Break! Geek Nation Tours - New Tour Announcement

Geek Nation Tours announced a new tour:

We are just releasing our newest tour in our Signature Battlefield Series - Arenas of Blood: Spartacus and the Gladiators of Ancient Rome 2020.

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Break! Geek Nation Tours - Frostgrave Imemrsion Tour 2020

Geek Nation Tours announced their 2020 Frostgrave Immersion tour:

Journey with us to the frozen city of Felstad, or as it is more commonly known, FROSTGRAVE. Well, the city that inspired the game anyway – Tallinn, Estonia. Geek Nation Tours takes you to our first in a series of exotic gaming destinations, where we will discover rarely visited locales and explore their culture, history and culinary delights, coupled each day with fully-immersive, elite gaming experiences. What better place to start our new enterprise than in the Baltic state of Estonia right in the middle of winter?

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Break! Geek Nation Tours - 2019 Middle Earth Tour Announcement

Geek Nation Tour announced a new Middle Earth tour:

Join Geek Nation Tours on a voyage across the Sundering Seas to the realm of Middle Earth. More commonly known as the land of New Zealand, we will journey from north to south and visit filming locations from Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. We’ll also partake in a handful of experiences to place ourselves right inside of the story itself. And yes, we WILL walk right into Mordor! We are offering a seven day tour of the north island, a seven day tour of the south island, or a thirteen day tour of both islands. Check out the itinerary below to decide which tour package is right for you. Whichever route you take, it is sure to be the Unexpected Journey of a lifetime!

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Break ! Geek Nation Tours - AdeptiCon 2019 Tour Announcement

Geek Nation Tours announced their 2019 AdeptiCon tour:

This year Geek Nation Tours continues to offer Pre-Public guaranteed AdeptiCon registration. We offered those that hop on the tour the opportunity to select AdeptiCon events before the general public and thus insure that tour participants get to grab all the events that they are hoping for.
2019 will see Geek Nation Tours again include both the Very Important Gamer Swag Bag Upgrade and the AdeptiCon Weekend Pass in the tour price. The package includes Preferred Check-in, an AdeptiCon T-shirt, and an AdeptiCon glass. Not only that – Geek Nation Tours makes your VIG package even better! We will pick up your tickets, weekend passes and your swag bags for you. Absolutely no waiting in line – just show up at the Welcome Dinner and “bang!” you will receive your loot hassle free!

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Break! Geek Nation Tours - Germany & Spiel 2018 Tour Announcement

Geek Nation Tours announced their Germany & Spuiel 2018 tour:

Geek Nation Tours is very proud to announce our “Essen Spiel and Gaming in Germany” tour for 2018… It is full of awesome gaming goodness, pretzels, castles, history and beer. We would love to have you aboard. Below is the blurb describing the tour and you can get more information and book at the below links! Thank you so much for being part of geek culture and I hope you are all rolling dice and loving being a geek…

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Break! Geek nation Tours - GenCon 2018 Tour Pre-Registration

Geek Nation Torus opened the pre-registration for their GenCon 2018 tour:

Are you a Gen Con newbie or a veteran? Both will appreciate Geek Nation Tours ability to make the registration process easier for all. While your 4-day Gen Con badge is included in the tour package, you will still have to register for events. To that end, we will be arranging a pre-registration conference call via Skype to help expedite the registration process and to help everyone choose the events they want. Are you slightly overwhelmed by the registration procedure? Not sure what to register for when the cart opens? Worried that you might be missing the very best in seminars or gaming opportunities? Let Geek Nation Tours ease your mind. We will be joined by the D6 Generation crew for our Pre-Registration Conference call, which will take place in the spring of 2018. Even before we arrive in Indianapolis, Geek Nation Tours will endeavor to make the Gen Con experience exceptional…

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Break! Geek Nation Tours - Sherlock Holmes Tour Announcement

Geek Nation Tours announced a new Sherlock Holmes tour:

The game is on as Geek Nation Tours is pleased to invite you on our Sherlock Holmes tour. Based on the first three seasons of the incredible BBC series Sherlock, this tour will take you to a wide variety of locations in the UK, visiting Wales, Bristol, and of course London, home of the brilliant and eccentric Sherlock Holmes.

