Edward
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I chanced across an old thread last night on the ww2 area, but wanted to open up the concept a bit more so posting here.
Are there any active tabletop wargamers on the forum?
It seems that the hobby of recreating historical battles with 'toy soldiers'* for entertainment goes back at least as far as the Napoleonic period itself. http://www.bhgs.org.uk/introduction-to-tabletop-wargaming.html
I started with sci fi and orcs and goblins, then moved on to the Weird War II genre (WW2 plus a touch of period appropriate sci-fi and gothic horror). My stuff is all packed away for now, but I picked up the bug again recently, and I'm now considering (when the home redecor in finished...) moving into doing some fully historic stuff as well. Bit of WW2 possibly, though I'm rather attracted to using the Bolt Action rules for the inter-war period (Anglo-Irish War & Civil War appeals for historical interest; Spanish Civil War has a nice appeal as it is a bit more 'removed' from contemporary politics). I'm also, for the first time, really quite tempted recently to dabble with a much earlier period, as I've found a set of rules that will apply nicely to the early eighteenth century Jacobite Risings, again, a period of historical interest for me.
Any wargamers on here? What genre/ period? Inspiring photos of your armies?
*Many years ago, when my brother and I were both avid gamers on one of the Games Workshop systems, my mother went in to pick us up something for Christmas in their store and made the mistake about making a comment - she thought in humour - about us being "adults" and not having grown out of playing with toys yet. An adult punter at the painting table gave her rather a long lecture about it being "an adult modelling hobby"....
Are there any active tabletop wargamers on the forum?
It seems that the hobby of recreating historical battles with 'toy soldiers'* for entertainment goes back at least as far as the Napoleonic period itself. http://www.bhgs.org.uk/introduction-to-tabletop-wargaming.html
I started with sci fi and orcs and goblins, then moved on to the Weird War II genre (WW2 plus a touch of period appropriate sci-fi and gothic horror). My stuff is all packed away for now, but I picked up the bug again recently, and I'm now considering (when the home redecor in finished...) moving into doing some fully historic stuff as well. Bit of WW2 possibly, though I'm rather attracted to using the Bolt Action rules for the inter-war period (Anglo-Irish War & Civil War appeals for historical interest; Spanish Civil War has a nice appeal as it is a bit more 'removed' from contemporary politics). I'm also, for the first time, really quite tempted recently to dabble with a much earlier period, as I've found a set of rules that will apply nicely to the early eighteenth century Jacobite Risings, again, a period of historical interest for me.
Any wargamers on here? What genre/ period? Inspiring photos of your armies?
*Many years ago, when my brother and I were both avid gamers on one of the Games Workshop systems, my mother went in to pick us up something for Christmas in their store and made the mistake about making a comment - she thought in humour - about us being "adults" and not having grown out of playing with toys yet. An adult punter at the painting table gave her rather a long lecture about it being "an adult modelling hobby"....