tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7615782020735321095.post322927120878053788..comments2024-03-22T10:01:23.989+00:00Comments on Wargaming for Grown-ups: Black Powder PonderingsTrebianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02221916804339000102noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7615782020735321095.post-70235136398180862582012-08-06T08:38:34.002+01:002012-08-06T08:38:34.002+01:00Red,
You are right about the unit sizes in the bo...Red,<br /><br />You are right about the unit sizes in the book, although if you look at the pictures of our gsmes we play with 12 figure units and it works well enough.<br /><br />TrebianTrebianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02221916804339000102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7615782020735321095.post-38069355355443970852012-08-05T23:26:01.093+01:002012-08-05T23:26:01.093+01:00"Why does it take nearly 100 pages?"
Pr..."Why does it take nearly 100 pages?"<br /><br />Probably because you can make a lot more money from selling a £30 book than a £6 book. And that's what it comes down to in the end. Oh and of course you get more glossy miniatures porn to encourage people to buy more figures. - <br /><br />I don't really know anything about the rules I have to confess. However, the cynic in me wonders how big the units are. Would I be wrong in guessing that they are fairly big? (Means you have to buy more minis of course!) :)Red_Cardinalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12119321537913665046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7615782020735321095.post-36980168861541537242010-09-07T19:33:01.358+01:002010-09-07T19:33:01.358+01:00There aren't any grown up wargamers, but there...There aren't any grown up wargamers, but there are grown ups that wargame. At least there are people like me who have jobs & families & power tools and still wargame.<br /><br />I suppose I don't have a problem with the informal style of the rules when explaining the game, but the pictures are an issue. Their lack of relevance to the text is simple laziness. They had a size of book in mind and filled it with easy pictures - probably already in someone's photo library - rather than give text to explain how the rules are adapted to the periods they claim to cover. I think that is what jars with the matey, hail fellow well met, we're all chaps here style. <br /><br />Particularly given what was promised in the interview quoted in my next blog.Trebianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02221916804339000102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7615782020735321095.post-62947937968781282352010-09-07T02:25:38.151+01:002010-09-07T02:25:38.151+01:00There is no such thing as a 'grown-up' war...There is no such thing as a 'grown-up' wargamer, unless you count the ones who left the hobby for something their mates considered more along the lines of what an adult *should* do with his leisure. Perhaps they're football fans now, or they've taken up fishing, or they've a hobby they use to generate a bit of income.<br /><br />In any case, they're no longer wargamers.<br /><br />Half of what is in the book could have been linked to the rules, etc. I see what you mean. On the other hand, a lot of it is, as you called it, wargamer porn. I think the book, in addition to being a hefty rule book, will find itself making trips to the loo fairly often. 'Reading material', right?<br /><br />I wonder why they *didn't* do the obvious and associate the images more closely, trim back the informal style, etc? Have they caught the Games Workshop bug?Steven Satakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03621308678106707775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7615782020735321095.post-62915240422298955512010-09-04T19:36:06.126+01:002010-09-04T19:36:06.126+01:00I don't disagree with most of your comments, -...I don't disagree with most of your comments, - the point is that about half of what is in the book is lazy. It doesn't provide what it purports to, - ie rules and data to allow you to play the full period. Plus the photos don't illustrate the game. It would not have been hard for the pictures to tie into the text, or for the space devoted to battle reports to have covered the armies for the period.<br /><br />There could have been much more "meat" in the production, - it feels to me that it has hit lowest common denominator levels to make sales.<br /><br />As for being a "grown up wargamer"... that's just a reference to trying to fit everything in your hobby with trying to do a job and have a family. You can be a grown up wargamer and disagree with me about everything I write on wargaming.Trebianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02221916804339000102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7615782020735321095.post-59105184837983117802010-09-04T18:54:47.025+01:002010-09-04T18:54:47.025+01:00Pretty pictures about toy soldiers, non-tournament...Pretty pictures about toy soldiers, non-tournament oriented rules, fun to read text, good game design, gorgeous book in every aspect. Somehow I feel I'm not a "grown-up wargamer" because I see nothing less than perfection here (comparing it to the rest of the historical wargames texts around). And it suits me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com