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I read all the threads again and wonder if inaccessibility should read confusion.
Take Napoleonics for example. Everyone has heard of Waterloo and maybe watched Sharpe and it all looks nice and colourful though might be a bit complicated doing all the painting. Right so where to start. Well there’s 28,25,20,15,10,6 and 2/3mm scale that you can buy from multiple manufacturers then there’s the plethora of different rulesets depending on what sort of sized battles you want to portray. If you look at reviews everyone has the own opinion of what is a good/ bad ruleset.So I guess I’m not really surprised that people trying to start are maybe a little put off. Now take all this and apply it to nearly every period of history people might want to game in and bedlam ensues
I think there is a case for starter sets and many companies offer ready made packs for rulesets but I do think looking from outside in trying to start in historicals is pure confusion