by Dragoon Commander, 7 May 2025
Our Wargame HQ is exploding! We’ve gone from 60-odd events to nearly 100 to over 170 across the past 3 years. Here’s a look at what’s on tap for this year’s Wargame HQ
You can find all of these events at the Origins registration site, and get your badge and event tickets. Note that a bunch of these are already sold out! We’ve got folks looking for some great wargaming and love slinging dice with us, so you need to jump on them as soon as you can. Here’s the alpha list of our events, with descriptions, event numbers and the date/time for that specific game.
As always, we try to offer most games multiple times to allow for greater flexibility in managing your schedules.
#Maneuver Warfare
This deck construction-style game explores the complexities of modern and future war. Attack and defend in the land, air, sea, space and information domains, and destroy your enemy’s reservoir of will before they destroy yours!
Duration: 120 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5091 held Wednesday at 3:00 PM
- Event #5072 held Thursday at 10:00 AM
- Event #5119 held Friday at 2:00 PM
- Event #5052 held Friday at 5:00 PM
- Event #4994 held Saturday at 11:00 AM
300 – Earth & Water
In 500 BC, Ionia rebelled against Persia’s rule and Greece supported it. With this “foreign interference” as an excuse, the Persian empire decided to invade Greece. In 492 BC the Persian forces attacked Macedonia from land and sea.
Duration: 120 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5105 held Thursday at 5:00 PM
- Event #5108 held Thursday at 8:00 PM
- Event #5065 held Friday at 9:00 AM
- Event #4977 held Saturday at 5:00 PM
This is part of our comprehensive coverage of The 2025 Origins Game Fair from GAMA
You can find the links to all published articles at the end of each one
A More Perfect Union
Simulates the public debate over the ratification of the US Constitution from 1787-1789
Duration: 120 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5011 held Thursday at 1:00 PM
- Event #5095 held Friday at 9:00 AM
- Event #5081 held Saturday at 9:00 AM
Alliance
Alliance is the game of diplomacy and conflict set in the Napoleonic era using the esteemed Columbia Block System.
Duration: 240 minutes for 7 players
- Event #5003 held Wednesday at 5:00 PM
- Event #5082 held Thursday at 1:00 PM
Armies & Alliances Arnhem ’44
Re-fight the whole battle from the initial airborne drops to the final showdown between the II SS Panzer Corps and Allied XXX Corps in this sprawling maps-&-minis game
(Note: this one’s actually a 5-player game, so we can take one more person on a first-come/first-served basis)
Duration: 240 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5129 held Thursday at 2:00 PM
Bagration
Take charge of the Russian summer offensive of 1944 against the German Army Group Center
Duration: 60 minutes for 2 players
- Event #5092 held Thursday at 11:00 AM
- Event #4995 held Friday at 11:00 AM
- Event #4979 held Friday at 4:00 PM
- Event #5044 held Friday at 4:00 PM
- Event #5053 held Saturday at 11:00 AM
- Event #5066 held Saturday at 3:00 PM
Battles in the East (Learn & Play)
2-player series of games on WWII East Front battles. This event will focus on Mius River 1943 (entire series will be available to play). Your Learn & Play host will review game play in detail, walking you through the first turns of a game, then coaching as you continue playing
Duration: 180 minutes for 6 players
- Event #5030 held Thursday at 12:00 PM
- Event #5073 held Friday at 3:00 PM
- Event #5106 held Saturday at 12:00 PM
Blue & Gray (Learn & Play)
2-player series of American Civil War battles. This event will begin with Shiloh, and participants can then play any of the eight games. Your Learn & Play host will review the game play in detail, walking you through the first turns of a game, then coaching as you continue playing
Duration: 180 minutes for 6 players
- Event #5021 held Thursday at 3:00 PM
- Event #4988 held Friday at 12:00 PM
- Event #5012 held Saturday at 3:00 PM
Campaigns in Europe (Learn & Play)
Campaigns in Europe is a 2-player series of European campaigns. This event will focus on the 1941 Leningrad campaign (entire series will be available to play). Your Learn & Play host will review game play in detail, walking through the first turns of a game, then coaching as you continue playing
Duration: 180 minutes for 6 players
- Event #5013 held Thursday at 6:00 PM
- Event #5037 held Friday at 6:00 PM
- Event #5113 held Saturday at 9:00 AM
Combat Commander
The WW2 squad-combat classic where hand management is a must for battlefield success
Duration: 180 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5120 held Wednesday at 5:00 PM
- Event #4980 held Thursday at 3:00 PM
Commands & Colors Ancients
Re-fight epic battles of the ancient world with this classic of swords-and-sandals warfare
Duration: 180 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5130 held Thursday at 3:00 PM
- Event #5131 held Thursday at 7:00 PM
- Event #5033 held Friday at 9:00 AM
- Event #5109 held Saturday at 3:00 PM
- Event #5055 held Sunday at 9:00 AM
Congress of Vienna
Become the leading European power at the end of the Napoleonic Wars by employing a wise combination of negotiation and resources
Duration: 240 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5022 held Saturday at 10:00 AM
Crisis 1914
Crisis: 1914 is a game of international brinkmanship – if you back down too soon, you lose. If you back down too late you lose.
