"The Greying of the hobby - are you grey?" Topic

67 next month. Comprehensively grey-headed.

Age of Sail – 1700-1815
Steel Navies – 1890-1945
WW1 Western Front – skirmisher in the air and on the ground.
WW2
Vietnam
ACW – ground pounder
Spasmodic periods commanding Renaissance Huguenots.

B

28 years old, 6ft 2 and ripped with ash blond hair.

Oh jeeez no, that was what I wrote on my facebook* page…

Er, ummm 55, quite graying hair but little loss at the moment (thankfully)

You can't see the rear of the haircut from the front on photo (probably a good thing…)

My first loves are Fantasy (specifically LotR) and SF of all sorts and sub genres, but I have Imperial Roman and WW2 armies in the collection (plus a large collection of post WW2 aircraft tat I'd love to game with) and will play most anything (and have done so).

There are few periods that I can't engage with but I guess Marlburian/7YW would pretty much leave me bored stiff. For historicals, I prefer ancients as far as the Dark Ages and post WW2/Cold War/Modern.

However, like I said, it's mostly SF** and specific fantasy genres.

The demographics revealed by this thread are certainly very interesting. My local club is almost entirely stuffed to the gills with men who fulfill exactly that demographic and the vast majority play both historical and non-historical games with only a very few (probably 10%) who only play historicals.

Oh, I forgot to add, done a fair amount of lazer-tag live roleplay in my time (though not over the last 5 years: the knees are getting bit old for running around in the woods with a fake gun) but – as it's not miniatures orientated – that probably doesn't count!

Four 'Blue' Aliens from a tag game: Kevin Dallimore first on left, me second on left… 28 years ago…

John T

* ok, I don't actually have a facebook account…

** I am very fond of hard SF plus original Trek and the works of Gerry Anderson

80 years old! Gaming since 1968. White hair and bald as well. I game every Thursday night and some weekends in WWII Naval (See Kreig V), WWII Air (CY6), Colonial (Patrols In The Sudan), WWII Land (Cross Fire, Chain Of Command), Franco-Prussian War (Chasse Pot and Needlegun), Americna Civil War(Fire & Fury), Old west/King Philips war/Bloody Kansas/ACW Skirmish/and more(Desperado – modified. I go to 2/3 cons a year and just put on 2 games and played in one at Havoc. See Blogs at Kingstonirregulars.blogspot.com & mgluteus.blogspot.com. I started my grandson in Historical gaming when he was 5 – played in his first Historicon game at age 8 and has been going stron ever since, now putting on games ( this weekend at Havoc). See his Blog at Historicalgamingguide.blogspot.com. To avoid "greying of the hobby" bring new blood in as I did and as early as you can.
Dick Bryant
"No Scenario Survives First Contact with a Wargamer"

How old am I?…oh yes, 54 this year….and a wargamer for well over 40 of them.
It occured to me a while ago that wargaming has been one of the only constants in my life over that long a time…friends, jobs,houses, women, vices, other interests, they have come and gone but wargaming has always been there.

Still have wargames ambitions, hopes and dreams, and am always putting them into practice, a vast Napoleonic collection, lots of WWII, attempting to write that set of WWII rules (because All the other ones are garbage…:-)), and I have my secret vice…DDO..

59 and gaming for 45 of them.

26, been gaming for close to 15 years. Currently doing WW2, Fantasy/RPG, and zombie post-apoc.

~iPaint

64- Will you still need me?
Wargamer since fall 1976.
ACW and Napoleonics are the biggies for me.
Also like Franco-Prussian, Chariot Wars, Dark Ages
Love 28mm and 40mm. Started in 15mm Minifig strips for ACW.
Have seen too many hobby shops close. The humanity. The toys.
Oh, going white fast.

37, balding, so i help mother nature out by shaving the rest.
Started with AD&D miniatures. Then Warhammer FB 3rd edition got me going. Loved Space Marine, Battle Tech, Space Hulk…

I collect almost anything Fantasy and Sci-FI. Have been looking into WWII and modern using Blitzkrieg commander or similar. Any new project will most probably be 6mm. I love the look of massive tank formations and hoards of infantry.

Also going to start working on dungeon terrain to get my kids interested in the hobby when they are old enough.

Females never gray, nor tell their age. However, I am older than Bob (who is white haired and on Medicare). I've raised Palmyrans on camels, Victoria women with parasols (and rifles) Age of Sail, Cogs, ACW, Chinese, colonials in India and Africa, and for Christmas, I got some Hinterland female Hussars riding side saddle. Still have D&D figs from when the kids were young. (And Bob still is, somewhere between 8 and 12)

52, salt n pepper with a large crop circle gradually spreading across the top :(
Started painting figs when I was 13 in 1976, Hinchliffe figures, but didn't start gaming until early 1990s after visiting one of the first Partizan shows in a primary school in Newark.
15mm Naps,ACW,AWI,FoW WW2& Arab/Israeli,
WoW WW1 + WW2,
1/1200 Nap Naval, 1/3000 WW1/WW2 Naval, 1/600 WW2 Naval, 28mm SYW, Sudan, Saga.WW2.

Have a 7yo who is into historical gaming such as WoW, Nap naval, Bolt Action Tank Wars. Anything fast moving whilst relatively short and snappy gaming.Definitely no fantasy (meh!!)

50, bald, grey round the sides. Beard starting to grey in places.

Wargamed since I was 12.

Nowadays play sci-fi, WW2, colonial and ancients, but my favourites are fantasy and Dark Age.

Most of my stuff is in 20mm plastic, but graually 28mm plastic is invading my wargames room.

Cleo is still a babe. Lucky man, Bob!

44 going on 20… graying beard and hair thanks to my 3 kids.
28mm Caesarians and Ancient Germans
28mm Vikings, Saga, Pig wars…
28mm Retreat from Moscow
10mm ACW, Pickett's Charge, new project!
28mm Dino Hunting