Reply To: Inaccessibility of Historical Wargaming

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@limburger but surely thats your choice? To spend time reading and Preparing?

The games dont make you have to do that… you can pick up a cooy of Bolt action and, if you have figures, play a game?

You also dont have to persue your hobby with the quest of growing the community. My hobby is mine…

Time… well time is entirely up to you what you invest in your hobby. Its a personal choice, but we all decide that, and its not really effected by the genre we choose. I have a job and a family it has to fit around.

Perhaps its not the games but the genre thats the issue. Perhaps its peoples perception and unfamiliarity with the genre thats the key. Not the access as such. Lack on familiar concepts, terms and mechanics, not too mention new manufacturers will dazzle a new recruit to any genre.

For me, I’d see something like 40k as far more inaccessible… because I have no familiarity with it really.