Reply To: Inaccessibility of Historical Wargaming

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It is quite intimidating to get started in Historical wargames. Especially if your local club has a lot of rivet counters.

There is a trade off between playability and hsitorical accuracy. Personally I really like building and painting WW2 tanks/vehicles but don’t have time or inclination to worry about absolute historical accuracy.

A game like Tanks (GF9) hits the spot. It is light enough to play in about an hour, and doesn’t claim to be trying to replicate accurately the real life tank combat of Ww2. Think of it as World of Tanks on the tabletop.

The ultra Grognard is never going to accept the slightly wrong colour of your Napoleonic Hussar tunic, or the not quite historically correct camo pattern on that late war Panzer, and will have an attack of the vapours if the rules do not run to at least 500 pages of small text with lots of tables 🙂