1) Western European dark ages armies
2) D-Day and subsequent moderns
3) Sengoku skirmishes
4) Techniques for flocking bases
5) Ditto for cutting them out
6) The ACW on land
7) When the next holy grail of a ruleset is to be released
8 ) How the US should have won in Vietnam/Cuba/Afghanistan
9) Napoleonics
10) Fantasy, including electrical, alternative Victorian, and Chao Chinese against later Ptolemies.
(Some of these shade into mild dislike, but aren't important enough to count as pet hates.)
Would agree only with number 8.
I remember with particular fondness rules for a multiplayer game of 3 who's victory conditions were that the winning player was the one who, in the opinion of the players, came up with the best haiku based on the game.
Anything post-1930.
Anything 28mm with zombie/vampire gunfighters.
Fantasy
Commercial rules - particularly those on tablets of stone.
People who eat and drink over the table.
Youngsters who can't communicate at any volume less than a full-blooded yell.
Indifferent to eating and drinking over your figures? You have more sangfroid than I.
Really, really, really do not like eating over the table, particularly those who seem to be into hand eating chips, chicken etc, and then immediately handle my figures and rulebooks.
Agreed. It belongs under per hates.
The only thing that really gets under my skin is rules Lawers who have absolutely no give. But a must win at all costs attitudes.
Take care
Andy
Please note that this thread is for points of apathy, uninterest, and indifference. There is a pet hate thread elsewhere.
I am indifferent to the number of contributors to this forum who place their posts in the least obvious of categories. Might as well be indifferent as it seems unlikely to change in the near future (and for our colonial cousins that's 'anytime soon').
I seem to be completely idifferent to everything from 1550 to 1900, I've tried with Naps, and currently would like to be more interested in 7YW having build two rather nice French and Prussian armies but it's hard work. As for Pike and Shottee and Colonials (except for a bit of Steampunk and Pre-Dreadnought naval) there's just 350 years of apathy.
Which is odd as there was a lot of interesting things going on.
I'm sure that's true of much of our uninterest. If I read a book or two on WWI dogfights over Flanders....
I'm indifferent to Napoleonics and ACW. I'll play 'em if they're on the table but don't seek them out with joy...
And 3.5ed D&D - despite it being the RPG of choice at my club and currently running a gritty pseudo-Arthurian campaign it's time has past and gone.
Agree with FK on 4 and basing/flocking.
I have gone back to simple coats of basetex. Its not great but it matches my game cloth very nicely and helps me turn out armies quicker.
Indifferent to ACW and Ancients. I keep trying them but they dont stimulate me enough to want to build an army.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 31 December 2014, 02:20:12 AM
Please note that this thread is for points of apathy, uninterest, and indifference.
1) Modern they-are-still-fighting-this-one conflicts
2) TV programmes in 28mm
3) Vast worlds with amazing back-stories and a range of four figures and one teleporter
I had more points of apathy, uninterest, and indifference when I was younger. More or less anything apart from the above interests me now. Apart from ugliness.
I'm even giving historical figures with goblin faces a second look. But painting time is too valuable to simply pleasure an interest. I mean, it's a lot of effort painting uniforms. I wouldn't want second thoughts about adding a green face.
QuoteI have gone back to simple coats of basetex
I can'tg be bothered with flocking bases and have used basetex for years but I sprinkle a bit of fine sand on the wet basetex then a very quick dry brush with a suitable colour looks ok.
Indifferent to ACW, WW3 and Steampunk. Oh, and fantasy, although I don't mind gazing upon Lord of the Rings armies.
I dont care much for rebasing.figures...having spent all day doing it!
Quote from: Bodvoc on 31 December 2014, 05:55:28 PM
I dont care much for rebasing.figures...having spent all day doing it!
I would have thought that was at least a pet hate >:(
Kudos to the man, though, spending Hogmany rebasing figures.
I don't really care if I win or lose as long as the game was fun and tense, the rules made sense and everyone enjoyed themselves.
As to periods, well... I suppose
Modern jet air combat
Submarines
Post-zulu colonial
Chinese Civil War
Finnish Civil War
Cheers,
Aksu
Points 6 to 9 of the OP definitely count.
Add:
Base size discussions in rulesets that attach no significance to base sizes
* I'm generally indifferent to anything that happened in the Southern hemisphere with the exceptions of the Battle of the River Plate and the Falklands Wars.
* The American Rebellion.
* The period between the English Civil War and the Battle of Blenheim
* The Renaissance
* The Spanish Civil War
* Air warfare
* Most of the "trendy" periods (like AVBCW)
Indifferent to:
* Chariot warfare
* The Crusades
* Mongols, Chinese, Indian, Burmese, et al
* LOA
* AWI
* Most colonial warfare
* Anything after 1930
* Most fantasy i.e. WH, WH40K, Hobbits etc.
* Space
* Air warfare, apart from involvement in WWI, RCW, RPW land battles
* Naval warfare, apart from ACW riverine
Quote from: fsn on 01 January 2015, 11:28:46 AM
* I'm generally indifferent to anything that happened in the Southern hemisphere with the exceptions of the Battle of the River Plate and the Falklands Wars.
* The American Rebellion.
I object :o
Although I must admit until relatively recently the first was true for me, despite where I live ;)
The second is what got me hooked on the hobby, only took me 38 years to get armies for the period, and I still haven't finished them ;D
So what's so caught your interest about the Southern Hemisphere?
WWII naval in the Pacific, but only some of that is in the southern hemisphere :)
I've just noticed that that most of that is between 0- 10 degrees south :o
ancients
anything that flys (apart from in the Korean war)
anything that that is on or underneath water.
Jim