Reply To: Popular Genres

[willz]

This the stuff I  have gamed with over the past 12 months, 20mm WW2 (Rapid Fire), 28mm 18th century WSS – SYW (The Wargame, Charge), 15m ACW, 28mm (Hail Caesar) and I have started painting some Star wars figures.

“Dr Jackson wrote” One thing I have noticed is that the local clubs have seen a lot of historical players stop playing at the club and play in their own homes\garages whereas the Fantasy\Sci Fi games only seem to occur at the club. A visit to the local clubs would make you think historical games interest is non-existant when in fact there are several historical groups all playing in private venues for various reasons.

I can agree with that statement at our club it is normally 2 – 3 historical gamers with 15 – 25 sci/fi and fantasy gamers each week.  A game like X-wing takes minutes to set up and a game 45 minutes I can see why this style of game is popular.  Sadly from my perspective several of the sci/fi and fantasy gamers choose not to paint their figures (hell if you are happy to game that’s your choice enjoy) it does save time and you get more gaming in.  I want my figures painted on the table and that works for me.

In and around the Plymouth area there are 2 clubs Cross Swords at Lee Mill and Plymouth association of Wargamers (PAW), both with around about 30 – 40 members maybe more but I know of 10 historical war-gamers in the Plymouth area who don’t go to either club.  We had a good venue The Giants Lair but sadly the business money behind it has move to Bristol so the venue closed this summer.  Some of the historical gamers who don’t use the clubs came there, mainly I think because you could have an 8 – 10 hour game session and I personally as a historical gamer like my games to last.  An evening game from 1830 – 2130 is fine for some games but sometimes it is nice to be able to play longer.

Please correct me if I am wrong but from what I see the sci/fi and fantasy games seem to be a planned campaign based around competition games and play out quicker, or you are just better organized than historical war-gamers.