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Your Hobby Place Alexandria is hosting a session of Kidshammer on Saturday, October 15, 1-5 pm.
Kidshammer introduces kids to tabletop miniature gaming through Games Workshop’s popular Age of Sigmar (AoS) fantasy setting. The event at Your Hobby Place will be most open gaming, so that the kids can practice with their favorite armies. If anyone is completely new to the game, the event can provide a limited number of loaner models and instructions on how to play AoS. Kidshammer is intended chiefly for children aged 10-15, but children as young as 8-years old are welcome. A parent or guardian must remain on site at the store during a kid’s participation in the event. Tabletop gaming is not video gaming, and it's not board gaming. It’s like D&D combined with board gaming, but without the roleplaying and on a much larger scale. The games are played with painted plastic miniature models on custom-made battle boards. The armies of the two or more players battle each other, seeking to control objectives or accumulate points towards victory. If you are interested in having your kid attend, please register your kid for the event via the contact page of this website. The event is free. Although walk-ons are welcome on the day, the event runs much better if we have an idea of participation ahead of time.
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Kidshammer had a successful return to the NOVA Open after a two-year absence caused by the pandemic. NOVA Open is held in Arlington, VA, and is one of the largest tabletop gaming conventions in the country. Kidshammer is proud to be a part of it.
It was the fifth time Kidshammer was held at the NOVA Open, so we were glad to welcome back some familiar faces. We were also excited to have many new players join the fun. It was also a thrill to be able to play Games Workshop's Kill Team Live! laser-tag game as part of the event. Thanks to all the kids (and parents!) who attended the event for your enthusiasm and sportsmanship. We hope to see you again soon, certainly at the next NOVA Open, but also at some "between NOVA" Kidshammer events at game store in the DC area. Kidshammer Players and Parents:
Hope everyone’s summer is off to a good start! With the NOVA Open less than two months away – and with a bunch of Games Workshop releases since registration – now is a good time to touch base on getting ready for KidsHammer. Below is some additional information from what was in the KidsHammer primer.
Be sure to check out the www.kidshammer.orgwebsite for news and updates, including pictures of the game boards being built and the custom missions for the Open Gaming on Saturday afternoon. Have a great summer, and look forward to seeing you all at NOVA real soon! 
Thrilled to announce that a Kidshammer club is starting in the Baltimore, MD, area! Jason Conca, a veteran of Kidshammer and father of a player at the 2018 NOVA Open Kidshammer event, is starting the club at St. Margaret School in Bel Air. Jason provided the attached flyer with more information for anyone interested in joining the fun. The Baltimore club joins the existing clubs in the Washington, DC, and Boston areas.
The third "between NOVAs" Kidshammer event will be held on Sunday, June 23, 12 noon - 4 pm, at Victory Comics in Falls Church, VA. Victory Comics is the birthplace of Kidshammer, and we are thrilled that the store is able to make space for us to return.
The event will be mostly open gaming, so that the kids can practice with their favorite armies. Matched play at 1250 points to follow NOVA Kidshammer rules. If anyone is completely new to the game, we can provide models and instruction on how to play Age of Sigmar, Second Edition. Please respond via the contact page of this website if you are thinking about attending. Although walk-ons are welcome on the day of the event, the event runs much better if we have an idea of participants ahead of time. This is likely the last Kidshammer event before the NOVA Open, so it's a great chance to try out your army before the big event (and still have time to tweak it!) We're in the process of nailing done a location and date for our third Kidshammer event in between NOVAs. Can't say where or exactly when yet, but it will be in June before the end of the school year. Stay tuned for more information soon!
The second of four annual Kidshammer events will be held on Sunday, February 24, 12 noon - 4 pm, at Victory Comics in Falls Church, VA. Victory Comics is the birthplace of Kidshammer, and we are thrilled that the store is able to make space for us to return.
The event will be mostly open gaming, so that the kids can practice with their favorite armies. If anyone is completely new to the game, we can provide models and instruction on how to play Age of Sigmar, Second Edition. Please respond via the contact page of this website if you are thinking about attending. Although walk-ons are welcome on the day of the event, the event runs much better if we have an idea of participants ahead of time. Future events will occur in April/May and the summer. Dates and locations will be posted when they are known. Victory Gamers will be hosting a "mini-KidsHammer" event on Saturday, November 10, at The Games Tavern store in Chantilly, Virginia. Exact time is still being worked out, but will likely be in the afternoon (1-5 pm?). The KidsHammer event will be part of the third annual "Fawkes Hunt" narrative Age of Sigmar event. Details to come!
It was a second successful year of KidsHammer at the NOVA Open! We had eight kids, aged 7-15, turn out this year for the event. It was particularly gratifying that five of the participants returned from last year's event.
The event kicked off Saturday morning, with a morning of "open gaming", where the kids paired off and played games against each other. There were adult coaches from the local Victory Gamers club at each table to provide guidance and rule support, particularly concerning the changes to the rules brought by the new edition. Saturday afternoon started with an hour-and-a-half painting session. NOVA reserved tables for us up in the Hobby Hangout, and Sean McAfee organized and led a fun session of painting models that were generously provided by Games Workshop. Afterwards was the narrative portion of the weekend. There were two specially crafted missions that focused on telling stories. The first was a wizards' duel where each player had access to all the Endless Spells in the Malign Sorcery box. The second was a"Beast Hunt" where the players first had to kill the objectives before they could claim them - not so easy when the objectives were an Arachnarok Spider, a Colossal Squig, and a Hellpit Abomination. But the biggest narrative event was an epic D&D-style dungeon crawl led by Brian Orban, lead of the AoS Narrative at NOVA. The dungeon crawl played out on two custom-built tables, with the kids selecting heroes in their armies to explore an abandoned monastery and the caverns beneath it. It was a lot of fun! On Sunday, the kids returned to play a friendly three-round tournament, or to play more open games if they preferred that. The tournament saw some great play and was highly contested throughout. In the end, congratulations to Michael Klofft, Leo Conca, and Adam Foster for finishing first, second, and third respectively. Thanks to Peter Noone and Kevin "Bogo" Bogecki for being coaches, to Sean McAfee and Brian Orban for taking the lead on painting and the dungeon crawl, to Jesse Gaskins, Michael Hayes, and Matthew Foster who helped out with the planning, and and to all the parents who supported their kids and the event before and during the weekend. We are already planning future mini-KidsHammer events in the DC area this fall and next spring, and hope to be able to return for NOVA Open 2019! Another great KidsHammer event was held at the NOVA Open 2018 over the Labor Day weekend. 10 kids participated, playing pick up games of Age of Sigmar, learning to paint, playing narrative games, and wrapping it up with a friendly tournament on Sunday. Congratulations to Michael Klofft, Leo Conca, and Adam Foster, who placed 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in the tournament!
So what's next? (Besides starting plans for KidsHammer at NOVA 2019, of course.) We'll see. A KidsHammer dedicated Facebook page is in the works. And periodic mini-KidsHammer events in the DC-area this fall, winter, spring and summer, to keep the flame alive until next Labor Day. Keep checking back here for updates! |
AuthorSteve Duall is the father of three, a government lawyer by day, and the husband of a very patient woman. He founded the Kidshammer club in summer of 2015. He headed up the first ever Kidshammer event at a major convention - the 2017 NOVA Open - and is very excited to bring it back in 2018. Archives
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