[jimmie]

Yes I think the hobby is dying yes a lot has changed, new figures, bigger boards, new rules but how many new people are coming in?The membership here is still about 230 the leagues are mostly made up of people who have been playing for years.Thier are about four different board manufactors if not more competing for the 230 members here for sales,so divisions have arised.With that depends now, who you support then in a lot of ways its not really fun to come in to league if you not an advanced player with all the new stuff, that could set you back 800 dollars just to get started.How many folks want to do that???Heres what happens a lot a guy finds his old game gets interested in playing finds this site then finds out that the stuff he has is not good enough to play against anybody and he would have to send at least 600.00 to play humm!!Now a guy thats been in the hobby for years sure he would spend out but just comming in no!!Is the hobby dying??no but is it growing?? no not that much!!Thats what we should be working on.I think the new stuff is great for the hobby but it is costly I struggle with wanting to pay 4.50 or 400 for a board havent done it yet I can image a guy just getting back into after 20 years off.A convention with about 40 people isnt really growth not after 15 years of being on the market so maybe not dying but not really growing.