Reply To: Please Change my Mind and Point of View

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Nice to see the more positive spin this discussion evolved into.

Speaking of things that are feel a bit excluded I’d say the whole realm of actual “digital” games, though that’s potentially a bit controversial and worthy of its own topic (which i might create). Its great to see Beasts Of War open up more too board games rather than just the traditional miniature based games but I’d love to see a bit of inclusion from the digital side too. The likes of TableTop simulator, remote D&D etc. over lockdown has shown we do not need to be shacked to a physical table, the Sitrep Podcast does some fantastic games that are almost always played digitally by people around the world.

There’s some fantastic “games” out there that cover a huge variety of rules sets and styles, for me there’s quite a lot of crossover between the two, particularly when your getting into tactical, strategic or historical mindsets. Some of the more popular are covered more in general/gaming media but some don’t really have any specific home and it would be nice to see some discussion on there from time to time.

Some great examples though by no means an exhaustive list: the likes of hex based Gary Grigsby’s War in the East/West, Panzer corps, Command, Wargame, almost anything by slitherine, a whole range of paradox games such Heats of Iron/Crusader Kings/Europa Universalis and even Stelaris right through to the likes of Total War. There’s even a fantastic BattleTech Game.

I think the wargaming community generally looks down on these for the most part, I’m not exactly sure why, maybe its the “games stole people from the hobby of toy soldiers”, or “its not proper wargaming” mentality? For me there’s a real opportunity for crossover. Gary Grigsby’s games are very daunting (personally) but fantastically detailed and I think you’d struggle to play a similar scale and depth of game physically.

The Total War Warhammer series has been a huge hit and there’s a real opportunity to exploit that crossover in my view, in fact I can think of a few more mainstream games outlets that have played those games and covered or crossed over into Warhammer miniatures but I can’t really think of any “miniature” based media covering it in reverse other than the odd article?

Right, I think I’ll go make this into its own topic now…