I have a small confession to make. I started wargaming as a historical wargamer, not a space fantasy or steampunk or fantasy gamer. Granted, I was 12 and we were using rules written for adults with tables and indices and crazy accounting to be done, but we had fun recreating Civil War battles on our basement floor.
Since then I moved into Fantasy, then 40k, then Warmachine and Hordes, and various other small games along the way (Necromunda, Infinity, Dreadball, etc). These are all games I currently still play and they're not historical at all. One could definitlely make the connection that there is a lot of history involved as the backgrounds for the games, and the rules are certainly driven from various old historical games that the GW staff played, but they're not real history and there isn't really any real research or re-play of things that happened.
