Well I suppose it depends if your interested in history.

Personally, I am, and I've been a wargamer since the age of thirteen when I bought my first set of wargame rules for the 'American Civil War' from the Wargames Research Group.

My views are therefore biased as from my point of view if you are going to produce a game and sell it on the basis of its portrayal of a historical period then you ought to damned well get it right. To do otherwise is incompetant and an insult to the intelligence of your customers.

Its really as simple as that. However, I am constantly dissapointed that with all this technology at their disposal game designed still can't reproduce the most basic elements of a historical period accurately.