Are you a Grognard?

[Yellow Sign]

I am proud to say that I am a Grognard! Which if you didn't know means I am a Wargamer.

The Gallipoli thread reminded me how much I loved military history and wargaming. I haven't done much of it lately. But back in the day I played many different wargames. I remember fighting battles between the British and Zulu at Rorke's Drift, pushing my Hoplite phalanxes into Persian Archers, sending American Tin Cans on a torpedo run against a Japanese Heavy Cruiser, and the list goes on. All this by pushing around some painted mini's on a battlefield made of paint, fabric, and wood.

So are you a Grognard?

 

[Odhanan]

Man, I haven't played a wargame for years and years but yeah, I'm a Grognard myself. Does being French of nationality count for double score?

 

[Yellow Sign]

Man, I haven't played a wargame for years and years but yeah, I'm a Grognard myself. Does being French of nationality count for double score?

As long as you play the French in a Napoleonic battle!

 

[francisca]

Nope. I came into gaming via D&D. I am enjoying miniatures gaming more and more these days, however.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I am proud to say that I am a Grognard! Which if you didn't know means I am a Wargamer.

Grognard (Fr. "grumbler") may mean:

* Napoleon Bonaparte's name for old veteran soldiers. (derived from the French: grogner : 1. snarl 2. grunt 3. growl 4. grumble (râler) 5. gripe (râler), and grognon : 1. grouch 2. curmudgeon)
* slang for someone who enjoys playing board wargames. This use is supposed to have been coined by John Young in the early 1970s while employed by Simulations Publications, Inc.. Originally this term referred to the "old guard" of gamers who were playing tactical board games prior to 1969.
* Inside the computer game development industry, the term grognard is used to name fans who will buy every game released in a certain genre of game (RTS, RPG, etc...). These dedicated game players are often viewed as a blessing and a curse, as they will ensure a certain minimum level in sales, but they will also be the most critical of any mistakes or bugs in the game.
* In both the board game and computer game genres, a grognard is an ultra-hardcore gamer, seeking reality and assembling detailed tables of probabilities and statistics.


A link that would be useful for games that one would consider to be for "Grognards" would be, obviously, www.grognard.com. They have a list of many, many games and related links.

I'll be. I never knew the origin of this word. I just thought it meant "old timer."

 

[RobotRobotI]

Does Mechwarrior: Age of Destruction count?

 

[frankthedm]

I side with the Old Guard more than the New Kids on game design, have strong opinions on How things ought to be and love minis so i'll stand up and be counted with the grognards

Grognard
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Grognard (Fr. "grumbler") may mean:

Napoleon Bonaparte's name for old veteran soldiers. (derived from the French: grogner : 1. snarl 2. grunt 3. growl 4. grumble (râler) 5. gripe (râler), and grognon : 1. grouch 2. curmudgeon)
slang for someone who enjoys playing board wargames. This use is supposed to have been coined by John Young in the early 1970s while employed by Simulations Publications, Inc.. Originally this term referred to the "old guard" of gamers who were playing tactical board games prior to 1969.
Inside the computer game development industry, the term grognard is used to name fans who will buy every game released in a certain genre of game (RTS, RPG, etc...). These dedicated game players are often viewed as a blessing and a curse, as they will ensure a certain minimum level in sales, but they will also be the most critical of any mistakes or bugs in the game.
In both the board game and computer game genres, a grognard is an ultra-hardcore gamer, seeking reality and assembling detailed tables of probabilities and statistics.

 

[Jdvn1]

I'll be. I never knew the origin of this word. I just thought it meant "old timer."

That's what I thought too!

 

[Hairfoot]

I'll be. I never knew the origin of this word. I just thought it meant "old timer."

It was, IIRC, originally a term for the veterans of Napoleon's military campaigns.

Until recently it applied mostly to historical wargamers, but it's coming to mean any old-school gamer.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I'm a Grognard of sorts.

While D&D was my first foray into "the hobby" some 28 years ago (unless you count boardgames like Chess), it was quickly followed by Chainmail, the Metagames Minigames, Star Fleet Battles, Starfire, and several of the AH Wargames like Panzer Leader, Submarine, and others, though I never warmed up to any of the Napoleonic or Civil War stuff that so predominates the hobby- my wargames either had spaceships, tanks, or knights.

I still like a good wargame, though I rarely play anymore. No opponents.