Duration: 240 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5048 held Friday at 12:00 PM
Cross Bronx Expressway
It simulates the socio-economic processes of urban development, and the human costs that result, as a competitive city-builder with collective loss conditions. Players control one of three asymmetric factions working in the South Bronx between 1940 and 2000, pursuing their own goals while cooperating to keep the borough viable
Duration: 180 minutes for 3 players
- Event #5054 held Thursday at 7:00 PM
Drive on Stalingrad (Learn & Play)
Drive on Stalingrad is a 2-player game of the 1942 East Front campaign to capture the Caucasus oilfields and Stalingrad. Your Learn & Play host will review the game play in detail, walking you through the first turns of a game, then coaching as you continue playing
Duration: 180 minutes for 6 players
- Event #5097 held Thursday at 3:00 PM
- Event #5146 held Thursday at 6:00 PM
First Monday in October
Experience over 200 years of U.S. Supreme Court history in an afternoon with this new historical strategy game!
Duration: 180 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5006 held Thursday at 10:00 AM
- Event #5036 held Thursday at 1:00 PM
- Event #5123 held Friday at 1:00 PM
- Event #4987 held Friday at 4:00 PM
- Event #5085 held Saturday at 10:00 AM
- Event #5132 held Saturday at 1:00 PM
Forlorn Hope (WW1 Trench Warfare)
Wharf Rat Games Presents a prototype for a WWI Trench Warfare game from award winning designer Hermann Luttmann.
Duration: 120 minutes for 4 players
- Event #4998 held Thursday at 3:00 PM
- Event #5077 held Thursday at 9:00 PM
- Event #5018 held Friday at 3:00 PM
- Event #5027 held Saturday at 9:00 AM
- Event #4989 held Saturday at 12:00 PM
- Event #5147 held Saturday at 6:00 PM
Gest of Robin Hood
This ICS game from GMT pits the hero of legend against the Sheriff as both vie for asymmetric goals in medieval England
Duration: 180 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5058 held Thursday at 7:00 PM
- Event #5144 held Friday at 9:00 AM
- Event #5101 held Saturday at 9:00 AM
Grab the Pigs & Run! (7YW)
Silesia 1757 – Austrian and Prussian armies have been maneuvering to gain an advantage. Supplies are getting scare. Each army sends out foraging parties that stumble across each other near a lone farmstead. Which side will be able to grab and escape with the most livestock and grain.
Duration: 180 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5067 held Friday at 10:00 AM
- Event #5116 held Friday at 4:00 PM
Halls of Montezuma
The new historical game of the USMC operations in Mexico in the 19th century will give players a unique insight into this seldom-gamed conflict
Duration: 180 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5126 held Thursday at 4:00 PM
- Event #5133 held Friday at 4:00 PM
- Event #4984 held Saturday at 10:00 AM
Hearts & Minds 1965 to 1975
An uncomplicated approach to a very complicated conflict; card-driven, area-based design with low counter density and a much simplified combat system
Duration: 180 minutes for 4 players
- Event #4999 held Thursday at 8:00 PM
- Event #5150 held Saturday at 10:00 AM
Hell Raisers of Kanawha County
Playtest a prototype of Hell Raisers in Kanawha County – snappy board game about the labor movement in WV at the start of the 20th century. Play as a coal company operator seeking profit or as the labor movement demanding union recognition in this highly interactive, competitive game.
