2024 Game Directory
Arena of Blood
In Arena of Blood, you are the proud owner of a gladiator school, with a stable of gladiators, all with different fighting techniques and abilities.
Careful use of your fighters is crucial. Each gladiator has strengths and weaknesses.
Pit your gladiators against your rivals in the Arena of Blood! Matches are quick.
This is a fun start to your weekend. Play a match, say hello and get ready to play some great wargames.
Rules: Arena of Blood Scale: 28mm
Period/Genre: Gladiator
Game Master: Jaye Wiley
Hometown: Independence, MO
Session: 01 FRI 04:00 pm- 07:00 pm
02 FRI 07:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Blood & Plunder
18 men all stiff and stark,
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
All of them touched by the murder’s mark,
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
There they lay, aye, damn me eyes.
All lookouts clapped on Paradise,
And all souls bound contrary-wise.
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
Join us in nautical adventure. See who can out-sail and out-fight their opponent. We’ll teach the game.
New gamers and young gamers welcome.
Rules: Blood & Plunder Scale: 28mm
Period/Genre: Golden Age of Piracy
Game Master: Matthew Shirley
Hometown: Raymore, MO
Session: 01 FRI 04:00 pm- 07:00 pm
02 FRI 07:30 pm – 10:30 pm
55 Minutes in Peking
This historical epic dramatizes the Battle of Peking, a turning point of the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900. When Dowager Empress Tzu-Hsi orders the Boxers, a group of Chinese secret societies, to massacre foreigners within China, a group of ambassadors, their families and staff hole up in a diplomatic compound. The United States Marine Corps leads the defense.
Rules: Homebrew Scale: 28mm
Period/Genre: Colonial
Game Master: Phil Hartman
Hometown: Jefferson City, MO
Session: 02 FRI 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Fifteen Martians at Rorkestoum!
Defend the German mission on Mars from an assault from allied Martian forces! A British relief column rushes against time to aid the embattled Krauts and civilian settlers!
Six players battle it out for glory and renown!
Rules: Bigger Battles Scale: 28mm
Period/Genre: Victorian Sci-Fi
Game Master: McMurray
Hometown: St. Louis, MO
Session: 02 FRI 07:30 pm – 10:30 pm
03 SAT 09:00 am – Noon
In the Fields of Provence
After Operation Dragoon, the amphibious assault of Southern France by the Allies in August and September of 1944, the German army institutes a fighting withdrawal up the Rhone River Valley toward the city of Montelimar.
Can the Germans hold back the Allied advances long enough to escape? Or will the Allies make the breakthrough needed to get past the German rear guard and bring the enemy closer to surrender?
Rules: What A Tanker Scale: 15mm
Period/Genre: World War II
Game Master: Chris Arnold
Hometown: Pleasant Hill, IL
Session: 01 FRI 04:00 pm- 07:00 pm
02 FRI 07:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Choas in Old Town!
At the center of Old Town a battle has erupted at the rumor of a hidden unclaimed cache of technology and supplies. Gangs converge and lead flies.
Rules: Wasteland Warriors Scale: 28mm
Period/Genre: Post Apocalypse
Game Master: Kenneth Boone
Hometown: Independence, MO
Session: 01 FRI 04:00 pm- 07:00 pm
02 FRI 07:30 pm – 10:30 pm 03 SAT 09:00 am – 12:00 pm
We Who Are About To Die
Friends, Romans, countrymen…lend me your ears! The Provincial Governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus has decreed the munera are opened. The games are finally here! Make your way now to the Circus Marcus Sommernus, for the chariot races are about to begin!!
The year is 59 AD and the Quinquatria Festival is in full swing in Camulodunum, Britannia (present day Colchester, England). Camulodunum, being the capital of Roman Britannia, is holding a spectacular series of games, including chariot racing in the circus.
What faction’s colors will you wear…the Greens, Blues, Whites or Reds? Put yourself in a Roman racing chariot and feel the ground shake beneath you as the horses’ hooves thunder down the length of the track. Your heart feels like it will explode from your chest as you sling your chariot team around the central spine of the track!! Push your horses hard and win the race. But mind your speed in the turns. Crashing a chariot is dangerous to your health!
Each player will control a racing chariot team and be provided a bag of coins to place bets!
A Day at the Circus-Chariot Racing in Ancient Rome will use the “We, Who Are About to Die” game system from DGS Games. All miniatures and materials provided.
Rules: We Who Are About To Die Scale: 28mm
Period/Genre: Gladiator
Game Master: Merle Delinger
Hometown: Independence, MO
Session: 02 FRI 07:30 pm – 10:30 pm
03 SAT 09:00 am – 12:00 pm
Last Action Heroes
This was a blast at Wiley Wargames Weekend! Back by popular demand!
Your favorite action stars from tv and film have been plucked from the Last Action Heroes video store and dropped in an arena of death!
Choose your action stars wisely. They will do battle with each other through a series of dangerous worlds. Who will be the last action here left?
