What is Wargaming?

The South London Warlords is a Wargames Club. This means that we meet as a group and play games with - usually - a military, historical or conflict orientated theme. These games are sometimes based on historical events or on fantasy situations. We play them in various different ways. These might include:

"Figure" games. These feature miniature representations of real life items, in metal, plastic or other materials, usually in a reduced scale. This means 'toy soldiers', tanks, spaceships, dragons or whatever. These tend to be, built, assembled and painted by their owners. These items are manoeuvred over terrain to a set of rules by one or more players.

Board Games. These are much the same as figure games, but tend to use pre-manufactured playing pieces, often on a printed 'board' instead of "3D" terrain.

Role Playing Games. These can involve either of the first two game types but - in addition - require players to almost 'act out' roles of individual characters.

Live Role Playing Games. These usually mean - at the Warlords at least - a combination of amateur dramatics and simulated violence played out in 'real environments' rather than with a number of players sat around a table top. The Warlords usually uses a system called Laser (or Lazer) Tag for these games

Computer Games. Bearing in mind the thing you're looking at while you read this, you probably know what a computer is. At the Warlords we use them individually to play games on and as groups to moderate games we play in other styles. Typically we use a computer to help in the employment of some of the more complex rule systems we might use in a 'figure' game.

Some games are competitive, some are played 'just for fun'