"Will You Ever Leave?" Topic

Do you think there will come a time when you are no longer interested in miniature wargaming?

Or are you a life-long minis gamer?

There are times when I kinda' feel burned out, and then I take a break. But after 40 years of playing miniatures, I doubt it.

I have spent the last 6-7 years focusing on my kids sport.

Now that one has finished school and i only have to run around for my youngest son's sport and music, I hope to get back to wargaming and painting.

Blood in, blood out, so no.

While I am healthy and independent? No. All things do come to an end though.

I'm pretty committed.

I've been doing it for 30-odd years, but who knows what the future holds?

Interested yes. Playing, specially anything like competitions, meh.

Lifer.

When the end comes, one of my buddies, or opponents will have to pry a stand of figures from my cold dead hand so the game will go on!!

Over 40 years and I'm as interested as I was when I started. Life member here.

As above, at 40+ years I suspect I'm a lifer, as long as I have my health anyway.

Probably on or near the 50 year mark, so probably in for life.

I hope that I will always be interested in the hobby. I imagine that there will come a time when I can no longer play.

Like the others, as long as I have my health I will have my toy soldiers. And now, after 40 years of this, in the last couple of months I find that I am starting to enjoy painting!

I find myself having bursts of excitement for different aspects of the hobby,right now I'm on a terrain making binge, I could take or leave gaming and painting figures, will I ever truly give it all up? I honestly don't know.

49 years and counting. I'm a lifer and have plans to game beyond the grave!

Now Ive retired, why would I, plus I have so many games and battles to play.

Don't know – as it is how I currently earn a living, I doubt it. But I did have a break from all gaming between 1988 and 1995 when I was writing computer games and then running a software house….

Mike

Looking on here and in the wargames press i increasingly feel that this isn't my hobby – it seems to have little in common with what I do. I doubt I will stop doing what I do but I might stop calling myself a "minis gamer"… in fact I don't anyway…

47+ years, still collecting, painting, and gaming every chance I get. Don't see that changing.

Man plans but God establishes his path.

No one knows exactly what they will do, only what they intend to do.

I have gone inactive in some aspect (playing, painting, buying) in my miniatures gaming since 1972 at times but never totally lost interest.

In the future? Who knows?

41 years of Officially wargaming, when I played my first S&T/SPI game, probably some 58 years when you toss in playing with my toy soldiers in a very organized manner.

My interest does wax and wane from time to time, but still going at it.

38 years a warmer started when I was 10 years old . Will go on for the rest of my life.

I am a lifer.

Another lifer. Going on 40 years.

Lifer here.

Life sentence for me too…

Nope.

Depends.

Been in he hobby 54 years. Twenty years ago I would have said I too was a lifer. Now, after the advent of the internet has allowed gamers to show their incredible nastiness to each other, and the precipitous decline of a once great organization, HMGS, into corruption and personal vendettas, I wonder if solo collecting is the future for me. I suspect that if in 1962 I had been shown the whole course of war gaming I would have tossed out Joe Moreschausers "How to Play War Games in Miniature."

No.

Hopefully not after 50 years. I'll always have the interest, but my worry is the number of gaming friends. I'm down from over a dozen to only a few, and I'm not a solo gamer :- )

Lifer

Phil

Not willingly.

Although I would not be surprised if "real life" forced me to ditch 90+% of my gaming interest and collections at some point

I'mlike raylev3, I'm too interested in the hobby, but occasionally I take a break for a couple of years and jump right back into it! It's especially easy when you can't find any opponents, right now it's been a loooong dry spell for opponents!

No, I have taken breaks but the hobby is too much a part of me.

In till I die….

I've taken breaks and have had slow times. Still, I'm in for the duration.

Like many others, 40 years of gaming, I am not likely to leave until they pry my miniatures from my cold dead hand!

We'll never leave you, Bill. You poor, poor man! You're stuck with us forever!
Oh, and I'm going to keep on gaming, too…

Ottoathome,

It sounds like you are still a lifer, you just don't like jerks. Don't let jerks spoil your hobby. Your approach to gaming should be like everything else in life: avoid the jerks whenever possible and enjoy the company good people.

Similarly, Calico Bill don't get too down. Yes some people move away, pass away or become engaged in other matters, but others eventually come along to take their places. I have gone for periods of three or four years at a time without finding someone interested in gaming, but eventually others come around. At this particular moment in my life I know more people to game with than I ever have, but unfortunately for the next several months I will be out of action so to speak. But I know that when everything slows down a little, people will be there with whom I can game. So hang in there, things will pick up.

And yes, I intend to game as long as I am alive
Kevin

Kevin

No plans to do anything but keep playing and painting.

When the end comes, one of my buddies or opponents will have to pry a stand of figures from my cold dead hand so the game will go on!!

I'm with vagamer.

Jim

I plan to stop wargaming three months after I die.

Lifer. 53 years of board gaming and 44 of miniature gaming.

50 years so far, So Why stop now

50+ years and still going. Some would say that history, wargaming and miniatures are the only things I can think or talk about. I've been a wargamer since I discovered Jack Scruby's rules and newsletter in the 1960's. Before that I just played with toy soldiers all the time.

Hopefully not for a good long while yet.

My group is always a mix of minis, boardgames, and to a lesser extent, card games and even the occasional RPG. Some periods/rules/games get a broad following, others just the one who puts on a game a year.

Been mini gaming for 35 years, guess I'll keep at it. But you never know.