This was a great convention and the way to measure a convention is by the number of laughs you had and great battles you observed or participated in.

1) A participant in the Adowa game said that this was his first wargame. When someone asked what the Ethiopians religion was, he instantly replied "Christian, Mohammedan and Animist." We figured he was a professor!

2) We wanted to know by asking Vince Clyant what the fascination is between British people and Operation Sea Lion. Turning our backs for mere seconds, Vince produced a 500 page book on the subject, I imagine from his shirt pocket!

3) Although he had 60 battalions of infantry and 42 artillery batteries in the WWI game, Hal was heard repeatedly saying "Just one more battalion for the breakthrough."

4) Hal "hid" his staff car under a German Taube found in no-mans land like Davy Crockett and his coonskin cap. It seemed to draw some attention from the sixty German batteries.

5)I honestly didn't mean to construct eleven lines of barbed wire and trenches before the town of Arras - Bob Jones kept asking Hal when the attack would began even after he had lost forty battalions.

6) It was universally agreed that French "Elan" is totally based on the national feeling that Jerry Lewis is a genius.

7) Hal met stunned silence when he suggested that a plane could be hit on a "4-6" die roll. The shocked audience changed this only to "6's" only because they believed in simple rules.

8) After an air battle in which only dice rolls counted for victory, Vince Clyant said "Who was the great ace of aces who skillfully cleared the skies?"

9) I still haven't figured out why it takes me two hours longer to drive home after the convention even though I think I'm on the same road.

10) I'm still wondering despite ample evidence to contrary whether Adowa, Arras or Berlin held any chance of victory for the historically defeated. I guess this is why we wargame.