What innovation has changed your wargaming life?

[petercooman]

For me it was getting paypal, i was very limited in buying stuff before that. I depended on local shops and ebay, only being able to buy via bank transfers.

Not long after i got aypal, i discovered pendraken, and the rest is history!!

[fsn]

Good spot. Paypal has made buying thins SOOOO much easier!

[petercooman]

Good spot. Paypal has made buying thins SOOOO much easier!

And not buying things SOOOOOO much harder, for that matter 

[Poggle]

1. The Internet - not only for all those shiny, shiny figures in ads, but for the international community spirit it fosters.
2. Acrylic paints instead of smelly enamels
3. Reading glasses!
4. Washes

[Subedai]

In the last two years...hmmm.

Pendraken Forum. Without it I'd still be in 10mm limbo. (The Mongol chaps are quite nice as well).

The Magic Wash method.

Using double sided tape for sticking down lines of figures to paint. Honestly, I've been wargaming since Noah was a lad and only just discovered that one.

My man cave/study/painting area/wargames room in the cellar. Small but perfectly formed for a 6 x 4 table.

[Fenton]

Not sure if it should come under innovation but grey primer has been a god send to me

[paulr]

Internet for
- research
- inspiration
- forums
- contacting suppliers

[Norm]

1. computer / internet age, it kept boardgame production viable
2. Kallistra hard plastic hexes. everything I made prior to that looked naff.
3. broadband instead of 56k modem download, so I can see tons of nice wargaming set-ups with regular browsing, giving inspiration and having access to downloadable content.
4. Free blogging capability and cheap website hosting to give me a platform to write and share
5. Digital photography, making instant and easy to share imagery
6. E-books, I sit there on a Sunday afternoon and want to research the battle of Quatre Bras, 2 minutes later I have downloaded a book on the subject with maps and orders of battle.

[Orcs]

In no particular order


1 The internet for ease of finding and paying for stuff
2. Acrylics - Did I realy use Humbrol enamels !!
3. Divorce - I now don't have to justify sitting and painting for an hour or two
4. Rulesets like Warmaster (all genres)BKC, Lion Rampant and Chain of Command
5. this forum - I never bothered with them before.

[Bodvoc]

Has to be computers and the internet. I can now produce a decent looking set of my own rules and edit or update them easily and put photos in them. I can produce decent typed scenarios although I still hand draw maps, photo them and put them onto the sheet. As many other have said,  I can browse and buy figures, books etc quickly and easily.

[FierceKitty]

Consensus seems to be Thanks, internet.

[getagrip]

1)  10mm.
2)  Baking powder.
3)  Washes.
4)  Proper basing.
5)  Grit / sand.
6)  Daylight bulb.
7)  Forum.

[fsn]

Daylight bulbs!

I use them ... but it doesn't seem to make much of a difference. Perhaps the daylight they produce are from a different sun? Maybe, on Procyon B, my painting is brilliant!

[petercooman]

Daylight bulbs!

I use them ... but it doesn't seem to make much of a difference. Perhaps the daylight they produce are from a different sun? Maybe, on Procyon B, my painting is brilliant!

Maybe they were manufactured during a night shift? 

[mollinary]

The net - for research on subjects so obscure that maybe only five people worldwide are interested in , or know anything about, them, and suddenly you are on first name terms with all of them!

This forum, a fun asylum which (usually) knows how far it can go, and goes absolutely that far! But is also amazingly knowledgable.

10mm, which has allowed my megalomania to grow unchecked

Early retirement, which has allowed me to settle properly into my own house for the first time in twenty years, and build/convert the shed of my dreams.

Battlefield walking. Never was great at maps, walking the real fields has been an absolute revelation.

Mollinary