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At the end of the day, some people are just d*cks.

My (entirely unqualified) observation would be that there seem to be a lot of OCD/Aspergers, ‘on the spectrum’ in any obsessional, detail focused hobby, and they perhaps don’t know how to be helpful, or need to parade their knowledge to puff up their egos.

To be fair though, if you are going to do ‘historical’ minis, then there’s a lot of info out there, and if you paint your Napoleonic Old Guard in red coats, then people are going to point it out.

Me, I’m somewhere in between, so yes, it would be nice to have all the correct regiments for battle ‘x’ with all the correct facings etc, but I am not going to get bent out of shape about the facing colours or regimental flags. My panzergrenadiers will get about in 251 halftracks, but I am not putting divisional insignia on the vehicles, as they are going to get used by Volksgrenadiers, Heer units and Luftwaffe field divisions as well.

And having said all that, my Early Imperial Romans include figures from the Metal Magic Asterix range, and will be painted in the accurate colours as depicted by those great historical authorities, Goscinny and Uderzo.