Who are you? Why are you here?

[weateallthepies]

I'm Jay, weateallthepies on bgg also. I fell into wargaming due to my desire for solitaire gaming, and it seems less of a dirty word in the wargames world. I do have a regular group for mostly euro type stuff, but wargaming is where I spend my money these days and it's where I find time to relax. I'm a stay at home dad, so it's also partly an escape from that and a way to engage my brain in something other than a world of princesses and loom bands.

I'm here because I like forums where people are free to discuss and debate and they are few and far between. I've not been banned from bgg but I'm fairly used to it in political and religious discussions in other forums where people choose to silence arguments they don't care for by appealing to moderators. I remember one forum where they actually started having moderated "appreciation" threads in which "fans" of a particular thing/idea were free to pat each other on the back and agree constantly without the threat of people disagreeing with them. **** that.

[pnpfanatic]

I'm Jay, weateallthepies on bgg also. I fell into wargaming due to my desire for solitaire gaming, and it seems less of a dirty word in the wargames world. I do have a regular group for mostly euro type stuff, but wargaming is where I spend my money these days and it's where I find time to relax. I'm a stay at home dad, so it's also partly an escape from that and a way to engage my brain in something other than a world of princesses and loom bands.

I'm here because I like forums where people are free to discuss and debate and they are few and far between. I've not been banned from bgg but I'm fairly used to it in political and religious discussions in other forums where people choose to silence arguments they don't care for by appealing to moderators. I remember one forum where they actually started having moderated "appreciation" threads in which "fans" of a particular thing/idea were free to pat each other on the back and agree constantly without the threat of people disagreeing with them. **** that.

Welcome...glad you found us..tell your friends

[thud13x]

Well... sheeeeit.  Since everyone is popping up to say hallo, I might as well.

thud13x at bgg.

nothing much to it other than that.

cheers,

[rstites25]

My handle on BGG was originally Bob Loblaw because when I signed up I didn't have any intention of ever posting and I was watching an episode of Arrested Development. I have changed it to Robert Stites, which is my legal name, because I bought a game in a geek auction, and I wanted to make sure it was shipped to the right place. Ironically enough, I actually go by Rex. Confusing, huh? (thanks mom and dad).

I am here because, as somebody else said, all the cool kids from BGG seem to have moved over here. I hate BGG's moderation policies, but tolerate them because when I get banned for a day or two it gives me a good opportunity to take a break from BGG for awhile.

I have been moderated for pointing out that a poster, who had insinuated that I spit on veterans when they come home, was throwing a tantrum because he was losing an argument. (Being the son of a Vietnam vet, the insinuation didn't sit well.)

I was also moderated for calling out a poster for being a dick by posting passive-aggressive replies to a post of mine.

Of course, in neither instance did the other poster get any reprimand. There have been other instances that I figured I would be moderated after I submitted a post, but did not. If the moderation was not completely arbitrary I wouldn't mind so much. But it is the fact that a group, like the ASL players, can come into a thread and start red-x'ing everything that they don't agree with and the mods will eventually assert their will.

I also can't stand the way people use sock puppets on the site.

[S Trauth]

This thread didn't exist when I first got here, so it has been awhile for me to get around to this.

I don't know what I go by on BGG, but I guess as I got my name associated with my ID over there it is sort of a moot point.   I don't really think that I post that much over at that site; the navel gazing stuff there (or other roll call threads) have gotten a little old and worse, silly.

I don't particularly believe that I have any responsibility for 'ensuring that the hobby can renew itself through an injection of youth' or whatever equivalently overblown way of stating that is. I just want to enjoy the history of the thing.

I am not terribly into writing about the impending demise of the hobby -or concerned about it (because I don't believe it is real or really anything other than some guys' excuse to maybe write a blog post or whatever.).

I don't own Case Blue -although I have seen it for sale several years ago in Canberra at the one gaming convention that I ever attended... since I bought absolutely nothing - I guess that makes me a bad hobbyist.  (Or someone not terribly into paying the surcharge simply to exist in Australia ). . .  Frankly I don't have the space for that sort of thing anymore -and probably don't have the time to read the rules anyhow.

Well I could write some about web work within the hobby- but I guess I will leave it at - I have zero plans ever to do that again (not in the boardgaming world...). It is time for someone else to have all of the fun.

[Carl Marl]

Why am I here? It's pretty simple. The people I liked best at BGG have shunned the subdomain and come over here.

[desertfoxleo]

I'm here now, so there's that...

[sparty]

I was over at BGG.  I become disillusioned with the conversation.  I didn't like the guild scene too much.  Game specific conversation was too biased to be meaningful for anything other than getting rules questions answered...which I could do quicker and usually from the designer or developer over at CSW...

[Michail I. Potemkin]

I'm Michail aka Björn from Germany. I'm here because one of the few personalities of our hobby dropped out of BGG so I followed him. I played ASL for a few years and I played it exclusively.  Than I stopped playing ASL and started wargaming.

[Calandale]

 

[Foo Dog]

I'm Bill V. (Foo Dog on BGG). I came for the wargames. I stayed for the wit and tomfoolery.
Played D&D in the 80s through grade school and high school. My first wargaming memories were of things like the Dwarfstar line. In high school I ran with an older (college) crew and dabbled a bit in heavier wargames but got scarred for a decade or two after playing Air War. My rpg mojo ran out in the mid 2000s but got steadily hooked on boardgames (more so ameritrash then slowly added in a few Euros to the gaming diet). My introduction to wargames came via Memoir '44, Commands & Colors then on to Eisenbach Gap then Combat Commander: Europe. From there it's been a lot of GMT, low counter density VPG games, then some MMP. I'm now adding some more MMP and a lot of the good stuff from the 80s. I've fallen madly in love with Victory Games titles over the past few months.

Due to time, commitments and the lack of opportunity to hang with local Grognards, I'm a solo wargamer. I'm interested in monster games but I don't have the space nor gaming buddies.

[usrlocal]

I still have my nervous tic from attempting 'Air War' 30 years ago. 

[anarchy]

I still have my nervous tic from attempting 'Air War' 30 years ago. 

Air War was the first honest to goodness non-fantasy, non-sci-fi wargame I purchased. Man, did it kick my ass. I tried with a friend to play that thing  for a year, but it was painful. Eventually had to sell it.

Found an unpunched used copy some months ago. I can actually understand the rules now! Not sure if I will play it, but it has been fun to read and fondle.

[Calandale]

I picked up a copy some while ago, but still haven't even gotten to the reading and fondling stage.

[Rockhopper]

Air War was like the second wargame I ever bought. My brother and I struggled mightily, but still had fun playing it. I remember soloing the Linebacker scenario more than once.

I must have been an awfully lonely child. 

I've seen it over your shoulder in a number of vids, Enrico. I haven't decided if a calandale treatment would be the coolest thing ever, or the lamest thing ever.

OK actually it'd be pretty cool.