Reply To: Please Change my Mind and Point of View

[admiralandy 1647xp 1]

I think this is more to do with community preference than resistance in the main, and were maybe back to more simple questions. Ok so you want to get someone into hex based card board gaming, where’s the gateway game?

Firstly there are some tactical rather than grand strategy variants around, but they don’t have the avenues of engagement and advertising that ruleset & mini producers can tap into. Is that due to the companies producng those not able to help grow there own market more proactively?

Is it also due to the fact that kind of gaming is not as suited to casual fun play and requires more commitment to trawl through a badly laid out and maybe even flawed system rulebook? Essentially your asking a wargaming and likely Boardgame/cardgame player to learn a new mechanic and style of play cold.

Whilst ther have been 1 or 2 exceptions, if it wasn’t Alessio behind it, would Quelle Affaire have been showcased? A one of hit with no real follow up to grow an interest is not a broad church.

 

As regards what the OTT Team might consider, maybe I blinked and missed it but there are to my mind 2 or 3 options that could highlight these:

Showcasing some Block games, such as Hammer of the Scots?

Command & Colours is a successful series but are there any features on this?

Also when talking Hex based, one of the oldest Wargames, 40+ years and still going gets zero, nadda, zip, coverage is Star Fleet Battles and its inumerable spinoffs. There has been a move to a miniature side, but it has a gateway version, something they definately took steps to develop and I don’t think can be entirely unrelated to there longivity.

But the way I look at it is, trying to get someone trying something new is only possible if they get introduced to it. Its like someone always walks home the same way, always gets fish and chips for a Friday Tea and have never tried any other fast food ever (its a hypothetical bare with me). But if they went home a sligtly different way just once, they’d find a pizza takeaway. Whilst not the same its still nice munchy junk food, and they can like it just as much, but in a different way.

 

Also in the modern age, people tend to make there minds up very quickly and stick with what they know (swipe right), so if not done before @oriskany maybe a 5 part series focusing on the features of Hex based play gaming (and its not just historical).