"are any of you one period gamers? " Topic

When I first started gaming/painting back in the early 90s I was a little all over the place. My first love has always been ACW. But I bought and painted fantasy, some 40k, some Napoleonic's some WW2, you get the point. I had lots of stuff but not enough of one thing to do anything with it.

I forced some discipline on myself about ten years ago and settled on one scale 15mm, and one period ACW. I have to say that it worked for me. Are any of you one period gamers?

Nathan

One period that starts about 200 BC and ends in 1945 AD. Very disciplined, I am.

I'm not quite as disciplined as vtsaogames. My period starts around 600 BC and ends around 40,000 or so AD.

Im with vtsao….

2000BC to 1945.
WRG rules cover this single period quite well.

Yep. The Pointy Stick (TM) period. Admittedly some of the pointy sticks involved go 'bang' as well ;)

No. A few years ago I tried to narrow it down to a few periods. I soon expanded the half-dozen I had initially thought of to ten.

Well, needless to say, ten as a limit didn't last too long.

Now I don't bother setting limits.

Right now I'm a single era gamer. 15mm Fantasy, until I order those zombies next month.

Is being a "one period gamer" the same as being a "one woman man"?

Probably so as I have been married for the same period of time

40s only for me except for when playing Tyranid attack but other then that it's WWII for all my horror, sci-fi, historical and pulp gaming.

Brian

I run from a Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far away to 40,000k with just about everything in between. I've also been contemplating some of the Lucifer wars figs and doing a revolt of the angels game so that may expand my time period further.

Its easier to be with one woman than to game only one period…I land somewhere between vtsao and pictors

Yes, one period: Ancients to Modern.

Compared to others I'm almost disciplined. I only have 2mm, 6mm, 10mm, 15mm, 1/600, 1/1200, 1/2400. 1/6000 and call it 1/39000 spaceships for Ancients through Spaceships.

Two periods: ACW and Zulus, Oh wait, I have some medievals too. So three. no I have some sci fi Aliens make that 4

Oh never mind. No got lots.

STT

ACW is my only period. Although, I think I'd like to branch into AWI someday.

I have only ever known one single period gamer, and he gamed Gw's Lord of the Rings.

I finally got him to play a gangster game with me… using the LOTOW west rules.

-Joe

We're allowed to stick to one period? Dang, I wish I'd known that.

Now, I'll play just about anything on the tabletop, but I have too many other hobbies vying for funds to sink too much into more than one period and do any of them justice. I just can't afford all of my interests, so I just stick with my favorite. Being from Georgia, I can walk the battlefields, see the actual ground my ancestors fought over, and even dig miniballs out of my own backyard. It's easy for me to find the ACW more tangible than other conflicts.

I tried to stick to one, but it didn't work out. Now I have three : "History", "Fantasy", "Science Fiction"

The other day, a close friend said he needed to get me a large wheel with two independently revolving rings, the inner labeled "American Civil War, Napoleonics, WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Modern, Near Future Sci-Fi, Fantasy" and the outer one labeled "Miniatures, Roleplaying, Books, Movies." Then I could just set the dials to whatever was appropriate at the time.

Said it would be easier for my wife and friends to keep track of what I was interested in/working on. ;)

"Are any of you one period gamers? "

No.

I do have a preference for the twentieth century though, WW2 in particular.

I game anything from Biblical stuff right through to Star Wars etc though.

This is like asking

"When did you stop beating your wife"

You have to lie whatever answer you give and no-one believes you anyway.

I tried to avoid any 20th Century conflicts. But now with all the great war stuff I go from New KingDom Egyptians to 1918.

My wife would certainly like it if I stuck to one conflict

I also started with ACW and that is still my largest army (well, especially since I have both Rebs and Yanks). It is also the only period that I have armies in 6 mm, 15 mm(largest one) and 25/28 mm. I also have 6 mm Napoleanics, 28 mm Ancients, 28 mm ECW, 28 mm Medieval, 28 mm Sci-Fi (Warhammer 40K Guard, forgive me), 28 mm Seven Years War (my current craze – this comes and goes), 28 mm Colonial, 6 mm WWII and, latest thing, 28 mm WWI/Interwar

Apparently, nate7163, YOU are the only one period gamer in the world. Damn, must be lonely there… :)

I've only painted Napoleonics for the last three years, so yeah, I'm currently a one period gamer, and I have too many Nappys figures to paint for this to change in the short term.

