"Wargaming with multiple generations - influencing play?" Topic

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Was reading this article about the 5 generations in the workplace

Got me to thinking if we added a piece on each of the groups

What would they be? and how has it affected the style of play?

So ultimately to make it a single poll question – How has having multiple generations at the miniatures table impacted our play?

Perhaps

a – simpler rules that are less historical
b – smaller units
c – more variety
d – shorter games
e – simple rules and mechanisms that enhance the game
f – other

and so on

Oh, I thought you meant me and my grandkids. But yes, most of your alphabet there works.

g – more elegant play
h – all of the above

Perhaps another poll doc – I know I did the same thing my dad did with me – with my kids – piles of plastic on the carpet with cannons shooting toothpicks and tennis balls

A good time by all

In my experience, diverse teams let you do more complicated stuff faster and with better customer outcomes coupled with a more robust platform.

In gaming terms, our group is quite age diverse, and so we benefit from various different perspectives, experiences and approaches. Hard to be more specific than that, but it certainly doesn't lead to some of the dumbing down suggested above.

I don't often play with children (folks younger than about 16), but play regularly with everyone else, from college students to grizzled veterans my own age. I thoroughly appreciate the diversity. I recently even overcame years of innate resistance and started to give Warhammer 40K a try in large part in order to share a game with the young'uns. I too have not had to simplify -- if anything, my own preference is for a wider variety of simpler games.

I got my 2 children to play with me while they were still at home & sometimes during the college holidays when they came back for the feasts. I also took them to some gaming cons but neither of them took it up as a hobby. They much preferred D&D, Mordheim & Pig Wars to traditional big battle gaming with lots of units & WRG rules.

My son (50) and his son (10) and I play games together and even run some at conventions. Here we are doing The Great War in Africa at SpartaCon, using Congo Adventure rules, and dressed accordingly. We generally play the standard rules to bring the youngster up to speed.

I wish we had multiple generations. It only happens when a parent brings one of his kids. Usually they are way too young. Then as soon as they hit puberty they are gone. If they play something its usually "Space Monkeys." Not one of those kids as they get older hang around. God knows we do everything we can to make them welcome. Most kids find history boring. We historical players were the oddballs in school. We loved history.