"If you have to ask for permission or suggestions..." Topic

Then hold off buying figures for those periods until you find something you are really interested in.

Seriously, the enthusiasm should come first. My sainted Mother used to tell me to eat olives because "you have to develop a taste for them". She was wrong about that. I never had to develop a taste for her apple pie. That came naturally.

Now you are NOT disappointing me in your OFMness

Oh yeah…. the old "If you just eat it enough you will like it" ploy. That was the first and only real fight we ever had in our marriage – 34 years ago.

What if they're good for you though?

And might I point you gentlemen in the direction of whiskey? When I was 12 I had my first taste, a sip of Jameson, stolen from my fatherīs liquor cabinet. I thought I would die. However, repeated attempts proved successful, much to the distress of my liver.

But as time goes by I HAVE developed a taste for things (in food, history and everything else), even those that I soundly rejected before, while also finding there are things I used to like that no longer hold my interest or even seem repulsive.

I used to hate cooked cheese and salad.

I don't any more.

Strangely I have gone off chocolate as I got older, I like sweet things to have a fruity tang to them. I hope it doesn't indicate some horrible disease.

I have always like olives, but I don't think I'd ever eaten one until I was around 20. Such strange foreign concoctions would never grace my mothers table.

For a hobby though, a degree of enthusiasm is useful, or what's the point?

I had a friend that used to tell me I should go to some Grateful Dead shows with her even though I just didn't care for their music that much. "You'll love them after you see a show or two!" she used to say. I would always reply, "Oh, so if I stab myself in the hand over and over again I'll grow to love that, too?"

She finally left me alone about The Dead… and I still don't like them. 8)=

Well, as far as the Grateful Dead are concerned, I suspect the "atmosphere" of their shows might have been a contributing factor to her point.

Back to the gaming side of this question. I can see some reason to get opinions for selecting one period/army over another. Perhaps they both seem equally appealing and you are just asking for someone to come up with a reason to reinforce the choice you have already leaning towards.

That said, every project I have ever started was because it was something I wanted to do at the time. I have even (mostly) completed a few.

Vince

…and get off my lawn!

Nothing wrong with asking questions first. You'd hate to drop a couple hundred dollars on a coll looking army that grabbed your fancy only to discover they only ever fought the pygmies, and by the way they always lost.

Or an army that existed only for a few months and then evolved into something very different (that doesn't excite you).

I have learned to like many things, including Flames of War. But ancients? Blech.

I used to like my wife. …

I don't see any problem with asking experienced gamers their opinion about a time period/s.

And Cake, dont forget the cake……..

Pie …

John the OFM,

It is true… You are as described by others.