Question re activation

[Tony M]

I'll just say that my frustration with (so many of) the people who play wargames and (so many of) the companies that publish wargames has been growing for a *very* long time. Read the second paragraph of Doc B's article "Dishonor Before Death: Those Black SS Pieces." There was a similar article in S&T way back in the mid-1970s. 

A few years ago I wrote about my frustration a lot on CSW and BGG, and as expected, received a lot of blowback, some of it pretty hostile. Whatever. I have not visited CSW since mid-2020. I spent 5 decades in this hobby smiling and "going along to get along," and I've just had it. I don't feel like repeating here the things I wrote on those other forums. I don't want to get into any arguments with anybody about anything. I am not here to try to change anybody's mind about anything. I'm too old and too tired to care.

But thanks to that darned Doc B, I now have to tell my wonderful wife, "Sweetie, I know I told you in 2018 that I was not going to buy any more of these stupid games, but there's this one company that has published a game on an African-American US Army unit during World War II, and also a game on a Nisei unit during World War II...  Could I spend a couple hundred dollars to buy these games?"

Seriously, guys, how could *anyone* who claims to be interested in wargaming and military history NOT want to command such brave bad***ed American troops? I don't mind commanding German or Soviet troops on a game map, but the Black Panthers? The 442nd RCT? Sign me up, dude. As Randy "The Macho Man" Savage used to say, "Oooohhh yeah!!!!"