The Loose Association of Wargamers

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.

To be fair, in 7 years of playing in FoG:R competitions, they were the only opponents I have ever faced - other than Dick Badly-Shot - who I would not have wanted to socialise with afterwards. There is still a hard core of competition players using these rules - probably about a dozen regulars all told - and I have been seriously contemplating returning to such games as I genuinely miss the camaraderie. They run an ECW day at the Oxford club, and Wessex used to have an early Renaissance (pre-1550) one-day competition that several of them drove down from the Midlands to take part in.

Well, there was an element of world domination going on in the SA guys. Colin wossisname definitely had that power-crazed dictator thing going on, and mind sports sa used to award national caps and springbok jerseys. All a bit serious for my liking.

Yes, I remember reading about that in an article submitted to one of the two UK wargames mags - "colours" were awarded and I envisaged appropriately hued tape being sewn around the lapel edges on someone's blazer. It said "We're organised!" in a way that was just a wee bit too 3rd Reichy.

That was my reaction too... we're playing with toy soldiers, not running the 100 metres.

looking at most wargamers its a good job we're not

Hey, no one claimed to be setting any records. Making 100 metres without a heart attack would be a win in my book...

DougM wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 3:12 pm Well, there was an element of world domination going on in the SA guys. Colin wossisname definitely had that power-crazed dictator thing going on, and mind sports sa used to award national caps and springbok jerseys. All a bit serious for my liking.

Yup. I qualified for the Bok team but couldn’t afford the ticket to the Osprey Internationals (or whatever it was called)so never got them - I do have EP colours - though that means stuff all . His wife was another story….

My only other experience of competition gaming was playing Bolt Action (a game I generally enjoy playing in the right company) at the club in Bolton. It was against a bunch of win at all cost min maxers who built the most improbable Panzergrenadier forces. 18 men supported by King Tigers and Brummbärs, et al. Loved how I was in a maize field and couldn’t see out, but his mortar behind a house knew exactly where my commander was in the maize field. I don’t go to the club anymore.

Jeremy wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 3:07 pm

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

So Kumbayah games at Ayton then?

DougM wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 3:27 pm That was my reaction too... we're playing with toy soldiers, not running the 100 metres.

I was a prop? you ran marathons like 100ms?

10ms and dead was me! (and the fly half if I timed it right).