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Reply To: Reign of the Neckbeards (or why do historical re-fights).

August 20, 2019 at 8:14 pm #1428228

bigdave

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Do enjoy a good re-fight, as much as I enjoy making up scenarios there’s something… measurable? To say that you’re better than Lee or Grant, Alexander or Pyrrhusn is nonsense, but it is fun playing around with what if’s. Hood being allowed to sweep the flank at Gettysburg or the Old Guard hitting Wellington’s centre earlier than in reality to see if you could actually pull it off. They do tend to make for bloody enormous games, usually daunting enough to put people off at times but it is fun. HATE army lists, I don’t really like competitive gaming at all to be honest – I’d much rather put together a ‘fluffy’ or attempt some degree of accuracy in terms of organisation and see how it goes. Real battles aren’t match play, it means I have to really get stuck in to take advantage of terrain, maximise the strengths and minimise the weaknesses of an army in the field as opposed to min/max list building… Totally understand that my approach can be an anathema to some people but it’s how I like to play and I just have to make sure my friends know full well what they are getting into. 40k I’ll concede to list building and points limits I suppose, same with Bolt Action but it’s rare I get games like that tbh as I find I spend quite a lot of time reading and researching, finding odd scenarios, crafting my own, making terrain to suit then having a crack at it.