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Reply To: Inaccessibility of Historical Wargaming

August 1, 2018 at 6:48 pm #1243725

limburger

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The name ‘history’ also appears to imply that all you ever do is revisit the same old battles with more or less the same results.
As such the name of the genre isn’t doing it any favours.

OTOH … with the way modern documentaries have been making history easier to consume by being less dry and more action oriented that too may help shift the balance a bit. Sometimes I think it is a bit too much action and too little factual as a result though. The bloody commercial breaks (and the repeating of info before/after them) aren’t helping either.

Southpark has done a brilliant spoof of the style with their “I should have never gone ziplining” episode.

/offtopic

@oriskany : all of your articles have been interesting to read. It’s kind of like how I stumble upon interesting documentaries on History Channel et al. The title in the guide may not always be the most interesting, but the visuals and presentation definitely help sell it every time. It’s only the sheer volume of content on this site that makes me miss finishing them at times.

The projects concept may help link a lot more historical content together with the systems used. Although maybe there needs to be a generic ‘historical/era’ tag to find more stuff as well ?