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Gurn of the Every Other Week! – Haters Gonna Hate, Gurners Gonna Gurn
February 26, 2015 by dracs
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Brilliant, you need to post this on a Monday to drive away those first day back to work blues.
Heh, those two gurns go together very well. The first one in particular is very dear to my heart and it is an issue that is exacerbated very much by the second. Gaming without the use of miniatures is not the “correct” or “grown up” way to do it, just as gaming WITH miniatures is far from the only way to game. It is simply a choice. A personal preference.
As long as everyone’s cool with that, then I’m cool with that. But I swear, the next person who turns their nose up at a strategy game simply because it has cardboard tokens and a paper mat, or a roleplaying game just because the GM decided to use miniature.. well, they could very well deserver a clip around the ear-hole! I swear, this hobby of ours is so inwardly focussed on segregating ourselves into smaller and smaller communities who thrive on hating everyone else that it’s a wonder the hobby hasn’t imploded yet.
Andrew Rilstone wrote about this in Arcane.. what, 20 years ago, when TSR was on it’s last legs and everyone was ready to pin the blame for the death of RPGs on Magic the Gathering (boo! hiss! etc). I guess we haven’t really changed all that much. 🙁
Funnily enough, I came across someone a few months back claiming that Magic: The Gathering had ruined wargaming.
Amen, @siygess – the first gurn is very close to my heart as well. I’ve been a wargamer for just about 30 years, with 29 of them firmly in the hexgrid and counters camp.
I’ll admit, head hung low and hat in my hands, that I used to look down a little on miniature gaming, at least for 20th Century historical. American Civil War, Napoleonics, and further back . . . no problem. The weapons ranges and movement rates (walking, or at the most, a horse gallop) meant that you could have a realistic minis game on a table smaller than a tennis court. World War II tanks? In miniature?
Beasts of War is what’s turned me around on this. I play miniatures all the time now, and I’m a shameless convert. While I admit that with the scales I like to play (not just the size of the miniature, but the size of the battle itself) . . . miniatures aren’t “scientifically” correct . . . I’m not a scientist. And neither are the people I play with.
There are seven letters in the word “wargame.” Only three are “war,” while four are “game.” That means players should concern themselves more with having fun (whatever definition that takes, and it’s a little different for each player) than accuracy to history or a sci-fi setting or a fantasy novel or whatever base material you’re working with.
I also agree WHOLEHEARTEDLY (and wish I could give your comment 50 +1 thumb-ups) when you say that we need to stop subdividing ourselves into smaller and smaller sub-communities. ARE THERE NOT FEW ENOUGH OF US AS IT IS?
Reading these reminded me of the days when GW used to publish campaigns which came with all the cardboard tokens you needed to play it with, if you didn’t have the miniatures.
Yeah those were fun! I recall at least two that were free with White Dwarf 🙂
When I was a lad all our games of warhammer were played with coloured card units. Could only really afford minis for roleplaying. When someone died in the game we just cut that many squares off the grid. A good sharp pair of scissors were the ultimate gaming aid. I remember playing Skaven against Empire and setting up a skirmish unit in groups of two with gaps between the pairs. Halfway through my my friend gave up the game. Later over shandies he explained it was because I had so many warpfirethrower ? teams still alive…ahem….sneaky rat men…..
lol could you imagine what a GW supermarket would look like?
You can cook in store, but only if you buy the latest hardback cookbook, each one a different cultural menu. The “Fry up breakfast” and “Meat with two veg” are top sellers with endless updates while the “Greater Good guide to Vegan” has finally been put out and gained some interest.
Ingredients are sold in packs separated into serving sizes, though have been shrinking of late, causing you to buy multiples. There are bigger all in meal boxes which serve four, but herbs, spices and food colouring are sold separately.
Meanwhile the new comer, Aldi has run sale after sale after sale. The quality might not be there yet but you can feed your army for months!
just to finish a rant you forgot lizard spock it’s (rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock,)?
Those facial expressions make me laugh! Are those the faces you pull the morning after a particularly hot curry?
Mmmm sprouts
…and Bugmans beer. 🙂