Sunday Sermon: This hobby needs evangelists!

'The Four Evangelists' - Peter Paul Rubens, 1614.

Right, I'm rolling my sleeves up as I type this out. Yes, it is that serious!!! It may have come to your attention recently that I have been dangling some lovely gaming goodness in front of you all these past few weeks. I've also spoken at length about the fact that we're living in Golden Age of Gaming and how we should make sure that we don't let it pass us by. However, primarily in my series of articles entitled 'Games That Intrigue Me' I've started to highlight as much of the gaming goodness as I can to you guys. Damn good reads they are too, if I say so myself. Any way I've had a fair few comments sent my way about people saying they can't find opponents to play these damn fine games. This is something I have a modicum of sympathy with and to be brutally honest plenty of experience with. I too used to live in a sea of Games Workshop clones... but then I grew a pair, manned up and decided I'd have to force people to try these new games out. I mean, I started trying to convince people to play other games during the hey day of Warhammer Fantasy Battle, which was 6th edition, in my opinion arguably the best edition there has been of that particular venerable beast.

Did I give up? No... well maybe slightly... but if I did it was only for about 7 months. Despite what Games Workshops half year financial result say, I'd humbly suggest that there are more disgruntled Games Workshop gamers out there right now than there has ever been. Trust me they are more than willing test subjects, they're positively desperate to play something good. There are a vast sea of people ready to convert to a New Religion. In fact I've been so overwhelmed with the responses I've had convincing others to play Dystopin Wars, Infinity, Mlifaux, Warmachine, Anima Tactics and many, many, many more games besides, I've been totally rushed off of my feet doing intro games. However, I now get to bask in the glory of my hard labours. All those years out in the wilderness when my fellow gamers mocked my Warmachine miniatures, made fun of my Infinity and positively derided my Rackham collection... OK so on the last one they were right! Look I never said I was perfect!!! Now they're promoting these games themselves, and the community is growing.
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