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>History is a boring setting for wargames.

I will never respect people who unironically believe this. It's not that historicals are "better" it's just that they are more widespread than the GW sevitor can countenance, and that most 40k lore - like Battletech - is wholly cribbed from history with a few magical elements thrown in to push the story along.

Most non historical wargames these days aren't built on first principles of what is fun let alone trying to add flavour to units and the setting. They can't tell you how far an inch might be in their game, or what a model represents in terms of actual strength. They have whacky terrain and line of sight rules. They don't afford much if any importance to flanking or manouvres. It's never about the scenario or conditions, just autistic combo buffs. Don't get me started on the quality of the tables.

In short, anything you do will only ever be a pale derivative of what we do. I don't see you as a peasant because I am learned and scholarly, but I note that all the people who baulk at even cursory research play the same games. It's not like I'm a PHD, looking at some colour plates and watching a couple of documentaries. But you despise learning that much... People who actively hate reading and learning - wargaming is not actually for you, and attempts to make it so have made wargaming much worse.

Then there is the culture war stuff which we just bypass entirely because we aren't freaks, contrarians, hippies, tankies or other fascist lunatics. People play Germans because of the varied painting options and tech, 40k people observe this and apply assumptions that are really just projections.

Projections because all corporate GW stooges are little totalitarians in the end. The illusion of their hobby only works if you never, ever mention yours. Their shit is fucked up, and it's funny. At the end of the day they worship the worst kind of corporate archons because they imagine them in the gaudy drag of 1993.

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