"I'm Not Sure What Happened..." Topic

I started out as a sci-fi gamer, with fantasy on the side. Somewhere along the way, I went more towards fantasy. D&D and Frostgrave really encouraged that shift.

Today, on my hobby table, I have the following:

1) Dark Ages Irish

2) English Civil War Irish

3) 17th century Japanese.

4) WW2 Japanese

In a "current projects" box somewhere,I have two more warbands for Frostgrave and some sci-fi stuff for FiveCore.

I have no idea how I became a historical gamer…

A friend of mine is swerving into fantasy gaming after years of being purely historicals :-)

I swore off black powder gaming for many years, now it's becoming my favourite period and I recently got the bug for samurai warfare.

Welcome to the Dark Side!

Just possibly bashytubits has influenced some of your choices?

I've come to prefer historicals for human infanrty. Fantasy companies making characters and heroes. I think my favorite sets are the Frostgrave ones though. Splash any of their bits into another set and you've got gold.

Well, I started with ACW (the Airfix plastics), then ECW and WWII and currently on the painting table I have 5 dwarven Slayers (complete with orange hair) and a Chaos Slaughter priest (whatever that is)

To be fair, the Slayers were a present and I am painting the Chaos figure for a friend

Still, a long way from the Army of the Potomac!

Pretty much the same here… I started playing 40K, had 3-4 armies, 1 WFB army, and LoTR Rohirrm and Haradrim armys. Now 20 years later I have a Taifa Kingdoms army, an ECW Royalist army, a Saga warband, 2 Ronin Buntais, a 15mm Carthagenian DBA army under way and 17th/18thC Mughal army and several other small projects waiting in the wings.

[Pulls out a bag of plastic dinosaurs.]
Yeah, I got that historical gaming thing totally down. ;-)

I started as a fantasy gamer 35 years ago then became a historical gamer now do about an even split between sf and historical.

Started with historical gaming since the 70s. I am still doing history. Just once I played a game of LOTR, but I managed to resist the dark side and I am still doing history and only history.

It was time to turn from childish things.

Plot twist: Our history games were fantasy all along.

Started out with plastic napoleonics, but played WWII in plastic with a little WFB and Epic 40K on the side before getting into RPGs, before finding the one true faith which is 15mm sci-fi! Though I will admit to a large pile of contemporary Dark Age through Medieval plastic figures. I also have bunch of ECW Osprey's, which sooner or later may end in 'figures'.

When I started wargaming it was focused only on historical "realism". Right away I got corrupted into fantasy/medieval RPG. I've never separated the two clearly ever since. Especially when I realized much later that, as Weasel says, history (games) are fantasy: that is because largely history itself is a fantasy, a construct……….

+1 Waco Joe!

+1 raylev3

played histrical since the Seventies..just tried once a D&D fantasy game and another absurd one with space ships..the most boring experiences in my life together with seeing such moovies Starwars or lo Hobit

I'm the same, I started out in 40k, but when Flames of War really started taking off I jumped into 15mm and Historicals pretty hard.

I have Napoleonics, WW2 (both historical and Weird), and even some Age of Sigmar in the painting queue.

Thing is this can also happen the other way as well.

Bwaaaaaaahagahahahahaaaaaaa!!! Welcome to the Dark Side, my young apprentice… we have pizza… AND beer!

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