Southern Front 2025

Brant Guillory, 24 September 2025

Every September, the Triangle Simulation Society hosts Southern Front, their annual minis convention for the local wargaming community, that’ll regularly bring in players from all around the Carolinas, as well as Southern Virginia and occasionally even Washington DC.

As we’ve done a few times over the years (2022, 2023), we popped in for some photos, a video or two, and a quick chat with some of the players.

A couple of local Dragoons join the Southern Front fun on a regular basis, and we always include them in our convention listings.

Walking around on Friday night we were able to get some photos of a couple of different games, but don’t ask us for the names of everything because some were home-brewed, some were hacked from existing games, and some we didn’t interrupt.

as always, you can click images to enlarge

This was the Regimental Fire & Fury game that Richard mentioned above, with a fictitious scenario in the wilderness in 1864.  The Confederates approaching down the lane were a fun flanking approach that made for some good photos.

This was a US vs Japan naval shootout in WW2, with each player controlling a ship and Japanese torpedoes making a mess out of the US fleet.

This was a bronze-age game with heavy mythological overtones, as the gods themselves were the large figures walking amongst the columns.  It wrapping up as we were walking by and the game was breaking down by the time we got back to the table to ask about it.  Yes, those are beer bottles.

This SAS raid on a German outpost involved a lot of fog of war, hence the spotting tokens everywhere.

you can still click images to enlarge

This was a set of old western gunfighter-style rules hacked together for a modern shootout, with a bag of money and a brick of drugs in the middle, and various dealers, gangs, mercenaries, and police all trying to get to it, and survive.

One of the players told us the name of this 15mm battle, and I brain-dumped within 10 seconds, sorry.

There was an actual old west shootout going on, too, with a train, stagecoach, and plenty of mustaches.

The craziest game we saw, though, was the Nazi zeppelin helicarrier with pterodactyl-mounted autocannons facing off against a bunch of eagle-mounted US machine guns, supported by jet-pack infantry, and a horde of flying monkeys that came from a cave on Mybutt Island.  No, we didn’t make any of that up.

There were a couple of other stray games, including an Irish rebellion game with a disappointing-looking map, hunting the Bismarck, and even a board game that had just wrapped up

And finally, the raffle at Southern Front includes all manner of donated items from the attendees, including painted minis, books, games¹, terrain, and more

We were live for a while, with a tripod mounted camera we moved around a bit and tried to get you some good footage without getting in anyone’s way.  As late as we were there on Friday, though, none of the vendors were open except Ken Ellis’ table of boardgames, and that was mainly because he was in the flying-monkeys-vs-nazi-pterodactyls game.

And the info for Southern Front 2026 is already available!

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