Plans for 2025 - Maybe We Will Stick to Them

Brian and I discuss some recent efforts to get people to play more games. We compare the showpiece display versus the demo versus the learn to play event to try to convert the average passerby into a wargamer.

How could the wargaming market realign if trade between the major wargaming producer and consumers gets harder for some reason.

When a game starts to die, or when a new independent game starts to die what value is there from getting a bigger game company involved?

As some games move away from physical rulebooks to all digital, constantly updating rules what does that mean for playing old versions of games going into the future?

Brians back from LVO. Having beat the casinos at Paigow listen to find out how Brian did at the Infinity. There was Infinity during LVO - just not at it.

With the start of 2025 we look back to the previous year and see if we accomplished anything that we set out to do. Why not plan for next year? It can't hurt.

In our last episode of 2024 we steal a prompt from the Lords of War (Canadians) and discuss whether 3D printing is locking in the dominant position of Games Workshop. Of course to steal something requires that the thing be of value and protected in a reasonable manner.

Brian and I discuss what the best starter set for table top miniature wargaming is to buy as we burn into Black Friday. Considering Value For Money It's Halo Flashpoint.

If you have ever been to a convention they are fun. But the bigger they get the harder getting in and freedom of movement get.

Back form a long break we spend some time talking about the upcoming NOVA Open 2024 and the prevalence of smaller scales in the major wargaming companies.The title is based off the Richard Feynman quote about the utility of atomic scale physics. I drew a direct correlation between game companies pushing down into the smaller scales instead of ever upward.