Will you bring home the award? Who will have a sequel? Who will be kind and rewind? Who will be the LAST ACTION HEROES?
Rules: Fistful of Lead Scale: 28mm
Period/Genre: Pulp
Game Master: Steve Willaredt
Hometown: Kansas City, MO
Session: 03 SAT 09:00 am – 12:00 pm
Battle of Cape Matapan
It is late March 1941, and the code breakers at Bletchley Park have made a break through in decoding an intercepted coded message from the Italian navy. The Italians are planning to attack convoys transporting troops and material to Greece. The British navy sends an aircraft carrier, three battleships and several light cruisers and destroyers to fend off the Italian force made up of a battleship, several heavy and light cruisers, escorted by various destroyers. Will the British get the convoys safely to the Greek coast, or can the Italians keep them from delivering the goods needed to help Greece win their freedom from the Axis powers.
Rules: Ocean Thunder Scale: 1/6000
Period/Genre: World War II_
Game Master: Chris Arnold
Hometown: Pleasant Hill, IL
Session: 03 SAT 09:00 am – 12:00 pm
Them Woods is Scary!
Lead a patrol into the dense and gloomy woods of North America in 1759 as the British and their colonial allies drive into the heart of New France. . . or defend that heart as the French with their colonial and Native allies.
Rules: Muskets & Tomahawks Scale: 54mm
Period/Genre: French & Indian War
Game Master: Chris Cluckey
Hometown: Overland Park, KS
Session: 03 SAT 09:00 am – 12:00 pm,
04 SAT 12:30 pm – 03:30 pm
Escape From Terror Island!
A collection of the world’s most famous adventurers have been brought to the mysterious Terror Island. A timeless world full of secrets, dangers, treasures, monsters, but most of all…death! Is there hope for our adventures to finally escape and return to their own worlds?
Find out if you dare!
Rules: Fistful of Lead Scale: 28mm
Period/Genre: Pulp
Game Master: Steve Willaredt
Hometown: Kansas City, MO
Session: 04 SAT 12:30 pm – 03:30 pm
Zombiecide Invader
Set in the dawn of a new space age, zenium, a special fuel with outstanding properties, has been discovered on a distand planet called PK-L7. Miners were drilling deep when something happened. The zenos, an alien species thought to be peaceful, turned against them. Zombie like infected zenos attacked!
The few survivors left after the onslaught fight on.
Fight of zombie aliens and try to survive.
Rules: Zombiecide Scale: 28mm
Period/Genre: Future
Game Master: Gregory Finch
Hometown: Hiawatha, IA
Session: 04 SAT 12:30 pm – 03:30 pm
May 8, 1846 Battle of Palo Alto
General Zachary Taylor, on his way to relieve the besieged Fort Brown, encounters General Arista’s Army of the North blocking his path.
Rules: Fire and Fury Regimental Scale: 15mm
Period/Genre: Mexican American War
Game Master: Kevin Rounsaville
Hometown: Merriam, KS
Session: 04 SAT 12:30 pm – 03:30 pm
Hue 1968
The Tet Offensive has rocked South Vietnam. The cultural hub of Hue City has fallen to communist forces.
Command your ragtag fire team of US marines in this cooperative hidden information scenario as you drive the North Vietnamese from the historic urban sprawl.
Rules: Modified FiveCore Scale: 54mm
Period/Genre: Vietnam
Game Master: Reece Crawford
Hometown: Bentonville, AR
Session: 04 SAT 12:30 pm – 03:30 pm
05 SAT 04:00 pm – 07:00 pm
The Great Goblin Games
Whenever an old Goblin King dies (which is often) the Great Goblin Games are held to decide a new king. Help one clan or another win and choose their chief as king.
Six different events.
Each under 30 minutres so players can come and go.
Rules: Various Scale: 28mm
Period/Genre: Fantasy
Game Master: Jaye Wiley
Hometown: Independence, MO
Session: SAT 30 Minute Mini Games
Players are free to come and go.
Live Free or Die
In the aftermath of Gettysburg, Lee’s army is pinned against the east bank of the Potomac, bottlenecked through a makeshift pontoon bridge at Falling Waters.
Henry Heth’s battered division must attempt a rearguard action against Slocum’s 12th Corps. See if you can gain a better result than Pleasanton’s historic cavalry action!
Rules: Live Free or Die Scale: 15mm
Period/Genre: American Civil War
Game Master: McMurray
Hometown: St. Louis, MO
Session: 04 SAT 12:30 pm – 03:30 pm
Four Player Napoleonics
Each player will control half a division US Army vs British (Scots). An imaged pinched battle set during the war of 1812. Can the still new country of America fight off the British Empire or will Britain bring it’s wayward colony back into the fold. Will the second war of independence be a draw again or can you rewrite history? We will use Bigger Battles with a variation changing a unit’s traits based on their formation.
Rules: Bigger Battles Scale: 15mm
Period/Genre: War of 1812
Game Master: Lewis Johnson
Hometown: Lawrence, KS
Session: 05 SAT 04:00 pm – 07:00 pm