Although I have to resist the urge to try ACW…those damn Perrys!

Nope, you're not alone nate!

Ancients,ACW,Fighting Sail,Napoleonics,WW1 air,skirmishers,moderns…no single exclusive period,though I have been focusing more on WW1 air combat lately.

No I see that I am not alone. It is hard to stay focused. I am often pulled to one period or another. But after I read and do some research I begin to realize that amount of time, money and effort involved. I am really just too lazy!

I am drawn right now to a little VSF, but I can use what I already have. I always seem to run into people that are not willing to come halfway. That is really sad. I would never close myself off to a period or system. But I know myself and budget.

The good thing about it is the size of the collection I have been able to amass. Whenever I get some extra money I remind myself that I have something special collection wise and after some angst I buy limbers, wagons, houses or trees. The bad aspect is that it is hard to find someone within a reasonable driving distance who wants to game the period.

There are days, however, that the draw of VSF and an invasion of Mexico around 1868 is far too hard to overcome.

Nathan

I've narrowed it down to 10 periods and I'm sticking to them – mostly.

One period at a time! Buy it, build it, play a little, then sell it all. Then do something else or actully redo what I just sold off. Crazy but true. Did have ACW 25mm, ECW 25mm, and LOTR 25mm at one time once, but all to Ebay eventully. Now have some 28mm SYW for BAR. Am I a "serial collector" or something worse?? Likely yes!

Yes! Absolutely. One period at a time on my gaming table. I'm a one ruleset gamer too.

I only have a few active periods at any one time. The rest get stuck in the loft until I get bored and start wondering why I ever put them away.

Only three times in my life have I parted with figures. I dread to think what will happen when I retire and HAVE to shrink down to a smaller house.

"what will happen when I retire and HAVE to shrink down to a smaller house."

Just buy one with an enormous garage!

regular as clockwork, once a month…..
the inner child has read all the above posts and is still sniggering….periods…..

Predominantly 15mm ACW, although I do occasionally foray into 15mm AWI and 15mm Plains Indians.

OK, the new Perry plastics just made it official; I'm not getting away from Napoleonics for a long, long time!

you and many others are doomed, ArchiducCharles, doomed!

nathan

I wish I could be, but the last movie/tv special, or the last book…

I just do medieval wargaming, mostly set in or around the Near East, in 15mm. WW2 and ACW have been abandoned for a long time.

Even then, wargaming has become a rather moribund hobby. I've got fairly involved in anti-poaching work with [I]Pantheris tigris[/I], and tend to disappear for periods at a time…

One Period Gamer?

Wish I was. I'd have saved a fortune and might have actually finished painting by now!

I know, I know, I'm doomed. And so is my wallet!

I was a one period man for about 3 months, before I started spreading out.

BUT I have made a solemn vow not to go away from the horse and musket era. with the ACW beeing the most modern war i'm going to do, it will be intresting to see if I can keep my promise

No, no I'm not a one period gamer. We even game some periods in diffrent scales.

If you only play one thing, then you're missing out on all the other things!

If you only play one thing, then you're missing out on all the other things!

Ya, that's what I say to myself too. What intelligent, well read, interested individual wants to be confined to just one period? Ya, that's right. That's how I justify my purchases.

The sad reality is that I also have Wargamers ADD too.

Ralph

I've been trying to pare down my collection to a couple of periods: mid 18th Century (WAS & SYW) and Late Romans, both in 28mm.

I also have a few Napoleonics left after selling this collection off, some ECW ( a small brigade to use in a friend's set up), Vikings & Saxons ( I may sell this one) and ACW (huge collection that I may sell as well). AmRev War was also sold off.

If I am successful in paring things back to the 18th Century, there are still a lot of different armies and wars that I can branch out into. So this project could keep me going for the rest of my playing days.

Yes… one scale (15mm) and one period (Rome and enemies during the late Republic).

Cheers,
Scott

I play just one period, human, I refuse to play neatherdal wars, regardless of what spokesmen for Geico say.