By Doug Hamm
You know you are an obsessed wargamer if. ... you can't wait to be snowed in for a week. Just for an excuse to paint that Roman army. ... ..would-like" and "must-have" are interchangable. ... you um and er over spending $20 for your wife's birthday gift, but won't blink an eye at ordering the entire Waterloo army - heck it's only $300 ... you can't find the time to make love to your wife, but will sit down and add just the right amount of three different types of flocking to obtain that exact grass color of Lower Mongolia. ... you can't find last week's bank statement, but can instanteously locate a specific article on the 5th Hussars in an old back issue of Miniature Wargaming, with cross- referencing to uniform information you have indexed. ... you have so much lead that your shelves are bending to the breaking point, but you see your favorite manufacturer has come out with the grenadiers in the RIGHT foot advancing position. You must have at least one unit of those. ... your wife has asked you to put up a simple shelf in the kitchen for her spices, but you think it will be a lot of work. That evening, you start thinking that if you take out the bathroom and knock down the walls, you can extend your gaming table an extra three feet. All you have to do is replumb the storage room into the bathroom. Hmm, worth more thought, that. ... your miniatures mail order outfit knows your VISA number from memory. ... you can't believe your luck. This week your 10th anniversary falls on gaming night. ... you have had pork and beans for the last two weeks and you still think that buying that Russian Corps was a good idea. ... you start paying for all your gaming supplies in cash, because your wife is looking closely at the charge card statement again. ... a miniatures manufacturer puts out a new range of Germans in winter gear, including surrender poses, and you consider doing the entire Stalingrad battle ... in 1:1 scale. ... you could survive a nuclear war by hiding in the closet where you store your lead figures. Back to Citadel Spring 1998 Table of Contents Back to Citadel List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1998 by Northwest Historical Miniature Gaming Society This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com |