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

[admiralandy 1647xp 1]

On balance I agree,… but thats a whole tricksy mine field unfortunately.

Anybody new looking at it wouldn’t get the difference and in the UK anyway with the Osprey wargames in WHSmiths and larger book shops its not just the 40k route these days. So Plenty pick up the rules as an entry and then find like minded friends, and by the time they are sticking with it and get any difference theres the but I’ve invested so much into this rule now…

And unless its a distinctive hook to encourage players, like yes this is sifi wargame but its hard sifi. Then your not going to get publishers saying, this is a WW2 themed rulest but its not really representative of what actually happened – as that might discourage a sale.

Lets be honest when we started wargaming with our ‘research’ consisting of ye olde hollywood movies, most of us wouldn’t have got the difference, and plenty of us don’t care by the time we do.

 

Maybe we should view that as part of the barrier to entry and why so many simples wargames are the entry for so many players, its the historicly lose and implausible setups that newbies are more used too, and without coercing simply highlight the alternate choices.

 

If we consider the title of this post and a newbie has picked up the Bolt Action Band of Brothers starter – well hey thats just like Saving Private Ryan and the Series of the same name, and in half of those there are fights with armour.

 

Also what do you class as ‘armour’, would that include a half track, which would be a common enough feature for games where troops are being transported in for a fight.