Some see Rivet Counter as an insult… I see it as something to strive for… to embrace and rejoice in! 😉

Some games do attract some rabid fan boy types, and some historical gamers do lack tact and decorum at times.

But it is, at the end of the day, a historical game, so if you are playing Germans versus Japanese on a desert table, then no matter how much fun you might be having, its not histotical to me… and Im allowed to think that. Same as youre allowed to enjoy it.

Everyone has their own standards of whats important and how they wish to persue the hobby. For some its all about the game, for others its about history and immersing oneself into a period. Some float around the middle ground.

Wargamers are just human and thus we have all types… Ive met many historical gamers who treat Fantasy or Sci Fi gaming as some form of heresy and I’ve seen those from the opposing side call people ‘elitist’ for wanting to play historically…

I think Bolt Action, drawing in GW style gamers in a tournament focussed game, and offering a more… cinema flavour of WWII, will always generate some criticism from more historical based chaps, as after all, many historical gamers also have a deep seated interest in the history too. So conflict will arise from a clash of how a period is gamed.

For me, and as I say, wargaming is a personal hobby, my ‘fun’ comes from playing a game with historically correct forces for a period of the war, with forces that reflect the likely combatants at the time. I dont want to build the best list, I want to make do with what I have and get on with it…

But for me its all part of a general interest in military history, so my way of gaming encompasses that. Im lucky to have a gaming group who have the same outlook.

So… Im happy to be an Elitist Rivet Counting Snob of historical wargaming!

Just dont tell the historical types about all my Warhammer armies…