Wargaming pet hates

[Fenton]

Quite right, Martyn!  I would never dream of getting involved in such shenanigans.    
Sometimes threads go off the rails big time (but, as DanJ says, usually when the serious points are over. And, if not, don't be afraid to steer us back on track if its something you want the forum to consider or contact one of the forum members if you have a specific question to ask - everyone is approachable).

Very nicely put, DanJ, Getagrip and Ithoriel  
..... perhaps its just our polite way of saying, "bohhrringg, getting too serious now, nuff said, time for fun!"  

And, Chris, I would say you've found your niche here and also successfully steered us back on track.  

"Laugh and the world laughs with you." Ella Wheeler Wilcox.  "You can't be serious." John McEnroe (although maybe I don't quite get that one).

I would also agree with all this.

[Chris Pringle]

Cheers, Westmarcher!

Chris

[Fenton]

I dont like 28mm horse and musket games where people try and do something like Austerlitz on a 6x4 using the basic unit of a regiment and the units line up 12 inches apart

[FierceKitty]

Amazing the notions some people get about most of history!

[Techno]

It also keeps the occasional thread active so that, as the silliness peters out, more useful information gets posted.
For me it keeps the forum vibrant, provides the glue that keeps the forum cohesive, makes it harder for people to be pompous and provides an area that allows those with less knowledge of the subject to participate.
I'm on a couple of invite only e-groups where posts not entirely on-topic are strongly discouraged and they are largely places of sepulchral silence, punctuated by moments when one of the Olympians makes some sententious pronouncement which either drops into the void without a ripple or attracts other "experts" with contrary views and flame wars that could melt steel ensue. All but the most cautious newbies find themselves either drowned in more information than could possibly be useful or treated as ignorant peasants beneath contempt. I'd take the Pendraken forum and it's occasional lunacy over both of them.
Providing it isn't used as a vehicle to put people down I don't see much problem with it.

I think that says it all ! 

Cheers - Phil

[Hertsblue]

Can we go back to being silly now? 

[getagrip]

Can we go back to being silly now? 

[Matt J]

3. Anything pre-Napoleon - essentially it's linear warfare, relatively limited tactical options, relatively few interesting decisions to make

Ok, not sure about that one!

I'm sure Hannibal would object to him having had limited tactical options and Scipio, Alexander, Julius Caesar.....anon, anon

[FierceKitty]

Wot Matt sed. Hair, here.

[Chris Pringle]

Matt, Fierce Kitty,

On the relatively limited nature or otherwise of pre-Napoleonic warfare: I expect we can agree to disagree. This is a subject that deserves its own thread rather than hijacking this one, so I've started it here:

http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,11416.0.html

Chris

[Last Hussar]

I dont like 28mm horse and musket games where people try and do something like Austerlitz on a 6x4 using the basic unit of a regiment and the units line up 12 inches apart

And that is why the FSM gave us Pendraken.