Reply To: Inaccessibility of Historical Wargaming

[chaingunParticipant 1939xp 1]

I don’t think it’s a lack of starter sets that has been mentioned on here, as if you look around you can almost get a starter set for any period and in any scale.

I think one of the biggest problems coming from say a GW background of gaming to historicals is the same issue as if you were into railway modelling. Historical gaming like railway modelling is still deemed a little nerdy and very closed doors. For me I’m proud of our hobby and I’m more than happy to talk to anyone who cares to ask.

For me I wouldn’t have a problem if a guy wanted to use his US Airborne that’s painted for Holland and use them for Normandy as it’s on,y the uniform that’s different and they are after all US Airborne. This also wouldn’t bother me as this guy might have little he can spend on his hobby and that is all he has at this time, or, he is just getting into the period and that’s all he has done for the time being.

Unfortunatly people are people and we all behave in different ways, I would hope we are all interested in what we all do and can take something from each other’s hobby. Like I said in my previous post, I am lucky being in the U.K. as we seem to have a little more access than most, but perhaps we don’t promote it as well as we could.