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Rafael

Origin of the Word "grognard"

Hi all,

Taken from here:

http://www.costik.com/spisins.html

Quote:
In the 1980s, as I have argued, the shift in the nation's mood meant America should have been more receptive than ever to wargames. Wargaming might have survived, grown, and prospered -- but the hard core was gone. The grognards, as SPI called its best customers, after the veterans of Napoleon's Grande Armee, the people who bought many games each year, the solid fundament of the whole field, were gone


Very interesting!

Yours,

Rafael
TheRedPriest

Interesting indeed.

I/we didn't leave AH and SPI, they left me/us. Starting in the 80's, I found it harder and harder to find new wargames that were as satisfying as the games on which I grew up on in the 60s and 70s. Then in the 90s, everything went fantasy wargame KLABOOIE, and the tactical historical games got edged out.
Rafael

The article itself is not my thing; I don't believe customers need to show loyalty to the companies they buy their products from.

Free market is all about competition, and only those who can stand that survive.

On the plus side, *Red Age of Castofan* is about to see a reedition wirtten by Lev Lafayette soon. (Next year, AFAIK.)
Cab

The irony is that Grognard was used by war gamers resisting the move to more role-playing aspects of the hobby, then people who resisted the urge to move towards more 'fantasy' elements in the genre, and now its used by people defending old fashioned fantasy role playing against the perceived new enemy (d20 systems).

Funny old world, isn't it?
VAN

Rafael wrote:
Free market is all about competition, and only those who can stand that survive.

True, but that goes further than free market IMO. :smt002

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