"Best Historical Period That's Not Popular (Final Round)" Topic

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The Last Conformist	08 Jun 2025 10:34 p.m. PST
I surprised that the Seven Years War counts as "not popular".
Lou from BSM	09 Jun 2025 11:30 a.m. PST
TLC, I know several people who dislike the period because of slow movement rates in rules systems (restricted to marching in line). One gentleman even hissed at me and made the sign of the cross when I suggested a SYW gaming day, lol.
robert piepenbrink	09 Jun 2025 2:40 p.m. PST
Wait just a few more years, and everything later than about the French Wars of Religion and earlier than 1919 will be "not popular." (Might have to carve out an exception for Western Gunfight?) Effectively, for land warfare there will be Fantasy Fantasy-adjacent (Dark Ages through FWOR) "Pulp" Science Fiction Science Fiction-adjacent (WWII and forward. Or, as we say "Kill Team Historical.") No mode of warfare not intuitive to the modern movie-goer will rate above 6th place. And it turns out I didn't need those "few more years." Here's the Great Wargaming Survey for 2024. link As you can see, even though they split up fantasy, SF and my "fantasy-adjacent" into two categories each, only the classical world (Ancients to 500 AD) and Napoleonics rate in the top ten. Lumping them as I described, in 2024 it was 1) SF 2)Fantasy 3) WW2 4) Fantasy-adjacent 5) Napoleonics 6) Pulp Close enough for TMP comments.

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