Great Wargaming Survey

[steve_holmes_11]

Would you like to submit opinions?

https://gws2021.paperform.co/

[fsn]

Done.

Only 3 periods? Who can pick only 3 periods?

[Ithoriel]

Done.

Though given the number of sections where the true answer was all of these but you had to pick 3 I'm not sure I've added much to the sum of wargaming knowledge.

Also "what do you mostly ..." When? Last week, right now, next week? I'll guarantee the answers will be vastly different!

"How much do you plan to spend this year" - I suspect "How much did you plan to spend last year", "How much did you actually spend" and "How much did you tell your SO you spent" might be more revealing

[Steve J]

Filled and will be interested to see the results.

[jimduncanuk]

As usual, a crap survey, sounds like the composer hasn't been a wargamer for long.

[mmcv]

Done. I suspect it's been kept fairly general. Seemed to be the main topic was around return to clubs/conventions. Interesting didn't really have an option for anyone who hasn't been to one before, just assumed everyone had...

[John Cook]

I wonder who collates and analyses all the returns, and what they do with the results?

[howayman]

i think its just a method of advertising their news letter.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Did it yesterday, Could have ticked far more than 3 periiods as well John.

[Norm]

Done. Since this is an ongoing survey, there are previous years to benchmark against and I imagine that a change in wargaming behaviour due to covid might give quite a telling result.

I appreciate their 5 Euro voucher and have downloaded two early PDF issue of their magazine (adding 2.90 Euros to get the pair), which are chock full reads.

Frankly, anything that keeps wargame magazines relevant or topical in the modern internet wargame world is welcome and for them no doubt necessary and so here we are talking about WSS, well done them.  

[Steve J]

I think it gives a guide to magazines and manufacturers which periods, scales/sizes etc are more popular than others. Jonathan Freitag does some excellent analysis of the data over on his Blog, which I find an interesting breakdown.

[paulr]

Done

Wot they sed

[mmcv]

To be fair they do do some interesting analysis:
https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/wss_gws/

I remember last year there being discussion on collection size vs scale choice and they do a post on that.

[DecemDave]

Filled it in with push for 10mm over that 28mm nonsense. I mean if you are going to build skirmish forces instead of armies, have the decency to do it in 54mm.   

[FierceKitty]

Filled it in with push for 10mm over that 28mm nonsense. I mean if you are going to build skirmish forces instead of armies, have the decency to do it in 54mm.   

Dave's a lieutenant now, but he'll make a fine general one of these days.