Included with museum admission.
Attention military history buffs and those interested in miniature games: Join the Historical Miniatures Gaming Society, Great Lakes Chapter for an afternoon of tabletop miniatures gaming at the Ohio History Center! Learn about battles important to the history of Ohio and put yourself in command. Ask yourself if you would have done anything differently if you were in the general’s shoes and see how your battle plans work out!
If you can’t make it this time, no worries. We will have another scenario to play the first Sunday of next month!*
*We will not have a game in April because the museum will be closed.
Sun. May 3, starting at Noon:
Setting: Battle of Stones River, Dec 31,1862
Come command the Union and Confederate troops using 28mm figures. The Union right flank has broken. Three brigades from the left flank have been called to counterattack and stem the Confederate assault. Sgt. Christian Lenker, 19th Ohio, recalled, “…at a distance, the cedars seemed to vomit from their confines masses of defeated men.” Can you buy time for Gen. Rosecrans to cobble together a line on the Nashville Pike?
UPCOMING GAME SCHEDULE
June 7: D-Day, Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944 – Refight “Bloody Omaha” with 28mm miniatures and Bolt Action World War II rules.
July 5: Battle of Hubbardton, July 7, 1777 – The British army is on the road to Saratoga, but slowed down by felled trees and other obstacles by the Patriots. A skirmish erupts in an area of farm and light woods between British & Hessian regulars, light infantry and Jagers on one side and the 2nd New Hampshire, Green Mountain Boys, and militia on the other.
Aug. 2 – No game due to Ohio State Fair
Sept. 6 – Battle of Lake Erie, Sept. 10, 1813 – Refight this pivotal naval action in the War of !812 fought off the coast of Put-In Bay, OH. The U.S. Navy, commanded by Oliver Hazard Perry captured six vessels of the British Navy. The victory assured American control of Lake Erie for the reset of the war.
Sun, May 3 • 12:00 pm