[Deptheads] Miniature Bootcamp review

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Thanks for the posting Robyn.  I was just getting on to give everyone  the 
numbers from this year's Demos. This is the demo run and the number of  
people who participated in them.  Each was run twice (2 three hour  sessions) 
with the exception of Uncharted Seas and 40K which were run  only one session 
each.
 
Warhammer 40K - 2
Warhammer Fantasy - 3
Wings of War - 5
Flames of War - 12
General Quarters - 4
Uncharted Seas - 10
Warmachine - 8
WWII AE - 4
 
Total of 39 actual participants (a few tried a few different games).   Now 
we know a bit more about what we want to do/accomplish, my team is  already 
working on ways to improve visibility, number of demos, etc. so Orccon  we 
can improve on these initial numbers.
 
It should also be noted that 5 of the people who did demos with us joined  
us at night for M&M and/or GQ because of their exposure to miniatures games  
and they wanted to try a full blown event. All seemed to have a good time 
and  asked what scenarios we were going to have at Orccon.
 
I am hoping that the Dealer's Room also felt a little impact in sales on  
miniatures with the Demos, but now we have a start we will be sure to let 
Janice  know all the demos we are doing so she can get with the sellers to have 
product  available on site.
 
I am looking forward to everyone's feedback at the next meeting and ideas  
from all on how we can make what seems to be a good thing even better.
 
John
 
 
 
In a message dated 9/10/2009 5:43:46 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
robynln at gmail.com writes:

Thought everyone would appreciate some good  feedback:

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Gateway has now come and again. On Sunday, I gave three AE-WWII demos to  
four people, in addition to fielding questions from interested onlookers.  

The Strategicon folks used the concept of a "Miniatures Bootcamp"  this 
year, in which several miniatures games were demonstrated side by  side. I 
thought this worked out very well this year - there was much more  foot traffic 
in this area of the convention as people were dropping by  often to play and 
learn some quick miniature games. One of the demos I  gave was to a father 
and his high-school age son who had never played a  miniatures game before 
but were grabbed by the AE-WWII board I had set  out. They had a great time 
and decided to purchase their first miniatures  games (albeit it was Space 
Hulk, not AE-WII, as they had read about it  beforehand). I'll take creating 
some new miniature wargamers as a small  win.

I'll definitely be back at Strategicon/Orccon February, and  hope the 
convention sticks with the Miniatures Bootcamp. I plan to spend  one day on 
demos, but hopefully one of the nights I'll schedule a game for  people with 
existing armies...or even a small tournament. If any current  players think they 
would be interested in a game and/or tournament, please  let me  know!


Phil



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