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Photo of Scott Mingus's 15mm wargame of the 1864 Battle of Monocacy near Frederick, Maryland.

Gettysburg, for the final time in the foreseeable future, hosted the annual Fall-In wargaming convention at the Eisenhower Resort and Conference Center on Business 15. More than 1000 gamers spend 2-3 days rolling dice and moving tiny model soldiers on model railroad / diorama quality tabletop terrain using rules that loosely simulate the tactics of combat.

The convention is moving from Adams County to Lancaster in November 2010.

For more photos of the wargame, see my CHARGE! wargaming blog.

Pender's Division and to the top of the photo Pickett's left brigade under Garnett are in the midst of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, in my miniature wargame I ran at Historicon this year. Note the ruins of the Bliss house and barn in the upper right center. They were burned in the morning well before the ill-fated Confederate assault and were still smoldering as the Rebel lines streamed through the farm.

The scenario was hosted by Scott Mingus at the Thursday session of the annual Historicon miniature wargaming convention in Lancaster PA. There were 13 players, and the Rebels reached the Taneytown Road before massive Union reinforcements arrived.

The convention continues through Sunday morning, with most of the gaming action on Friday and Saturday, along with a flea market and separate dealer hall.

For more photos of my game, please click here.

A typical miniature wargaming layout / diorama created by Scott Mingus of the Johnny Reb Gaming Society, an international wargaming association headquartered in York County. {Click to enlarge)

More than 1,200 military hobbyists / miniature wargamers packed the Eisenhower Inn and adjacent All-Star Sports Complex in Gettysburg this past weekend for the annual Fall-In! wargaming convention. The show features scores of miniature wargames from all periods of warfare, including the Civil War. A dealers' hall and flea market in the All-Star offer shoppers a wide variety of merchandise of interest, including historical books, paintings, art prints, collectible 54mm toy soldiers from such makers as Conte and Britains, miniature wargaming and military diorama accessories and figures, and other goodies.

Photograph of Winslow's Battery marker in the Wheatfield at Gettysburg National Military Park. Taken by Kim Shayda of the York Civil War Round Table during a recent battle walk.

I am attending the annual Fall-In miniature wargaming convention this weekend at the Eisenhower Conference Center and All-Star Sports Complex just south of Gettysburg. Among the hundreds of wargames was one that replayed the fighting at the wheatfield, and, in particular, the attack by the II Corps division of John C. Caldwell that temporarily cleared the wheatfield of Rebels.

For those of you who are wargamers, I am pleased to announce the impending publication of my latest collaboration with Chicago graphics designer and game author Ivor Janci. Entitled Brothers Divided: Skirmishes in the Gettysburg Campaign, the book presents several historical situations at various engagements during the campaign for wargamers to refight or try to change history.

Among the battles of local interest for gamers to play is the Skirmish at Hanover Junction (Elijah V. White versus the 20th Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia). Illustrations and maps are by Ivor Janci and Colin Burke; dioramas by Dennis Morris, and other gaming photos by Gettysburg's own John Mayer. For more information, or to read about the hobby of miniature wargaming and see scores of photos of games in progress, please click here.