What innovation has changed your wargaming life?

[Fenton]

Not sure if it should come under innovation but grey primer has been a god send to me

[paulr]

Internet for
- research
- inspiration
- forums
- contacting suppliers

[Norm]

1. computer / internet age, it kept boardgame production viable
2. Kallistra hard plastic hexes. everything I made prior to that looked naff.
3. broadband instead of 56k modem download, so I can see tons of nice wargaming set-ups with regular browsing, giving inspiration and having access to downloadable content.
4. Free blogging capability and cheap website hosting to give me a platform to write and share
5. Digital photography, making instant and easy to share imagery
6. E-books, I sit there on a Sunday afternoon and want to research the battle of Quatre Bras, 2 minutes later I have downloaded a book on the subject with maps and orders of battle.

[Orcs]

In no particular order


1 The internet for ease of finding and paying for stuff
2. Acrylics - Did I realy use Humbrol enamels !!
3. Divorce - I now don't have to justify sitting and painting for an hour or two
4. Rulesets like Warmaster (all genres)BKC, Lion Rampant and Chain of Command
5. this forum - I never bothered with them before.

[Bodvoc]

Has to be computers and the internet. I can now produce a decent looking set of my own rules and edit or update them easily and put photos in them. I can produce decent typed scenarios although I still hand draw maps, photo them and put them onto the sheet. As many other have said,  I can browse and buy figures, books etc quickly and easily.

[FierceKitty]

Consensus seems to be Thanks, internet.

[getagrip]

1)  10mm.
2)  Baking powder.
3)  Washes.
4)  Proper basing.
5)  Grit / sand.
6)  Daylight bulb.
7)  Forum.

[fsn]

Daylight bulbs!

I use them ... but it doesn't seem to make much of a difference. Perhaps the daylight they produce are from a different sun? Maybe, on Procyon B, my painting is brilliant!

[petercooman]

Daylight bulbs!

I use them ... but it doesn't seem to make much of a difference. Perhaps the daylight they produce are from a different sun? Maybe, on Procyon B, my painting is brilliant!

Maybe they were manufactured during a night shift? 

[mollinary]

The net - for research on subjects so obscure that maybe only five people worldwide are interested in , or know anything about, them, and suddenly you are on first name terms with all of them!

This forum, a fun asylum which (usually) knows how far it can go, and goes absolutely that far! But is also amazingly knowledgable.

10mm, which has allowed my megalomania to grow unchecked

Early retirement, which has allowed me to settle properly into my own house for the first time in twenty years, and build/convert the shed of my dreams.

Battlefield walking. Never was great at maps, walking the real fields has been an absolute revelation.

Mollinary

[FierceKitty]

Early retirement, which has allowed me to settle properly into my own house for the first time in twenty years, and build/convert the shed of my dreams.
Battlefield walking. Never was great at maps, walking the real fields has been an absolute revelation.

Mollinary

And do you now, in fact, have two sheds?

[Dunnadd]

Interesting read on the politics of Runcorn

[getagrip]

Interesting read on the politics of Runcorn

"then he would go down the velvet river..."

Euphemism?

[mollinary]

And do you now, in fact, have two sheds?

No

[FierceKitty]

Ah, I see, I see...and you're thinking of getting this second shed for wargames?

[FierceKitty]

Btw, I neglected to mention indelible marker pens. Wonderful for drawing on straps and belts, doing simplish tartans and shield designs, and giving green plastic aquarium trees more convincing and durable trunks.

[toxicpixie]

I read that as inedible marker pens. I wondered just what the food situation was like over in Thailand!

[FierceKitty]

Food, with a few exceptions, is one of the small number of things that we do well here.

[toxicpixie]

I rather like Thai food. or at least what approaches being called Thai food in the UK which I suspect is not a patch on actual Thai food

[FierceKitty]

I've eaten passable Thai in the UK. But when it's good here, it's very good, and of course the street food culture is one of the joys of SE Asia.