When I started out in miniature wargaming almost 20 years ago, I started with early Games Workshop (Space Hulk lead to Rogue Trader/40k to Fantasy and Blood Bowl). But my lack of easy access to opponents at the time pushed me to expand my gaming horizons. I fell into a group that played 15mm Napoleonic (Napoleon's Battles), Civil War (Johnny Reb then later Fire and Fury) and ultimately ancients.
This was when De Bellis Multitudinous was new and I was hooked immediately with the variety of armies, the tactical plus strategic thinking involved and simplicity of the game. For a couple years DBM was a good chunk of my life. Painting figures to play with. Selling older armies to fund new ones in a vicious cycle that saw a lot of different ancient nations pass through my painting table to the green felt battlefield.
But things change and I was forced by my choice of career to move away from a solid group of players to a location that had zero players that i was able to find. And again in another location. Things changed again, and now I have found people willing to play, I find myself falling in love again with the 15mm armies of antiquity. I'm painting Mycenaens and figures to round out my Macedonian and Polish forces. I have a regular DBA game which I hope will build to more large scale games. All my 40k stuff has migrated to the shelves, but not consciously and not all at once. I could find a game if I wanted to pursue one. But I have not felt the urge. I still love the fluff, but even new units for my old armies isn't giving me the urge to play and I'm not certain why.
I'm not giving up on it, I just don't have the drive to seek out and get people to play. I just wish I had a better handle on what changed.
This was when De Bellis Multitudinous was new and I was hooked immediately with the variety of armies, the tactical plus strategic thinking involved and simplicity of the game. For a couple years DBM was a good chunk of my life. Painting figures to play with. Selling older armies to fund new ones in a vicious cycle that saw a lot of different ancient nations pass through my painting table to the green felt battlefield.
But things change and I was forced by my choice of career to move away from a solid group of players to a location that had zero players that i was able to find. And again in another location. Things changed again, and now I have found people willing to play, I find myself falling in love again with the 15mm armies of antiquity. I'm painting Mycenaens and figures to round out my Macedonian and Polish forces. I have a regular DBA game which I hope will build to more large scale games. All my 40k stuff has migrated to the shelves, but not consciously and not all at once. I could find a game if I wanted to pursue one. But I have not felt the urge. I still love the fluff, but even new units for my old armies isn't giving me the urge to play and I'm not certain why.
I'm not giving up on it, I just don't have the drive to seek out and get people to play. I just wish I had a better handle on what changed.
