I've painted that many this year!

Done although I always come across in these surveys as a highly introverted and disagreeable nerd.  I'd like to be competitive but with my dice rolling skills it would be a triumph of hope over experience.
oh if only that glass was even half empty.   
At least my little soldiers like me.  At least i like to think so.....

Quote from: DecemDave on 03 August 2020, 11:29:30 AM
Done although I always come across in these surveys as a highly introverted and disagreeable nerd. 

You say that like it's a bad thing?

Put in my 2p worth too as it is nice to have a chance to win something in the raffle and help people understand what the gamers out here want.

Quote from: Ithoriel on 02 August 2020, 03:13:50 PM
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.

Pointing out that they seemed to underestimate peoples collections might be a point worth making.  Presumably if a large percentage of results show this to be the case then they would be increasing the numbers for the survey.  That they have the numbers they do might suggest that many responders do not have very large collections.  One club visitor playing DBMM commented that he had 30,000 28mm ancients figures; I suspect not everyone does.

I would say the question is 28mm biased.
2500 28mm would be several large armies, in 10mm it's a couple of corps, so it's a scale thing again...

Quote from: mad lemmey on 05 August 2020, 06:13:13 AM
I would say the question is 28mm biased.
2500 28mm would be several large armies, in 10mm it's a couple of corps, so it's a scale thing again...

I started doing the sums on my old H&R Napoleonics.
120 men per battalion, 12 battalions per division (24 per Corps) and you're there.

I asked about the maximum number of figures on the DMW facebook page where Jasper also posted this.

Also, something I did not see mentioned before is that one of the raffle prizes is a 10mm starter army from our gracious hosts. Fingers crossed...

For smaller scales like 2 or 3mm and even to an extent with 6mm you might need to think in terms of blocks rather than figures.

Certainly if someone has a decent sized collection in 6mm or 10mm then 3,000 figures might not be all that big a number compared to in you were looking at 28mm. Though given what wargamers are like with figures even in 28mm it wouldn't be that hard to build up 3,000 figures over the years.