Reply To: Reign of the Neckbeards (or why do historical re-fights).

[limburger 21709xp 0]

@piers I’m not a historical gamer … or at least not in the search for the most perfect reproduction of an event sense.

To me it is just a game like any other, but with the added bonus that either some of the stuff happened or the gear did exist or both.
I do admire the effort that goes into near perfect reproduction of historical scenarios, but I’m not going to start from scratch if someone has already done half the work of translating it into a game.

At the same time I’m not into ‘researching’ the fluff for fictional games either. I couldn’t care less for the reasons why robot girlyman did the things he did with the smurfs.

There is a wide range from ‘pure fantasy’ to ‘perfect reproduction’ and everything in between.
To me there is no one ‘true’ way of playing (historical) wargames.
The one thing that should matter is being aware of the ‘realism’ (or lack thereof) in the (historical) games we play.