(Hey, it’s Sunday. Sunday’s my thinking day, so I’m not accountable…)

It was noted on the podcast (that’s Meeples and Miniatures to you) a while back that we did seem to be moving into an era where there are a lot more RPG lite/skirmish/call them what you will games – see also a recent topic brought up by Peter from Baccus, which you can probably catch on the next Meeples episode.

Questions, though: are we going even further now, given the growth of miniatures-based boardgames that really blur the line (particularly Time of Legends: Joan of Arc is very much sitting on the edge, but there are other miniature-heavy games that are pretty much RPG-lite/skirmish)? is it a question of which side of the line you approach from? (I’m thinking of Time of Legends: Joan of Arc vs To The Strongest here as a very interesting example…)

And the followup to those: is this trend going to be a gateway to ‚proper‘ wargames, in the same way that people seem (certainly in our club) to gravitate from fantasy towards historical?