Reply To: There is no place for (armoured) vehicles and fliers in a 28mm skirmish game?

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@onlyonepinman of course we are discussing personal opinions. Still I do not think that “recreation” or “reenactment” are accurate terms, since they would imply that your attempt is to recreate or reenact exactly what has happened while this is not the purpose of a wargame, but rather to put you in a situation similar to the one someone has historically been in and to start from there. So you have the weapons, the troops and the tactics of the time and play an historical (or fictional) encounter confronted with the same or similar choices that historically belonged to that period. This is not what happen in Bolt Action, as I said, because the use of a certain kind of models is nearly accidental and you could use models from a completely different period and the game would not change at all. A Roman Tribune, a Renaissance Condottiere, a Napoleonic General and a WWII Field Marshall had completely different situations in front of them: different challenges and different choices to make to overcome them. Modelling this you have a wargame. Bolt Action is nothing of this sort, this is why I define it a game.