"Does your wife/girlfriend join you in wargaming?" Topic

a) Yes, she joins me frequently around the table.
b) Yes, but only occasionally.
c) No, but she is very agreeable about my playing.
d) No, and it's causing problems in our relationship.
e) You do WHAT? … She has no clue I'm a wargamer.

d/e

Not wargaming, but she loves boardgames and spends more than me (probably double or three times!)at the GamesExpo each year.

f) Absolutely Not! I already get accused of cheating when I beat her playing scrabble or Trivial Pursuit. Can you imagine if I had to explain/argue over firing arcs, line of sight, and morale mondifiers?

About half my games I play with her.

b – my wife tries now and then – she even has some of her own figures and pink dice. She seems to pefer RPGs where you can identify with a character. But she's just not that interested and it is hard for a new person to break into a group that has been playing together for a while.

I appreciate the fact that she at least tries to undertsand my hobby. However, if she ever found out how much money I spend… that would be another issue.

Mike

C, however, she does enjoy games like Settlers, Roborally and Guillotine, and she has played them with me and my gaming buddies.

C but she loves board games and playing WOW online.

Not any more, but I met her playing D&D in the late 1970s.

The wife is a sympathizer but not a collaborator.

For equal time, my man does join me. However he has always preferred GPGs.

c.

This is one of my cheaper hobbies.

c), but she is interested in Wings of War, so may become b)

c), She supplies me with new figures every Christmas.

B
She likes watching MST3K more then throwing dice and that's ok with me.

Brian

B. She's sat in on Mansions of Madness and Red November. She loves Guillotine.

C.

I buy miniatures, she buys shoes & purses. Everyone is happy.

C. Although I do make offers to teach her some of the games I play.

C, been married since 1977. On our honeymoon I played in a 10,000casting napoleonics game. In the Army I used to have friends over and we played every Sat. sometimes long into the night if it was Third Reich. Miniature gaming was done at the local store.

The only game she liked to play was the old 'Spellmaker' card game. That has been decades ago but I still have the game.

Well… A. Kinda…
While NOT a wargamer (minis only), she does RPG (D&D, Pirates SW and Star Wars : Saga Edition) and some boardgames.
She is a keeper.

C. She's very tolerant of my hobby but to be honest I'm glad she has no interest whatsoever.

C. for reasons as above

C. Maybe. "Allows" me without too much protest (because I'll do it anyways) and occasionally budgets for my stuff. My daughters, on the other hand, are wargame/rpg fiends…

C for me also. She does not want anything to do with "morale checks" as she calls it now.

Won't buy me anything but still is glad to have the guys over for a game.

C and when she is here brings in cups of tea, cakes and biscuits,

Tally Ho!

C, I guess. I don't know about "very agreeable," more like tolerates.

She likes to remind me that I am lucky. She claims for a lot of girls, a grown man playing with toy soldiers would be a dealbreaker.

C, She has yet to except my offers to wargame, but she will play Settlers on occasion. She's also encouraging about painting the lead pile.

She does not want anything to do with "morale checks" as she calls it now.

Pass along to your wife my admiration of her term. :)

C. definitely; many years ago she & a gaming friend's wife both tried playing in our D&D game 1 time & they both said it moved too slow. My wife won't try miniature games tho she will play Talisman & parlor games with our kids (she gave up on Munchkin,too).

although we have not banned wives from the escape committee club, they might complain about the bi monthly
bikini clad babes jelly wrestling bouts!!!!!!!!!!!!

She plays boardgames and is happy to let me play with my toys.

Jdpintex nailed it for me. She's happy; I'm happy. I don't have to go shopping with her, she doesn't have to game with me.

mostly c, but rarely b

b. very occasionally, she played a game last year.It was a garden wargame with 54mm toy style soldiers and I was hesitating and a bit self conscious about playing in front of the neighbours. She was very good and we had the game which may not have happened without her.

I am a lucky man.

G. No, and thank you very much for my "me" time when I get it. It is good to have common interests. It is better to have something that is yours alone for sanity sake ;-)

No, but she tolerates it. That is good enough for me.

Any chance of option 'f' 'She is happy just to have the opportunity use her scorn and derision'!

I'm happy with that as I get get on with stuff.

No, but she likes to watch and be social with the rest of the people playing.

B, very rarely (and only Wings of War)

Mine tells others I'm playing golf

Some where between D and E. She loved my books but hated my toys. She and I went to Paris and I wanted to revisit the Les Invalides she wanted to find a Korean resturant. We did both but guess which was first?
VR
James Mattes

C

As has been said on here before,most wives are tolerant. It keeps their husbands busy and not running the bars with woman whose reputations are less than wholesome.I was discussing hobbies with a nurse one time,and she mentioned that her ex-husband liked to build models.I asked her if she thought that it was juvenile.She replied,"No,I wish he would have built more of them".

C)

b/c My wife likes to play:
Aerodrome, Cogs, and Westerns games.
She also likes to play in the "for women only" pirate games they hold at conventions.
She's very agreeable about the other gaming periods I'm involved in.

I'm in the "c" category, but occasionally we move closer to "d" when she begins to question how much cash I spend on this hobby. :(

a) we met at the wargaming club

No, but she is quite supportive. It was even her idea that I have aseparate room for it. (of course, she also likes that it is all hidden away, out of sight. She does play boardgames though, which realistically is as much as most of us can hope for.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha………

G) No and she thinks it takes valuable time but she allows it as mostly harmless.