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Break! Geek Nation Torus - Miniatures in the UK 2018 Tour

Geek Nation Tours announced their 2018 Miniatures in the UK tour:

This year we have stocked the tour full of wargaming goodness. We will be returning to many of the places we have visited in the past, but all will have a cool newness about them. We will see the newly renovated Games Workshop HQ and Warhammer World, and return to Warlord Games and Mantic Games. But this time we will spend most of the day at each place touring their facilities, exploring their games, hobbying and, of course, looting their warehouses! We will also take a trip to one of the industry’s best magazines Wargames Illustrated and the UK home of Battlefront Miniatures…
Added to all this is a brand new lineup for 2018. For the first time ever we will visit Wargames Foundry. Not only will we see their fantastic grounds and facility, but Bryan Ansell (founder of Citadel Miniatures) will regal us with tales of the past. It will be an awesome opportunity to explore the history of our hobby. Undoubtedly, we will roll dice and get to gaming here as well!
But that is not all, GNT is hard at work at adding several other awesome miniature companies. More should be in the wood works, but for now please note that we will also be visited by Atlantis Miniatures, and will be heading off to Mierce Miniatures to see their offices and their exhaustive line of awesome miniatures. We will even be regaled by the infamous Perry Twins when we visit them at Perry Miniatures… Each of the above companies will be taking pre-orders so you will be able to come back with loads of loot.

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Break! Geek Nation Tours - New Japan Tour Announcement

Geek Nation Tours announced their Comiket, Anime, Giant Robots and Video Arcades 2018 Tour:

This tour will focus on Tokyo, covering as much geeky goodness as we could handle all in, or around Tokyo. We have been getting requests for Giant Robot and Video Gaming tours, as well as requests for more Anime goodness. Further, we have always wanted to do an anime shopping tour in Japan – allowing North American Anime geeks to plunder everything from model kits, to action figures to cosplay outfits. This tour will have all those in spades.
You ever wanted to see all the cool places to buy geek stuff in Japan? Have you ever wanted to seek out giant robots? How about game in the very best video arcades that Tokyo has to offer? If so this is the tour for you… Oh did we fail to mention Comiket (short for Comic Market) which could very well be considered the world biggest comic book convention. It is for sure the largest event in existence for lovers of Japanese anime, manga and game subcultures. You will see not only cosplayers and commercial booths, but more importantly this event is for doujinshi or self-published, fan made comic books and fan art. Each creation has a limited run as they normally are inspired by other people’s works and sometimes tread the line of even Japanese fan tastes…
But Comiket will only be the start of our explorations of Tokyo. We will see Akihabara (the geek Mecca of all things tech and the home of more video arcades then you can shake a Pikachu at), we will shop all the famous geek hot spots like the Nakano Broadway, Animate and Harajuku, we will experience a cornucopia of only the best video arcades in Japan, full your luggage full of Gundam and other model kits, we will explore in detail the most famous of geek islands – Odaiba, and visit a steady stream of Japanese temples and museums ending with a fan “Must See” the world famous Ghibli Museum.

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Break! Geek Nation Tours - Samurai & Anime Tour 2018

Geek Nation Tours announced their Samurai & Anime Tour 2018:

