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Fireball,
I wish you the best as you situation evolves.
I also started gaming seeing a game of modern micro armor in 1989-1990. Enjoy the games, doing more multi- color camo, have been kit bashing for 20+ years. I enjoy the Imagi-Nation, thinking prior to participating in it. But since you are leaving, well.....
I have built forces to go along with the gaming, which helps GHQ with additional sales and business. As for Thor, etc that can happen, as one person used to post some hand-crafted vehicles he built, those were neat to see, but not my cup of tea. So everyone has a different aspect that they focus on or really like and appreciate.
Prayed for you Fireball. God's Peace be with you.

Tom, I wish you well in all your endeavors at whatever level and in whatever scale.
Remember it is a hobby, do what makes you happy and brings you the most joy.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Maybe check back on the stuff you like, things change.

I would be considered lacking in mateship if I did not offer a parting gift too.

Rule #1 Never ever give up. (beaten into me at Catterick 70's)

Wargaming is all imaginary. It was started by the Military (Prussians?) to work out the what if's and maybe's. To this day it is still used that way.
Zapad 17 in Russia and Aurora 17 in Sweden just now both used imaginary foes.
If you always fight the same enemy with the same TOE the next war will catch you with your pants down.
So it is always a case for planing for a bit more, a change of structure, a new weapon system or a new alliance of different foes.

As for historical wargaming this too is still imaginary. Just at a very different level.
You can model Waterloo down to a blade of grass but at the first move or roll of dice it is all make believe.

We all have to pick a level that we as an individual are happy to work with be that star ships or Roman donkeys.

Sometimes a lot of the imaginary stuff being played out is not everyones cup of tea, I understand that but it can be a lot closer to the truth, both Military and political. It's just a different type of wargaming.

Balzac Self Defence Force structure.



If I ever make it to Melbourne I'll buy you a tinny.
If you make it to Alberta I'll buy you a real beer.

Cheers Mick.

Rule #2 Recognize when you will not win, think, adapt, prevail (first thing I learnt at Hereford 80's).

If that goes pear shaped revert to rule #1

I come to this forum most days just to see what others are up to.

I don't think there's much point having an opinion on what others are doing as they are just doing it

For me it's the fact that they're just sharing ideas and showing what they're up to.

Also sharing pictures of stuff I might not have, like tank transporters

Also other information: 7.62, Catterick and Hereford? What's your last 3 mate?
Mine's 262, Swinderby, 82.

Yeah I know, light blue but somebody had to

I also spent 4 months in Edmonton with my uncle and aunt working on RCAF C-130s at Edmonton airport back in 89, but that firm's sadly gone now. I do have great memories of Alberta though.

So keep posting. You never know what you might find out...

Sorry Battler never walked sidedways.

Ex Pongo did basic with (not)RAC in Catterick in 70's.
Hereford and all points South in 80's.
Moved over the pond in the 90's

Me - ROFL

Typical 'Green machine'....

Had a great time working at Chertsey with them. So much fun! I'm still laughing now about some of the windups they pulled.

Needless to say as ex-Crab some of them came my way...

Good times they were.

Fireball,

It may be that the hobby has a very specific definition for you. Losing yourself in creating something beautiful? Strictly historical OOBs/tactics etc.? That's your hobby, not mine. My hobby is gaming, emphasis on game. I paint tanks to make really nice looking counters. I enjoy it, like playing guitar or mandolin, for its own sake. But I do it for gaming. Models I don't use get sold. I am not a collector either (unloaded all my Naval minis last year - no more naval gaming, no more use for them).

To me this forum is like a club. Small group of mates who share an interest in something. But it is a club with a very, very narrow focus: combat from 1939 thru the present. But my interests are far more varied. I game numerous periods from 1600 thru today, not to mention fantasy, sci fi, etc.

These days I spend most of my online time on Facebook groups dedicated to 6mm. They are far more lively, far more varied, and just as enjoyable. Having recently finished my German and Soviet armies, there's frankly not a lot of reason to drop by here all that often. I still do though, now and then, to see new work, but this club is about modeling and collecting far more than it is about gaming.

I appreciate your passion but frankly your OP came across as arrogant, and my reaction was more "who is he to tell me what this hobby is or should be?"

There's nothing "wrong" with this fourm, it's just quiet. It's as noisy a club as the members want.

May I make a suggestion? I take a Memoir 44 game to my local library on boardgame night. But I use my own hex mat and swap, and use my GHQ minis and my own terrain. The game is very simple, and very fun. But more important, it shows off the hobby to kids and their enthusiasm is infectious. I already did a little painting session with two young lads at the shop. Remembering, through their eyes, how cool it was to paint my first models is enough to restore some faith in the species.

Cheers,

Mark "Extra Crispy" Severin