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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1979
TEXAS BURGER HAS NOW
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OFFER GOOD THRU SAT. FEB. 10
Toy soldiers, miniature battleships and
imaginary wizards like these squared off at the
arcon V; Choose your weapons
Memorial Student Center last weekend for
Warcon V, an annual war games convention.
About 178 participated.
Battalion photo by Colin Crombie
1303 Jersey St.
Southside Shopping Center (next to the Mop Shop)
Open 9-8 I
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Wizards, warlords battle in MSC
By JULIE SMILEY
Battalion Reporter
Ihoose your weapons. Playing
f has become an alternative to
gs and checkers.
le Memorial Student Center
st W « the battlefield Friday evening
' oft Sunda y afternoon where
I TSWarcon V contestants recreated
Piets bom World War \\ to
Toleonic battles to fantasy skir-
pes between wizards and
hes.
lontestants sprawled on the
measured angles and posi-
[:d miniature ships for battle. In
erroom, political strategy and
gue kept contestants busy
table in a war game called
Downstairs, wizards
Dd warlords fought battles with
■inary dragons in another game
O old Dungeons and Dragons.
latcon V is the fifth war gaming
onvention sponsored by
METS. Games Replications
ing Military, Economic and
cal Situations (GROMETS) is a
lasA&M University organization
d serves as a subcommittee of the
E Recreation Committee.
PAR GAMES ARE grown men
nudwl y> n g little kids’ games, only the
- Iran, |games are more complex and
!, Kin real', said S'id VVegert, a
leforeffltsl'man aerospace engineering
shahtipjor from San Antonio,
mil A war gamer for eight years,
anceWr®g«rt said he owns about 70 war
wkiak'd&st about $8 each. He
most war games cost from $3 to
md are more than just fun.
eU.S. Military Acadamy uses a
Jgame, Firelight, to train offi-
ilitaryWegert said.
luring World War II, the Ger-
on\
d RO
n
game,’’ to train their officers, said
Larry Ball, a freshman mechanical
engineering major from Lake Os
wego, Ore.
Wegert and Ball competed in a
naval miniature war game which
reinacted a battle between British
and German naval forces in January
1915. Each said he was in charge of
one or two miniature ships and took
orders from a commanding officer.
THEY SAID EACH battle move
took about three minutes to make.
The game lasted about eight hours,
but the actual 1915 battle may have
lasted only one or two hours.
The 1/3,600 scale lead ships posi
tioned on the floor helped players
accurately recreate weapon
strength, ships damage, ship speed
and weather conditions during the
battle.
“The hobby is endless,” said
Wegert. “One night you can he
Churchill or Hitler. You can he a
general in charge of many troops or
one officer in charge of one troop.
Only a small number of people
plays war games, Wegert said, be
cause “a lot of people look at the
book of rules for each game and get
scared. He said they are like any
other game, but instead of a box lid
with rules, war games have a rules
booklet.
BALL SAID WAR games can be
played on the floor or on a board.
War games can be played on the
floor or on a map with miniature
ships, weapons, troops, horses, or
tanks. He said, “The temperament
of the people determines the type of
game they want to play.
Cruz Medina, a junior engineer
ing technology major from El Paso,
said he spends about 24 hours a
month playing war games even
though, “my dad thinks it’s a sissy
sport.”
Medina said Avalon Hill and
Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI)
are two major war game companies.
Medina said SPI sold about $20 mil
lion of war games last year.
Six war game companies sold war
games and equipment during War-
con V. Lee Sowers, a war games re
tail distributor and manufacturer
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from Houston, said his sales have
grown from $100 to $2,000 a week in
two years. His company makes
miniature ships, armor and star-
ships.
THIS CONVENTION IS not
such a fantastic one as far as warcons
go, hut I would like to see the Texas
A&M warcon built up to national
interest,” Sowers said. “I would like
to see people make a trip to A&M
for a war gaming convention.”
Louis Zoccha, a war games dealer
from Biloxi, Miss., said he started
selling war games in 1968. He said
he travels to Origins, the biggest
pure war gaming convention in the
United States, to sell his war game
products.
Zoccha said about 4,000 war gam
ers from all over the United States
attended Origins IV held in Wiscon
sin in 1978. He said Origins V will
be held in Pennsylvania later this
year.
Clay Cooper, 25, from Houston,
summed up his interest in in war
games as he positioned miniature
mounted soldiers for a Napoleonic
battle. “It’s the only hobby I have.”
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JUNIORS
If you have completed 75 hours as of Jan. 1,1979, and have a minimum
GPR of 3.25, you are eligible for membership in the Senior Honor
Society.
CAP & GOWN
(soon to be affiliated with National Mortar Board, Inc.)
General Orientation Meeting Feb. 8, 7 P.M. 601 Rudder.
Information sheets will also be available from Feb. 5-16 in 216 MSC,
108 YMCA, and the offices of Dr. Koldus, Academic Deans, and Dept.
Heads.
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