If, by some miraculous coincidence, you have never come across the term before, it refers to the population of historical wargaming getting older with each passing year without a new generation coming along to take ownership of the hobby. It is easy to see where these anxieties come from; just recently I visited the Phalanx show, in St.Helens and in doing a very hasty and imprecise study of ‘just looking around a bit’, I noted that 35-year-old me was likely below the mean age. There is nothing wrong with that of course, and with every passing year I am catching up with that mean age anyway, but if you're the kind of person who frets over where those fresh-faced newcomers will come from, it is easy to imagine that scenes such as this would not fill you with hope.
Is historical wargaming dying then? Absolutely and unequivocally not, and there is plenty of evidence to be seen that will back me up on this. Phalanx, for a start, was probably the busiest I have seen it since I started attending
