"Salute "coup d'etat" ?" Topic

The European show seems to be good – off top of head the name eludes me, but I am guessing Holland.

I like inspirational games that I can talk to the members – so I want it all it seems. I don't want to watch 4 blokes playing a club game on a green cloth with their backs to me.

But then, I didn't go this year, so I voted with my own wallet

If you were going to an art gallery you would want to see a Turner , not a paint by numbers effort

I don't know if you've been to any art galleries recently but the last couple I went to were full of absolute dross…
paint by numbers would have been a vast improvement! One, glasgow I think it was, had a whole wall of paintings of fried egg shaped blobs- the "white" being made of two colours and the yolk being a third overlapping them. Dozens of them. Opposite was a wall covered entirely with wallpaper samples. It reminded me a lot of the stuff my art teacher used to get us to do during our Art GCSE work. It wasn't art, it was colouring in!
sorry, had to get that out..give me a Cuneo or Breckon any day.

One year trying to get it right . Cost was not expensive as nearly everything was scratch built… …because you were personally inhibited ,someone had put more effort , spent more time , wanted to raise the standards of the hobby or was more talanted.

Ah, so all you need is a big pile of free time and a big pile of talent and you can do something as wonderful as somebody very talanted. I aspire to be as skilled (and perspire to have the time to do it!). But because someone is not (yet) as skilled or experienced they shouldn't be even allowed to make the attempt?

You will also see these same games over and over again at every single show.

Not such a feature these days (more people chucking it in perhaps) but when I used to go SELWG, Newbury, Reading and Salute every year, you often saw the same mega quality game(s) at more than one of them, like a Rock Band on tour.

You can still this phenomenon in the Wargames press or in blog reports of shows. Although, as I say, not as common as it once was.

Mike l am sorry to hear about your bad luck at the art galleries.
My point is that many ( not all ) if we are being really honest are not making any attempt.
Gamers trying should be celebrated not the other way around.

I quite a agree, and whilst I'm against setting the bar for entry to high, I wouldn't want to set it too low either.

I recall one game of 40k I saw at a show(forget which) which featured unpainted plastic scenery and figures, whilst no doubt entertaining for the players it wasn't exactly easy on the eyes.

I dunno, I run a "new age" company, and we had a blast, and pretty much did all we could to not be bland…

and we specialise in…. historical :O

Might start my own thread on how there needs to be more tutus and balloons… ;-)

Annie
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