Vanishing things

[martin goddard]

What has or will vanish from wargaming?
Of course there will be outliers.

1. Cardigans
2. Foldable rulers
3. large metal cantilever tool boxes
4. Subbuteo cloths
5. Green felt
6. Merit trees
7. Lichen
8. Periscopes
9. China graph pencils
10. 2x2 tiles
11. ?  your additions.

I am sure some players use all pf teh baove but do you think they are in decline??

martin

[Colonel Kilgore]

We may have played this game before, but I'd offer up flexible tape measures and laser pointers.

Simon

[martin goddard]

Tape measures can be a hazard when they retract quickly.
Some gamers borrow them and continually twist the end until it breaks.


martin

[Flaminpig0]

Wargame rules that require writing orders

[Sean Clark]

Single pose packs of figures
Enamel paints
Books under Subbuteo cloths for hills
Beer mats for bases
Cannister templates
Bounce through sticks
1/33 figure scales

[martin goddard]

Those are some great memories chaps.

I recall the WRG 4th edition "standing orders". One page of hand written waste of time.
The Western "SKIRMISH" rules had an order per second. To re load a six shooter you would use 6 orders. Load, load,load,load,load, load.  Argh! Moves were 1" per order.

Templates. Time spent shuffling it about to hit that extra figure.

Beer mats.  We found a pub with hexagonal beer mats. Used lots of those.

There have certainly been some changes over the years (probably in all aspects of life too).

martin

[Smiley Miley 66]

Not sure about Periscopes as I was looking and re building one that I built a few decades ago. They can be very good at looking across a battlefield area and getting a "tankers view" of the landscape ? It's helped me over the years to improve my scenery techniques?
Obviously we don't need it, to look if you can see that tank in the trees ? But it is great to see what that tank and the trees look like at ground level ?
When you play Team Yankee even in 6mm it's helps to have the periscope too ?
I agree with a lot on the lists. But not this item. It still has its uses?
Miles

[Leman (Andy)]

40x20. I bloody hate 40x20 and much else inspired by WRG. Haven't used 40x20 in a couple of decades and WRG Ancients in about 40 years. Another dead duck for me is 6x4, as my table is 6x3 and I do not have storage space for a 6x4 overlay. Further, I hate the way many rulebooks refer to "the standard 6x4 table". I know pretty much all clubs and shows use them, but they are now gone from my life, as are standard inches, which I have replaced with the 2/3 inch ruler.

[martin goddard]

A recent wargamer on another forum published a set of rules for the "standard 8x6" game table.
You can do third of a game Andy?


Gosh

martin

[Sean Clark]

Standard 8x6?? 🤣😅😂

Whose staandard??

[simmo]

Thinking about these 'standard' game table sizes didn't the 6ft by 4ft come from community halls having folding trestle tables this size? When we formed the Scunthorpe wargames group back in 1974? We used the many folding table tennis tables of the community centre I wondered if these were the '8x6 standard' but they were probably 9x5? Our use really annoyed the youth club as there would be chalked on roads and rivers. I do detect a move to smaller size tables. I was told that Games Workshop did an investigation into the size of the average household dining table for their Kill Team game.

Martyn S

[Sean Clark]

GW games of 40k and Age of Sigmar use a standard table size of 60"x44" now which possibly stems from that research.

[Lluis of Minairons]

Average dice - I mean, those D6 marked 2-3-3-4-4-5, with no 1 or 6.
I miss those 

[martin goddard]

I must do some research into how many fingers most people have or the number of doors on cars. Difficult and detailed.

A statement of the obvious will not count as an investigation I fear.

Competition games tend to be butted up side by side, so need a little space to prevent tanks driving from one table onto the next I suspect.

martin

[Leman (Andy)]

Still use DAv in Honours of War SYW games. I also like D3, which I use when a set of rules says you can do X on a 1-2, Y on a 3-4 and Z on a 5-6. Much prefer what you see is what you get. Managed to pick up a couple from a German dice trader at Crisis last year. Incidentally, Crisis is moving back to November this year, but in the same Sint Niklaas location. This time I'll stay in Antwerpen as its only just over €4 for us old fogeys over 60 on the train for a 25 minute journey and a five minute walk.