This year Gaelcon has a new perpetual award, "The Gamer of Steel" award Design by
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, Sculpture by Rúairí Creaner. (c) Creaner Bros. 2009
At the core of the space Hulk looming on the screens before you is believed to be the Black ship Penance though to be lost to the warp. Primary Objective: Recover the Relic “The Emperors Tears” which was in the possession of Inquisitor Swan. Secondary Objective: Locates ships logs. Thirtiary Objective: Targets of opportunity. Exterminate and eradicate all hostile with extreme prejudice.
Grab your bolter and follow your battle brothers to war as you make the halls and rooms of the convention your battle ground in your war on Chaos. Want to shoot your friends with nurf-guns then this is the event for you.
Space Hulk 3D
IGA Games Nights - VinnyC
Ahh... Space Hulk! Like many men of a certain age I was introduced to the wonderful world of wargaming through Milton Bradleys Space Crusade game. After cutting my teeth on that for a while I graduated to playing Space Hulk and advanced Space Crusade. Seems nearly every weekend I was trapped in a life and death struggle to kill all the ‘stealers rescue the C.A.T and get back to the docking claw! (Before the Crystal Maze started on TV that is!)
Of course I never played as the ‘stealers! Always had to convince someone else to do it! I mean who watched Aliens and was rooting for the Gribbly monster over the steadfast Colonial Marines! After all this was the late 80s early 90s Communism had been defeated and even to my young mind there was something defiantly Commie about the Genestealers! I mean they are controlled by an evil hive mind and there are hordes of them! Maybe it was all the BBC coverage I watched who knows!
In honour of those glory days we present a massive 3D Space Hulk game. Players are welcome to bring along their own 5 Marine Terminator Squads as the stealers will be GM controlled.
Warhammer Ancient Battles: Raid on Lindisfarne 793AD
IGA Games Nights
In this year fierce, foreboding omens came over the land of Northumbria. There were excessive whirlwinds, lightning storms, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the sky. These signs were followed by great famine, and on January 8th the ravaging of heathen men destroyed God's church at Lindisfarne. Never before has such terror appeared in Britain as we have now suffered from a pagan race. The heathens poured out the blood of saints around the altar, and trampled on the bodies of saints in the temple of God, like dung in the streets.
The boys at the IGA Games Nights in the Plough present a themed game of WAB centred on the start of the Viking raids against Britain and Ireland. This game will have much more in common with Mordhiem than the large scale pitched battles we usually do. No PHD’s in history needed to play! (Although it may help, what with proper application of Historical battle tactics and all!) Feel free to bring along your own Dark Age forces, about one character and 15 – 20 Infantry per player. Figures will be available.
Ticket to Ride: Ireland Edition
The incredibly popular boardgame Ticket To Ride has been specially adapted for Gaelcon - and now runs on an Irish map! Winner of the all-important Spiel des Jahres award in 2004, Ticket to Ride is a furiously fast 2 - 5 player game, in which players claim railway routes to connect cities. Don't be fooled by the gentle description: aggression and treachery are the key attributes to victory.
Up until now, the most popular editions of the game have been based on maps of the USA, Germany and Europe - but Gaelcon has created a special edition that runs on a map of Ireland. Even the rubbish bits, like Roscommon.