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The largest chapter, East, has over 2,000 members worldwide, although the vast majority are from the East Coast of the United States. HMGS East sponsors three major gaming conventions (Historicon, Cold Wars, and Fall In!), as well as special events and seminars by distinguished historians. Great Lakes
Historicon is the largest gaming convention in North America devoted to solely historical miniature wargaming. [1] It is sponsored by the Historical Miniatures Gaming Society, a nonprofit organization. [2] The Wall Street Journal has described Historicon as the "mother of all wargaming conventions." [3]
Historicon – Lancaster, Pennsylvania in July; I-CON – Long Island, New York at Stony Brook University in March/April; IndieCade East – Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York in February; Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) Unplugged – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in December; PrinceCon – Princeton, New Jersey; TooManyGames – Oaks ...
Historical Miniatures Gaming Society (HMGS) - HMGS, Inc. is a non-profit, charitable and educational 501(c)3 organization whose purpose is to promote the study of military history through the art of tabletop miniature wargaming. HMGS holds several of the largest wargaming conventions in the United States annually.
In person at Historical Miniatures Gaming Society conventions such as Historicon, Cold Wars and Fall In!, Hill was noted for his elaborate 10mm miniature wargaming layouts for Civil War battles. When GDW went out of business in 1996, Hill founded the Johnny Reb Gaming Company, and published a new and much-revised set of miniatures rules titled ...
The Historical Miniatures Gaming Society promotes historical miniatures wargaming and organizes wargaming events such as Historicon; SaltCON LLC organizes SaltCON and the Ion Award competition for unpublished tabletop games; Numerous independent, local groups run by gamers exist to play tabletop games.
The Historical Miniatures Gaming Society states that "Empire was the dominant miniatures wargaming rules system during the 1980's, and many original Empire traits are still evident in both historical and non-historical miniature game designs today."
Although not a state monopoly, and not very famous among hikers, certainly HMGS maps have a much wider coverage in small scales than commercial leisure maps. The maps use the Hellenic Geodetic Reference System 1987 (HGRS87 or ΕΓΣΑ'87) which specifies a Transverse Mercatorial Projection mapping Greece in one zone.