sillypoint | 20 Dec 2019 11:10 p.m. PST |
It seems to me that winning has become less important, as time goes by. Getting people to play, getting figures onto the table, has become more important. It could also be that I'm the sort of player, in group games in particular, that gets eliminated first. 😜 |
martin goddard | 21 Dec 2019 2:07 a.m. PST |
Good point. Usually comes with age. Folk who must win no matter the offence given, do run out of opponents. martin
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korsun0 | 21 Dec 2019 2:32 a.m. PST |
100% agree, fun and pushing stuff around is more important |
Redcurrant | 21 Dec 2019 2:51 a.m. PST |
Totally agree – I find that it is far better that we both enjoy the game |
cavcrazy | 21 Dec 2019 7:09 a.m. PST |
Losing helps to make you a gracious winner. I am lucky enough to game with a group of guys who just love gaming. There is competition among us, everybody tries to win, but more importantly is the joy of gaming itself. There is more laughter than anything else in our games. After all it is a game and games are supposed to be fun. If it is a great game, everybody's a winner. |
Frederick | 21 Dec 2019 7:46 a.m. PST |
Being a gracious loser is a good thing – Lord knows I have enough practice at it As noted, the fun is in the game, not the winning |
Col Durnford | 21 Dec 2019 8:22 a.m. PST |
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robert piepenbrink | 21 Dec 2019 8:46 a.m. PST |
It's a testosterone deficiency. You'd have to make me 25-30 again to see whether I've actually learned anything, or just gotten more tired. |
skipper John | 21 Dec 2019 9:34 a.m. PST |
What is "Jerusalem (winning)" worth? Nothing… Everything! |
Doug MSC | 21 Dec 2019 11:54 a.m. PST |
Our group loves to play and doesn't have a problem when one side looses. On to the next game!!! We'll show you!!! |
Stryderg | 21 Dec 2019 12:24 p.m. PST |
Losing gives you an opportunity to talk smack for the next game. |
Ed Mohrmann | 21 Dec 2019 7:19 p.m. PST |
Lombardi notwithstanding, winning is NOT everything… |
nnascati | 22 Dec 2019 6:28 p.m. PST |
Absolutely! Having fun with the game is more important than winning or losing. |
von Schwartz | 23 Dec 2019 2:16 p.m. PST |
Winning? what is that? I just like to paint the figures!!! |
COL Scott ret | 25 Dec 2019 8:23 p.m. PST |
Playing is fun, but I do like winning. Could be that 30 years as an army ranger makes loosing unattractive |
ordinarybass | 28 Dec 2019 3:53 p.m. PST |
I've always thought that good people, painted figures and good looking terrain were far more important than winning. I am of course biased because those tare the things that make wargaming fun for me. |
Aethelflaeda was framed | 05 Jan 2020 12:50 p.m. PST |
Winning is great, but not essential, (or else I wouldn't get any pleasure at all). Still as bad as the sore loser or win at all costs gamer is, there remains the "I don't give a damn about winning so I won't even try" sort of gamer who renders any joy of victory over him pointless because he couldn't be bothered to even take a reasonable plan, and chooses to drag down his teammates and yet still says he had lots of fun, rationalizing it as "it was all just good fun" There was a contrary guy in our group who would actively sabotage games when certain players were on his side, and very obviously such as moving in circles, not advancing when needed, or leaving good ground to expose units for no advantage(but quite a good player when those guys were his opponents) . It got so bad I would not play in games with him. I have seen too many of the "charge anyway it doesn't matter" types who when given a sector to defend chose to banzai when the obvious strategy was to keep the good ground and let the other guy banzai into him. I have heard a guy say "defense is boring I'm attacking even if it is suicidal". They always rationalize poor play with "winning doesn't matter". I state that for some it's not always losing "graciously", but a form of passive aggression on the part of the player to deny anyone the joy of a hard fought for victory over him. The can rationalize the behavior too too easily. |