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What would you say is the main driving force for your gaming, what is the thing that appeals most?
[poll question=’What is your main reason for gaming’ answers=’All about the gaming, The research, The social aspect, The world building and model making, Other’]
It is about creating a setting, a world that I can create and build and model and believe in.
An outlet for my imagination that can, once built, be played in and shared with others.
I seem to have lost my voting rights, the poll won’t register my vote. Am I going to have to enlist with the Mobile Infantry now, Mr Rico?
It’s primarily the visual, physical world-building (even in the case of historicals) and storytelling for me. That includes, but isn’t limited to, most of everything that falls under modelling and painting. Other aspects I enjoy include rules design (more as a user than a producer), following and being part of a dynamic community (which very much does include trendspotting), and reading military history (but entirely at a “shallow dilettante” level, trying to stick to articles and books that are generous and merciful to readers who know considerably less about the subject than does the writer).
I seem to have lost my voting rights, the poll won’t register my vote. Am I going to have to enlist with the Mobile Infantry now, Mr Rico?
I would like to know more, can you PM me the browser used and stuff to try at this end too please?
PM maybe sent. Depends on whether you’re the one the TWW messaging system identifies as “Developer Mike”. Otherwise someone else will have received a very bizarre PM right now
It fills the lonely hours ‘twixt cradle and grave…
Coming next: ‘Is wargaming dying?’
I really hope General isn’t going to to descend into navel gazing threads.
Obvious contrarian and passive aggressive old prat, who is taken far too seriously by some and not seriously enough by others.
So, it seems option 4 is broken..
A few people now that have tried to vote for it are unable.
Buggery.Sorry.
Nor sure I want to see my navel
And thinking as deeply as I can manage on a Tuesday afternoon with my daughter moaning about her new head teacher and quoting Hamlet, and my son and his friend doing Drama homework and Call of Duty Modern Remastered at the same time, I suspect the genuine answer is: habit.
I think it was probably a combination of toy soldiers, my Dad having been in WWII, and a subconscious desire to have a bit of the world I was in control of, but after 45 years I suspect it is just something I do.
Nor sure I want to see my navel
And thinking as deeply as I can manage on a Tuesday afternoon with my daughter moaning about her new head teacher and quoting Hamlet, and my son and his friend doing Drama homework and Call of Duty Modern Remastered at the same time, I suspect the genuine answer is: habit. I think it was probably a combination of toy soldiers, my Dad having been in WWII, and a subconscious desire to have a bit of the world I was in control of, but after 45 years I suspect it is just something I do. I think we’re more or less on the same page.
I suspect everyone else is too, if they’re honest 🙂
Obvious contrarian and passive aggressive old prat, who is taken far too seriously by some and not seriously enough by others.
I suspect the genuine answer is: habit. I think it was probably a combination of toy soldiers, my Dad having been in WWII, and a subconscious desire to have a bit of the world I was in control of, but after 45 years I suspect it is just something I do.
I think we’re more or less on the same page. I suspect everyone else is too, if they’re honest
Give me another 25 years, and I may be where you are. For now, I don’t think habit suffices as an explanation for why I do it. Once or twice a year, I more or less “quit” the hobby and divert my attention to other pursuits and interests for at least a few months, sometimes most of the year, without giving much thought to returning. The thing that always spontaneously brings me back is inspiration and a new resolve to chase that perfect high. The “perfect high” in this context is being a miniature demiurge and making little stories play out on the stages I’ve crafted.
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