And this is Saturday

[wombat_socho]

I meant to get to bed at a reasonable hour last night, but made the mistake of opening up the World War II in the Pacific scenario for Civ III, which as a simulation is kind of at the same level as SPI's old Blue & Gray quad, or a couple steps above Risk. Short steps. Anyway, it kept me up until 2 AM

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[edwarddain]

I've actually been seriously debating getting back into some miniature wargaming with sekhmetdancing - scifi rather than historical. But I'm sort of surprised I'm even thinking of it.

[wombat_socho]

In some ways it's a logical progression from RPGs - those really don't work too well if you're dealing with more than a handful of people, and considering that D&D started out as a way to integrate magic with medieval miniatures gaming, it's not too surprising that people tend to start with D&D (or other RPGs) and go the other way.

Miniatures for me were never worth the hassle of painting them. I am simply horrible at fine motor skills (well, anything requiring more dexterity than disassembling and reassembling small arms, anyway) and tended to leave the few miniature warships and AFVs I bought in bare metal...though I have to say I've been awfully tempted by the vehicles made for the Hammer's Slammers miniatures rules. I already have the boardgame, after all.

*chuckle*

[edwarddain]

Only if you like the military stuff. But I grew up with a miniature wargamer (my Dad owned/owns a whole bunch of Napoleonic flats...).

And the rules I use are by the same company that makes those mini's (Ground Zero Games).

When you do the 6mm stuff (Microarmour scale) there's not a whole lot of painting involved.

Re: *chuckle*

[wombat_socho]

Interesting coincidence.

Yeah, you don't have to do much with 1/285 scale miniatures, but I felt I ought to at least paint stars on the sides of the WW2 Soviet tanks I had. Or use dazzle camo on some of the ships. I never did either, as it turned out.