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@oriskany – thanks for your veteran’s take on Moderns, other Historical periods and especially non-historical wargames.  I found it a learning experience reading your views.

A friend of mine, who I don’t have much contact with anymore, was quite a pacifist, so wouldn’t play wargames.  I can’t remember his stance on fantastical things like RPGs, this was in a time before GW was the GW of WHFB and 40k, at least in dear old New Zealand – hay even IKEA can’t put us on a world map, if you watched the latest episode of “Last Week Tonight”, and they want to set up a store here.

He would, however, play chess, if I remember correctly.  To me Chess is still a wargame.  Heavily abstracted, and for him, I presume, beyond the point of recognition as such…  This was back in the earlier 80s, so his view on things may well have changed.  It is interesting where people draw their lines.