Pendraken Miniatures Forum

After reading the forum for well over a year I have noticed a wide variance in  the amount of time people seem to spend actually playing. Just curious about this. Also please count boardgames (wargame based) in your time estimate. Do I have to ask the fellowship to  also make a comment on your vote?  :)
My answer is well under 5%

Hard to calculate, but as I play 3 or 4 evenings and a full day game most months, I'm sure it must be over 15%.

I usually play a game once or twice a week, e.g. I have a game on Thursday morning (probably FoG again, yawn), and another Thursday evening (Honours of War - an excellent set of rules producing a free flowing, very enjoyable game).

Board games Tuesday and Friday evenings. Two different groups and usually half-a-dozen or so of us.

Tabletop gaming two or three Sunday afternoons a month and occasional evenings.

At least 4 hours computer gaming every day.

Out to the cinema at least once a week, regular lunch and afternoon tea outings with friends and family.

3 or 4 days a month with my folks.

Busy, busy, busy!

Gods, it's hard work being retired  ;D ;D ;D

You think I've actually got TIME to play with any of the soldiers I make for you lot ?  :'( :'( :'( :'(

Cheers - Mr Jealous.

So, three hours most Thor's days, two hours painting a night, 22 hours thinking about Wargames...
How do I work that out?

One game a month for 4 to 5 hours. Paint every day with more on weekends; probably 8 to 10 hours. Read military history every day (at least 3 books going at a time depending on where I am).

So if 8 hours per day (?) is available for gaming, and I think this is generous, I am at 4/240 which is under 2%.

At the moment I only think about it.  :(

Are you meaning of the time I get to spend on all wargaming activities (e.g. Forums, painting, reading, playing) what percentage is playing?

Well I normally play once a week for 4 hours.
Probably do painting or foruming 2 hrs a day for the other 4 week days 8 hours
Probably get a few hours of painting or modelling at the weekend say 4 hours
And a bit of reading say 2 hrs
Which is a nice round 20hrs a week. Of which 4 is playing.

Quote from: fred. on 30 January 2017, 06:16:16 PM
Are you meaning of the time I get to spend on all wargaming activities (e.g. Forums, painting, reading, playing) what percentage is playing?

Yes, thanks Fred.
Gaming: the time actually spend rolling dice, drawing cards, moving pieces and debating the specific application and meaning of rules.
Total time in the pursuit: everything else (including background reading and explaining (in my case) to my wife was it was essential that I raid the thread drawer of her sewing table)

Apart from the very occasional convention game, I'm only theoretically a wargamer  :'(

(Even more so since I misplaced Dux Bellorum rulebook  =(( )

Like Sunjester 3-4 evenings an a days game a month so about 24 hours gaming in a month

Probably about 10-15 hours aw week painting/basing Organising

I generally can get a game in every week if I play something more mainstream like Infinity (Corvus Belli).  But to get in the more historical periods and rules I'm interested in [Horse and musket era] I generally have to set up the game and supply all the armies.  So most of my time is spent painting or researching.

The rest of the time is looking at the release of new rules... thinking about miniatures to go with the rules... building up grand schemes... and then talking myself out of it before I press "Go", because I have plenty of those projects in the lead pile already that I'm slogging my way through painting!   :-[

The current plan is a game one evening a week, paint or build something six evenings a week, paint or build something or babysit my grandson seven afternoons a week. I keep my mornings free for other family/household duties.

I have no idea what that means in percentages.

Once sometimes twice a week, at Wings sports and social, painting/modelling as often as I can, but with 13 hr days fairly common (ie to Neath, home via Avonmouth, Bristol Parkway, Castle Donnington, Sheffield !) tend to only paint on Thursdays and Saturdays.

IanS

One of the reasons why I've taken to playing Star Wars X-Wing, and hopefully Star Trek Attack Wing, is to combat the lack of game time I manage. 

Once a fortnight, plus an occasional solo foray when I'm particularly inspired. Paint and read nearly every day.

I don't regard reading military history as part of my wargaming unless I'm researching for a particular game. I read works on WWII, later WWI, Spanish Civil War, Hundred Years War, Waterloo campaign, colonial campaigns, but don't game any of them.

Quote from: PB on 31 January 2017, 08:31:12 PM
Once a fortnight, plus an occasional solo foray when I'm particularly inspired.

Are we still talking about gaming?

Haven't played a game for ages, just appear to keep collecting and painting or trying to finish off collections...

Need to get into Solo gaming :)

I find solo gaming improves my scenario building and makes multi player games more interesting

Cheers
Ian

Difficult to quantify. On past performance, very little wargaming. Mainly solo with the odd human opponent game. To put things in some sort of order, my involvement in the hobby could be described as history first (in terms of reading or watching - in all periods but with a preference for Horse & Musket) then wargaming with collecting last. Spend a lot of time on forums and blogs too, mind you!   

I manage on average one game (2 to 3 hours) per week  :'(
On the plus side I usually get to spend on average 8 hours per week painting/modeling  ;)

Quote from: Westmarcher on 01 February 2017, 09:57:13 AM
Mainly solo with the odd human opponent game.   

I think most of my human opponents are odd! :o

But then, I do regularly game with Just a Few Orcs and Last Hussar.  ;D :P

 

Quote from: sunjester on 01 February 2017, 05:29:22 PM
I think most of my human opponents are odd! :o

But then, I do regularly game with Just a Few Orcs and Last Hussar.  ;D :P

I cant argue with that !  :)  I think you will find the feeling is mutual  :)

Well I suppose I can argue that you should have said "All" and not "most"

I had one game last year and that was solo! Nowadays my time is spent researching, writing, reading and on forums; I haven't picked up a paintbrush in anger since last October. I go to two or three local shows a year and really that's really about it.

Yours sincerely, Mr. Boring

MickS

Gentlemen,

Thanks for all the participation and the thoughtful comments. Interesting but not totally surprising results.
The fifth category, "I like to watch", besides being a famous line from "Being There" I thought maybe a spouse or significant other might pick it. My wife has claimed in the past that she prefers to watch wargames (to avoid playing I think). Strangely she does cross words or plays solitaire while she "watches".

"Being there" was a good. What "cross words" do you get from her?

One of Sellers' best, for my money.

He was Oscar nominated for it, said it was his proudest moment (friend is his ex-pa)

Quote from: Westmarcher on 10 February 2017, 01:02:51 PM
"Being there" was a good. What "cross words" do you get from her?

They are often more circular than cross.  She seems to find them in the bowels of the EOD and are thus inscrutable (to me).  :)

Is the EOD also known as the OED?

More properly, yes, yes it is.

Lysdexia playing up again (in tones of comradely concern)?

No worse than usual. I habe it bad or I'm exceedingly careless - not sure which.

My thinking runs toward English.Oxford.Dictionary in the form Class.Order.Species.