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We, the Las Vegas Wargamers, (LVW),
are a group of like minded individuals, joined together to
pursue wargaming in the Las Vegas Metro area.
The goals of the LVW are:
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To play and promote wargaming,
historical and non-historical, in Las Vegas
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To support local game stores
whenever possible
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To support current and available
rule sets for easier entry to the hobby, for beginners and
people switching genres or historical periods
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To provide a local gaming
community for gamers in Las Vegas
The LVW traces its roots back to
about 1999. Then we were know as the Colonials Club at Triple J
Hobbies. We were basically a group of gamers that frequented
Triple J Hobbies, with a focus on regularly wargaming in the
Victorian Colonial period. The club was formed to organize
gaming at the store and to pool resources, in order to purchase
some items that we too expensive for an individual i.e. the
Legation sets from Old Glory. We were also heavily into making
terrain for the club and other store customers to use when
gaming at the store. Most of us played a variety of games beyond
Colonials at the store, including OGRE Miniatures, Spearhead,
Johnny Reb, Stargrunt, Babylon 5 Wars, Battleground World War 2,
Formula D, Demonworld, Space Hulk, Charlie Company, Shako, AK-47
Republic “Bongolesia”, GUTSHOT!, and of course “Classic”
Battletech.
The Colonial club continued on until
the closing of Triple J Hobbies in 2004. When that happened
there was a mad dash to gather contact information from all the
regulars who were part of the club, but also those who regularly
visited the game store. We had depended on the store to be able
to keep in contact with each other as it was a convenient
gathering place. The loss of the store was quite chaotic for
us. This is where the decision not to rely completely on one
store was made.
However, the re-gathering of the
group was successful. This was due in large part to the efforts
of the “LVHistoricals” yahoo group created by Don Kalinich. The
yahoo group proved to be a significant help as it allowed
everyone to stay in touch. Also in no small part, thanks goes
to Dan Tuziak, for taking up the torch, of providing us with a
venue to gather at. In turn, Don K. and Greg Dryanski also
provided the same so we could rotate around town for everyone’s
convenience. To this day Dan T. still provides bi-weekly
historical gaming at his abode. Tom Adams and Jason Coffey also
began to work with the local store owners at that time and
establish public venues for us to gather and play at across
town. This is when our club became know as the Las Vegas
Historicals Club. This is what are group was known as until
2007.
At the end of 2006, our “club” had
come to an impasse with how it wanted to operate. After years of
talking, the “club” finally put up a website to take ownership
of the burden of its own advertising, picture archive and the
like. However, the question came up, what to call the club,
website, and domain name? We certainly still played historical
wargames, but we were in no way a purely historical club. As we
had collected nearly all of the former Triple J Hobbies
clientele as members, we had also collected their diverse
interest in gaming. Many of the members of our group fully
enjoyed playing other genres of miniature gaming including,
science fiction, fantasy, pseudo-historicals, and others. Not to
mention some forays into card games, role playing games, and
even back into board games.
We felt, after much discussion, that
a new name for the club/group was needed to reflect what we
really are, a wargaming club. So, with the launch of this
website a new name was chosen, the Las Vegas Wargamers.
Las Vegas Wargamers, to get together
with friends and game together. “You name it, we game it!”
Tom Adams
President
Las Vegas Wargamers
Club Officers:
President: Tom Adams
President Emeritus: Joe Sudek
Vice President Garage Gaming: Dan Tuziak
Vice President Public Gaming: Jason Coffey
Vice President Youth Gaming: Nolan St. John
Secretary: Frank Buehren
Webmaster: Aaron Christensen
Political Officer: Alexander Nishikawa
Ambassador at Large: Ted Pawlowski
Club Staff:
Event Coordinator: Tom Adams & Jason Coffey
Bling Coordinator: Frank Buehren
GUTSHOT Coordinator: Michael "Motormouth" Connley
Battletech Coordinator: Greg "Dr. Death" Dryanski
Warmachine Coordinator: Bill Harris (LOE)
Dark Age Coordinator: B.J. (LOE)
FOW Coordinator: Rick (LOE)
Boardgame Coordinator: John Wootress
Mongoose Coordinator: Jason Coffey
Historicals Coordinator: Dan Tuziak
Fantasy Coordinator: ???
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