Grognard Wargamer Thread!

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@TheWombat

I remember playing wargames in gaming clubs in the seventies and eighties with people who would refuse to play the Russians in any WWII game, who always had to play the Germans

I specifically remember four people from my youth.

Two would not play the Nazis. One lost family in Concentration Camps. One’s father was German forced labor from France.

Two would not play Communists (one, who I knew as a weeeee lad also wouldn’t play Chekhov when we played Star Trek). One’s dad was in a Communist reeducation camp before successfully defecting from Hungary. The other’s dad was a political prisoner in Cuba for ten years.

I get that. Completely.

@SlyFrog

It’s strange how people take some personal partisan identity from any of this.

Today though, IMO, it is usually some sort of SM-esque partisan signaling from one tribal affiliation or another. Usually involving preemptively claiming moral high ground before shaming the other tribal affiliation for playing one “side” or another. Or having black counters in a game or something.