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I wonder if i could make some of my friend's girls join one lol!

Eilif wrote:My wife loves my LEGO hobby and bass playing, but her opinion of wargaming never recovered from the time she accompanied me on a shopping run to the Chicago Battle Bunker.

Her comment afterwards was "I don't like associating my husband with those people". Not an entirely fair statment, but considering some of the mutants that happened to be present that evening, I can't really blame her.

She still doesn't like wargaming, but she has said she likes my current group of gaming friends a few of which we have socialized with outside of gaming. Baby steps...

Actually I have a confession to make. I am a "Clean Cut Gamer" I don't enjoy playing games with Socially inept/awkward people or people with questionable personal hygiene. Unfortunately an awful lot of Gamers fall in to these categories. I recently started playing with an older group ( Men in 30s - 50s). We set it up in our Garages and meet up Monthly and it's usually a convivial meeting with Real Ale, Single Malt Whiskey and a Cheese Board and we fight out an enjoyable battle or two together. It's wargaming for mature adults and actually I find it rather wonderful, as they give me advice or raising kids etc.

mwnciboo wrote:We set it up in our Garages and meet up Monthly and it's usually a convivial meeting with Real Ale, Single Malt Whiskey and a Cheese Board and we fight out an enjoyable battle or two together. It's wargaming for mature adults and actually I find it rather wonderful, as they give me advice or raising kids etc.

This sounds beautiful.

Need to pull my finger out and get mine set up like this.

My girlfriend won't have anything to do with the hobby, that includes those that play it The only time that she ventures into a store is to pull me out of it.

mwnciboo wrote:Actually I have a confession to make. I am a "Clean Cut Gamer" I don't enjoy playing games with Socially inept/awkward people or people with questionable personal hygiene. Unfortunately an awful lot of Gamers fall in to these categories. I recently started playing with an older group ( Men in 30s - 50s). We set it up in our Garages and meet up Monthly and it's usually a convivial meeting with Real Ale, Single Malt Whiskey and a Cheese Board and we fight out an enjoyable battle or two together. It's wargaming for mature adults and actually I find it rather wonderful, as they give me advice or raising kids etc.

Ale, malt whiskey, cheese and Warhammer? Sounds like heaven!

My wife wants to come along and play too. She has a Space Marine army (Pink of course) and a decent understanding of the rules. We use to sit and paint models together a lot.

You would think this is a good thing, but sometimes I just want to hang out and talk to people without her. Harsh, I know.

However, she is very happy I'm not a Softball player of Hunter where I disappear all weekend severl times a year.

I once let my wife play a game of BFG with me, used to doing intro games naturally i let her win so as to make her want to play more.
not only is she "not bothered" with the game but she now won't let me live down the fact that she beat me and claims that my "intro style game" is just a ruse to cover my embarrassment....
so now i don't let her play any games at all lol.
well alright we played a fair bit of Space hulk but she just got upset when i won

Now we both sit on the couch, TV on whilst i paint and she crochet's, it keeps the status quo lol
when i want to game the lads come round and she goes out, nuff said.

mwnciboo wrote:

Eilif wrote:My wife loves my LEGO hobby and bass playing, but her opinion of wargaming never recovered from the time she accompanied me on a shopping run to the Chicago Battle Bunker.

Her comment afterwards was "I don't like associating my husband with those people". Not an entirely fair statment, but considering some of the mutants that happened to be present that evening, I can't really blame her.

She still doesn't like wargaming, but she has said she likes my current group of gaming friends a few of which we have socialized with outside of gaming. Baby steps...

Actually I have a confession to make. I am a "Clean Cut Gamer" I don't enjoy playing games with Socially inept/awkward people or people with questionable personal hygiene. Unfortunately an awful lot of Gamers fall in to these categories. I recently started playing with an older group ( Men in 30s - 50s). We set it up in our Garages and meet up Monthly and it's usually a convivial meeting with Real Ale, Single Malt Whiskey and a Cheese Board and we fight out an enjoyable battle or two together. It's wargaming for mature adults and actually I find it rather wonderful, as they give me advice or raising kids etc.

This is what its all about! its my aim to have a game room with a couple of chesterfeild couches and a drinks bar where we can drink some quality beers and whiskey, and smoke some quality cigars, luckly my girlfreind is down with this, so maybe one day "sigh"