Sunday Sermon: The lesser of two evils

The lesser of two evils... but which is which? No don't answer that!!!

Firstly if you are reading this Sunday Sermon you should be happy you aren't reading the other Sunday Sermon I had written in preparation for today. Man that was a depressing dirge of a read, that hopefully I'll never have need of. So yeah I'm sort of around again now, although I'm currently feeling a tad rough, like a herd of elephants held an illegal rave in my herd and forgot to invite me. Plus I think a badger in a sandpaper suit has taken up residence in my throat and is doing their best to rip it to shreds. So what the hell is this Sermon all about? Well I had an email a few weeks back from a chap who lives in Poland. He has a bit of a gaming quandry that I think was causing him some unnecessary anguish. You see, amongst his small group of gamers, Warhammer 40k was king. Nothing wrong with that, it's a popular game with a huge miniatures range. But he was upset, and indeed a little bit angry. You see he'd tried getting people to play other games. He'd tried Infinity and Mofaux first, but they hadn't taken. He had brought two starter sets for Warmachine in the hopes that running demo games might entice a few to give it a go... all to no avail.

However, spurned on by my firey words about the hobby needing evangelists he had continued. He hammered away at these games, and indeed added a few more to the mix. But, still it seemed 40k was too powerful a beast to tackle. He was apparently at his wits end with the game, it was too powerful an opponent and he was clearly starting to feel exasperated. He was ready to chuck it all in, and end it all... wargaming that is... he wasn't being that dramatic. He told me he was just fed up with playing 40k, that it was boring, and that it was all his friends would play, He couldn't understand why they weren't even interested in anything else. Then a few weeks later, apparently something caught the eye of one of the other gamers in his group. Something new, something different and exciting... something that was not only not 40k, but was also a none Games Workshop product. It seems my Polish friends prayers had been answered, a chink of light had appeared in the groups 40k armour and he was going to be on it in a flash, and make sure that this glimer of hope wasn't extinguished for good. What was this new game? Dust Warfare... oh crap... I think I know where this is going!!!
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