COW2009 Programme

Tim Gow, who shares the role of conference organiser for Wargame Development's COW (the Conference of Wargamers), sent me the programme of events for COW2009 last week, and I have taken it to the printers today. With luck I should be able to collect it tomorrow and post it out to attendees tomorrow evening.

The sessions on offer include:

Friday evening

• I thought I saw a putty cat – the plenary 'ice-breaker' game – Chris Ager and others
• Thirty Minute Solferino – Richard Brooks and Bob Cordery
• Sturmstaffel – WD Display Team North
• The Raiders – Tim Price
• Starship Strike – Jim Wallman

Saturday morning

• Trial by Battle – Graham Evans
• Tipperary Bbali Sana Sana – Wayne Thomas and David Brock
• Future Generation Experience – Michael Young
• AK-47 – Martin Goddard and Rob Roriston
• Anatomy of Game Mechanisms – Jim Wallman

Saturday afternoon

• Middle Aged Spread – Ian Drury and Richard Brooks
• Sharp End – Phil Barker
• The Campaign Game – Tim Price
• Washington's Army – Martin Goddard and Rob Roriston
• Napoleonic Army Level Game 1813 – Jim Wallman
• Feet to the Fire – John Bassett
• Airsoft battle – Tim Gow, Bob Cordery, and Martin Rapier

Saturday evening

• Falklands Islands Task Force Commander – John Curry
• The East is ... er ... sort of sandy colour – Graham Evans
• The General – Tim Price
• Supporting Reconstruction – Martin Rapier and John Armatys
• HMS Belfast Damage Control – Jim Wallman
• Rubicon – John Bassett

Sunday morning

• Moltke’s only defeat – Nezib and the Second Syrian War – Nick Huband
• Eastern Front 1914 – Bob Bowman
• Name that trouser – Nick Drage
• Somme Trench Assault – Jim Wallman
• A Potted History of Wargaming – John Curry
• Fire So Close You Are Splashed By His Blood – David Bradbury
• Anglo-Ghurka War 1814 – Jim Wallman

Sunday afternoon

• John Bassett's America – John Bassett
• A Transitional War – Italy 1859 – Richard Brooks
• Recce II – John Curry
• The Wargame Developments AGM