Don1962 | 11 Jan 2012 5:55 a.m. PST |
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. |
Lentulus | 11 Jan 2012 5:56 a.m. PST |
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The Hobbybox | 11 Jan 2012 6:01 a.m. PST |
Not wargaming, but she loves boardgames and spends more than me (probably double or three times!)at the GamesExpo each year. |
dglennjr | 11 Jan 2012 6:06 a.m. PST |
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? |
Angel Barracks | 11 Jan 2012 6:10 a.m. PST |
About half my games I play with her. |
Mike Mayes | 11 Jan 2012 6:13 a.m. PST |
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 |
Sundance | 11 Jan 2012 6:17 a.m. PST |
C, however, she does enjoy games like Settlers, Roborally and Guillotine, and she has played them with me and my gaming buddies. |
kallman | 11 Jan 2012 6:31 a.m. PST |
C but she loves board games and playing WOW online. |
Derek H | 11 Jan 2012 6:34 a.m. PST |
Not any more, but I met her playing D&D in the late 1970s. |
Flashman14 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 11 Jan 2012 6:37 a.m. PST |
The wife is a sympathizer but not a collaborator. |
Femeng2 | 11 Jan 2012 6:39 a.m. PST |
For equal time, my man does join me. However he has always preferred GPGs. |
Martin Rapier | 11 Jan 2012 6:42 a.m. PST |
c. This is one of my cheaper hobbies. |
Frederick ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 11 Jan 2012 6:51 a.m. PST |
c), but she is interested in Wings of War, so may become b) |
tigrifsgt | 11 Jan 2012 6:57 a.m. PST |
c), She supplies me with new figures every Christmas. |
Weird WWII | 11 Jan 2012 7:09 a.m. PST |
B She likes watching MST3K more then throwing dice and that's ok with me. Brian |
Jay Arnold | 11 Jan 2012 7:13 a.m. PST |
B. She's sat in on Mansions of Madness and Red November. She loves Guillotine. |
jdpintex | 11 Jan 2012 7:24 a.m. PST |
C. I buy miniatures, she buys shoes & purses. Everyone is happy. |
Old Slow Trot | 11 Jan 2012 7:47 a.m. PST |
C. Although I do make offers to teach her some of the games I play. |
Rudysnelson | 11 Jan 2012 8:09 a.m. PST |
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. |
richarDISNEY | 11 Jan 2012 8:17 a.m. PST |
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.
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Fat Wally | 11 Jan 2012 8:27 a.m. PST |
C. She's very tolerant of my hobby but to be honest I'm glad she has no interest whatsoever. |
Saber6 ![Workbencher Fezian](boards/icons/workbencher.gif) | 11 Jan 2012 8:31 a.m. PST |
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Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut | 11 Jan 2012 8:32 a.m. PST |
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
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Micman ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 11 Jan 2012 8:33 a.m. PST |
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. |
nickinsomerset | 11 Jan 2012 8:57 a.m. PST |
C and when she is here brings in cups of tea, cakes and biscuits, Tally Ho! |
MacSparty | 11 Jan 2012 9:00 a.m. PST |
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. |
ComradeCommissar | 11 Jan 2012 9:09 a.m. PST |
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. |
religon | 11 Jan 2012 9:15 a.m. PST |
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. :) |
SpuriousMilius | 11 Jan 2012 9:17 a.m. PST |
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). |
shaun from s and s models | 11 Jan 2012 9:47 a.m. PST |
although we have not banned wives from the escape committee club, they might complain about the bi monthly bikini clad babes jelly wrestling bouts!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Caesar | 11 Jan 2012 9:53 a.m. PST |
She plays boardgames and is happy to let me play with my toys. |
anleiher | 11 Jan 2012 10:02 a.m. PST |
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. |
Tgerritsen ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 11 Jan 2012 10:04 a.m. PST |
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paul liddle | 11 Jan 2012 10:06 a.m. PST |
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. |
ancientsgamer | 11 Jan 2012 10:37 a.m. PST |
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 ;-) |
Shagnasty ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 11 Jan 2012 10:39 a.m. PST |
No, but she tolerates it. That is good enough for me. |
Tin hat | 11 Jan 2012 10:52 a.m. PST |
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. |
Jovian1 | 11 Jan 2012 10:54 a.m. PST |
No, but she likes to watch and be social with the rest of the people playing. |
David Manley | 11 Jan 2012 10:57 a.m. PST |
B, very rarely (and only Wings of War) |
Bryan Stroup | 11 Jan 2012 10:59 a.m. PST |
Mine tells others I'm playing golf |
vojvoda | 11 Jan 2012 11:41 a.m. PST |
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 |
Non Irn Bru | 11 Jan 2012 11:51 a.m. PST |
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skinkmasterreturns | 11 Jan 2012 1:09 p.m. PST |
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". |
FoxtrotPapaRomeo | 11 Jan 2012 2:02 p.m. PST |
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LEADHEAVEN | 11 Jan 2012 3:38 p.m. PST |
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. |
Don1962 | 11 Jan 2012 9:17 p.m. PST |
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. :( |
Schulein ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 11 Jan 2012 10:47 p.m. PST |
a) we met at the wargaming club |
Ivan DBA | 11 Jan 2012 11:24 p.m. PST |
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. |
Cerdic | 12 Jan 2012 6:31 a.m. PST |
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COL Scott0again | 12 Jan 2012 7:45 a.m. PST |
G) No and she thinks it takes valuable time but she allows it as mostly harmless. |