Great Wargaming Survey

[fsn]

 

I wondered if anyone would check.

The Lead Mountain (i.e. those I want to paint) is actually 4840. 

5556 includes those bought but not intending to use. Spares if you will. 

[Orcs]

I think mid-November 2024 (based on data provided), although my math skills have been slipping of late.

In my case its probably around 2087, by which time :-

I will be 123 years old
You will buy your miniature's 3d printed in the correctly coloured uniform.
American spell checkers will have learnt how to spell Colour and Armour
Techno will be entering his sixth Millenia
Leon will be a great Grandfather
The Netherlands and Disneyland will be underwater (but if you sail across the place Disneyland used to be, you will still here " Its a Small World" 24 hours a day.
The EU will have ceased to exist.
Germany will be planning a 6 lane autobahn through Belgium to make invading France easier next time.
The worlds population will be under control due to population reduction caused by Flooding, Covid 26,35, and 50.
The middle east problem will have been solved  - they will have annihilated each other.
The electric car will never have taken off and will have ben replaced by the Hydrogen combustion engine
King George Vll will be on the throne provided we have not be come a republic or the 53rd American state.( Not sure which of these is worse)



IF any of this fails to come true you can write to me via snail mail  with a handwritten note of complaint. 

[d_Guy]

I wondered if anyone would check.

Until I saw your projection, I was preoccupied with trying to calculate the muzzle velocity of a .22 caliber long rifle with a 40 grain load fired through a 15 foot barrel. Yours was more interesting! 

Spares are good. I have many but not with the original intent of them being spares. I commend your industry. 

[d_Guy]

In my case its probably around 2087, by which time :-

I will be 123 years old
You will buy your miniature's 3d printed in the correctly coloured uniform.
American spell checkers will have learnt how to spell Colour and Armour
Techno will be entering his sixth Millenia
Leon will be a great Grandfather
The Netherlands and Disneyland will be underwater (but if you sail across the place Disneyland used to be, you will still here " Its a Small World" 24 hours a day.
The EU will have ceased to exist.
Germany will be planning a 6 lane autobahn through Belgium to make invading France easier next time.
The worlds population will be under control due to population reduction caused by Flooding, Covid 26,35, and 50.
The middle east problem will have been solved  - they will have annihilated each other.
The electric car will never have taken off and will have ben replaced by the Hydrogen combustion engine
King George Vll will be on the throne provided we have not be come a republic or the 53rd American state.( Not sure which of these is worse)



IF any of this fails to come true you can write to me via snail mail  with a handwritten note of complaint. 

This all seems most prescient to me. Should you hold a holo-seance in 2087 to celebrate your correctness I shall endeavor to put in an appearance. Failing to make a full manifestation I will at least hum “The Star Spangled Banner” so you’ll know it’s me.

[FierceKitty]

You forgot to add:
*  there will have been a devastating holy war between supporters of 10 mm and supporters of 9.5 mm scales. Both sides will have claimed victory.
*  China will be attempting to coordinate resistance to the Australian Imperial Army occupying the Asia Pacific from Cairo to Kobe; they will also be claiming to have invented democracy.
*  the USA will almost have a woman president, but will have chosen a failed used-car salesman and TV sitcom support actor when she was discredited for having kissed a boy at summer camp.
*  Her Holiness the Pope will have expressed regret about overpopulation (not apologised or accepted responsibility, naturally).
*  Oxford will have heard of the Enlightenment.
*  Scotland will have won the World Cup - ok, let's not strain credulity too far.

[d_Guy]

More serious seerness. 

But I take my hat off to this one:

*  there will have been a devastating holy war between supporters of 10 mm and supporters of 9.5 mm scales. Both sides will have claimed victory.

[DecemDave]

bought but not intending to use

The road to lead mountain is paved with "intentions" to use.  Your approach dooms us further.     

[Raider4]

King George Vll will be on the throne provided we have not be come a republic or the 53rd American state.( Not sure which of these is worse)

The current PoW apparently wants to be George VII, not Charles III, so his grandson will end up being George VIII.

[Leman]

Judging by the bizarreness of that family he probably is a prisoner of war, and certainly a prisoner of pompous, irrelevant traditions. I love it when our king trolls around without a tie looking completely at ease. Personally I don't think even England will exist in 2087, having split up into the Peoples Republic of Northumbria, The Mercian and West Confederation, and the other bit with that city in it. I see you still can't leave the World Wars alone. Jeez, feckin sad. Get over it and come and join the rest of us.

[Orcs]

The current PoW apparently wants to be George VII, not Charles III, so his grandson will end up being George VIII.

Not being a fan of royalty I rarely read anything about them , so missed this one.

I would rather we called him Charles lll and sent him the same way as Charles 1.

I know all the arguments  Royalty v President, but if you get a President who is an idiot you can vote him out in 4 years. If you get Royalty that are idiots you are stuck with them for life now days.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

you get a President who is an idiot you can vote him out in 4 years. If you get Royalty that are idiots you are stuck with them for life now days.

Just make sure Royalty have no poilitical power, you can't always get rid of Presidents - Trumpo is still making noises, and some eastern European and African incumbants have been in power for 20-30 years.

[Ben Waterhouse]

Presidents are nasty, brutish and expensive...

[petercooman]

i filed it in yesterday, wasn't a pretty sight!

Almost nothing happening game wise here, and not having games is making me put all painting on hold. First year of ockdowns was pretty productive, but that has caught up with me this year.

And the distinction between warhammer- fantasy and warhammer40 k - science fiction is probably pretty important. A lot of players/painters enter this hobby through Games Workshop, at least that is what they say. Maybe that' s why they like to separate them out to get a 'real' idea of the non-gw fantasy and SF players

And if people on the one side keep calling those players on the other side out because they are not ' proper' wargamers, it is no surprise the fantasy-SF side has more succes attracting new players.

We paint minis, we play games. it's all the same. Can we please just stop the hate. it's pretty stupid...

[Gwydion]

Why does differentiating things equal hate?

I have no problem with people playing Fantasy and SF games.

I don't see them as 'war'games, because, for me, the point of a wargame is it has some basis in real world conflict, physics and culture.

So I would distinguish them but as I don't see wargames as the pinnacle of gaming achievement I really don't see why that distinction can't be made or why if I do make it, it means I am denigrating SF and Fantasy.

I'm not.

I'm glad there is a crossover between all these gaming styles but I don't see why either side should be precious or defensive about being different. Not better or worse; different.
And for me - no they are not, and cannot be, all the same.

Not stupid and no hate.

[Ithoriel]

Why does differentiating things equal hate?

Because it's creating "out groups."

And that rarely ends well.

No matter how "accurate" your historical figures are, if you are not playing a historical action then your game is fantasy. If you are playing a historical event and it doesn't go exactly as the historical event then that's fantasy too because we know how it all ended.

Of course, it is possible that in another iteration of the multiverse things went exactly the way your game did ... but then isn't that Science fiction?

For the record, I'm not suggesting people are obliged to play Sci-Fi or Fantasy any more than they are The Great Northern War or The Wars of the Roses.

I am suggesting that creating artificial divisions does the hobby a disservice.