Enfilade 2017 wrapped up on Sunday and it has taken a couple days to collect my thoughts and sort through my photos. Enfilade 2017 was another well run and attended convention. This year there were over 350 attendees, more than 65 game presenters, and over 130 events. All of which are record numbers, so it seems like the convention is on solid footing. The Enfilade staff should be congratulated on another great convention.
The theme for 2017 was
Invasions and there were lots of games that focused on the theme.
As per my normal Enfilade recap, I’m doing two Enfilade posts; one on the general convention and other people's games and
a second covering the games I ran. This post will cover the general convention stuff. I tried to take photos of most of the games, but not all of them turned out and with over 65 evens I just didn’t get to them all. Note this is a long post with lots of photos.
Friday Games
Friday afternoon used to be pretty quiet and was a good time to catch up with people you hadn’t seen in a year. However, this year was different as the afternoon was busy with lots of games and that carried over into the evening. Here are some photos from the first two gaming periods.
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| Tarawa invasion |
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| WWII ABDA vs. the Japanese |
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| An American War of Independence game using the Sharpe's Practice rules |
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| Battle of Magnesia |
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| Curse of the Mummy's Tomb |
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| (fuzzy) Confederate ironclads try to break the blockade |
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| All Quiet on the Martian Front |
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| Napoleonic French vs. Russians on the Road to Borodino |
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| TUSK really ancient hunting game |
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| WWI Baltic naval brawl |
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| Battle of the Bulge game |
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| Chariot Racing |
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| A Chosen Men game somewhere in Spain |
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| Dwarven mine dispute |
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| Galactic Knights game |
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| Hannibal crossing the Rhone |
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| Harpoon battle in the Baltic |
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| Japanese vs. Australians in the Outback |
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| Russo-Japanese War Pre-dreadnought action |
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| Napoleonic Messenger game (I need to get a copy of these rules) |
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| Omaha Beach D-Day invasion (this was the overall theme winner for the convention) |
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| Pre-dreadnought British vs Russians and Germans |
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| It wouldn't be Friday at Enfilade without Thunderboats |
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| A demo game of Test of Honor |
Saturday
Games
Saturday morning I ran my Captain’s Edition: Harpoon game (
which you can read about in this post), so I only got a handful of photos from the morning. But here are other photos from Saturday.
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| Battle of Trebia |
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| Canvas Eagles WWI Air |
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| Car Wars auto-duel arena |
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| Jousting action |
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| Island of the Crocodile God |
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| Conquistador raiding party attacks the Aztecs |
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| Battle of Hastings |
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| Napoleonic Battle of Eckmul |
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| More Martians! |
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| More Napoleonics |
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| A Pike and Shotte game |
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| The Canadians get ready to head over the top at Vimy Ridge |
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| Austria vs Bavaria Black Powder battle |
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| Conquistadors attack Aztec pyramids |
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| Harpoon Battle in the Maldives |
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| Imjin War battle |
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| Barsoom Rescue |
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| Search for the Holy Grail |
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| Wild West shootout |
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| Mongols vs. Russians Lion Rampant game |
Sunday Games
On Sunday morning, Kevin and I ran our 13 Days goes Hot (yes, it is a lame title, but I could think of anything catchy when I was filling out the event form)
Cuban Missile Crisis game. But I did grab a few photos of the other games.
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| Convoy along the Mohawk, French and Indian War |
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| Gnome Wars! |
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| It wouldn't be Sunday morning without a trip to the Luminous Toad |
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| Pulp Alley - Casablanca game |
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| Star Fleet Call to Arms |
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| A reprise of the Tarawa game |
That’s all the photos for this year. I obviously didn't get photos of all the games, but I hope you like what is here. Overall the games were a lot of really great looking games this year.
