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| Club Information |
We are a Miniatures Wargaming club centered in central Maryland, between Baltimore and Washington. All wargamers in the region are invited. AoCM is an HMGS affiliated organization.
Our club is a loose collection of gamers who meet every Sunday at Games and Comics and Stuff, as well as, in club member's homes to wargame. We play a wide range of periods from Ancients (I am currently building a pre-historic "army") to Modern (and beyond). The current collection of periods owned by members is:
The best way to contact us is through our Yahoo List. AoCM Yahoo List
or stop by this Sunday around 1230:
Games and Comics and Stuff
7476 B&A Blvd.
Glen Burnie, MD 21061
Directions: Take I-97 toward Glen Burnie (south of Baltimore). Take exit 16 Rt. 648 Baltimore-Annapolis Blvd. exit toward Glen Burnie. The store is about 1.5 miles on the right. If you reach Rt. 2 Ritchie Highway you have gone too far.
Parking: There is VERY limited on street parking in front of the store. Park in the Glen Burnie Town Center parking lot, its free and a short walk to the store. DO NOT park in the parking lot behind the store, tow trucks aggressively patrol the lot!!!
If you prefer to chat without joining the Yahoo List, contact info@aocmwc.com
To schedule a game post a message to the Yahoo List OR send an email to schedule@aocmwc.com
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Schedule of Events |
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| Date | Period | Rules | Gamemaster | Description |
| 7 Jun | Vietnam | FNG (with a Chain Reaction 3.0 slant) | Scott | Another Search and Destroy Mission More fun beating around the bush. |
| 14 Jun | Napoleonics | SHAKO Quick Play Rules | Neil | The Battle of Wavre In the afternoon of 18 June 1815, while Napoleon Bonaparte was fighting his last battle on the fields of Waterloo, Marshal Grouchy fought Thielmann's Prussian army corps near the village of Wavre. The day after victory was his, but it meant nothing anymore since his master, the Emperor of the French, was defeated at Waterloo. |
| 21 Jun (Father's Day) |
Ancients | Might of Arms | Roxanne | |
| 24-28 Jun | CONVENTION | ORIGINS 2009 | GAMA | Columbus, OH Visit the website |
| 28 Jun | Vietnam | FNG | Rocky | A PAC and Its Neighbors and VC contest control of a hamlet. |
| 5 Jul (Independence Day Weekend) |
Ancients | Modified Junior General Ancients | Matt | Battle of Marathon, 490 BC Playtesting the game for Historicon. Come have some fun with whimsical homemade miniatures, simple rules, and a simple scenario. But be forewarned, although the rules are simple, each side will have to make some important decisions that will really determine who wins and loses this game. |
| 12 Jul | ECW | Roxanne | Without Quarter | |
| 16-19 Jul | CONVENTION | HISTORICON 2009 | HMGS East | Lancaster, PA Visit the website |
| 19 Jul | NO | GAME | THIS | WEEKEND |
| 26 Jul | Border Reivers | Kelly | The Bloody Borders | Caught Red-Handed! Scottish-English Border Reivers
Lock the Bastle and Guard the Borders. The Reivers are about. Lock the door, Larriston, Lion of Liddesdale Lock the door, Larriston, Lowther comes on The Armstrongs are flying, The Widows are crying, The Castleton's burning and Oliver's gone. Lock the door, Larriston; high in the weather gleam See how the Saxon plumes bob in the sky - Yeoman and carbineer, Billman and halberdier, Fierce is the foray and far is the cry. I'll try these simple and free rules, "*The Bloody Borders" available for download at http://www.wargamesillustrated.net/reader.asp But anyway, go to this website and pick yourself out an English or Scottish Riding name. http://www.sos.net/~scotlass/border.htm#BORDER%20NAMES Email me your Riding name. An ye best not be pickin Armstrang, aye I will cleave ye steil bonnet. I need to get about 4 players who will run clans (i.e. pick a riding name and show up when we play) to make the campaign and looting point system work. Other folks can still play in the individual battles. The Riding name players don't have to worry about picking or equipping reivers in advance, all you'll have to do is pick missions (pick another clan to raid, defend the hearth, or guard the border) and then we fight out the raids and hot trods. |
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| UPCOMING EVENTS | ||||
| 31 Jan | CONVENTION | Barrage 2009 | HAWKS | Baltimore, MD Archbishop Curley High School |
| 6-8 Feb | CONVENTION | Williamsburg Muster 2009 | Old Dominion Military Society | Williamsburg, VA Visit the website |
| 27 Feb - 1 Mar | CONVENTION | GZG 2009 | Ground Zero Games | Lancaster, PA Visit the website |
| 12-15 Mar | CONVENTION | COLD WARS 2009 | HMGS East | Lancaster, PA Visit the website |
| 27-29 Mar | CONVENTION | HAVOC 2009 | BattleGroup Boston | Shrewsbury, MA Visit the website |
| 22-24 May | CONVENTION | NASHCON 2009 | HMGS MidSouth | Franklin, TN Visit the website |
| 24-28 Jun | CONVENTION | ORIGINS 2009 | GAMA | Columbus, OH Visit the website |
| 16-19 Jul | CONVENTION | HISTORICON 2009 | HMGS East | Lancaster, PA Visit the website |
| 13-16 Aug | CONVENTION | GEN CON 2009 – INDY | GAMA | Indianapolis, IN Visit the website |
| 23-25 Oct | CONVENTION | CharCon 2009 | Charleston, WV Visit the website |
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| 6-8 Nov | CONVENTION | FALL IN! 2009 | HMGS East | Eisenhower Inn, Gettysburg, PA Visit the website |
| Awesome Quotes |
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We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
– George Orwell |
I cannot spare this man, he fights.
– Lincoln (concerning Grant) |
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If you are able, save for them a place inside of you and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go. Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may or may not have always. Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own. And in time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind. – Major Michael Davis O'Donnell; 1 January 1970; Dak To, Vietnam
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When you've spent your time in combat Behind a sandbagged wall Bullets with your name on it Don't bother you at all
When you've dodged your share of bullets
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Lord Chelmsford: See here, Cetewayo, old man. Your
point value at Isandlwana was entirely beyond the
pale. Why you had far more points on the field than I
did. In the future I would appreciate it if you would
be a bit more punctilious in determining just how many
warriors you can have in any one fight. Simply contact
my aide and he will inform you of the number of points
we will be fielding. I then expect you to field no
more points than we. That's a good chap.
Cetewayo: What?
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When you go home, tell them of us and say, For your tomorrow we give our today. – A tombstone at Arnhem |
| Useful Information |
| Equivalent Scales | ||
| 6mm | 1/285th - 1/300th | Z Scale |
| 10mm - 12mm | 1/160th - 1/200th | N Scale |
| 15mm | 1/107th - 1/144th | |
| 20mm | 1/72th, 1/76th & 1/87th | HO Scale |
| 25mm - 28mm | 1/60th - 1/64th | S Scale |
| 30mm - 54mm | 1/32th, 1/35th & 1/48th | O Scale |
| Local Clubs/Conventions |
Club Sites
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HMGS East Home |
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NOVAG Home |
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BattleGroup Boston |
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The Rogues |
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HMGS Midwest |
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HMGS Northwest |
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Games Club of Maryland |
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