"How To Choose an Army for Your Favorite Wargame" Topic

"Hey Game fans, Zardoz here with another article that hopefully helps you figure out which army you want to play for your favorite wargame. I've got some ideas that I hope will help you maximize your time and money while you select the army of choice. Let's dig right in to some questions to ask before you start picking out units and color schemes…"

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Armand

This has never, ever been a concern of mine. I choose a set of rules, then pick a scenario, then build both sides.

The link is obviously for the 40K fandom. Age quod agis.
But I am a historical gamer. Even when I played WRG Ancients tournaments, I never played the "max it out game".
I would go with armies I liked, and took my licks at tournaments.

As Paul says, I put aside childish things, and search for rules that will work with the armies I have painted. FIW, AWI, Pirates, and Comanche vs Spanish. With a side excursion into saloon gunfights.

I have tended to pick a conflict that I would like to game, as noted above check out the rules and the available minis and go from there – as some with large Austrian armies for the SYW and Napoleonics, I clearly do not pick ones that necessarily hit the hardest!

In my case, I do the research first and determine what forces would be available. There are a lot of Japanese armies out there with way to many Samurai and not near enough ashigaru.

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Armand