NOVAG Events at GenCon 2023
Northern Virginia Gamers (NOVAG) is a miniatures & board gaming group based in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC. Members of NOVAG will be running a series of exciting miniatures events for our 25th year at GenCon!
Join us for convention favorites like Circus Magicus and Formula Waaaagh, which take fantasy chariot and sci-fi vehicle racing and inject violence, dirty tricks, mayhem, and fun!
If you like World War One dogfighting, join 72 players in a massive aerial dogfight in our St. Mihiel Megagame; learn to play Wings of Glory in the Battle of Arras event; or take on the pride of the German air fleet in an easy to play and fun game system!
If you like your action closer to the ground, try our Gladiators event, where treachery and clever tactics rule the day!
If zombies are your thing, we will be running five zombie events this year! All take place in Terre Haute, Indiana, in the midst of a major zombie apocalypse. As the ranks of the walking dead expand, will you survive?!
So if you’re a fan of dirty tricks, mayhem, beautifully painted miniatures and terrain, and fun, bring your sense of adventure and stop by one of our events! We bring the games and teach the rules, you bring the fun!
Details of our events
Our Events can be found in the GenCon registration system by searching for the keyword NOVAG (here), and they’re listed below (each with direct links to the event in GenCon’s registration system)
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Wings of Glory: The St. Mihiel Salient Megagame
HMN23ND231538
9am-1pm Saturday 8/5/2023
Up to 64 players
GMs: Art DeFilippo and Kimberly Gibson
Allied aircraft battle veteran German aviators in the skies over the St.Mihiel Salient. Take a miniature WW1 aircraft & sweep the skies of enemy planes in our 14th annual massive brawl in the sky!
On 11 Sep 1918, the American Expeditionary Force in France launches a massive offensive against the German-held St. Mihiel Salient in France. As artillery and ground forces assault the German fortifications, over 1400 American and Allied aircraft battle veteran German aviators in the skies over the battlefield. Each player will take an American, German, British, French, or Italian miniature aircraft, to sweep the skies of enemy planes. Join us for our 14th year of this massive brawl in the sky!
Wings of Glory: The Battle of Arras
HMN23ND231539
7pm-10pm Saturday 8/3/2023
Up to 12 players
GM: Art DeFilippo
Pilot a miniature World War One aircraft and downing your foes! Play as an ace pilot in the famed German Jasta 11, or as an intrepid allied pilot in the skies over Arras, France.
In April 1917, Germany’s “Knights of the Air” dominate the skies over the Arras Front. As these veterans of the famed Jasta 11 rack up an amazing 89 kills, allied leaders desperately try to neutralize these veteran German pilots. Join us in a free-wheeling brawl in the skies, piloting a beautifully painted miniature World War One aircraft. This event is an excellent introduction to the Wings of Glory system.
Wings of Glory: Giants of the Sky
HMN23ND231540
4pm-8pm Friday 8/4/2023
Up to 12 Players
GM: Art DeFilippo
Two Gotha G.V. bombers return from a night bombing mission over France. As the sun rises, allied fighters attack. Will the allies bring down the largest aircraft to fly in the Great War?
June 1918. Two Gotha G.V. bombers return from a night bombing mission over France. As the sun rises, a squadron of allied fighters attack. Will the allies bring down the largest aircraft to fly in the Great War? Join us in a deadly brawl in the skies, piloting a beautifully painted miniature World War One aircraft.
Gladiators: The Pit of the Spider Lords
NMN23ND231550
Fri 10am-2pm Fri 8/4/2023
Up to 12 Players
GM: Chris Gibson, Nicole Boothe
Battle with 28mm figures in a 3D arena, using a variety of weapons, heroes, creatures, clever maneuvers, and dirty tricks to win victory and freedom, or die to entertain the cruel arena masters.
The Pit of the Spider Lords is one of the deadliest arenas for fantasy gladiators. Can your team of gladiators best your opponents and win the coveted victor’s laurels, or will their bodies feed the dark creatures that lurk in the tunnels? Play with fantasy 28mm figures in a 3D battle arena, using a variety of weapons, heroes, creatures, clever maneuvers, and dirty tricks to slay your opponents and win victory.
Circus Magicus: The Drakwald
NMN23ND231551 Sat 11am-3pm
NMN23ND231552 Sat 4pm-8pm
GM: Steve Gibson
Up to 12 players
Join us for our 25th year of fantasy chariot racing at Gencon, hurtling through a dark, deadly forest. Use ramming, boarding, spells, beast attacks and dirty tricks to claim victory!
