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<blockquote data-quote="lewpuls" data-source="post: 7755902" data-attributes="member: 30518"><p>Rex Martin's doctoral dissertation (according to Rex, formerly AH General editor IIRC) discussed how board wargaming is/was a Baby Boomer hobby.</p><p></p><p>Out of touch? What puts one in touch? What puts YOU in touch? I've attended a variety of game clubs/session in two states in the past year, plus several conventions including PrezCon and WBC, which (compared with something like GenCon) are the last bastions of wargaming. But even there, the wargamers are or will soon be outnumbered.</p><p></p><p>Miniatures games tend to be about the miniatures first, not about the games. Warhammer is a game to help entice people to spend vast amounts on often-baroque minis. I know that in Britain, there's still a strong tendency to mean miniatures when someone says "wargames", where in the USA they're usually talking about board wargames. In either case, sales of actual games and game rules are usually quite small.</p><p></p><p>I attended GenCon for several years, not the past two. It's a story convention more than a game convention. Board wargame manufacturers often don't even show up (e.g. GMT and Worthington). The events you site for minis wargames are a drop in the bucket at GenCon with its many <strong>thousands</strong> of events.</p><p></p><p>Even in the vast market of video games, the wargames made by Matrix and sister companies sell in quantities of a few thousand (or did when I last saw figures). </p><p></p><p>There is no "proof", of course, nothing to cite, no one has the kind of statistics you may want. (Quite apart from the difficulty of defining whether an event or an individual is a wargame(r).) But if you get to enough events, and learn about sales figures, and open your eyes, you can make your own judgment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lewpuls, post: 7755902, member: 30518"] Rex Martin's doctoral dissertation (according to Rex, formerly AH General editor IIRC) discussed how board wargaming is/was a Baby Boomer hobby. Out of touch? What puts one in touch? What puts YOU in touch? I've attended a variety of game clubs/session in two states in the past year, plus several conventions including PrezCon and WBC, which (compared with something like GenCon) are the last bastions of wargaming. But even there, the wargamers are or will soon be outnumbered. Miniatures games tend to be about the miniatures first, not about the games. Warhammer is a game to help entice people to spend vast amounts on often-baroque minis. I know that in Britain, there's still a strong tendency to mean miniatures when someone says "wargames", where in the USA they're usually talking about board wargames. In either case, sales of actual games and game rules are usually quite small. I attended GenCon for several years, not the past two. It's a story convention more than a game convention. Board wargame manufacturers often don't even show up (e.g. GMT and Worthington). The events you site for minis wargames are a drop in the bucket at GenCon with its many [B]thousands[/B] of events. Even in the vast market of video games, the wargames made by Matrix and sister companies sell in quantities of a few thousand (or did when I last saw figures). There is no "proof", of course, nothing to cite, no one has the kind of statistics you may want. (Quite apart from the difficulty of defining whether an event or an individual is a wargame(r).) But if you get to enough events, and learn about sales figures, and open your eyes, you can make your own judgment. [/QUOTE]
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