Summary: WGF went to Seven Springs, PA to check out the 20th anniversary of the World Boardgaming Championships (WBC), organized by the Boardgame Players Association.<br><br> <a href="http://boardgamers.org/">http://boardgamers.org/</a><br> The convention evolved from Avaloncon, which started back in 1991,featuring games from Avalon Hill Game Company, which are still prominent in the lineup of over 150+ tournaments / events. The cover of this year’s program honors the 51 games that have been in the competition at every WBC. Games like: 1830, Acquire, Advanced Civilization, Axis & Allies, B-17, Britannia, Circvs Maximvs, Dune, El Grande, Empire Builder, History of the World, Merchant of Venus, Panzer Blitz, Robo Rally, Settlers of Catan,Slapshot, Squad Leader, Tigris & Euphrates, Titan, Win Place & Show, and Wooden Ships & Iron Men.<br> The panel chats about the games they watched and played and the WBC’s large open gaming area and huge gaming library with hundreds of games to check out and play. <br> They cover the WBC game Auction, where Ed acquired a few games for us to explore including:<br><br> <br> <br> a Spiel Winner from 2009…<br> A “game of world Conquest” first published by Avalon Hill in 1993…<br> Another Avalon Hill classic from 1976 based on a book from Robert Heinlein…<br> The anniversary edition of a game about the events following the Council of Elrond<br> <br> The panel also chats about:<br> The expanded vendor area. Wargame publishers have a strong presence including GMT Games, Lock N’ Load, Compass Games, Academy Games, Multi-Man Publishing, Decision Games and Rio Grande Games among the publishers present.<br> Vassal game engine for building and playing online adaptations of board games and card games. Many designers use it to playtest games.<br><br> <a href="http://www.vassalengine.org/">http://www.vassalengine.org/</a><br> Academy Games was showing one of it’s upcoming games: Agents of Mayhem: Pride of Babylon. A Fast paced and over the top 3D Tactical Board Game.<br><br> <a href="https://www.academygames.com/">https://www.academygames.com/</a><br> Compass Games will host an games expo at the Red Lion Hotel, Cromwell, CT from Nov 9-12, 2018.<br><br> <a href="http://www.compassgames.com">www.compassgames.com</a><br>
