Re: What's wrong with SF?

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Richard Kirke wrote:

> >The third store caters to the areas
> >historical gamers, who were "horrified" at the mere thought of
playing a SF
> >or fantasy based game.
> 
> I have to say that I come across this a lot. I just don't get it...
what do 
> people see as the problem with SF?

According to the local Historical group, its because the purpose of 
wargaming is to exactly recreate the battle and the rules are supposed
to 
give teh exact factors that influenced teh battle (I'm sorry, but your 
general had a cold taht day so we're going to impose special cold rules
on 
you :).  They don't play because its fun, they play because its
historical 
reasearch.  Of course they don't like it when I point out that if they 
excactly capture the battle, its going to turn out the same as it did in

history and they could just read the Osprey book...

I think its fear that they might have to think for themselves instead of

using a script.

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