Great Wargaming Survey 2020

[Sandinista]

As for the how many figures do you have I think they should have added another zero to their figures? 

Agree, as in the smaller scales larger armies are more common, I have around 4500 figures just in my LOA forces

Cheers
Ian

[Steve J]

How likely are you to keep wargaming for the foreseeable future?

When I was a member of Portbury Knights wargames club, it was not uncommon for members to play less, pause wargaming etc due to work commitments, starting a family, going to Uni etc, so a not unreasonable question.

[mmcv]

Only a top 5 periods

Yes I was surprised they didn't instead just have us rank all that apply on those questions as there were a few it was hard to pick just a few options.

[Raider4]

How likely are you to keep wargaming for the foreseeable future?

Is this a trick question??

Well, I dip in and out, but it never really goes away. I haven't actually played a wargame for, what, over three years now. I've barely painted anything in that time. I've bought a few figures, and a few ruleset, and done a lot of prep work for either a spacehulk/aliens-style sci-fi skirmish game, for a rpg-lite fantasy game (probably using Sellswords & Spellslingers, but two other rulesets are also being looked at!), and a Warmaster-style mass-battle game. But none of this has actually yet resulted in a game being played. But I still feel I'm "in" the wargaming hobby, as it were.

There was a another question about "Do you play to win?". What? Who doesn't? What's the point if you don't?

And I don't mean "win at all cost". Just win.

I used to play board games with my mum when small. She never cared if she won or lost, she was just entertaining little me. But even I was bored, knowing she didn't care about the outcome.

[mmcv]

On playing to win, it's probably more a case of what's important. For some winning or losing is less of a deal than just enjoying the game. There might be those who enjoy the historical simulation or playing out scenarios to see what happens and are less invested in their side compared to that game overall. Then there's those of us who often pay solo where winning and losing are two sides of the same coin.

[Raider4]

Then there's those of us who often pay solo where winning and losing are two sides of the same coin.

Well, that's me! And I always play to win.

And winning doesn't always mean to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women. Sometimes it's just get one figure off the north edge of the board, or hold the barricade for 6 turns.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I'm Grumpy & so's my wife !

Cheers - Phil

We Know 

[Techno]

If only you did. 

Cheers - Phil.

[Nick the Lemming]

I think we can all understand why Phil's wife is grumpy...

[Techno]

Bloody cheek ! 

Cheers - Phil

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I think we can all understand why Phil's wife is grumpy...

Well said that man 

[Ithoriel]

To re-rail the thread a little

I was tempted to add a comment at the end to the effect that I only played one period 1,000,000BC to 1,000,000AD and that I had more than 2500 figures in one Corps of my Napoleonic 6mm French Army but I felt it would add little to the survey.

[Orcs]

To re-rail the thread a little

I was tempted to add a comment at the end to the effect that I only played one period 1,000,000BC to 1,000,000AD and that I had more than 2500 figures in one Corps of my Napoleonic 6mm French Army but I felt it would add little to the survey.

In your 1,000,000 years BC army do you have a Raquel Welch?  I remember her in the film,

[Ithoriel]

In your 1,000,000 years BC army do you have a Raquel Welch?  I remember her in the film,

Of course ... but for accuracy I had to remove the fur bikini as anachronistic

[petercooman]

I filled it in yesterday, not much use in that survey. Found the questions stupid. Big departure from lst years. Also, wasit just me or was it fairly short?

[mmcv]

It would be nice if they had an "all" for the periods rather than a lot of conflict specific ones.

I filled it in yesterday, not much use in that survey. Found the questions stupid. Big departure from lst years. Also, wasit just me or was it fairly short?

Didn't seem particularly short? The ranking questions were a bit of a faff in a phone so that took a while.

[steve_holmes_11]

I suspect the figure count question does show somewhat of a big scale bias, but equally it asks what scales you favour so could extrapolate from that I guess

Do you think they'll find a trend for the small figure collectors having more figures.

[mmcv]

Do you think they'll find a trend for the small figure collectors having more figures.

Can't imagine why they would?

[Orcs]

How many painted figures in your collection? Max of 2500.

Even Mrs Orcs thought that question was a bit stupid

[jimduncanuk]

How many painted figures in your collection? Max of 2500.

Maybe they meant 2500 collections!