The Loose Association of Wargamers

It's one of the reasons I rather enjoyed some kriegspiel games, dither, you lose...

1st Edition Kings of War routinely used a Chess Clock to "moderate" turns.

It was interesting as it automatically penalised the command and control of horde armies, giving less thinking time whilst moving due to the number of figures.

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Sun Jul 17, 2022 4:55 pm Having spent forever on their set-up (literally measuring the distances to everything else on their side of the table, including all three edges, for EVERY single unit they put down)

And this is why I will never ever play a competition game again. Ever.

In all fairness, I've played literally hundreds of competition games, and examples like this I have encountered maybe 2 to 3 times...

As they say in Oz, we're not playing for sheep stations...

yeh ive played a fair few "friendly" games that were shit. The competition games i've been in i've always enjoyed.

Whilst we are on the subject of daft ideas how about this one.



Wargaming with screws - from an article in Miniature Wargame Magazine August 1969. This was the first wargaming magazine I bought for the princely sum of 3/6.

As long as they are properly painted... I wonder how many hair roller armies were ever made?

Presumably, Guard units were represented by a slightly longer screw?

I think we've crossed threads here

goat major wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 2:39 pm yeh ive played a fair few "friendly" games that were shit. The competition games i've been in i've always enjoyed.

Then you’re very lucky. The SAWU league was populated by absolute cheating nobheads without a single redeeming feature amongst all of them