This tour will focus on the huge annual AnimeJapan Convention and all the Cosplay, Anime and Manga awesomeness that one can find within its walls. This tour will be much grander in scope than the usual Otaku Japan tour however, as it will see us covering much of Tokyo, but also cool anime, Samurai and just plain fun stuff in and around Osaka and Kyoto as well!
We will start this one off in Tokyo and every anime fan’s dream con… AnimeJapan! Formally Tokyo International Anime Fair, this event is the world’s premier Anime related convention. It hosts all things anime from production companies like – Toei Animation, Bandai Namco, Production IG and Tezuka Productions, has appearances by anime and manga writers, illustrators and voice actors, as well as concerts, award ceremonies and other stage events, and of course tonnes of cosplayers… If you are a lover of anime you have come to the right place!
We will fill you full of awesome Tokyo anime goodness… We will visit The Ghibli Museum, Akihabara, Nakano Broadway, Harajuku, Shibuya, the Robot Restaurant, and of course Gundam Front! Video Gamers will get a few arcades to push their skills in, and we will also visit our fair share of temples and shrines. We will even have a stop or two for all you Otaku that love model building…
The tour is not just about Tokyo however, and we will leave it behind to visit the scream machines of the Fuji Q Amusement Park before hitting the ancient city of Kyoto. Here we will explore some Samurai goodness, at the super fun Toei Uzumasa Eigamura, Nijo Castle and even learn some sword play along the way…
We won’t be done with Anime however, as we venture to Osaka’s Nipponbashi and Amerikamura districts not to mention a Ninja Museum and Festival…
We even have a two-day extension for all those wanting to see Himeji castle and some more temples around Kyoto…

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Break! Geek Nation Tours - AdeptiCon 2018 Tour Announcement

Geek Nation Tours announced their 2018 AdeptiCon Tour:

In the past, Geek Nation Tours brought tour participants Pre-Public guaranteed AdeptiCon registration. We offered those that hop on the tour the opportunity to select AdeptiCon events before the general public and thus insure that tour participants get to grab all the events that they are hoping for. This year is no exception – book prior to October 30th 2017 and you will be able to pre-register for all events in advance of them going public. Don’t come half way across the world only to have the spots you wanted disappear…
2018 will see Geek Nation Tours again include both the Very Important Gamer Swag Bag Upgrade and the AdeptiCon Weekend Pass in the tour price. The package includes Preferred Check-in, an AdeptiCon T-shirt, and an AdeptiCon glass. Not only that – Geek Nation Tours makes your VIG package even better! We love making it easier for our tour participants! We will pick up your tickets, weekend passes and your swag bags for you. Absolutely no waiting in line – just show up at the Welcome Dinner and “bang!” you will receive your loot hassle free (with a few extras from Geek Nation Tours, Bombshell Miniatures and Ironheart Artisans).

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Break! Geek Nation Tours - Feudal Japan and the Battlefields of Sekigahara 2017 Tour

Geek Nation Tours announced their Feudal Japan and the Battlefields of Sekigahara 2017 Tour:

The tour will be built around areas of Japan that still give one the feeling of living in those ancient times. It is our goal to take you back to the time of Samurai. So join us as we explore not only this battlefield in detail but also a wide range of Samurai related sites. The first days of our tour bring us to the Seki Cutlery Festival which is dedicated to blades of all sorts. We will see sword making demonstrations, the Seki Sword Tradition Museum and an outdoor knife show where you can purchase blades of your own. We will then slow the tour down and just like ancient times, we will be forced to hike by the Shogunate (your Geek Nation Tours representative) between Magome and Tsumago. The road was well traveled by Samurai in ancient times and still to this day feels like a journey into the past. We will plunge into a traditional Japanese onsen or two just like the Samurai used to sooth aching bones… Castles will also be on the list and as such we will visit some of the very best – Matsumoto and Himeji Castles. Last but not least, we will visit the small city of Takayama and journey back to ancient Japan in its timeless temples and streets.

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Break! Geek Nation Tours - “Essen Spiel and Gaming in Germany” Tour 2017

Geek Nation Tours announced their “Essen Spiel and Gaming in Germany” Tour 2017:

Grab your D20s, D6s, and Deutsch/English dictionaries as Geek Nation Tours is heading to a huge boardgame mecca in October. Game to your heart’s content at the Internationale Spieltage SPIEL in Essen, Germany. Operating annually since 1983, the SPIEL welcomes nearly 200,000 visitors and more than 1000 vendors over four days each year making it of one of the world’s biggest trade fair/conventions for board games, role playing games, card games and much much more.
Essen Spiel may form the anchor of this 14 day tour, but if you think we’ll spend the whole time huddled around a tabletop you’ve got another thing coming! Join us as we cruise down the Rhine, drink beer at Munich’s world famous Hofbräuhaus, and visit Cologne Cathedral, before crashing the gates of the SPIEL. Along the way we’ll be sure to make time for playing spotlighted German-designed and German-themed games throughout our stay in that very same country. We are also hoping to include members of the German board gaming community during the tour and will do our best to organize a meet up or two along the way.

