Health of our PBEM community

[Mr Grumpy]

If you could attract a small percentage of the people who play World of Tanks, War Thunder and other FPS wargames to the world of hexes that might help the community grow. All of these games are multiplayer only, and they have made their creators vast amounts of money.

You might be surprised at how many "history buffs" there are in these FPS communities. Not to deny that there is a lot of toxicity in there as well.

I have spent a massive amount of time playing these FPS games as well as many hex-based "proper" wargames (SP, PzC, WitP etc.). They are a lot more similar than you might think from a cursory glance. It's all "puzzles".

Well it perhaps will not surprise you that the only ladder of the club we have had any true “toxicity “ on was Combat Mission, that game seemed to attract a core of members who’s only interest seemed to be in engaging in a war of words on the forum, they have all moved on now (or maybe grown up a bit) and I have wondered where they drifted off to, perhaps you have bumped into some of them on various FPS sites?