I ain't gonna lie. I'm poor. So my first thing for a minis game is how open to proxies the community is. Which is a big part of why #Battletech is my main wargame. I use whatever detritus & extras are on hand and nobody blinks an eye if I got my sheets & army calced out.
@iAmPatience it's just refreshing after trying some other games to have open tables with fully painted models and junk proxies and everything in between, so chill. When people encourage minis, it's earnest enthusiasm. Like oh, this set would be great for your builds, I've got few extra you can have or buy cheap, etc.
@thoughtpunks Yesterday I backed a core set of pirate skirmish game Port Royal and then in the middle of the night reduced my pledge to just the book and cardboard bits. It doesn't get delivered until December so I can take my time and gather models that I actually LOVE rather than simply tolerate.
Today, March 18, Seattle high schooler David Lightman teaches his friend Jennifer Mack about war dialing, hacking, phreaking, and the importance of infosec (WarGames, 1983)
@deinol That's excellent! Back in Ye Olde Days, which were very long ago, my paint jobs averaged 2 hours per figure. Now I'm apparently much slower! 😂 I guess I should google those speed paints on YouTube...
My friend’s enthusiasm for Warhammer the Old World is contagious. Luckily I already have an unpainted wood elf army, so I just need to spend time painting.
Will probably spend more time on the command three than the other nine out together.
So I picked up the Battletech Alpha Strike Counters pack, and I’m very impressed. It comes with 15 of these cardboard buildings, which aren’t super fancy, but are pretty awesome for a $25 terrain starter pack. Only a few block line of sight for knights, but all of them are taller than tanks or infantry.
I plan to use these for Battletech, Legion Imperialis, and even Ogre miniatures.
@deinol Looks like fun. I had a friend who I learned a trick from for WH40K, which was to use to periscopes to get the right perspective to check LOS. They were fun to use, and they weren't made by Citadel so they were cheap. 😁
This is an open and honest question. There are no rights or wrongs here. I just want to gather people's opinions on war games. What role do you think war games play in our hobby? 🤔 #boardgames#WarGames#question
@tabletopgamesblog I see a lot of people in the comments going a long way to walk uphill – both ways – to avoid dealing with things simply.
Wargames were the initiatory structure which allowed for the creation of role-playing games as a derivative. At a purely theoretical level, one could actually claim that all wargames are role-playing games as all wargames involve the player taking on the "role" of some sort of coordinator for an active force. Just as there are solo RPGs and GMless RPGs, I would argue they derive from predecessors found in what is largely the wargaming community who pioneered many of those mechanics for management first.
Once you accept that wargames and RPGs are merely different points on the same spectrum of narrative and mechanics, then the truth of the question arises: it's innately nonsensical. Except as when speaking to the social groupings and not the hobby as a whole.
One final point: The RPG industry as a publication architecture probably would not or could not exist as an industry of its current scope without the merchandise and tournament architecture of wargames providing income for game shops. Worth keeping in mind.
I should mention that if you are interested in Epic/Battletech/Ogre scale miniatures, SJ Games is doing a project for a new set of tanks that I’m of course getting two of.