Draft Programme
Friday 2nd March
- 1600 Registration at Ft Purbrook (or you may register at HMS Alliance from 1800)
- 1700 Depart Fort Purbrook to Submarine Museum
- 1900 Conference dinner on HMS Alliance
- 2030 Plenery Game One of Our Submarines by John Basset A submarine game, using a real submarine as a prop
- 2100 Return to Ft Purbrook and orientation
- ADG 2200 FOOTFALL Situation Tim Price a special operation with some paranormal aspects, featuring new combat and equipment rules.
- ADG 2200 Ironclad Draughts by Bob Cordery After dinner game that needs some playtesting before taking to SALUTE 2007
Saturday 3rd March
- 0800 breakfast
- 0900 tour of Ft Purbrook
- 0945 “Le Queux’s Nightmare” TEWT by John Curry You are the German military staff planning an attack on the newly completed fort Purbrook in 1871. How hard is the fort to take?
- 1030 coffee
- 1045 The Moon Grey Sea by John Salt A WWII convoy game
- 1045 Pass the Fly Swatter, WW1 in East Africa by Martin Rapier A toy soldier game for up to six players attempting to find, fix and destroy the elusive Hun in the African bush.
- 1245 lunch
- 1345 The Fletcher Pratt Naval Wargame by John Curry A hypothetical battle that explores what would have happened if the Germans had kept back their capital ships and sent them out to challenge the Royal Navy in 1942. The rules are fast and furious. The playing area is the ballroom floor in the officers mess.
- 1530 tea
- 1545 The Realities of Defense Procurement by Tim Price The Realities of Defence Procurement A Matrix Game
• Understand the Military Requirement to meet a Capability Gap!
• Engage Defence Contractors in Partnership for Mutual Benefit!
• Manage the Equipment Programme Budgetary Profile!
• Drive your Programme through to deliver Military Capability!
• SMART Procurement - On Time, Under Budget and Above Performance
Requirements!
• Discover what "Loitering Munitions" are...!
• Nothing can possibly go wrogn!
A simple game about what happens (-ish) when the MOD buys new kit. For
about 6 players and an Umpire who pretends that he knows what really goes
on. No previous experience in buying multi-million Pound weapons systems is
required or even desirable. Any similarity with any actual MOD Procurement
Agencies is purely coincidental.
- 1545 The clearing of Falkland Sound by Wayne Thomas a sub hunting game during the Falkland wars.
- 1800 The Naval Brigades Lecture by Richard Brooks last delivered at the National Maritime Museum
- 1900 dinner
- 2000 Stalingrad: The lrp Game by John Curry and Bob Cordery - The gates of the factory have been blown open! Comrades, glory awaits those who take the factory back from the Fascist dogs!
An LRP Airsoft game involving training in Russian WWII infantry tactics, then the assault. There is a nominal charge of £5.00 for those taking part in this event due to the cost of hiring the nearby factory The game will aim to recreate some historical incidents from the Russian perspective. Roles include: assault pioneers, machine gunners, grenadiers and the political officer.(4-16 players, Saturday Evening After Dinner Game).
2000 Count of the Saxon Shore by John Bassett RPG on the coastal defence of late Roman Britain against Saxon raiders.
2200 ADG: Russian Package Holiday: The Russian Occupation of Afganistan
Game TBC
2200 ADG Marengo by other means - by Tim Gow, a Matrix argument-driven toy soldier game.
Sunday 4th March
- 0800 breakfast
- 0900 Invasion! By John Curry. The 1944 invasion in Normany has stalled, therefore a 2nd assualt is planned. A game about planning, the invasion, then running it through using a simple system.
0900
'Jaw Jaw not War War - Consensus building to end conflict' by Stephen Anguillar Millan A committee game that examines the process of ending hostilities in the modern era. Up to seven players will be able to examine some of the subtleties that are needed when establishing a multi-national force to act as a peace-keeping buffer between two recently warring factions. There isn't a great deal of dice throwing and toy-soldier moving in the game, but it may have an appeal to those who like the format of the Matrix Game.
- 1130 coffee
- 1145 Digitization and the Future of War Tim Price Presentation
- 1245 conference close and lunch
Informal Sessions just catch the person for a chat during some quiet moment in the weekend.
An introduction to Hell: Emergency Planning for Bird Flu by Michael Curry
