There are only three gaming cultures
Those who joined the hobby from playing board games, those who joined the hobby from playing video games and those who joined the hobby having played no games. Some establishing information Wargaming, as it existed before D&D (excluding Braunstein-like material) could be considered a subset of the board game hobby. That is, from at least one key viewpoint: the players involved read the rules, and followed those rules. As well, the boardgame hobby tends towards trying out new games, often every week (this from observation), and the wargaming hobby, again of the late 60s/early 70s seems, also from observation, to have been similar in this aspect as well. The thesis 1. Those who played the game at its inception were those individuals drawn from the war-game hobby. 2. Due to the advancing popularity of video games, at or around the 1990s and culminating during the 3rd edition of the game, those who joined the hobby came from the background of playing video games. 3....