Batting For Both Teams

[Paul]

99% of my gaming is solo, so I always collect both sides in any conflict I intend to game – I am just wondering how many other gamers do the same? Always? Sometimes? Never?

Those are brave men knocking at our door. Let's go kill them!

[Mr. Average]

Always. My gaming interests are practically never in line with the prevailing taste consensus at the club, so I have to rely on having a full set of both sides at all times.

[Mike]

I do this…
But then with it being 6mm, it is not that much of a hardship!

Saying that, there are 2 people in the world that I occasionally game with so it is not all solo.
Even better, those 2 people have their own 6mm sci-fi!

woohooo

😀

[A Lot of Gaul]

Always. Like you, Paul, my miniatures wargaming is almost exclusively solitaire.

Cheers,
Scott

"Ventosa viri restabit." ~ Harry Field

[Rod Robertson]

Paul:

Pretty much always with ancients to ultra-moderns. And also often more than just two sides.

Cheers.

Rod Robertson.

[curlerman]

Yeap always. I hate rebasing when we change rules.

Winning is not important but losing i just can't handle..
blog http://flownlegions.blogspot.com.es
web http://www.angelfire.com/games4/bobsgames/hair_curlers.htm

[Spurious]

Occasionally, never for anything in 28mm or above platoon sized forces for 20mm, but I don’t game solitaire except to learn a system before showing others.

[DM]

Me too.

[willz]

I have several sides for WW2, Medieval, for my 18th century I have the French which I use for both sides in my imagination armies.

[kyoteblue]

About 20 years ago I started collecting both sides, it makes life easier.

[Lagartija Mike]

I’m pretty much a solitaire player so, yes. I’m obliged (or have an excuse) to build a fat number of armies. So far exclusively in 28mm but I’m considering some Hellenistic stuff in 15mm from Xyston.

[irishserb]

Though I’ve only started solo gaming in recent years, I’ve almost always built both sides.

[kyoteblue]

15mm works for me as I have room to store it and all my terrain works with almost all my armies.

[Piyan Glupak]

Most of my wargaming is solo now, so both sides it is for me.  Even when I lived in a town with a wargames club, I still found it a good idea to do opposing sides.

[McLaddie]

Because of where I live, I do solo gaming, but not exclusively–say 70-30% It all depends on the availability of friends and if they want to play what I want to.   I still do opposing sides in all cases.

[Alvin Molethrottler]

I don’t do any solo gaming but like to host games, I am just as happy running a game as I am participating as a player. So these days I always do both sides/multiple factions.

[Shaun Travers]

Both sides.  Only once have I ever collected one side and that was in my very early gaming days with a 6mm Modern British force in 1980.  Languished without being gamed with for 35 years – until 2 weeks ago! – due to me not owning miniature opponents.  I play mostly solo these days, but back in the day when I was not, I usually supplied both sides.

[OldNick]

Always buy/ paint both sides for any period I do.

“the regular troops, who had the keen edge of sensibility rubbed off by strict discipline and hard service, saw the confusion with but little emotion.” 

[grizzlymc]

I have always collected both sides.  It makes the painting less boring and you can always draw a line down the middle so that no one nicks all the old Guard.

[Author]

Posts