Am I A Proper Wargamer? Phil Broeders' List

After analysing the results of others, in the interest of transparency, I should myself come clean as to the answers I gave to the questions posed by Phil. I will also answer the expanded list that Lee Hadley put up and the alternative questions put up by Trebian in separate posts as it would get very long. That, together with my answers of Ray and Fran's 20 questions should paint a pretty complete picture of me as a wargamer.

So let's start off with the original questions:

• Spent at least £500 on figures / tanks - and you get extra kudos for every £500 you've spent

Not in a normal year on miniatures, but if you combine minis with boardgames and books, easily

• Pricked your finger or thumb on a pike block - several times

No, I don't play ancients or medieval

• Tried at least 10 different rule sets and vowed never to play half of them ever again

Yes. I'm not the vowing kind, but in practice I've disowned many rulesets. Sometimes even just after reading

Just a selection...

• Bought an army off EBay

Yes, just recently. A reasonable army of early Franks (which can pose as Saxons for Dux Britanniarum))

• Sold an army on EBay

No, and unlikely to happen unless I have to make a room big time. I did sell a few units of 1870 French the old fashioned way when I thought it would give me enough money to buy an army (I was 17 at the time), but I never got round to that. No regrets, though.

• spent months painting an army - then used it in anger once

My zombies haven't seen much action

• tried several different periods and genres

Oh yes.

The Freikorps miniatures are known to be brittle, but I'm afraid few other manufacturers would have survived this 

• dropped a box of figures on the floor from a great height

Luckily it was a small box, but it finished my attempts at a Sardinian army for the Crimea

• lost a battle on the last throw of the dice

Don't remember it ever being so close.

• made at least one enemy for life

No, I'm not that vindictive

• had a proper, stand up argument over a wargamers table

I guess... but in most cases I ate my frustration. Even got an award for that once

• thrown a dice across a room

No

• rebased an army for a different rule set

Incredibly, but yes. My Napoleonic Saxons. Long time ago. Wouldn´t happen these days

• inflicted a whopping defeat on an opponent

I remember a good one. Stopping a German counterattack on Bourgebus Ridge dead in its tracks with an almost perfect defensive fireplan.

• suffered an embarrassing defeat due to a stupid tactical decision

Sure, more than one. Don't remember those though.

• joined a wargamers club

First Boutique La Grande Armee when I was 12 and co-founded Murphy's Heroes when I was 17

• bought a ton of lead that remains unpainted

Sure

• been to a wargamers show

Several, helped organise our club's own show, Murphy Mania, once

• have more dice than is logical or necessary to own - and have used most of them

Yes

Okay, just one more time then. Rene's excellently painted Saxons

• have taken boxes of troops down to a club just to show them off to your mates

Oh yes, and put pictures on my blog as well!