| The Last Conformist | 06 Sep 2025 2:21 a.m. PST |
The anglocentricity is strong with this poll. (And yes, Yanks count as Anglos.) |
robert piepenbrink  | 06 Sep 2025 4:00 a.m. PST |
I might quibble, Last. But I certainly feel no desire to game any of Germany's internal quarrels. Maybe 1866? (But no one thought of it as a civil war, even though the participants were notably polite.) Still, the site and historical miniatures gaming generally, seems to skew anglophone. I will note that who you were planning to game with would make a difference, as would one-off battles vs a campaign. WotR is a nice free for all campaign, for instance, while AWI probably has the most tactical variety at a tabletop level. |
 etotheipi  | 06 Sep 2025 4:56 a.m. PST |
This site heavily tends anglophone. The overwhelming majority of the posts I have seen are in English, specifically the site rules (a de facto vice de juris distinction). The membership (which is different than the day-to-day posting frequency) claims: 501–1,000 members
Italy (508)
Germany (550)
France (552) 1,000–10,000 members
Australia (1,534)
Canada (1,577)
United Kingdom (8,417) 10,000+ members
United States of America (15,222) (the whole sorted list of ~52K memberships is a bit long for a post.) |
| Grattan54 | 06 Sep 2025 9:54 a.m. PST |
I would have voted for the civil wars that occurred in Germany during the Holy Roman Empire period. But I realize not much is known about them in English and there were very few battles. The German Civil War after WW1 is also fun but, again, it is fairly one sided. |
 20thmaine | 06 Sep 2025 10:56 a.m. PST |
British Civil Wars (so ECW on this poll) |
| robert piepenbrink | 06 Sep 2025 4:43 p.m. PST |
True, eto. And the Kiwis--several hundred, if I remember correctly--reinforce the Anglophone tone. Grattan, "one-sided" is only a problem for particular levels. You could put a lot of 1919 fighting on a tabletop without worrying that only one side could win a campaign. (The reverse is often true in colonial/national liberation wars: they can be balanced at a campaign game level, but be one-sided on the table. You pays your money…) |
 miniMo | 07 Sep 2025 3:36 p.m. PST |
Real hipster gamers learn foreign languages so they can read up on the best conflicts that aren't covered particularly well, if at all, in English language publications. |
 John the OFM | 07 Sep 2025 7:02 p.m. PST |
"Real hipster gamers" also can't pronounce anything correctly to save their lives.
Try listening to 40K dudes with Latin. 😄 |
| FusilierDan | 08 Sep 2025 5:22 a.m. PST |
I picked ACW because I think the sides are evenly matched regards to weapons and tactics. SCW was second as I think the period is more interesting. ECW I haven't gamed or read much about but certainly tactics changed as each side used different doctrine. |
| miniMo | 08 Sep 2025 11:13 a.m. PST |
John, 40K is anything but hipster though. Hipster gamers relish playing battles others have probably never heard of, and enjoy lamenting that so many people like to play popular battles/wars, and why do manufacturers keep making minis for the popular ones anyway. |
| robert piepenbrink | 08 Sep 2025 4:19 p.m. PST |
OFM, best just to regard 40K's Linguae Imperialis as a romance language--about as close to Latin as French, Spanish and Romanian. Or whatever they're speaking in Curse of Chalion. Anyone ruled by Royas and Royinas is clearly in there somewhere. |
 Old Contemptible | 09 Sep 2025 10:42 p.m. PST |
Do this poll on Lead Adventures and the ECW would be the top vote getter. |
shows us that you don't need money to have great bases.