The NEXT Friday Game Night Schedule: AUGUST 9th, 2019

Friday Game Nights at Bonsor Community Centre in Burnaby (next to Metrotown; 2nd floor).  Playing Time: 6:30-11:00 pm
There are always more games played at Friday Game Night than appear in the schedule as many games will be "Bring and Play" (unregistered) games. To receive the Friday Game Night games list via email signup for the Email News Service. To receive notifications when this page has been updated, follow the Trumpeter Society on Twitter. 

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Register your game for Friday Game Night. Send your game information to the Games Master starting the Sunday before Friday Game Night via the Email News Service. Games can be registered up to the morning of Friday Game Night.

LAST MoNTH's Friday Game Night

Last Friday Game Night, June 7th:  96 people  attended with 14 games presented. Bring-&-Play games are always welcome!

Friday Game Night: JuLY 5th - 15 GAMES Registered with Still Room for more!

NOTE: A new games schedule will be posted on this page usually starting on the Tuesday of the week of Friday Game Night, and will be updated as new games are registered up to the afternoon of Friday Game Night.  ​
1.
GAME:  Another Roadside Picnic
GENERA:  Sci-Fi
HOST:  ​Thomas Robson
RULES:  ​All Units Engage
SCALE:  28mm
PLAYER SLOTS:  2
SCENARIO:
You wake up deep inside the 'Zone' with no memory and only a pistol to protect yourself.
 
 
2.
GAME:  Franco-Italian War 1924
GENERA:  Between the Wars Naval
HOST:  ​Ed Beauregard
RULES:  ​Steel Fleets
SCALE: 1/2400th
PLAYER SLOTS:  10+
SCENARIO:
The Great War ends on a sour note with Italy at odds with the other Allied powers. The Italians seize the three remaining Tegethoff class battleships as war reparations, infuriating France and making it impossible to reach any naval agreement among the victorious nations. After the French have modernized their fleet, and acquired a couple of war reparations of their own, it is time to settle the score with Italy for control of the Mediterranean.
 
 
3.
GAME:  18xx Rail Games
GENERA:  Board Game
HOST:  ​Bill Dixon
RULES:  ​1846
SCALE: ​Gameg
PLAYER SLOTS:  5 to 11
SCENARIO:
1846 is a good beginners game with enough meat in it for advanced players.
 
 
4.
GAME:  Star Trek: U.S.S. Loki. Episode 1 - Pilot
GENERA:  Sci-Fi Naval
HOST:  ​Jack Fletcher, CMDR Starfleet (ret.)
RULES:  ​Star Trek Adventures RPG (Modiphius)
SCALE: ​ N/A
PLAYER SLOTS:  Up to six player characters to take on the roles of Starfleet officers.
SCENARIO:
USS Loki (NCC-529), a 23rd century Federation starship, Saladin-class destroyer. It's mission: survey strange new worlds, patrol the spaceways, and defend the interests of United Federation Planets.


5.
GAME:  A Distant Plain
GENERA:  Guerrilla Warfare
HOST:  ​Daniele Cerin
RULES:  ​?
SCALE: ​ N/A
PLAYER SLOTS:  This volume in Volko Ruhnke's COIN Series takes 1 to 4 players
SCENARIO:
This volume in Volko Ruhnke's COIN Series takes 1 to 4 players into the Afghan conflict of today’s headlines, this time in a unique collaboration between two top designers of boardgames on modern irregular warfare.   As with each COIN Series volume, players of A Distant Plain will face difficult strategic decisions with each card. The innovative game system smoothly integrates political, cultural, and economic affairs with military and other violent and non-violent operations and capabilities. Flow charts are at hand to run the three Afghan factions, so that any number of players—from solitaire to 4—can experience the internecine brawl that is today's Afghanistan.

 
6.
GAME:  American Civil War
GENERA:  American Civil War Land Combat
HOST:  ​Terry Sawchenko
RULES:  ​Stars'n Bars
SCALE: ​ 15mm
PLAYER SLOTS:  6
SCENARIO:
An early morning probe by Stannards’s brigade (3rd Division) tripped a garrison of Southerners garrisoning a crossroads.  Both sides called on local reinforcements starting a mid- morning action which was eventually called off by the Union Divisional commander. No objectives sought, no ground needed, just needless loss of life.  Trigger the action, see how badly you can maul your opponent before the word comes in.   


