The Loose Association of Wargamers

Reading back through all the responses is really very depressing you know.

Penda wrote: ↑Sat Dec 05, 2020 12:47 pm Reading back through all the responses is really very depressing you know.

You could post that on so many of the threads here...

Peeler wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:31 pm Similar thoughts then. I wonder if the younger, fantasy gamers prefer White Dwarf more than we like 'our' magazines.

Brainwashing. GW invented wargaming so their magazine is the only one and must be bought. (It has also dipped in popularity from it's heyday too though).

Paul wrote: ↑Sat Dec 05, 2020 2:29 pm

Peeler wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:31 pm Similar thoughts then. I wonder if the younger, fantasy gamers prefer White Dwarf more than we like 'our' magazines.

Brainwashing. GW invented wargaming so their magazine is the only one and must be bought. (It has also dipped in popularity from it's heyday too though).

Tut tut Paul, it's not called "wargaming" at the GW Kremlin, it is the "Games Workshop hobby". I wonder, since it's change just how popular White Dwarf is anymore, it's become the Pravda of the GW empire, I don't think it is even as appealing as it's previous incarnation. I fondly recall the old White Dwarf days, way back in the late 70's and early 80's when it had a much greater degree of editorial and content independence and often dealt with (and advertised|) non Citadel/GW products quite freely. Now it's just a rigid and doctrinal propaganda pamphlet.

You say that like it is a bad thing, comrade....

Due to this thread, I pulled out my collection of Battle Games' mags & have started re-reading them. I don't have them all (about half) but I've kept them as well as about 80% of the Practical Wargaming ones I had. I gave my huge collection of the other two titles (Wargames' Illustrated and Miniature Wargames?)away when I moved.

OK -so the internet has replaced the magazine. Hmmm. Professional edited & expert reviews on all manner of books, rules, figures & terrain. Scenarios. Articles with hints & suggestions as figure ranges. "How to" articles. Ads for products I didn't know existed. BGs looks pretty good & I know you can get some/much of this but not in one place, not professionally edited & not without a possible degree of bias, hard to detect.

Jeez, BG even has photos of many of you lot. (I *think* that's a plus....)

THIS forum I value but there isn't much else out there on the Net I like & it isn't a commercial proposition so it isn't really comparable to a mag.- especially a quality production like BG. Everything else is hit and miss.

I just wish I'd bought ALL the BGs. when they were available.

donald

That was thenm, this is now. Print media, almost without exception, have responded to the internet by trying to compete on the net's terms. Unsurprisingly they lose. I think in hobby magazines, and many other places, there is a market niche for quality productions which offer what you can't get on the net, and I would pay real money for that. But there are few contemporary magazines that fill that niche, or even try.

grizzlymc wrote: ↑Mon Dec 07, 2020 3:49 am That was thenm, this is now. Print media, almost without exception, have responded to the internet by trying to compete on the net's terms. Unsurprisingly they lose.

Yeah but don't you miss nostalgia?

So why didn't I buy every BG mag when it was running? Price. Not the price of the magazine but the added P&P cost.
I did try an electronic copy but did not like it. So, I'd suggest a free, if flawed, internet source will trump even a quality product that costs a lot. And clearly my parsimonious ways are, sadly, fairly standard.

donald

I have a catalogue for all my military modellings and the battle for wargamers that briefly replaced them. I consult it routinely, but it is 10 years since I could be arsed picking up the stuff I have seen in Newsagents.

grizzlymc wrote: ↑Mon Dec 07, 2020 8:09 am but it is 10 years since I could be arsed picking up the stuff I have seen in Newsagents.

Same here. The point is a *quality* production - like BG - which I would probably buy more religiously now if it existed.

donald