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Title: Are you a Proper wargamer? Post by: EvilGinger on 07 November 2012, 17:07:59 Via PhilB's excellent blog:
To genuinely call yourself a Wargamer, then you must have done most or all of the following; * Spent at least £500 on figures / tanks - and you get extra kudos for every £500 you've spent * Pricked your finger or thumb on a pike block - several times * Tried at least 10 different rule sets and vowed never to play half of them ever again * Bought an army off EBay * Sold an army on EBay * spent months painting an army - then used it in anger once * tried several different periods and genres * dropped a box of figures on the floor from a great height * lost a battle on the last throw of the dice * made at least one enemy for life * had a proper, stand up argument over a wargamers table * thrown a dice across a room * rebased an army for a different rule set * inflicted a whopping defeat on an opponent * suffered an embarrassing defeat due to a stupid tactical decision * joined a wargamers club * bought a ton of lead that remains unpainted * been to a wargamers show * have more dice than is logical or necessary to own - and have used most of them * have taken boxes of troops down to a club just to show them off to your mates The above is the blan format if you want to do it copy & paste it to a reply & then fill in your answers... >:DGinger Title: Re: Are you a Proper wargamer? Post by: EvilGinger on 11 November 2012, 18:15:30 To genuinely call yourself a Wargamer, then you must have done most or all of the following;
* Spent at least £500 on figures / tanks - and you get extra kudos for every £500 you've spent yes but not all at once * Pricked your finger or thumb on a pike block - several times Yes * Tried at least 10 different rule sets and vowed never to play half of them ever again Yes * Bought an army off EBay No * Sold an army on EBay Yes, but never one of mine * spent months painting an army - then used it in anger once Yes * tried several different periods and genres Yes & then gone back to them * dropped a box of figures on the floor from a great height No * lost a battle on the last throw of the dice Yes * made at least one enemy for life Yes, one day I will go down the list & those on it will find out the hard way * had a proper, stand up argument over a wargamers table Yes * thrown a dice across a room Yes, occasionally in anger thought I am a bloody rotten shot * rebased an army for a different rule set Yes, & hate it * inflicted a whopping defeat on an opponent Yes & certain of them keep me warm at night * suffered an embarrassing defeat due to a stupid tactical decision No Never * joined a wargamers club Yes, several mainly to save subs * bought a ton of lead that remains unpainted Yes, I have lead pile but its not that big * been to a wargamers show Yes * have more dice than is logical or necessary to own - and have used most of them Gods Yes * have taken boxes of troops down to a club just to show them off to your mates Yes >:DGinger Title: Re: Are you a Proper wargamer? Post by: EvilGinger on 11 November 2012, 18:16:07 now you lot fess up you lot
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