The Loose Association of Wargamers

Let’s hear your shameful confessions.
This is a place of tolerance and love.
Even if you have played with unpainted figures.

I’ll kick things off...

‘I’ve never owned a Roman army’

I never played 6th Edition (or any of the others for that matter).
Charge! and The Wargame were not my earliest influences to get into the hobby.

I've never read a Featherstone or Grant book, I think The Wargame rules are terrible and, after fifty years of wargaming I've only ever painted four complete armies.
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i once used tobacco tins to represent vehicles because i hadn't bought the models yet and didn't want to buy them if they didn't perform as hoped for

On the whole - although the uniforms are pretty - i find 18thC games quite dull

I once melted down someone's 15mm ancients army by mistake. While they were stood in front of me.

Ouch! I think that means you're winning.

Rulesets with tables, lookups, casualties per figure and simultaneous movement - i like em. I tut loudly when wargaming media people declare them to be a bad thing.

Brother Goat, hallelujah, I am of the table and chart persuasion too!

I may have stuff than I can paint in my lifetime.

Also I don’t like shinys

I have played games with unpainted figures.
I have chalked terrain onto a pingpong table
I have never flocked
I have drawn up rules on an A4 writing pad
I have made boom noises and bagpipe sounds whilst moving units
I have spoken in strange accents when commanding non British troops

I have zero hesitation in using any old melanin-blessed spear-equipped types as “the natives”. As far as I’m concerned, those Zulus can do stand-in duties from Classical Nubia to Pulp Polynesia.

What’s that? Radically different cultures with their own battlefield doctrine, distinctive look and formations, you say?

Yeah, whatever. I’ve got some zulus here. They’ll do.