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!

The games will start at Noon. If you can’t make it this time, no worries! We will have another scenario to play the first Sunday of next month!

Sun. September 7, starting at Noon:

Skirmish at Jumonville Glen, 1754
Lt. Col. George Washington, 21 years old, leads a party of the Virginia Regiment against a group of French-Canadian militia attempting to evict the British from the Ohio Country. Washington and his men creep close to the French camp in the early morning, only to hear a shot ring out from the enemy. What followed on that May morning, 271 years ago, was the first battle of the French & Indian War. It would become a global conflict, started when a young Washington heard the “charming” sound of bullets whistling for the first time. Players take control of a small band of Virginian or Canadian soldiers and attempt to defeat the other and lay stake to Ohio. The game uses Song of Drums and Tomahawks rules and 28mm miniatures, and is hosted by the Great Lakes chapter of the Historical Miniatures Gaming Society.