Wargaming pet hates

[toxicpixie]

If you're on small bases (40mm or less wide) with multiples making up a unit then in wouldn't worry about diorama-ing them... I prefer bigger based units though so I like the look of rocks, clumps of foliage etc all making an interesting looking unit. I wouldn't fuss about puttin the farrier on and having the generals horse shoed or dragoon stealing chickens or nco's telling off a working party etc etc.

[Leman]

I would. I love all those little extra touches.

[toxicpixie]

Maybe on command bases or the baggage, but whilst I like my bases to be scenic I like units to be premierly unit-y

[Hertsblue]

Mmm, remember the way WRG used to preface EVERY dam' new set with the announcement that the archangel Gabriel had just given out this final and definitive set of rules which all gamingkind in common had craved since dice were first rolled? Followed by a turkey like 7th edition....

It was WRG who made me give up Ancients for forty years. Them and certain players.....

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

It was WRG who made me give up Ancients for forty years. Them and certain players.....

Not from Nottingham and Pinnar by any chance...

had to sit on the London ones as an umpire once or twice.

IanS

[Hertsblue]

Pinner, yes. We had some of them as members of our club too. They wandered off when it became clear we weren't interested in exploiting loopholes. Mind you, it was over thirty years ago.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Good weren't they....

They even lost the modern comp at Derby one year and made rude noises about our players cheating..

IanS

[FierceKitty]

Nobody ever loses because his opponent played well. Rule one of wargames psychology.

[cameronian]

2)  "Each stand should be modelled to be an attractive diorama.". 

Oh God yes, we had a chap (very nice bloke actually) who modelled his 28mm figures on great lumps of scenic complete with trees, gradients and I don't know WTF else; looked awful.

[Leman]

Quite right FK. Not only do I lose because my opponent plays well, but also because I have no sense of tactics whatsoever. However, I do enjoy painting pretty uniforms and building dioramas, so it seems churlish not to play.

[Hertsblue]

What can you play with a diorama, Leman? (Yes, yes, I know. I've set off a whole string of ever less probable puns. )

[FierceKitty]

I'd use a Di-o-rama to play Candle in the Wind. Though it sounds as if a sitar might be needed too.

[Leman]

Pet hate: Gamers who have a dislike of anyone who isn't British.

[Orcs]

Pet hate: Gamers who have a dislike of anyone who isn't British.

In the gaming sense ie they only want to play with the British side

Or

They dislike other people who are not white anglo saxons.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Bear in mind that I HATE EVERYBODY, PARTICULARLY FELINES

IanS