Welcome to my page about my gaming group, HAWKs
The gaming group I game with is called HAWKs, short for Harford Area Weekly Kreigsspeilers. We meet on alternate Thursday nights in the church hall of St. George's Parish, Perryman, Maryland. This is in Harford County, just Northeast of Baltimore, near the US Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground.
We are not a club, by design. We have no officers, no rules, no dues and no organization. We operate by mutual agreement. This is intended to help avoid conflicts, and it seems to work!
The group formed about 1995, when one member taught a non-credit course on wargaming, looking for other gamers. The the group started with about 5 members, and has grown to over two dozen 'members', with from 10 to 18 showing up for a meeting night. We generally run two games each meeting night, but we run from 24 to 35 games over two days at either of the two major historical miniatures gaming conventions here on the East Coast of the USA. Both conventions are held in Lancaster, PA, Cold Wars generally in March, and Historicon in July. For more information on the conventions visit the Historical Miniatures Gaming Society, East web site. To see what nights we will be gaming next, or the games we have scheduled, visit my HAWKs Schedule page.
We also host our own one day historicals mini-convention, in 2005 on January 22nd. For information on this see my Barrage page.
A map to our Thursday night meeting site
Coming from the North side of Baltimore, take the I-95 exit North to exit 80. [1] Take this exit (MD Rte 543) East, go about 1 mile [2] (past 3 traffic lights) and the road makes a 180 degree left turn, and ends on US Rte 40. [3] Take a right here. You will be heading Northeast. Just about 1 mile later you come to a traffic light at Spesutia Road. [4] Turn right here. Follow this road about 3/4 mile until you come to a stop sign [5] at Perryman Road. Look out your passenger window and you can see the hall, about 100 yards away. Turn right here, there is a yield sign. Stay in the right lane. Turn right at the next intersection. [6] This is the cutoff to Old Perryman Road. You are facing the hall. About 50 feet later turn right again, and *immediately* begin turning left into the drive in front of the hall.