"What Have We Learned (Round 1A)" Topic

All the good ones, I was doing all along.

Bought as much of the early minis ranges that I really liked as the budget would afford. No real chance of having bought more.

I went back to the pre-poll discussion. One common thread was that the younger Me would pay no attention to the older Me.

As for "Always paint both sides", that's kind of the default in our group.

Okay, you got me. Bathtub???

Bathtub was popularised by the highly influential Command Decision campaign supplement Barbarossa 25 (1988), everything shrunk in the bath at a 1:25 ratio which allowed playing a very large scale campaign with smaller units.

Yeah, but bathtubbing was much older than that. Basically, any representation of a battle as a much smaller affair--not changing the rules, but placing, say, a battalion where historically there was a brigade or more to fit everything on the available playing surface without changing the rules. Done right, you still capture the sort of decisions the historical commanders made, but of course you've vastly changed the ground scale, and take fire from places which, in the actual battle, were much too far away.

Bathtubbing goes back decades before Command Decision.

And here I thought "bathtub" was an admonition to check your personal hygiene before going to a game or convention. Still a good thing to learn…

That comes under "showering".