[OT] Wargamers was: Personal hoody-hoo

John Atkinson schrieb:
> > Wargamers tend, as a very general rule, to be more

Guess it depends on where you live. Around here, the average is
probably slightly left-of center. With a wide spread, but no real loony
left or radical right.

Mostly because most wargamers have a rather high level of education,
which correlates with left-leaning or at least liberal (in the EU
sense) tendencies.

> Yeah--it's an expensive hobby. It attracts people

It also requires free time, which is not always compatible with a job
(especially for people with job_S_ ;-)

> It also generally requires at least a little historical knowledge.

Unless you play SF games :-)
Especially those promoted by a company I won't name.

> That's a conservative. :)

Marxists can be pretty knowledgeable about history too. They just
interpret it differently ;-)

Overeducated, jobless and too much money on their hand could also make
a wargamer - or a looney left ;-)

> > Regardless of political stripe, most of the wargamers I've met are

Mostly, but not always. On some E-mail wargaming lists I have read
postings by people who seemed pretty serious about dropping nukes at
the slightest provocation - and not in a game :-(

Guess I've stepped on everybody's toes now... :-)

In Deckung! Karl Heinz

Unless you play SF games :-)
Especially those promoted by a company I won't name.

Gotta love the Evil Empire...)

Marxists can be pretty knowledgeable about history too. They just
interpret it differently ;-)

Starting with their understanding of human nature...)

Mostly, but not always. On some E-mail wargaming lists I have read
postings by people who seemed pretty serious about dropping nukes at
the slightest provocation - and not in a game :-(

Damn, that sounds like NRE TACSOP.....)

Guess I've stepped on everybody's toes now... :-)

I got big feet....used to it...)

> --- KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de wrote:

There is something to be said for nuking flat everyone that provokes you.

On the other hand, I'm real glad we didn't nuke Germany. What a waste of good
beer. And the damage done to the sausage industry would have been
incalculable.:)