As kids we were segregated by "cliques" of friends and now as adults it is by gaming clubs. We game with our clubs, we attend tournaments with our clubs, we eat, we drink and we laugh with our clubs. Hopefully our clubs are not as segregated as our "cliques" were.Oftentimes a Club starts out as a group of friends that hang out together and then eventually new people join in. In the current West Coast Canadian meta it has become an easy way to make sure that when you go to a tournament you don't have to play against the same people that you play all the time (or at least for the first game or two). When I first started playing Warhammer there was no club, there was just getting together at the local GW to play games.
Now there is WCP, CHOP!, L.A.M.B.S., Greenskin Nation, Nerdtopia and more. I belong to them all, and I belong to none. Before we moved I was considered a member of WCP, but WCP and CHOP! are such close groups that they have now merged and kept the name CHOP! I have been somewhat assimilated into Greenskin Nation (because everyone joins the Nation) since I moved as that is the local club and the guys there are a great group to play with.
The main thing I enjoy about all of these clubs is that we can come together at game nights, tournaments and socially and enjoy each other's company. There's not a huge rivalry that segregates us, rather we tend to try to include the other clubs in things we're doing.
You'll hear about the shenanigans of our clubs later. What kinds of shenanigans does your club get up to?
I belong to and help run Outpost 6030, which is a pretty big club by Perth, Australian standards. There are a bunch of other clubs around Perth, including Napoleonics (despite the name is mostly Warmahordes), KRAGS, PAGS, Donau-Rhein, Armourdale and a bunch of others of varying sizes. We have rivalries with some and are good friends with others. Its all good :)
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