Current Climate of Wargaming?

Started by Leon, 26 August 2017, 09:09:20 PM

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fsn

Quote from: pierre the shy on 30 August 2017, 10:49:08 PM
My other point is that we play multiple periods, each with its own ruleset, yet the market seems to always apparently to have room for more. Surely there must be a limit and there is sure to be some comings and goings of traders over time for various reasons? How many different rulesets does one really need?

Ah! But you forget that we need 3 rulesets for every period! Skirmish, company and division!

I agree. The hobby seems to be getting wider and thinner.
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Phone posting at bath time :D

Ironically I did manage to correct "/army level" but missed the front bit of total incomprehensible gibberish!

"You forgot operational/army level" if that helps ;)
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They're the manoeuvre element of the operational level game ;)
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fsn

Gentlemen, like an expert needle sharpener, you're making my point for me. 
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Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
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toxicpixie

Surely they just enhance the point?

For *making* it you need a needle maker!

On the topic, you can go very deep if you want - either into fiction based games with established backgrounds (W40k etc), or into historical games where you dig deeeeeep into the period for a long time (recent 1866 Wargaming in History springs to mind, well done chaps! Or Bruce Weigle around the similar period)  or even your own imaginations.

OR with the huge breadth you can scream around periods and systems and scales like a loon, leaving a trail of half finished projects and only mildly creased rule sets behind you :)

I celebrate both - a hobby that can be either is a pretty neat thing!
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Leman

Quote from: toxicpixie on 20 September 2017, 12:01:55 AM
They're the manoeuvre element of the operational level game ;)
You can tell where my interest lies - not in military organisation or theory. Get em on the table, have a scrap and lose.
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Leon

Looks like another company might be shutting it's doors, Forlorn Hope have posted on their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ForlornHopeGames/
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toxicpixie

Dang, that's a shame :/

Sounds like it's a going concern, just too much work on stuff he doesn't want to do? Shame, I'd just had some excellent samurai dwarves from them!
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Leman

Another company I've never heard of, probably because it does faeries and the like.
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Leon

They do some French Indian War stuff and some Chinese I think?  Nice sculpts as well.
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