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Break! Geek Nation Tours - GenCon Tour Announcement

Geek Nation Tours announced their GenCon 2017 tour:

Geek Nation Tours is headed back to one of the largest and most prestigious gaming conventions in the world. This year is especially exciting as Gen Con is having a birthday this year – how could you miss joining in the 50th Anniversary of the best place in the world to roll dice…

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Break! Geek Nation Tours - Geeking out with Miniatures in the UK 2017 Tour

Geek Nation Tours announced their 2017 Geeking out with Miniatures in the UK tour:

Geek Nation Tours is proud to announce our return to the UK in 2017. Every second year Geek Nation Tours takes a journey to the United Kingdom to celebrate miniature gaming. Every miniature wargaming Geek’s dream is to visit one of the birth places of wargaming – Nottingham England. If you are a fan of 40K, all things Fantasy, Historical Wargaming or even a good old fashioned Martian Invasion – then this is the tour for you. We will be focusing on rolling dice and we will have no less than eight days of wargaming instore for tour participants, not to mention a boardgaming and computer gaming event evening each.

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Break! Geek Nation Torus - AdeptiCon 2017 Tour Announcement

Geek Nation Tours announced their AdeptiCon 2017 tour:

In the past, Geek Nation Tours brought tour participants Pre-Public guaranteed AdeptiCon registration. We offered those that hop on the tour the opportunity to select AdeptiCon events before the general public and thus insure that tour participants get to grab all the events that they are hoping for. This year is no exception – book prior to October 30th 2016 and you will be able to pre-register for all events in advance of them going public. Don’t come half way across the world only to have the spots you wanted disappear…
2017 will see Geek Nation Tours again include both the Very Important Gamer and Regular AdeptiCon Weekend Pass in the tour price. The package includes Preferred Check-in, an AdeptiCon T-shirt, and an AdeptiCon glass. Not only that – Geek Nation Tours makes your VIG package even better! We love making it easier for our tour participants! We will pick up your tickets, weekend passes and your swag bags for you. Absolutely no waiting in line – just show up at the Welcome Dinner and “bang!” you will receive your loot hassle free (with a few extras from Geek Nation Tours and Ironheart Artisans).
Geek Nation Tours has of course, hotel rooms right at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel! So all you have to do is roll out of bed and into the goodness that is AdeptiCon. But that’s not all! The Renaissance has also given us free Wi-Fi in our rooms for the duration of our stay… Each year Geek Nation Tours offers an “AdeptiCon Welcome Dinner” where we have had tonnes of Guest Speakers from all aspects of the Wargaming Universe. From Black Library authors Dan Abnett, Chris Wraight, C.L. Werner and Andy Smillie to Game Designers like Andy Chambers. GNT also invites Wargame Industry leaders like Fantasy Flight Games, Mantic Games, Privateer Press and Cool Mini or Not, to Pro Painters Victoria Lamb, Chris Borer, Dave Taylor, Meg Maples, Brandon Palmer, and Sculptor Patrick Keith from Bombshell Miniatures. Of course our Podcasting friends also come join us for some fun and allow fans to visit with the crews from 40K Radio, Independent Characters, The Overlords, Bad Dice, Ohiohammer and the Screaming Heretics to name only a few.

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Break! Geek Nation Tours - Feudal Japan and the Battlefields of Sekigahara 2017 Tour

 Geek Nation Tours announced their Feudal Japan and the Battlefields of Sekigahara 2017 Tour:

The tour will be built around areas of Japan that still give one the feeling of living in those ancient times. It is our goal to take you back to the time of Samurai. So join us as we explore not only this battlefield in detail but also a wide range of Samurai related sites. The first days of our tour bring us to the Seki Cutlery Festival which is dedicated to blades of all sorts. We will see sword making demonstrations, the Seki Sword Tradition Museum and an outdoor knife show where you can purchase blades of your own. We will then slow the tour down and just like ancient times, we will be forced to hike by the Shogunate (your Geek Nation Tours representative) between Magome and Tsumago. The road was well traveled by Samurai in ancient times and still to this day feels like a journey into the past. We will plunge into a traditional Japanese onsen or two just like the Samurai used to sooth aching bones… Castles will also be on the list and as such we will visit some of the very best – Matsumoto and Himeji Castles. Last but not least, we will visit the small city of Takayama and journey back to ancient Japan in its timeless temples and streets.

