables with Black table cloths, the terrain was lit from above by half a dozen can lights that made the terrain look like midday while leaving the rest of the room dark enough that we had the museum's projector playing "55 Days at Peking" in the background! Many times during the game the action on the table mimicked the action in the movie and it was great!