Join us for our 25th year of fantasy chariot racing at Gencon. The Drakwald is the oldest track in the Seven Kingdoms Circuit, and it shows. Parts of the track are overgrown, with narrow, twisting paths through the dense trees and undergrowth. Will your chariot find a path through the dark forest, dodging will o wisps, forest spirits, and the dreaded ents?! Use ramming, boarding, spells, beast attacks and trickery to secure victory and glory for your racing faction! This year we will have two simultaneous races around this unique track, allowing even more competitors to race without slowing the pace.
Formula Waaaaagh! Da Big Race!
NMN23ND231546
10am-2pm Sat 8/5/2023
Up to 8 players
GM: Drew Fargo
War Boss Throkk summons the fastest and most reckless racers from his ork tribes to the ruins of a captured Imperial capital. Each of the tribes has sent their best teams to race through the ruins of the city. Only the cleverest, most violent, and bloodthirsty will win the race and gain the favor of the Warboss. Kill and live, or crash and die!!!! 40k miniatures and simple racing and combat rules.
You know you’re the fastest. You know you’re the toughest. You know you’re cleverest. Can your Ork vehicle defeat your opponents in the most violent 40k Ork race in town! Join us to find out!
Formula Waaaaagh! Choppa Challenge!
NMN23ND231547
2pm-6pm Sat 8/5/2023
Up to 10 players
GM: Drew Fargo
War Boss Throkk has grown bored of buggy races, and wants to see more blood and mayhem. He summons the fastest and most reckless motorcycle, bike, and choppa racers from his ork tribes to race for his enjoyment. Each of the tribes has sent their best racer, but only the cleverest, most violent, and bloodthirsty will win the race and gain the favor of the Warboss. Use 40k miniatures and simple racing rules.
Join the fastest and most reckless Ork motorcycle, bike, and choppa drivers to race for victory…and mayhem…and violence! Use 40k miniatures and simple brutal and fun racing rules.
Ares Zombies: Office Space
NMN23ND231541 11am-3pm Fri 8/4/2023
NMN23ND231542 4pm-8pm Fri 8/4/2023
up to 10 players
GM: Brendan Mayhugh
“Ummmm, I’m gonna need you to come in this Saturday.” Your group of accountants from H division have been called in for an emergency budget meeting at your company’s office in Terre Haute, Indiana. As you discuss departmental budgets for fiscal year 2021, your meeting is interrupted by alarm bells and klaxons, and distant screams. With walking corpses shambling in from C wing, your only escape is through the research section. Can you navigate your way through the terrifying research complex to safety? Being an accountant at Umbrella Corporation doesn’t pay nearly enough for this stuff. Knowledge of the cinema classic a plus, dirty tricks awarded for extra pieces of flair!
A weekend budget meeting leads to horror at a secret Umbrella research complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. Can your group of accountants find crucial tools to escape the dead stalking the halls?
Ares Zombies: Evacuation
NMN23ND231543 9am-1pm Fri 8/4/2023
NMN23ND231544 Fri 1pm-5pm Fri 8/4/2023
Up to 10 players
GM’s Elizabeth Gibson, Bill Kinder
FEMA buses evacuate civilians to the nearby naval depot, taking your survivors through the zombie-infested streets of Terre Haute. What terrors will you face before you finally escape?
Terre Haute, Indiana. As defenses at the FEMA quarantine shelter at the university crumble, school buses are dispatched to take survivors to the evacuation center at the nearby Crane Naval Depot. Will your bus full of survivors travel safely through the bloody zombie-infested streets? And what is that grinding noise coming from the bus’ transmission?!
Ares Zombies: Surgical Strike
NMN23ND231545
8pm-11pm Friday 8/4/2023
Up to 10 players
GM: Steve Gibson
US Army Ranger are inserted into Terre Haute to sanitize the underground Umbrella laboratories and secure critical samples. Drop your elite soldiers into the heart of a zombie nightmare.
Terre Haute, Indiana. As military forces struggle to contain the Lazarus virus with a city-wide cordon, a team of elite Army Rangers are airlifted into a quiet residential area. Their mission? To find the auxiliary access shaft and enter the Umbrella Corporation’s secret underground laboratory, sterilize the labs, and secure critical lab samples. Will your Rangers find the samples and stave off the unthinkable?!
Starmada: Klingon Attack!
NMN23ND231548 10am-2pm Thursday 8/3/2023
NMN23ND231549 2pm-6pm Thursday 8/3/2023
A Klingon attack fleet approaches the Kindri Confederation homeworld. A Federation fleet arrives to help defeat the Klingon invaders. Learn the Starmada Nova edition rules using Star Fleet & GZG minis.
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