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Reply To: Inaccessibility of Historical Wargaming

May 31, 2018 at 11:29 pm #1195508

georgesealy

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Ok, fascinating conversation – normally I’d struggle to read through 3 pages of comments to catch up, but I did… A couple of thoughts that I don’t think I saw mentioned:

Many people who want to try out historical gaming may not come to it from a “love of history” (that comes later). It’s far more likely that they’re inspired by watching Fury or Outlander, reading the Sharpe novels or other similar media. This is why I think Warlord calling their starter set “Band of Brothers” is genius.
For me I find people I like gaming with and game with them, rather than deciding to play (say) Chain of Command and then being “forced” to play with people who play that game. Lately that’s been Age of Sigmar and Blucher – neither of which I would have really expected when I got back into gaming a couple of years ago.

As for accessibililty, “breaking into” any group of players can be awkward and daunting, regardless of genre (thinking of getting back into 40k is terrifying to me) – ultimately for me it comes back to the players themselves, not the genre or rules.