On 13/11/2011 8:10 PM, Giftzwerg wrote:

> In article<4ebf4b5e$1_at_dnews.tpgi.com.au>, mike_at_FIRSTNAMEkreuzer.com

> says...

>

>>> It's just wargaming.

>

>> I just spent more money buying board wargames as a present for a guy I

>> got allocated at random in a Secret Santa over on boardgamegeek this

>> afternoon than I've spent on PC wargames so far this entire year.

>>

>> It's not wargaming, it's just PC wargaming.

>

> Unfortunately, historical PC wargaming is the topic of the newsgroup.

>

> I'm reliably informed by you guys that board-wargaming is vital and

> healthy.  Fine.  Great.  But from my personal perspective, this is like

> being told that knitting or deer-hunting is at the apex of popularity;

> that's not what I'm interested in.  At all.

>

> And computer / PC / console gaming has never been more popular; there

> are advertisements for it on network television - show me an ad for a

> boardgame on prime-time NBC.

>

> Yep.  It's just PC wargaming.

>

Oh I hear ya - I'm boardgaming under sufferance. It's fun enough, 

sure, but there's a better way, I remember it. I look back with real 

nostalgia at my happy years of thinking I'd done with all that paper & 

cardboard stuff, since at least 97 or so when TOAW came out... ah, the 

rash exuberance of youth. But for me it's been boardgaming or nothing 

lately, so I chose boardgaming. I'm more than happy to jump ship & 

come back... just as soon as there's something to come back to...

Regards,

Mike Kreuzer

www.mikekreuzer.com