7.
GAME:  Tenkatoitsu - Battle of Yamazaki
GENERA:  Medieval Japan
HOST:  ​Mike Glover
RULES:  ​Tenkatoitsu
SCALE: ​ ?
PLAYER SLOTS:  2
SCENARIO:
Tactical combat in feudal Japan. Fun system with some pretty chaotic combat (and also ninjas!) Can teach. Looking for an opponent.
 

8.
GAME:  VINHOS
GENERA:  Board Game
HOST:  ​Richard Africa
RULES:  ​Vinhos
SCALE: ​ Board Game
PLAYER SLOTS:  4
SCENARIO:
Board game about the Portuguese Port industry.
 
 
9.
GAME:  AFRIKA KORPS  '46
GENERA:   WWII
HOST:  ​CHRIS BELL
RULES: D-Day to VE-Day
SCALE: ​ 3mm
PLAYER SLOTS:  2 - 4
SCENARIO:
ALT/ HISTORY - After ignoring the Desert War for 5 years, Hitler needs a backdoor to Russia. He has shipped Rommel the 21stSS Panzer Div. This unit has just been reequipped with the new Panthers II's with it's 88L71 gun and the Panther F. Facing  them will be the Desert Rats with their Comets and new landed Centurion 3's.This will be a TANK ONLY meeting engagement PAPER PANZERS and late war British.
                 
 
10.
GAME:  Breakthrough on Vega
GENERA:  Sci-Fi
HOST:  ​Shawn Winstanley
RULES: Battletech
SCALE: ​ 6mm
PLAYER SLOTS:  up to 8
SCENARIO:
A breakthrough scenario involving the remnants of the Fourteenth Legion of Vega attempting to escape off the planet Vega. The only problem is that they need to get past the Third Lyran Guard to do so.
 
 
11.
GAME:  WWI Air
GENERA:  WWI Air Combat
HOST:  ​René Charbonneau
RULES: ​Canvas Eagles
SCALE: ​ 1/72nd
PLAYER SLOTS:  2 - 12   
SCENARIO:
September 1917, On the Western Front,  the weather is starting to turn foul the struggle in the air gets rough.
 
 
12.
GAME:  Druid's Resolve
GENERA:  
HOST:  ​Gregorio Gatto
RULES: ​Chess based with cards
SCALE: ​ N/A
PLAYER SLOTS:  2
SCENARIO:
Strategy game based off Chess with extra elements and cards
 

13.
GAME:  Board Game- Betrayal At House on the Hill
GENERA:  Board Game
HOST:  ​Kathleen Moore
RULES: ​Widow’s Walk expansion is in effect
PLAYER SLOTS:  3 - 6  (4 works best)
SCALE: ​ N/A
SCENARIO:
'Prodromal' stage is exploration of the House; PVG stage scenario determined when the Haunt is triggered; could be any of 100 different Haunts
 
 
14.
GAME:  DND
GENERA:
HOST:  ​Graham Acton
RULES: ​DND 5th ed, DMG, PHB, MM, Sword Coast
SCALE: ​ 25mm
PLAYER SLOTS:  2 -  6 Players
SCENARIO:
Having faced the Bullywug matriarch and defeated the "Water elf" they must once more return to face the Bullywug Matriarch and find out what happened to the reliquary.
 
 
15.
GAME:  The Battle of Chickamauga: 1863
GENERA:  American Civil War
HOST:  ​Dennis Chin
RULES: ​Regimental Fire and Fury
SCALE: ​ 20 mm
PLAYER SLOTS:  4
SCENARIO:
On the first day of battle, September 19, 1863, General Rosecrans, in command of the Union Army of the Cumberland orders an attack on the extreme right flank of the the Confederate Army of the Tennessee, commanded by the mediocre Braxton Bragg.  The Union Brigades far outnumbers John Bell Hood’s Division which has been instructed to hold  the cross-roads of the Reed Bridge Road and the Brotherton Road at Jay’s Mill.  The Confederates has the advantage of the cover of the central woods.
There is always more room for more games at Friday Game Night.  Send your game information to the Trumpeter Society’s GamesMaster.  More games will be posted here as more games are registered.

​NOTE: Anyone presenting a game at Friday Game Night receives a participation ticket and a presenters raffle ticket for the evening prize draw.  Prizes include gift certificates from Imperial Hobbies as well as miniatures, game book and magazines.
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