What a weekend! We had threats of lockdown, border embargoes, limits on attendees and strictures on eating food! On the day we even had to track down a sixty year old who vaulted a covid safety rail! Such were and are the issues of gaming in 2022! Still we did manage three game systems on the weekend; L’art de la Guerre, Field of Glory and To the Strongest. And, it was this last set of rules that got me thinking about recruiting younger ( i.e. those under thirty) into the hobby. The ideal set for a demonstration game at the forthcoming Firestorm gaming day perhaps?
Anyway thanks for reading. Please have your comments ready for the February High Council meeting when the Jeffe can decide. More plans discussed on the weekend were a DBA competition in the Summer. Again, a potential good recruiting sergeant? Our thanks to all the TTS players who attended and put on such a brilliant, inspiring display.
despertaferres 
Sounds like you had a great time. Recruiting has been an issue in Oz as well. There are only three types of growth:
Biological Growth- recruiting your own kids
Transfer Growth – pinching them from some other club
Conversion Growth – new to the hobby
Sorry Guru didn’t mean to sound like an evangelist but it is true.
As a group we meet in our own homes and this means we are not too interested in increasing numbers. A while a go we had a chat around what we liked about the hobby and it was modelling, painting, history, playing games (we all like to win but hate OTT competitive types), in no particular order. However the overwhelming drawcard was just catching up with mates and having a chinwag a quite one or two over a game.
The biggest issues for newbs are cost, painting and where and how to start. We have suggested to Newbs to just come along, use our figures and play lots of different games until you find something you like and then we will help you work out what you need and how to paint them.Hope this helps. Like Simon’s systems as well.
Sorry for yet another Guru rant!
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Not at all! Really useful point. I was talking to the store worker and it’s basically what you wrote. Unlike warhammer , historicals don’t have a few dominant titles and there are so many unrelated aspects ; air, sea , ancient and modern etc? I was just thinking of a starter for our lgs : as u say most historical gamers regularly meet a small bunch around each other’s houses.
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You do have to watch out for those pesky 60 year olds matey 😅😅😅
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The management was quite upset! God knows what the Aussie authorities would have done!!!! How things with u!????
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😅😅😅incarcerations for a minimum six months and heavy restrictions on the purchase of toilet paper🧐
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Six months! My god man; it’s worse than I thought!
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Lovely line up of figures.
The Little Wars TV analysis of the WSS yearly survey did wonder if historical gaming is something that you get into when you are older… in that case what you need to look for are the 30 year olds looking for something a bit different to 40k when they are burnt out by GeeDubs antics.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Nice looking games there – ideal sparking an interest! 🙂 I’d like to say you can never have too many chariots but, sadly, I’ve got none!
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Chariots are a bit like hun limbers; they look brilliant with all the traces and harness but I really can’t be assed to do traces and harness!!!!!
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Fun post and I feel your pain on recruiting new players.
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Under thirty year old are hard to find! We shall see tho!
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