Reply To: Inaccessibility of Historical Wargaming

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Awesome, @commodorerob – just wanted to make 110% sure it was clear I wasn’t talking about your friend’s approach, I certainly wasn’t there.  But it sounds like some of the 40K players with whom he was speaking might have had some bad experiences with other “grognards” in the past.  What happens sometimes is that even polite, inclusive, and welcoming historical gamers often “catch the grief” from non-historical communities that has accrued through past interactions with other historical gamers that haven’t been so welcoming.

It certainly isn’t fair, but it does happen.

At least for me, one of the top “advantages” that historical wargaming has is that it also winds up being very educational as well as entertaining.  Ergo, we as historical wargamers, when recruiting from other hobbies or genres, have this additional opportunity to educate as well as entertain, welcome, etc.  When we’re carrying out this education (be it through wargame design, running events, publishing articles, posting threads, etc) we just have to be a little careful to remain always conciliatory, welcoming, respectful, and of course humble.

Granted, that last one isn’t so easy.  we are Historical Wargamers, after all! 😛 😛 😛