I wanted to touch base with all of you because I've been hearing some ugly rumors and we need to nip them in the bud. Contrary to the current rumors that we are doing away with everything except table top games and the PC we have a full gamut of gaming. Our new facility gives us more room than our previous venue and we plan to use ALL the space for a wide variety of games. So far the schedule includes our regular features, such as the Anime Room, ConSuite, our popular Used Game Auction, and the Miniature Painting Contest and demos. Our Dealer's Room will feature Avalon Magical Products, Youngdale Productions, Moebius Enterprises, Michael’s Magic, Imperial Outpost, Samurai Comics, Flying Buffalo, Atomic Comics, The Master Gamer, , Gamer’s Edge and Wiley’s Game Emporium.
And then we have our GAMING:
BATTLETECH & MINIATURES Tucson’s 13th Heavy Metal Legion Battletech
Mechwarior group makes its first appearance at HexaCon with a series of
three Classic Battletech games, on 3D Battlescape Geo-Hex with Z-scale
buildings, trees, and other terrain features. On Friday Night the elite
Knights of BlackRook Company will take on all challengers with a Level
3 Mixed Clan and Inner Sphere tech free for all. Then on Saturday Evening,
the Clan Nova Cat and the Wolf’s Dragoons will duke it out. and finally
on Sunday Afternoon, the 13th Heavy Metal Legion will battle Team Banzai
for possession of a lost Star League Era Naval base on an airless moon
orbiting a gas giant.
In addition, there will be Mech Scale Union and Leopard Class Dropships,
hordes of carefully painted battletech miniatures, and a complete Battletech
scale city on display. We have contacted WizKids and hope to be able
to demo the new Mage Knight Battletech: Dark Ages game.
BOARD GAMING plans include Novanon, Chaostle, Star Fleet Battles Tournament, Successors, and Talisman 2nd Ed.
CHESS FEDERATION will present the HexaCon Chess Challenge - If you can keep our Chess expert from checkmating you in 2-minutes of his playing time in a HexaCon Challenge Match, We will give you a free membership to HexaCon 13! (Limit one challenge per member, limited to 10 free memberships, details available on request) That's right, you don't even have to beat him. Regardless of the position on the board, if two minutes passes on our expert's clock and he hasn't won the game you will get a free membership to HexaCon 13. You do not have to win the game. A draw or even an unfinished game is sufficient. The Chess Federation will also present Vegas Fun Chess and, of course, traditional chess and many other variations of chess will also be available at the Chess Club at HexaCon XII
CCG & MAGIC include Emperor Draft, a Grand Melee, Five Color Magic, Booster Drafts through out the day on Friday and other games to be announced at con.
COMPUTER GAMING will showcase the Half Life Series. - Half Life, Counter Strike, Day of Defeat, Opera, Team Fortress Classic.; Unreal Tournament; Quake 3; Red Faction; Return to Castle Wolfenstien; Jedi Knight 2; Aliens Vs. Predator 2; Tribes 2; Ghost Recon; Serious Sam 1 + 2, Medal of Honor Allied Assault and Rune Hall of Valhalla
LARP EVENTS include Fading Suns, 7th Sea, Vampire the Masquerade: In a World of Darkness, Werewolf the Apocalypse: Call to Arms!, Changeling the Dreaming and, of course, our popular Pokemon Live Action 3.
Our MIB have planned the following STEVE JACKSON GAMES: Car Wars, Frag Deadlands, Frag Double_Blind, Frag in the Mall of the Dead, Toon, Ogre/Ogre Miniatures, Chez Geek, Awful Green Things from Outer Space, Proteus, Tile Chess, Munchkin, Knightmare Chess, GURPS Fantasy: Alchemist's Run, and GURPS Transhuman Space.
RPGs planned include D&D 3ed, Blue Planer, Unknown Armies, Conspiracy, Tribe 8, Big Eyes, Small Mouth, Call of Cthulhu, Hackmaster, All Flesh Must Be Eaten, and Little Fears.
The WRECKING CREW presents WHITE WOLF - At HexaCon 2002 the story centers on the schemes of an Elder and the orders of a Sept Leader. Both desire the same goal, which is locked away inside a bank vault, but how to get them? Should they work with the Wyrm to gain a greater prize? Or should they slay each other and to the victor goes the spoils?
Our THURSDAY NIGHT SPECIAL EVENT fell through but we are working hard to provide something to replace it. Open gaming space, as well as our ConSuite, will be open on Friday. We have a Live Steel demo tentatively scheduled for some time during the weekend
We are pleased to announce that the following merchants will be at HexaCon 12:
Atomic Comics
Chivalry Consulting
Flying Buffalo
Game Depot
Gamers Edge
Imperial Outpost
Jason Youngdale
Master Gamer
Michael's Magic
Mobieus Enterprises
Samurai Comics
Wiley's Game Emporium
We still have two weeks until the convention and even more will be added to the schedule between now and then. I look forward to seeing all of you at HexaCon 12
Craig L Dyer
Chair, HexaCon 12