While I mostly helped in the refreshment stand with Gary’s eldest daughter Elyssa, I was able to play in some miniature games. Nothing would draw spectators more than lavish scenery and serried ranks of Napoleonic lead soldiers! I was hooked. However, the highlights of these conventions were the wargames using miniatures. Many people at the conventions played these board games and games such as Diplomacy. That is, they played one of the numerous board games provided by such companies as Avalon Hill. At the time, most wargamers in the IFW could be classified at “board” gamers. One of the original members of the IFW was the late E. The IFW became involved in organizing gaming conventions, most noticeably in Lake Geneva, WI. That was a wargaming club of about, at that time, 130 members around the nation. He was a member of the recently renamed International Federation of Wargaming. I became involved in wargames in the spring of 1968 when I had been asked by a classmate who had observed my doodles to illustrate a magazine that he helped publish.
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