Reply To: Midwinter Minis Historical Wargames are not popular because it has Nazi's

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To me playing historical wargames is an much deteched from reality as playing a fantasy game. It is not that I am unware of the history behind it but I am not trying to recreate that ideology that lead to the war. That position is No different than playing Space Marines would be trying to create xenophobic imperium of man in 40K universe.

When people say ah but some people do. However that is a problem which sadly exists in society. The fact is yes some of these people play wargames but they also play 40K and fantasy games the problem is hardly unqiue to historical games.

It is certainly not the reason why Historical Wargames are not as popular. This idea anyone who wants to play the German side must support the ideaology is just not true.

Let be honest it is not just tabletop games, the theme of war is popular across vast forms of entertainment films, board games, video games. Some of the biggest video games on the market are based on historical World War II action and real events. It does not stop people playing those.

Guy even had an advert in his video for world of warships which showed him with the Germany WWII ships. Why would it be acceptable to do that in a video game but is somehow a moral issue because it is a tabletop game ?

Tabletop games can be enjoyed as an abstraction that it is about the ideas rather than events that actually happened in the war. We dont have to always bog down the moral complexity of real events to enjoy the game. You could question the whole of humanity and wonder why we find playing any war game interesting be it set in 40K or star wars. The core elements of you trying to kill another living creature is still the case on the table top . Unless you can abstract from that core element that none of this is real you have to ignore the moral aspect to what you are doing.