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How many of us are wargamers?

Started by Gronan of Simmerya, April 19, 2014, 06:05:31 PM

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3rik

#15
April 19, 2014, 07:15:49 PM
I love to look at them, especially if there's cool terrain as well. That's about it, though.
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mhensley

#16
April 19, 2014, 07:29:10 PM
Yep, although its pretty much limited to computer wargames these days.  My first real love was wargaming and I nearly cried when Avalon Hill went out of business.

Ronin

#17
April 19, 2014, 07:31:55 PM
Quote from: YourSwordisMine;743672Well, with a cursory glance at it, this fits more to my idea of a wargame than a modern minis game (i.e. 40k, WarmaHordes, Infinity).

Sorry misunderstood your first statement
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Piestrio

#18
April 19, 2014, 07:42:52 PM
I am.

I love historicals but mostly play sci-fi/fantasy because that's where the players are.
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Snowman0147

#19
April 19, 2014, 07:45:50 PM
Never played, but I am interested in it to say the least.

K Peterson

#20
April 19, 2014, 07:50:03 PM
Yes. I've played a mixture of historical (Flames of War - 5 years ago), fantasy (Warhammer - 13 years ago), and Scifi (AT-43 - 3 years ago).

Gronan of Simmerya

#21
April 19, 2014, 07:52:06 PM
Quote from: GnomeWorks;743652lolwut

Wargames are games about war.

Risk is a game about using armies and fleets to conquer other nations.

Do try to keep up.
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Gronan of Simmerya

#22
April 19, 2014, 08:02:56 PM
Quote from: YourSwordisMine;743664I don't know... For me wargames are ASL, Fortress Europa, mass scale Nepoleonics, Car Wars, Ogre, Star Fleet Battles; even Battletech skirts the line between wargame and modern minis game. I think its just a perception I've held since I first got into gaming 30 years ago...

Modern minis games just don't seem to have the level of detail I would expect from an actual wargame...

So 'wargame' equals 'big and complex'?

Frankly, I disagree strongly.  Terence Wise's book Medieval Warfare has a perfectly viable miniatures wargame in only 10 pages.

For that matter, nobody argues that CHAINMAIL isn't a wargame, and yet the core historical 1:20 rules of CHAINMAIL, including the "Historical Characteristics (Optional)" but not including sieges or man to man...

are 13 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch pages, plus one chart the same size.

You can play 1:20 CHAINMAIL historical battles to your heart's content in those 13 pages.  Everything else is an add-on; sieges, man to man, fantasy.

The basic 1:20 core is 13 pages.  A hell of a lot smaller than most "modern miniatures games," whatever they are.
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#23
April 19, 2014, 08:05:32 PM
Quote from: YourSwordisMine;743664I don't know... For me wargames are ASL, Fortress Europa, mass scale Nepoleonics, Car Wars, Ogre, Star Fleet Battles; even Battletech skirts the line between wargame and modern minis game. I think its just a perception I've held since I first got into gaming 30 years ago...

Modern minis games just don't seem to have the level of detail I would expect from an actual wargame...

wut?
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Simlasa

#24
April 19, 2014, 08:16:33 PM
Wayback when I got started with the Metagaming pocket games... Ogre/GEV, Melee/Wizard, Chitin:I.
Nowadays I'm mostly into small skirmish. Loads of fun stuff and it's easy to dual/triple purpose my miniatures across several games... Chain of Command is the current hawtness... but I recently bought a bunch of old fantasy games to try (Warlord and Fantasy Warlord and Knights & Magic, etc.)

doomedpc

#25
April 19, 2014, 08:25:42 PM
Yep - 10mm, 15mm, 20mm and 25/8mm minis. Historical, pulp, fantasy and sci-fi. Writing RPGs has buggered up my painting schedule - the lead mountain is not getting any smaller.

jedimastert

#26
April 19, 2014, 08:26:22 PM
My dad collected and played a lot of wargames in the 70's and 80's. He introduced me to wargaming and RPGs.

Diplomacy, Machiavelli, Star Fleet Battles, Terrible Swift Sword, Squad Leader, Panzer Leader, et al.

There were lighter games like Axis & Allies, Shogun (Samurai Swords, Ikusa, or whatever it is named these days) and Conquest of the Empire too.

Bedrockbrendan

#27
April 19, 2014, 08:29:45 PM
I used to be really into strategic games like Samurai Sword (really loved that game), Axis and Allies, Risk, etc. Don't know if that counts by the OP's definition. I played a good deal of war hammer but was too cheap to get as involved as some if my gaming friends.

Warlord Kro

#28
April 19, 2014, 08:45:10 PM
I played some of the board games listed (Stratego, Risk, and others of that sort) some when I was a kid, but not in a long time and don't really think of myself as big into them. Never played tactical miniature wargames and couldn't really get into the idea, whether in the low miniature count version (MageKnight, Heroclix, whatever the D&D 3E minis game was called), or the larger scale version (Warhammer and 40K).

Marleycat

#29
April 19, 2014, 09:33:07 PM
Even I played Risk and Stratego! But wargamer? Not in a million years.
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