Geo-Hex/GZG on TV: Pandemonium '99

Greetings!

        We would like to thank all who made the GZG/Geo-Hex events at
Pandemonium '99 a success!

> WHAT? Pandemonium '99

> WHEN? January 23-24, 1999

This year was a little crowded on Saturday, but too many gamers was never a
*bad* thing! We were a little short handed, as our DSII organizers couldn't
make it and we couldn't free up enough time for the alternates to take over,
thus only Full Thrust and Stargrunt events were
run.  A big thanks to Geo-Hex of the US for supplying the great prizes!

        Tom ran his uber-fleet action again using the Musashi
"Starblazers" ships, and the game went *long* into the evening... In the
secondary board room, a smaller game involving NSL and ESU was underway, with
the NSL victorious...sort of.

Four SGII events were run, three on Saturday. The morning game
pitted militia against well-armoured regulars.  The second game involved
a NAC colony world beset upon by mercs backed by the ESU. The last game on
saturday was our company game, involving a company of NSL (2 medium infantry
platoons and one gebirgs platoon, plus command) with heavy armour support
(size 4 tank, size 4 combat walker, 3 size 1 infantry walkers, and
"jeep-o-saurus"...).  The defenders consisted of ad hoc militia units
with
some FSE advisors, a few converted civilian/industrial infantry walkers,
and one size 2 FSE infantry walker.  Bad set-up bedeviled the defenders,
compounded by some bad luck. The NSL cleaned up, with some minor
set-backs (nothing like a 4-man FSE recon squad *routing* and killing an
8-man FSE unit!<G>).  This game allowed us to play with our newly
painted colonial militia and scandanavian platoons! On Sunday, as small
recon-in-force game was run with PAU and Japanese Mercs, with the
Japanese coming out on top.

Our miniature events were shot by an interviewer from SPACE, the
Canadian Sci-Fi channel.  Starting on Weds., shorts on Pandemonium will
begin running on the SPACE channel throughout the next two weeks. They
got lots of great shots of some of the SGII set-ups, as well as the
vehicles. We had a few platoons set up for them to photograph, but the
vehicles turned out much better.  Dave ham-ed up for the camera and
plugged SG and FT, as well as talking about the history of miniature games.:)

Thanks again to the players and event organizers for another great year! Hope
to see you at Orion Con this April!

> Greetings!