TRTA 2020 Part Deux: Thank God for David Ensteness.
David who? Slow down, kid, we'll get there. When we left off with our last installment of Road to Adepticon, Mike and I had finalized our plans for the two games we would run at the 2020 convention – A World War II naval action based on a hypothetical scenario with the U.S. going to war with Japan in 1937 after the Panay Incident, and a huge Team Yankee game re-imagining Operation Market-Garden in 1985. Ambitious plans, but we felt that because we were starting early in the year there would be no problems. For a time we were right. For a time. The first few weeks we got things sorted out as far as what forces we wanted to use for our games, what models we already owned, and what we would need to purchase. The naval game was pretty easy. Even though it's a hypothetical scenario, we would still be limited by the ships that were available to both sides in 1937. Mike, being a naval history enthusiast, already owned most of the American ships we would need. I would be s
