| Tango01 | 30 Sep 2026 1:39 p.m. PST |
"Today I tackle a question that has been bugging me every time I slide my painted regiments across the wargames table: have movie directors subtly corrupted the way designers write charge mechanics? We have all spent years absorbing cinematic epics where thousands of digital warriors break rank, sprint across wide fields, and crash together like runaway freight trains. It looks fantastic on the big screen, but when those exact visual tropes bleed into our rulebooks, it completely distorts our understanding of historical battlefield doctrine…" BigLee's 'Miniature Adventures' link
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 Dal Gavan  | 30 Sep 2026 3:30 p.m. PST |
A more realistic question may be "Has there been anything Hollywood has touched which it hasn't <expected bleep> up?", mate. They should rename it, and its international cousins, "Passion Fingers".  |
 John the OFM | 30 Sep 2026 5:58 p.m. PST |
Those who know History just shrug their shoulders and mutter "It's a movie. What do you expect? 🤷"
How many "realistic" movies have you seen?
One hand? |
| Perris0707 | 30 Sep 2026 6:55 p.m. PST |
After suffering through Sir Ridley's Napoleon, I may never pay to see another "historical" movie on the big screen. |
| UshCha | 01 Oct 2026 1:19 a.m. PST |
Why would anybody consider Hollywood output any more realistic than an Asterix The Gaul Comic Book? They have less connection to reality than some politicians do. |
| 14Bore | 01 Oct 2026 2:21 a.m. PST |
Most every time I see a movie charge its cringe worthy |
| Dagwood | 01 Oct 2026 7:08 a.m. PST |
Since my Ancients are mostly on rectangular bases, no-one ever breaks out of formation for a charge. either the whole formation charges, or, more likely, refuses to charge. |
| DeRuyter | 01 Oct 2026 10:15 a.m. PST |
The charges in LOTR were more realistic than some historical charges in movies! The continued showing of full tilt charges, hurtling pell mell across the field has consequences that can be seen in YT clip comments. The one that gets me the most is the charge of the cuirassiers at Eylau. I think the film is Colonel Chabert, it is a beautifully filmed scene until the charge gets going! Tough convincing people in the comments that this is not how heavy cavalry charges! The masses are entertained and we get more of the same. Similar to the we can't have British wearing green coats argument in a certain AWI film. |
 etotheipi  | 01 Oct 2026 3:11 p.m. PST |
The related poll question is … "Do you play wargames that have that dysfunction in 'charge rules'?" |
| Tango01 | 01 Oct 2026 10:13 p.m. PST |
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 Der Alte Fritz | 02 Oct 2026 4:39 p.m. PST |
At least animals aren't harmed anymore (Charge of the Light Brigade with Errol Flynn) |
| Tango01 | 02 Oct 2026 6:17 p.m. PST |
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