Reply To: Inaccessibility of Historical Wargaming

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@tankkommander very true and that is one of the limits to playing most Historical periods.

As a General Rule of thumb insurgencies/rebellions are great for “custom” paint jobs.

American Revolution, American Civil War, Ancient Barbarians, Pirates, Spanish Napoleonics, WWII Partisans and basically any Army post 300A.D. to 1700A.D.  since uniform data is very dodgy at best.

Sure you have to stay within the reasonable eg. No Splinter Camo on your American Revolutionary Militia but you aren’t as restricted as you would be by painting British Redcoats. Contrary to popular belief that past was very bright and colourful.

 

I do think it’s a bit of “Apples and Oranges” though. For me personally I’d never sink that much time/effort/cash (Australian so yeah GW is not cheap here) into an army to use for a fixed campaign against fixed enemies when I can just make my own Regiment and play whenever. When it comes to Historicals I’m perfectly happy to do that since most of the games I’m playing are specific Scenarios or Campaigns rather than pick up points matches.