Light Your Fire! Finding Inspiration for your Bolt Action Hobby.
By Kieran
By Kieran
“I’d rather be a failure
at something I love than a success at something I hate.” - George Burns
See now that may seem like a
rather lofty quotation to start an article about Bolt Action, or even an
article about wargaming in general, but while I was looking for a title for
this article I put the foundation word about what I am going to write about and
it popped up on the old google and I said to myself yes that maybe captures it.
What am I writing about
for this article? Well following from the feedback I have received from my
first article (Burnout, found HERE) I thought I would expand on it a little and maybe bring something forward
that I didn’t really address, the topic of inspiration.
Now no matter what you do in
any tier of your life the things that really make us happy and fill the time
spent doing them with the most enjoyment are the things that we are truly
engrossed in, that have the ability to speak to us on a different level, these
are fundamentally things that inspire us.
How do we involve
inspiration within the game of bolt action? Well it is maybe something that we
have already done. It is having that underlying interest with the armies we put
on the table that we put hours into listing, collecting, modelling, and painting.
Because I feel, as I know many others do as well, that having that story gives us
a hook that will keep us indebted towards any army over a longer period of time
no matter how competitive or otherwise it is.
This is maybe why there is
that imaginary line between those who produce forces that have a bigger
influence from some source or another and those who build for a competitive
listing. Now maybe your inspiration comes from that competitive standpoint but
I am sure that the turnover of forces that player would play is a lot higher
than the other.
