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

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I think part of the reason for this ‘dislike’ about refights is that as an outsider it is almost impossible to get excited about it.

I simply can’t think of anything interesting about the entire American civil war, because it doesn’t ring a bell. It took articles by @oriskany for me to even begin to see what could be interesting.
At the same time I didn’t need much convincing to start digging into a local battle once I discovered it in one of the ‘operation market garden’ game books I own …

Same thing for other eras/genres …(anyone please do a viking/dark ages themed series … ;))

you need to find a hook first, because history tends to be one of the most boring & depressing subjects at school (next to geography and religion).

And technically the younger generation have had their ‘refights’ … they just call ’em video games (altough I’m pretty sure the allies didn’t have med packs at Omaha ;-)).