Welcome, the best thing is that you will now play both historicals and the other stuff and have twice the fun! 🙂

I think the majority of ‘historical’ gamers enjoy fantasy and scifi as well

I think it was the well known Napoleonic and WW2 wargamer Tony Bath who wrote a set of fantasy campaign rules for  Hyboria in the 1950’s that started it all

VICTORY!  We have claimed another one!  Our empire grows and grows!  😀 😀 😀

Seriously though, @laughingboy – welcome.  If there is ever any background or research I can help with, it’s actually part of the hobby I really enjoy.  Just let me know.  😀   We also run historical wargames on the web just about every weekend.  Just ping me a PM if you ever want to try one or just hang out and chat as we game.

And hold on, @brucelea .  You call yourself a historical wargamer?  I’m not sure you qualify.  I mean it’s not like you’ve put in a 9.5 hour game of Panzer Leader on the beaches of Normandy and … oh, wait. 😀 😀 😀

@brucelea only knee deep , I’m up to my armpits , sitting at work with a box of 15mm Cromwells via the postman.

Strangely enough doing that myself at moment, got green for Americans sorted, but think Brits should be darker so looking at base colours to try same technique used at bootcamp.

Your card should be coming in the mail, welcome to the Club de Grognard

It starts with a bit of Bolt Action and flames of War next thing you know you just try a Skirmish game like Sharp Practice oh but SAGA is cool too and it’s only a few more minis then you wonder what it’s like to play something really big and before you know it you’re playing Mass Battles.

You can still enjoy all other aspects of Wargaming, I think everyone here has some kind of Fantasy/Sci Fi minis, heck Jim invented a Sci Fi Universe and a Game to go with it!

Specially if building Cromwells.