Given the fact that Conscript-in-Charge John Slotwinski lives in Almost Pennsylvania, Maryland (Emmitsburg, actually), the only way he can get any gaming done is by bribing people to come up to his house -- hence, the SlotCon concept. Featured here are scenes from SlotCon VI, held from Friday, May 14 to Saturday, May 15, 2004.At SlotCons, a wide variety of games are played including ASL, SCS, OCS, Nappy Wars, area movement games, various sundry card games (including Munchkin), and even GW's Lord of the Rings mini battle game, which although somewhat heretical, is an absolute blast to play when you have several players.
SlotCons are held irregularly (at best), and despite his best attempts, John's basement can't hold the entire club. If you're interested in attending one of these shindigs, drop a line and he'll put you on the invite list.
Credit: John Slotwinski; Caption: John Slotwinski
- Dan Lippy (pictured), along with Chris Baer and Aaron Krebs, command their goblin hoard against John Slot's Fellowship in GW's Lord of the Ring's Balin's Tomb scenario. Here Dan moves his goblins in an attempt to flank the good guys. In the end it was one of Dan's goblin archers who won the game for the forces of evil when he threaded an incredible arrow shot from way downtown (through the door, past the pillar, off Gimli's shield) right into poor Frodo's skull. Game over.
Credit: John Slotwinski; Caption: John Slotwinski
- Close up of the goblin hoard and their buddy the cave troll in the Balin's Tomb scenario. Here we see the cave troll admiring the fine tomb statue craftsmanship on his way to smashing the hobbits a new one.
Credit: John Slotwinski; Caption: John Slotwinski
- Close up on some of the Fellowship as the goblins close in. Legolas and Frodo need a coat of paint, Gandalf and Aragon look good in their colored threads.
Credit: John Slotwinski; Caption: John Slotwinski
- At a critical moment in the scenario, Gandalf, needing at least one dr >2 in order to successfully frighten off the cave troll, uses a valuable point of Will to gain an extra dr. Here's the result. Oh well, there's always next turn.
Credit: John Slotwinski; Caption: John Slotwinski
- Next turn's result, after blowing yet another point of Will. Gandalf sucks. If these guys actually made it out of Balin's tomb I would have thrown him off the bridge at Khazad-Dum myself.
Credit: John Slotwinski; Caption: John Slotwinski
- The Fellowship is swarmed by Mr. Cave Troll and friends, mere moments before Frodo takes his dirt nap. Sauron ends up ruling Middle Earth. Oh well. I knew I should have stuck with ASL.
Chris Baer notes: Astute observers will note that there are only eight members of the Fellowship present. Merry was sent to his death by the callous John Slotwinski after the failure to scare the cave troll, as recounted above. "Merry, go fight the troll," said John as Gandalf. A sad, sad moment.
Credit: John Slotwinski; Caption: Chris Baer
- Pre-game set-up of The Gamers' Drive on Paris (SCS), contested by Kaiser Chris Baer and Aaron "Asquith" Krebs. The stone wall that the Belgians, French, and BEF set up just west of Liege, resulting in a complete derailment of the Schlieffen Plan, has not yet developed.
Credit: Paul Slotwinski; Caption: John Slotwinski
- Dan Lippy and John Slotwinski continue their playing of Red Barricades CG 1. Much to John's chagrin the Russians have fallen back in mostly good order to a stronger, second line of defense. Note the large red plastic cups, a hallmark tradition of the SlotCon series. At SlotCon the only thing glass is used for is rolling dice.
Credit: John Slotwinski; Caption: John Slotwinski
- In the foreground Chris Baer and Aaron Krebs play The Gamer's SCS Drive on Paris, while in the background Mike O'Leary and Bill Stoppel try Merzenhausen Zoo. The narrow, prison-like window in the background provides a glimpse to the beautiful spring day the was going on outside. We were so engrossed with our games that we didn't notice. In fact, later that evening a tornado touched down in Emmitsburg and we didn't even hear the town warning system. These guys are hard core gamers.
Credit: John Slotwinski; Caption: John Slotwinski
- Close up of Mike O' Leary and Bill Stoppel in their game of Merzenhausen Zoo. Another SlotCon red cup is visible behind Bill's fine dice tower.
Credit: John Slotwinski; Caption: John Slotwinski
- Paul Slotwinski sets up his own Guadacanal DYO ASL creation. When it was all over there were about 60 IJA and 100 Marine Raider squads setup at point blank range. Brian Youse, who is considering the scenario for publication, noted "Take the Americans, unless the IJA get to prep first."
Credit: John Slotwinski; Caption: John Slotwinski
- Brian Youse (left) and Ken Dunn (whose trousers are visible on the right) play Monty's Gamble Market Garden. Despite nearly flawless landings and 2.5 turns of strong successes, the Allies still lose. In about 10 playings I've never seen the Allies win this game, but it's still a blast to play. No less than 4 SlotCon cups can be found in this photo.
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