 Aurochs  | 15 Aug 2016 2:40 a.m. PST |
Concerning gaming what do you find more interesting? A military power in its heyday or in its decline? |
 Flashman14 | 15 Aug 2016 3:57 a.m. PST |
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| GarrisonMiniatures | 15 Aug 2016 4:31 a.m. PST |
Probably decline or rise – heyday they're expected to win. |
| robert piepenbrink | 15 Aug 2016 5:45 a.m. PST |
Has anyone noticed that war is sort of zero-sum? One side's heyday is the other side's decline. But I AM partial to wars and armies where people know what they're doing. I had enough of random deployments, bad activation rolls and lousy command radii when I wore a uniform. |
 ochoin | 15 Aug 2016 6:37 a.m. PST |
Over ripe, bloated, decadent, fetid & spoiled. Such a once great force can be a beatable opponent: just ripe for picking whilst armies at their peak should be difficult to beat. So the French at Austerlitz or Jena won't be IMO as enjoyable an adversary as their 1812 or Waterloo force. |
| Grignotage | 15 Aug 2016 6:39 a.m. PST |
@robert---lol! I like gaming forces that don't know what they're doing or are still learning. |
| Tgerritsen | 15 Aug 2016 10:10 a.m. PST |
That's a tough question, and I'm curious how relevant it really is to gaming. Politically, I would say it's hard to argue that the British Empire wasn't in decline during World War Two, and the repercussions of this would be immediately apparent after the end of the war. However, that didn't stop them from fielding an amazingly professional, powerful and ultimately successful force. Does the former really affect the later in a gaming situation? Or are you being specific to a longer campaign like the Napoleonic Wars where you have a clear ascendancy, heyday and decline of the French forces? I'd argue those cases aren't usually as clear cut in history. |
| Lascaris | 15 Aug 2016 10:47 a.m. PST |
I find the decline more interesting. Whether it's Late Imperial Romans or French in1870 I'm a sucker for playing the guys who used to be great but are just hanging on. |
| Texas Jack | 15 Aug 2016 12:54 p.m. PST |
I am an early war guy, no matter what the conflict. I also do both sides, so one side is usually in its heyday and the other not. |
| vtsaogames | 15 Aug 2016 1:53 p.m. PST |
Hmm, I've got Late Romans (and Franks, Goths and Huns). 1870 French too, and 1866 Austrians. Never thought about the decline thing as a theme. |
| Ney Ney | 16 Aug 2016 2:31 a.m. PST |
Depends on the campaign. Romans, I like Lates. WW2 Germans, I like earlies. |
