We seem to touch on correct grammar quite often around here, so are we all playing with wargame miniatures or wargames miniatures?!  I was knocking up an advert for something and wondered whether I needed that extra s...

I'd go for wargames miniatures - many miniatures for many games. No doubt FK will be here shortly to tell me why I'm wrong 

Would you listen?

I think Charles Grant had a book out years ago called 'The Wargame', but it was Don Featherstone's title, 'Wargames', which most people seemed to adopt. Whichever I choose my spell checker tells me I'm wrong, as it only accepts them as separate words. Talking of plurals, however, AFVs is correct for many armoured vehicles, whereas AFV's denotes something belonging to one particular armoured vehicle.

Quote from: FierceKitty on 13 September 2014, 01:12:22 AM
Would you listen?

Listen? Of course!

Agree? Not so much

Seconds out!  Round two! 

But seriously, folks, as a collective name for the hobby surely "Wargames" is common usage? And please, no apostrophe....

Everyone speaks of "wargames", surely? Or Kriegspiel and so on.

Surely the plural should be "Warsgame" - like "Courts Martial".

Er - NO

IanS

Silly person.

perhaps war's game

Quote from: fsn on 13 September 2014, 11:10:17 AM
Surely the plural should be "Warsgame" - like "Courts Martial".

Right logic wrong outcome

Lots of courts, all martial ergo Courts Martial

Lots of games, all about war ergo Wargames

Quod Erat Demonstrandum

But war's a game that, were their subjects wise,
Kings should not play at....

(from memory)

Considering Leon's initial question; not very helpful.

Well, if you want a proper answer, I would suggest that either is correct. One may use miniatures to wargame, or one could use miniatures in wargames.

Personally I tend to use "wargames miniatures".