POLL: Rules: Fashion or Progress?

88 votes were cast.

Dave Crowell writes:

Where is the "both" option?

I imagine as technology advances we will see further new innovations and developments in wargames design and mechanisms.

For the most part though I think it is a matter of fashion. Single figure vs multi-base? Area of effect templates, including bounce sticks. Card draw activation. Buckets-o-Dice vs charts and tables with endless modifiers to a single die.

I don't always know what the shiny new hotness is. I find rules I like and I play them. I still play the original Mayhem: Muskets and Mohawks, despite the rules now being on their second publishers and maybe fourth version.

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VOTING RESULTS
Answer	Votes	%	Chart
this is ridiculous	9	10%
not my cup of tea	0	0%
fashion	42	48%
other (explain)	7	8%
none of these/no opinion	16	18%
progress	14	16%

POLL IS CLOSED

POLL DESCRIPTION

robert piepenbrink writes:

Are miniatures rules a matter of progress, so that the "outdated" set has no more purpose than a WWII tank on a modern battlefield? Or are they more like hemlines and hats, where everything old is new again? (And what does one make of rules which are like US .50 cals and Maxim guns and seem to defy aging?)

I'm going to go out on a limb and waffle, saying that some rule mechanisms may never really have been good ideas, and that we will not see the return of spring-loaded naval artillery to determine casualties, nor a major revival of the bounce stick. But hang on long enough, and you may well see written orders/simultaneous movement, national characteristics, saving throws and card draw activation rise again, because certain things have to be done or reflected in a miniature wargame, and all the mechanisms have drawbacks.

How say you? Will old rules and mechanisms slowly fade away, never to be seen again? Will they return like a certain Corsican from Elba? Or are there some in each category?

Poll set up by Editor in Chief Bill , based on this pre-poll discussion.