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It’s never too early to start thinking about conventions!

Conventions are a great way to meet new people, play new games, and otherwise have some fun blowing up ‘Mechs with your buddies!

Here is the shortlist of conventions you may see me at this year.

• HMGS Cold Wars, March 12-15 (www.coldwars.org)
• HMGS Historicon, July 16-19 (www.historicon.org)

Both of these HMGS conventions are great conventions.  Catalyst Demo Agent “Speck” always has a full weekend of games running and they are all well attended.

As an added bonus, Iron Wind Metals makes the trip and has all of their Battletech miniatures on display at their booth.  IWM brings way too many goodies to the show.  Where else besides GenCon are you going to be able to buy battlearmor by the singles?

• NJCon, June 5-6 June 12-13 (www.njcon.org)

I’ll be attending and running games in this second running of NJCon.  I’m already plotting new maps and miniatures for this convention.  If you are in the area come on over and roll some dice!

• GenCon, Aug 13-16 (www.gencon.com)

If you were waiting for a year to attend GenCon, this is it.  It is Battletech’s 25th anniversary and there are sure to be some special offerings from the good folks at Catalyst.

• UberCon, Oct 23-25 (www.ubercon.com)

UberCon is new to my target list of conventions.  There doesn’t seem to be a large miniature wargaming support or any Classic Battletech.  It is a perfect opportunity to stick my flag in the sand like I did at NJCon.  I’m willing to give it a go this year to see anyways.

I hope to see some of my readers here and there this year.  Obviously, if you live on the east coast near the state of New Jersey, you have a much better chance.  There is always GenCon, though.

Hoping for a great 2009 to you and yours!