Although it is not an official MMGA mail list, your faithful editor has started a mailing list for miniatures gamers in the Minnesota area. You can use the site in a variety of ways, including receive messages three different ways. First, wargaming is a hobby. Those of us that wargame with miniatures are using figures or models in a variety of scales to create something like historical or fictional combat as a competitive game. Each miniature can represent anything from a single man or vehicle to hundreds, depending on the rules in use.
Players act as commanders.
In a typical game at an MMGA event, there will be from 2 to many players playing as the commanders of armies or other forces. To date, MMGA events have featured miniatures and figures from 2mm to 11.5 inches in figure scale or height. The game surface is mostly 3D and tries to represent the significant battlefield terrain. The gaming area is normally set on a table. The area varies in size, the main limit being that a typical gamer can move their figures on the table without falling on the table.