We've got it wrong. No, we really have. In several ways. Look, there are those who have immeasurable resources or who are simply able to pretty much buy what they want, but the vast majority of the people in this hobby have a limited amount of time and/or surplus funding. I'm sort of lucky in that because when my wife met me, I was already a veteran, who, just like now talked wargames from opening my eyes to closing them (I even dream about wargaming - honestly) after Kayte said 'yes' to my proposal of marriage (amazing as I had no money and was not even sure I had a home) one dark night as I found her sitting on a friend's doordstep (waiting for him to come home) I was pretty certain that the whole gamer thing was OK with her. Let me be clear, in the early days when we would argue with a degree of venom a cobra would envy, gaming could have been the end of it all. But as Kayte got to know the same people I 'd grown up with or looked up to as some of the hobby...