Duration: 60 minutes for 3 players
- Event #5059 held Thursday at 2:00 PM
- Event #5099 held Thursday at 4:00 PM
- Event #5086 held Friday at 2:00 PM
- Event #5007 held Friday at 4:00 PM
Holland ’44
Battalion-level game of the Allies’ combined ground and airborne attack in the Netherlands during WWII, which was code named Operation Market-Garden
Duration: 240 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5000 held Wednesday at 4:00 PM
- Event #5049 held Thursday at 9:00 AM
- Event #5034 held Friday at 2:00 PM
- Event #5078 held Saturday at 9:00 AM
Hunt for Blackbeard
Pits two players against one another as hunter and hunted in a fast-moving game of detection, deception, and confrontation
Duration: 60 minutes for 4 players
- Event #4985 held Friday at 10:00 AM
- Event #5134 held Friday at 11:00 AM
- Event #4990 held Saturday at 5:00 PM
In The Shadows
New from GMT! Espionage and intrigue in WW2 unfold in this fast-playing card game
Duration: 120 minutes for 2 players
(Note: these sold out really fast, but we’ll have a 2nd copy of the game and can 2 concurrent games on a first-come/first-served basis for 2 add’l players in each session)
- Event #5096 held Thursday at 9:00 AM
- Event #5060 held Thursday at 12:00 PM
- Event #5070 held Friday at 2:00 PM
- Event #5117 held Saturday at 1:00 PM
- Event #5015 held Saturday at 4:00 PM
Kriegsspiel
The iconic, original double-blind Kriegsspiel is back, with players only able to see and affect their small slice of the battlefield as they war rages around them
Duration: 240 minutes for 12 players
- Event #5028 held Thursday at 6:00 PM
- Event #5111 held Friday at 10:00 AM
- Event #5016 held Saturday at 3:00 PM
Line of Fire – Burnt Moon
A group of black-hat hackers known as POSIWID plots to hijack the moon, Io, and hold the entire Jovian power grid to ransom. Standing in their way are the ultra-corporate LFA, the constructors of the lunar energy facilities.
Duration: 120 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5038 held Wednesday at 5:00 PM
- Event #5142 held Friday at 9:00 AM
Littoral Commander – Baltic
LC: Baltic is a sandbox game for two sides to explore future conflict in the Baltic Sea region between the US and Russia, emphasizing the importance of combined arms and logistics.
Duration: 180 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5135 held Thursday at 4:00 PM
- Event #5124 held Friday at 9:00 AM
- Event #5098 held Saturday at 6:00 PM
- Event #5004 held Sunday at 9:00 AM
Littoral Commander – Space Force
Defend and attack as invaders descend onto Earth, Mars, Ceres, or the Moon in Littoral Commander: Space Force.
Duration: 180 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5051 held Wednesday at 6:00 PM
- Event #5031 held Thursday at 9:00 AM
- Event #5023 held Friday at 6:00 PM
- Event #5061 held Sunday at 9:00 AM
Lyran Space- A Federation Space Game
Strategic empire-building and exploration in the classic Star Trek universe
Duration: 240 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5074 held Thursday at 10:00 AM
- Event #5041 held Thursday at 4:00 PM
- Event #4981 held Friday at 9:00 AM
- Event #5043 held Friday at 6:00 PM
- Event #4996 held Saturday at 9:00 AM
- Event #5148 held Saturday at 2:00 PM
Major’s Gambit
Built for a course on decision-making under pressure, Major’s Gambit cooks modern division-level combat down to its basics, and then runs turns as fast as possible.
Duration: 240 minutes for 8 players
- Event #5087 held Thursday at 12:00 PM
- Event #5136 held Friday at 6:00 PM
- Event #5121 held Saturday at 9:00 AM
Meltwater
Meltwater is a tactical game of starvation for 2 players. Each player commands either the U.S. or U.S.S.R. forces and attempts to cull or muster the remnants of humanity as the ice continues to shrink in this alternative timeline of nuclear events.
Duration: 120 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5149 held Wednesday at 2:00 PM
- Event #5071 held Thursday at 9:00 AM
- Event #5039 held Friday at 7:00 PM
- Event #5019 held Saturday at 5:00 PM
Microverse
Microverse is a fast-playing, card-driven space 4x game. Players will guide their civilizations from humble beginnings on a single planet to galaxy spanning empires fighting over choice planets.
