The Culture: We Have Recovered The Real Hobby

The Black Pants Legion and Sven van der Plank inadvertantly explained How To Run A Real Campaign.

You start at the top where players control The Great Men, then go down to the bottom to play as The Grunts, and ocsilate between the two perspectives in a Perpetual Feedback Loop until someone wins or everyone loses.

As these video selections go, that can take a very long time- both in-setting and in real life. (And yes, the Warhammers and the Five Ringers and the Secret Warriors are all the same thing in terms of campaign play structure.)

That is a good thing.

It is also good that players can choose to only play on a given level; some only care about the big picture, while others only care about the man in the thick of it. Conventional Play cannot, by design and admission, accomodate this and many products pushed by publishers don't even try.

You want a hobby by and for functional adults? Use the original model that didn't chain you to a fucking schedule like it's your job. We want more of the below, and less of the freak show.

My wife after being taken to a game convention with a sizable wargaming contingent (zero 40k):
“Wargamers are COMPLETELY different from other gamers; they seem to be functional mostly married adult males who are intelligent and can focus for long times and aren’t slobs”

— grim schneider (@grimschneider) May 4, 2025

That's why "But this doesn't work for me" is a bullshit complaint: the campaign IS NOT ABOUT YOU. You're not the only man; you're one guy running one table and there's a lot more doing that in a real campaign, all playing on the same map in the same campaign, with mans and players floating between them as they will.

Which is exactly what you see in the BattleTech videos above, when translated to Real Gamer terms.

That is why the #BROSR is the leading edge; we brought back How Things Actually Work, how the machines work and how the social dynamics work- we are #ObjectivelyCorrect.