"If not wargaming?" Topic

I have a limited number of hobbies.

In no order: work (I really love my job), reading, gardening & gaming. That's it.

I was asked this & didn't have a ready answer: if wargaming didn't exist, what hobby might you take up that you don't do now?

And a song to play whilst you contemplate….
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Model railroading. I did do it before discovering wargaming, and it can satisfy the modeling aspects of the hobby. However, having a train run around and around is really boring. It is important to never finish the layout so one has the excuse to tinker and build yet more terrain features.

I already do it: I build models, specializing in 1/35 scale armor (though I do a few 1/72 aircraft, 1/700 naval or random scale SF subjects from time to time as well). In fact, I airbrushed some dark gray on a 1/35 Pz IVD just tonight. Also have a Merkava II up on cinderblocks, and a T-34/76 M1943 Chelyabinsk Zavod version awaiting dullcoating.

Also read SF and history, occasionally fantasy, so am a bit of a book collector. Also read/collect comics.

Damon.

RPG

Not sure, I'd probably be down the pub drinking and gambling. At least thats what I've said to some of my ex's when they've tried to make me give up my hobby.

I'd like to have made Custom Cars or Motor-Cycles but I don't have the skills or knowledge and would think my back would not handle it too well.

If wargaming didn't exist, I'd invent it.

Chess and more historical reading. The modeling/painting side of the hobby has little appeal anyway.

Model railroading, already do both so easy answer.

In no particular order: plastic models, collecting/converting/modelling action figures, reading, writing, playing unhealthy amounts of World of Warcraft, watching unhealthy amounts of Ancient Aliens, cuddling with my wife, interacting with the offspring…

I would spend more time on the other hobbies I have less time for now, mainly dinghy sailing and re-enacting. I would also probably revert to my original calling of military modelling. In a world awash with board and video games, it is a bit hard to imagine no Wargames at all….

+1 for War Artisan (you HG Wells, you)

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Slow horses and fast women.

I would go back to collecting plastic soldiers and playsets…..and probably end up on the floor playing with them like I did when I was a kid.
Who am I kidding?, If I still collected them I would be on the floor playing with them!

Reading, gardening, video games

Gardening, watching football, all sorts of levels. Reading and thats about it.

Guitar and mandolin

Guitar and computer gaming, the stuff I used to do but don't have time for since I started wargaming.

V/R,
Jack

More animals! though my wife would say eight cats, two dogs and fish is enough.

Roger.

I periodically have bursts of passion for golf but gardening, reading and to a lesser extent hiking has been a constant.

Dunno, I was already playing with simple card and dice driven 'rules' before I found the first Featherstone book back in the mid 60's so maybe I'd have had to invent as well.

Have had an allotment and enjoyed that for many years but can't get them locally so that is out. I did a bit of painting (of the pictures sort) for a while but think I have worn that out too.

Would have loved to be better at both languages and music but I turned out to be crap at both so nothing there.

Sport was something to do on Saturdays while I was at school and uni and never had even the vaguest interest after that. Can't see any fun in watching others do it so never bothered.

Nope it has to be wargaming.

Tuvan throat singing and taking over North Korea so I can wargame 'proper' ;)
In truth I'd become a surly mean spirited bookworm "'who says I'm am already? Put your fists up man!"
Stop frightening us all Donald you know its horror month too :)
Cheers all happy enjoying one of the best of hobbies (this decent wine and eats with Genie Jeanie to pretty up the place would be heaven, agree?)

Read more I guess? Be really bored?

Modeling, weaving, doing my own mechanical work on my bicycles

The question is a hobby you don't already do.
Model railroads?

Current: Gaming, golf, fishing, reading and gardening.

New-ish to do with more time: Shooting.

Always looking for more time for charities.

DM

Gaming and Golf here.

I would be sculpting more and building model kits. Probably scuba dive a lot more than i do now. I'd have more time for computer games too.

APBA baseball which I have been involved in since 1961.

Board games cycling

Collecting toy soldiers, which I already do.

Historical railway modelling and perhaps go back to flying radio control sailplanes.

Model railroading….did that first but wargaming now takes up my limited hobby time. What I do AVOID is online wargaming….it takes away from my wargaming time.

Golf and developing Wordpress plugins.

Oh I see.

Hmm. Maybe keeping an aquarium.

I really dont know.I have been involved with wargaming in some aspect almost my entire life.

I'm not a model railroader but I know someone who is and I can say that there is a lot more to model railroading then just the artistic side of creating the scenery and such cosmetic things. Another thing, the trains just don't go around in a circle. For the serious hobbyist entire train yards with complex switching is recreated where you have to figure out how to move box cars from various tracks to different engines. You are basically running a railroad operation. To put it as it relates to war gaming, there are war gamers who concentrate on having pretty painted figures and building dioramas, and then there are serious war gamers who focus on playing complex simulations or competitive games who would still play them using blocks of wood if they didn't have the figures.

But to answer the question, first you have to define what war gaming is. It's different things to different people. Like I said, to some it is modeling and painting, to others it is about gaming, and to others it is about history or a combination of the three.

I enjoy when I can…would really like to go duck hunting…

If not wargaming then boardgames or RPG or LARP or reenactment or I suppose I could become a more serious 10 pin bowler.

I cant believe it took til post 38 for some loser to tell us he enjoys 'murdering deer' or any sort of hunting really, way to prove your manhood, er 'dude'

John

Somebody needs a Snickers.

Hahahahaha, oh stop it, my make-up's running, if the deer was armed, that's sport.

John

Photography.

if wargaming didn't exist,

OP, you seem to be using English words but they don't make sense to my brain…

Go back to building a giant dragon out of beer cans in my backyard.