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Break! Geek Nation Tours - GenCon 2016 Tour Announcement

Geek Nation Tours announced their GenCon 2016 tour:

We have just let our Gen Con 2016 tour out of the bag and we are super pumped about it. We have the D6 Gen and Nerdherder podcast crews DMing Dungeons & Dragons for us! We have the crew from Osprey coming and a Hobby Challenge for their Frostgrave game… We have the designers of Descent and Warhammer Quest: The Card Game gaming with us AND we have Cool Mini or Not and Ninja Division leading us into their Dungeon Crawler games. To put icing on the cake Ronnie Renton from Mantic Games – the King Kahuna – himself leading us through Mantic’s Dungeon Saga….

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Break! Geek Nation Tour - “Geeking Out with Miniatures in Sparta and Ancient Greece” Tour 2016

Geek Nation Tours announced a new tour:

We will start our Greece tour just outside of Athens on the Athenian Riviera and thus we will be headed straight for the beach. A Historical tour to Marathon, Thermopylae, Delphi, Plataea and Elefsian will follow. Of course no visit to Athens can be complete without a visit to the Acropolis so that will be included as well… Then we will be on the road to visit the Acrocorinth, the Epidaurus Theater, Ancient Mycenae, the Palace of Agamemnon for just a start. We will even end up in Sparta! We will stop there and see the outdoor museum of Mystras, the local Archaeological Museum and of course even pose for a photo with the King Leonidas statue. Our final destination will bring us to Ancient Olympia and the history of the Olympic Games. We might even force you to run the ancient marathon track for more prizes from Red Republic Games. Throughout we will be privileged to see the stunning countryside and beautiful harbours of Greece.

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Break! Geek Nation Torus - Little Big Horn and the American Old West Tour

Geek Nation Tours announced a new Signature Battlefield Series – The Battlefield of Little Big Horn and the American Old West Tour:

Join Geek Nation Tours for its most horse-ridin’, gun-totin’, whiskey-drinkin’, rootinest, tootinest tour ever. This Epic tour will include hard-pounding adventure as we explore the final days of the American Old West. You will join a band of ruthless adventurers as we tour the countryside of Wyoming, South Dakota and Montana. We will head off to the Cody Nite Rodeo shortly after our arrival, learn of the local history and perhaps one of the most famous personalities of the Old West – Buffalo Bill Cody, we will even see a gun-fight and give you the opportunity to pick up some cowboy boots and a cowboy hat when we go shopping Western style… We will be staying or dining at some of the most historic saloons and hotels in the area but what Old West tour would be complete without at least one night of camping and carrying on around a bonfire and a horse ride or two.

We will also take a more serious look at the causes of the Great Sioux War and not only the battles that lead up to Little Big Horn but also one of the last of the conflicts – the Battle of Wolf Mountain. We will see not only that battle but also the Fort Phil Kearny and Fetterman Massacre areas, The Battlefield of Where the Girl Saved Her Brother or Battle of Rosebud and of course have detailed locally guided tours covering the Battle of Little Big Horn. We will also look into the personalities of the conflict like Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull and of course the controversial George Custer. We will examine not only the many contradictions of his personality, his publicly loved and larger-than-life career but also his final act and how it created one of the most loved and hated myths in American History. We plan to give you as many perspectives on the war as possible and discuss many of the terms associated with this time in history like Massacre, Defeat and even Last Stand.

But that is not all! We will take in the local Real Bird Little Bighorn Reenactment, a horseback ride of the actual route George Custer took that fateful day, a Pow-Wow, and much much more. Hopefully this will be a tour of high-adventure but we hope to keep the gunfights to a minimum.

So join us as we commemorate the 140th anniversary of this battle.

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