Younger wargamers?

[petercooman]

You may all use my motto :p

In fact, they sell the patches on ebay:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Embroidered-Iron-Cloth-Biker-Patch-Im-Not-Totally-Useless-/150885812497

[Hertsblue]

"i'm not completely useless, i can be used as a bad example"

There's a variation on that one - "I'm not a complete idiot - some parts are missing." 

[Techno]

That's not bad either Ray.
Cheers - Phil

[petercooman]

Yeah that's a good one too!

[markdavidstill]

Hi,
The problem is Games flammin Workshop,have killed wargamming.As an Ex-Employee
I did enjoy my job but then profits and MATEL took over,they now have an annual price increase.
So if that's all the kids have as a starting block GOD HELP US!!!
So the only thing I can think of is trying getting the kids heads out of the SCI-FI and into the history books.
Iv'e been an avid Wargammer since I was young playing RISK and such like with my dad.
At 18 was the working for an idipendate wargamming store and ran the Games club there.
At 27 joined GW.
I live in Leeds and everywhere it's GW.
I do feel like trying to tell the sellers to stock flames of War or something else as there is already a GW store.
Now at 40 just purchased a load of NAM stuff.

[Orcs]

I got into wargaming with plastic kits and figures.   When I was growing up in the 70's there were loads of places you could buy them not just model shops. The sweet shop by the school sold Airfix. 

Then gradually it became only model shops and  toy shops that sold them.  that was ok, every town or village had one or both.   Again they were cheap and easy to get. Now even the model shops are few and far between, and the youngsters cannot walk down to the local shops with thier pocket monet and buy a kit or a pack of Figures. 

So when they see GW shops it may well be the first time they have seen anything like it and as we have said they are then brainwashed. 

I have always gamed, but I did get diverted by girls in my youth a bit, but I was always up front about it and never had any problems, most were impressed when they realised I had painted them.

[Hertsblue]

Walked into my "local" model shop in Harlow the Tuesday after Easter and found it packed with off-school youths. Whether it was an event organised by the shop or the lads just had nowhere else to go, I don't know. The shop is a major stockist of GW (although independent stockists of plastic kits and model railway equipment) and has strong contacts with the local wargames club (not mine). The management obviously finds it expedient to push GW from a sales point of view - and who can blame them? They have to make a living and the bottom line is marketing.   

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Fifth place at the BHGS Challenge flames of war yesterday was an eleven year old. There is some hope.