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Miniature #wargamer, Tolkien enthusiast, tea addict. 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 My #wargaming blog: rabbitsinmybasement.blogspot.com My gaming con: www.hotlead.ca

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Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 2h

#WIPWednesday lethargicly Poking at my @wargamesatlantic.bsky.social Goths and 3rd century Romans.
Going to mix a few archers into Goth warrior units.
Painted figures are old AF Wargames Factory Germans.

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Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 9h

So, the oldest Boss Level gamer we know of was... *checks notes*...a girl.
FSMs aren't that big a leap really.
#Nerdlings
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Archeological find of girl with cache of sheep ankle bones used for games

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Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 9h

Do they have to be Certified Organic?

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Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 9h

deadpool is wearing a helmet and holding two swords and says very nice !

ALT: deadpool is wearing a helmet and holding two swords and says very nice !

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Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 9h

Translations cost money and publishers probably figure that the market demand doesn't justify the costs

Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 9h

What we need are Continental European historians who are also wargamers to produce some "introduction to the period for wargamers" articles-guides-booklets and see if they can be translated into English

Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 9h

My poor skills at modern French and German rather killed my dreams of being a Medievalist

Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 11h

Again all very dry and scholarly.
With much in French and German.
Doesn't fit "easily accessible."

Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 11h

I mean easily accessible to Joe Average wargamer who isn't going to buy scholarly books in a foreign language.
Whereas Arthurian Britain has been done to death by populist writers giving wargamers something to get into

Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 11h

This is what I mean by "easily accessible"
A $60 scholarly work in German or French, that spends half of its pages examining source material is NOT accessible to Joe Wargamer.

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Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 12h

True. There's no bling. Nothing easily accessible.
You've just got to be comfortable with vagaries, broad sweep of historical events, and characters that are often little more than a name

Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 13h

Lack of strong sources. Lack of figures.
Existing figures are based on sketchy AF reconstructions done in late 19th century and repeated by Phil Barker in a WRG book?
The chap on that book could be made from any number of late Roman/Arthurian kits.

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Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 14h

Facts

TableTopBill @tabletopbill.bsky.social · 16h

A bad paint job is better than no paint at all......

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Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 14h

Just a fad really

a woman in a red jacket is saying it 's not gonna last at all

ALT: a woman in a red jacket is saying it 's not gonna last at all

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Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 1d

That's just more tournament play though.
Instead of setting more difficult scenarios.

Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 1d

At the expense of narrative and scenario games.
Which is sad.

But I think Wargaming and Tournament Games are two different hobbies that share the same media.

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Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 1d

Did 40k become a tournament only game with all the attendant nonsense of constant edition changes and models becoming obsolete because the players wanted it? Or because GW decided that template was more profitable?

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Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 1d

And if my friend says "hey let's try this other thing" I'm going to say "sure thing friend!"
If they don't want to, are they really your friend?

Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 1d

Going to call BS on that unless your local store is actively hostile to anything other than 40k.
Terrain can be made from all kinds of stuff, don't need official overpriced GW kits.
There's piles of different figures out there, it's called on line shopping.
Folks don't want to explore alternatives

Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 1d

Quar.
Rules agnostic.
There are official rules, but playing games with Quar using other rules is celebrated as well.

Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 1d

What do you mean by "Infrastructure" for a wargame?

Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 1d

"Infrastructure"
I buy rule book. Why do I need "Infrastructure"?
If I provide both sides as well....

But I've talked to people who, even if willing to bring both sides, can't get anyone to play.

Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 1d

Cheers Brooklyn GIF

ALT: Cheers Brooklyn GIF

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Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 1d

Hence my reference to Stockholm Syndrome

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Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 1d

After 40 years I've decided that I do too