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Ebony And Ivory...

I am a 35 year veteran of this hobby, and the one thing that has constantly astounded me over the years is the attitudes of the different 'camps' which seem to exist in a hobby which at the end of the day, boils down to moving small models or counters representing things across some type of representation of a battlefield in the hope of removing from that field the small models or counters belonging to someone else. However, in many (not all) clubs there is a sense that historical games are superior to fantasy games, or that fantasy gamers are less 'up their own' than historical gamers etc. Now, I am watching the blossoming of 'Generation Millenium', the third reincarnation of the hobby as the sons of the kids of the late 70s and 80s, arguably the 'Golden Age' of the hobby are being introduced. The problem is that my generation for the most part, desperate, it would appear to retain it's sense of being the 'top dog' generation is not en