Duration: 180 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5024 held Thursday at 3:00 PM
- Event #5062 held Friday at 8:00 AM
- Event #5046 held Saturday at 6:00 PM
Operation Typhoon (Learn & Play)
Operation Typhoon is a 2-player game of the 1941 East Front campaign to capture Moscow. Your Learn & Play host will review the game play in detail, walking you through the first turns of a game, then coaching as you continue playing
Duration: 180 minutes for 6 players
- Event #5075 held Friday at 3:00 PM
- Event #5009 held Friday at 6:00 PM
Over The Rhine (Learn & Play)
Over the Rhine is a 2-player game of WWII Operation Market-Garden. This event will focus on the airborne drops and 30 Corps’ initial breakthrough. Your Learn & Play host will review the game play in detail, walking you through the first turns of a game, then coaching as you continue playing
Duration: 180 minutes for 6 players
- Event #5083 held Thursday at 12:00 PM
- Event #4991 held Friday at 9:00 AM
- Event #5137 held Friday at 12:00 PM
- Event #5114 held Saturday at 3:00 PM
- Event #4978 held Saturday at 6:00 PM
Patria Libre
Mexican revolution between 1810-21 played as a CDG area control game.
Duration: 180 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5127 held Thursday at 1:00 PM
- Event #5103 held Friday at 9:00 AM
- Event #5063 held Saturday at 9:00 AM
PicoArmor Panzerblitz
Smaller minis – bigger battles! We take the classic PanzerBlitz game, and make a stunning 3D romp with our full-table minis battlefield
Duration: 180 minutes for 6 players
- Event #5093 held Wednesday at 5:00 PM
- Event #5010 held Thursday at 9:00 AM
- Event #4986 held Thursday at 6:00 PM
- Event #5088 held Saturday at 11:00 AM
- Event #4992 held Saturday at 5:00 PM
Plum Island Horror
Plum Island is a sprawling isle off the Carolina coast and is home to the vibrant seaside town of Greenport, which also hosts the Plum Island Research Laboratory (PIRL) run by scientists who conducted government-sponsored biological research and experimentation. Legally, of course!
Duration: 180 minutes for 6 players
- Event #5138 held Friday at 5:00 PM
- Event #4997 held Saturday at 8:00 AM
Polar Vortex
Putin himself has claimed that Russia reserves the right to “protect” the rights & interests of Russians & Russian property anywhere in the world, & includes those in Alaska.Taking this vital economic resource would be a highly prized military objective, & one that is vital for the US to defend.
Duration: 120 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5050 held Friday at 11:00 AM
Quartermaster General 1914
World War I, The Great War, was marked by technological achievement, romance, and the transition to the modern era. Play it out in 2 hours on this oversized map table
Duration: 120 minutes for 6 players
- Event #5064 held Friday at 1:00 PM
- Event #5115 held Friday at 4:00 PM
- Event #5035 held Friday at 7:00 PM
- Event #5128 held Saturday at 9:00 AM
Rebels Against Rebellion
Join designer David Thompson for a demo of his co-designed game, Rebels Against Rebellion. This is a card-driven wargame about guerrilla warfare in the Civil War. The game focuses on Scott County, TN, where Southern Loyalists fought the Confederate army & their pro-secession guerrilla allies
Duration: 120 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5104 held Thursday at 6:00 PM
- Event #5110 held Saturday at 3:00 PM
Red Dragon/Green Crescent (Learn & Play)
Red Dragon/Green Crescent is a 2-player game of hypothetical conflict in the Indo-Pacific region. This event will focus on an Indo-Pakistani scenario. Your Learn & Play host will review the game play in detail, walking you through the first turns of a game, then coaching as you continue playing
Duration: 180 minutes for 6 players
- Event #5020 held Thursday at 9:00 AM
- Event #5025 held Thursday at 12:00 PM
Red Dust Rebellion
A COIN system game that tells the story of the Martian revolts of the 2250’s and the rise of Martian nationalism
Duration: 240 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5100 held Thursday at 9:00 AM
- Event #5068 held Friday at 12:00 PM
- Event #5040 held Saturday at 12:00 PM
SADR City
Urban fight for hearts and minds in Baghdad, prototype using Zurmat system
Duration: 120 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5076 held Saturday at 1:00 PM
Septembers Eagles
A acrd-driven game that recreates the excitement of the Golden Age of Air Racing.
