Post by easyeight on Aug 5, 2021 19:37:17 GMT
Ok, minor rant here...Bolt Action gamers seem to be a different critter from NUTS gamers. I usually browse various wargame FB and blog/chat sites, mostly WW2. And on the FB Bolt Action site saw a buncha gamers chatting excitedly about what figures to use for Japanese schoolgirl militia with bamboo spears. WTHeck? I couldn't stop myself -- why would you want to game that scenario, I asked?
'cause game coolness!
But - what kind of game is it to pit your 28mm Japanese school girls with bamboo spears against your 28mm US GIs with M1 Garands, Tommy Guns and BARs??? Isn't that just called a massacre, not a game??
Hey now, don't get pissy, 'cause game fun-ness and figures!
Oh then I stepped in it by saying this:
"I had a Japanese colleague who was 8yo at the end of WW2, and he and all his classmates were pulled from school, drilled with bamboo spears and then given suicide grenade belts. They were told by their local authorities that Americans were soft, that they wouldn't hurt kids so when you see a GI, run up to him with your arms up and yell "America! GI! Bubblegum!" and then hug his leg and detonate your suicide belt. Then you'll be Samurai and will go to Heaven for serving the Emperor.
So do you need a kid with a suicide belt figure??
Another colleague of mine was in the USMC at Okinawa as a combat correspondent. He witnessed Japanese women holding their babies jump off cliffs and splatter themselves on the rocks below because their local authorities told them that Americans were brutal and would rape them and torture them and their children, so suicide was preferable to capture. And so they did.
So do you need a jumping woman holding a baby figure?
My WW2 games are more morally simplistic, sometimes involving civilians, but I'm a wimp and don't want to reflect real war reality in my wargames.
I want to game Kelly's Heroes, not Come and See."
Flamedy flame flame, bring on the splattered women and detonation kid figures, trolly troll troll!
Meh. My bad.
'cause game coolness!
But - what kind of game is it to pit your 28mm Japanese school girls with bamboo spears against your 28mm US GIs with M1 Garands, Tommy Guns and BARs??? Isn't that just called a massacre, not a game??
Hey now, don't get pissy, 'cause game fun-ness and figures!
Oh then I stepped in it by saying this:
"I had a Japanese colleague who was 8yo at the end of WW2, and he and all his classmates were pulled from school, drilled with bamboo spears and then given suicide grenade belts. They were told by their local authorities that Americans were soft, that they wouldn't hurt kids so when you see a GI, run up to him with your arms up and yell "America! GI! Bubblegum!" and then hug his leg and detonate your suicide belt. Then you'll be Samurai and will go to Heaven for serving the Emperor.
So do you need a kid with a suicide belt figure??
Another colleague of mine was in the USMC at Okinawa as a combat correspondent. He witnessed Japanese women holding their babies jump off cliffs and splatter themselves on the rocks below because their local authorities told them that Americans were brutal and would rape them and torture them and their children, so suicide was preferable to capture. And so they did.
So do you need a jumping woman holding a baby figure?
My WW2 games are more morally simplistic, sometimes involving civilians, but I'm a wimp and don't want to reflect real war reality in my wargames.
I want to game Kelly's Heroes, not Come and See."
Flamedy flame flame, bring on the splattered women and detonation kid figures, trolly troll troll!
Meh. My bad.
