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Hmn interesting comments and interesting topic.
‘When I was a lad. we had to make do with tanks made of clay a clths pegs for figures’.
Not actually correct , it was with Airfix tanks and soft plastic figures and a copy of Charles Grants ‘Battle’ borrowed from library (actually not a bad set today)
It was a couple of years later that my Army Cadet Drill instructor started the Alumwell Wargames club (The club still running WMMS) in about 1973.
It wss only them I found that there were other sets of rules and early 1/300th models eith tank models I only earlier dreamed of. (Wargame Research Group rules)
WW2 was considered an abberation, and Scifi/Fantasy was unheard of.
Ancients and Napoleonic were the adult games using Hinchcliffe and Minifigs, it was Heresy to use Airfix plastic.
I think @warzan has said on various blogs, we are in amazing times with new games and genres coming out daily. One of the Beasts, now OTT are doing an amazing job of opening people up to new ideas, look at me, 12 months ago I would never have considered 4OK, now I have a Raven Guard Army , Grey Knights etc.
With Historical gaming the problem in many ways is the history!
What I mean is when approaching many of us will be influenced by a book, documentary or even a film.
When playing a a historical game we will want the rules to reflect that book/Film, and our favourite set may reflect that veiw and being human individuals van get carried away in how far they take it.
To add to the mix are gamers from other genres without much historical knowledge who think a WW2/ Napoleonic etc game as it looks like fun.
What I have very long winded way is that at moment some want to play the game that is fun with a nod to history and some want to play a game that reflects the history as closely and wont accept anything else! Most I hope are a bit in the middle!
Therefore the set of rule you will pick may reflect one of those rationals.
To add to the mix is the aspect of the war you want to play, for WW2 land you have tankies and infs( I invented that) some want tank warfare with inf being a bit of. annoying distraction and vise versa for the infs,
Some rule sets are better the former such as Panzer and some better at the inf game such as I ain’t been shot mum, some fall inbetween.
I have heard of a gamer who sold all his 15mm FOW to go 28mm for BA, and never considered using the former models for the later!
Me I’ve got 1/200th 15mm and 28 WW2, depending on the scale of battle I want to play. So for ease I intend to play my 1st ‘What a tanker’ game will bebin 1/200th , they need digging out!