Duration: 120 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5089 held Saturday at 1:00 PM
Seven Days to the Rhine (Learn & Play)
Seven Days to the Rhine is a 2-player game of 1980’s hypothetical conflict in Europe. This event will be a full five-map campaign game. Your Learn & Play host will review the game play in detail, walking you through the first turns of a game, then coaching as you continue playing
Duration: 180 minutes for 6 players
- Event #5139 held Saturday at 9:00 AM
- Event #5122 held Saturday at 12:00 PM
Shakespeare’s First Folio
Players take the role of printers in the early Seventeenth Century competing to print the first folio of Shakespeare’s plays
Duration: 60 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5005 held Thursday at 10:00 AM
- Event #5042 held Thursday at 11:00 AM
- Event #4982 held Saturday at 4:00 PM
Song for War – Allied Invasion of Italy
WW2 1943, players take command of Allied and Axis forces as the nations of Great Britain and the US attempt to break Germany’s hold on Italy. Fast play, unique mechanics
Duration: 180 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5045 held Friday at 6:00 PM
- Event #5056 held Saturday at 9:00 AM
Song for War – Battle for North Africa
WW2 1942, Command forces across air, sea, and land as Monty and the Allies square off against Rommel and the Axis for control of North Africa. Fast play, unique mechanics
Duration: 180 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5026 held Wednesday at 4:00 PM
- Event #5143 held Thursday at 10:00 AM
- Event #4993 held Sunday at 9:00 AM
Stalingrad Roads
covering the 1942-43 winter campaign on the Soviet South Front. The game begins with the outbreak of the Uranus offensive in late November 1942 and ends with Manstein’s counter-attack in March 1943
Duration: 180 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5047 held Thursday at 1:00 PM
- Event #5140 held Thursday at 6:00 PM
- Event #5032 held Saturday at 1:00 PM
- Event #5118 held Saturday at 5:00 PM
Star Fleet Battles
tactical Starship combat set in the classic Star Trek universe
Duration: 360 minutes for 6 players
- Event #5125 held Friday at 10:00 AM
- Event #5145 held Saturday at 4:00 PM
The Von Moltke Problem
A more collaborative approach to a traditional Kriegsspiel that retains the double-blind nature of the fog of war, but has players operating as a team rather than individually
Duration: 180 minutes for 8 players
- Event #5001 held Wednesday at 3:00 PM
True Command
Division command and command post management in the opening days of Barbarossa WW2.
This game was one of the hits of our ACDC back in January!
Duration: 120 minutes for 4 players
- Event #4983 held Thursday at 9:00 AM
- Event #5014 held Thursday at 3:00 PM
- Event #5029 held Friday at 12:00 PM
- Event #5112 held Friday at 12:00 PM
- Event #5102 held Saturday at 3:00 PM
Twilight Struggle (w/ the Designer!)
Come play the Cold War confrontation classic, with one of the designers as the GM!
Duration: 180 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5017 held Wednesday at 5:00 PM
- Event #5057 held Friday at 6:00 PM
Votes for Women
a card-driven game covering the American women’s suffrage movement from 1848-1920, culminating with the ratification (or rejection) of the Nineteenth Amendment
Duration: 120 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5094 held Thursday at 4:00 PM
- Event #5069 held Friday at 10:00 AM
- Event #5090 held Saturday at 4:00 PM
We Are Coming Nineveh
The Iraqi government campaign to liberate the western area of the city of Mosul from the forces of Daesh in 2017
Duration: 180 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5141 held Wednesday at 4:00 PM
- Event #5079 held Thursday at 9:00 AM
- Event #5008 held Sunday at 9:00 AM
Zurmat II
Zurmat pits the Taliban versus the Coalition, as players secretly add influence or decoys each turn, then taking an action that gets stronger the longer you wait, trying to win over the most tiles before the game ends
Duration: 120 minutes for 4 players
- Event #5084 held Thursday at 9:00 AM
- Event #5080 held Friday at 2:00 PM
- Event #5002 held Friday at 2:00 PM
- Event #5107 held Saturday at 1:00 PM
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