Must admit I found the three periods thing a bit limiting and also found separating out pulp, Warhammer, 40k and fantasy a bit of a laugh. Just call all of it figure gaming, because it certainly isn't wargaming.

Quote from: Steve J on 03 August 2021, 06:28:39 AM
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.

We have a winner!
I hope you al took the opportunity to demonstrate that there's life outside 28mm.

Quote from: FierceKitty on 03 August 2021, 07:35:12 AM
Dave's a lieutenant now, but he'll make a fine general one of these days.

I doubt it's possible to paint the necessary 15,000 casualties in 54mm.

QuoteIt takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

Ferdinand Foch

Quote from: Leman on 03 August 2021, 08:29:32 AM
. . . separating out pulp, Warhammer, 40k and fantasy a bit of a laugh. Just call all of it figure gaming, because it certainly isn't wargaming.

What a completely ridiculous statement to make.

Quote from: Leman on 03 August 2021, 08:29:32 AM
Must admit I found the three periods thing a bit limiting and also found separating out pulp, Warhammer, 40k and fantasy a bit of a laugh. Just call all of it figure gaming, because it certainly isn't wargaming.

Quote from: Raider4 on 03 August 2021, 09:37:22 AM
What a completely ridiculous statement to make.

No, I agree with Leman it's ridiculous to separate them out. Whether you are pushing around models of Das Afrika Korps, Caesar's Legions, the Grenadiers of the old Guard or 1st Company of the Utramarines, Warjacks or an Orc hordes it's all fantasy when you get right down to it. Similar rules, equally pretty figures - not enough room to slide a sheet of paper between them.

Quote from: mmcv on 03 August 2021, 06:43:59 AM
To be fair they do do some interesting analysis:

That's what I would call processing; assembling the information into some kind of order so that it can be analysed.  More importantly though, who asked for the survey to be done in the first place, and for what purpose?  How were the questions arrived at?  If it was the wargames 'industry' with, presumably, the intention of informing it in the context of business development, it doesn't answer the simple question 'so what?'.  I don't see much analysis to be honest. 

Phase one: collect underpants
Phase two:
Phase three: profit!

Done

Done and I'm with Leman on this one.

Cheers Paul

Questioning the 'Do you think of yourself as...' question in the survey on a Facebook wargaming group yesterday got me into enough trouble for now. I think I'll let this year's survey pass...

Cheers,
Rob

Quote from: Ace of Spades on 04 August 2021, 11:33:08 AM
Questioning the 'Do you think of yourself as...' question in the survey on a Facebook wargaming group yesterday got me into enough trouble for now. I think I'll let this year's survey pass...

Cheers,
Rob

Ditto...

I did the survey, but agree the questions were poorly thought out.

While I would not lump all fantasy in with Warhammer 40k/Age of Sigmar  I do feel these two are the same.

Also what is the relevance of "How many Painted miniatures do you have". Initially I thought it might be to tie up with spending patterns, but we have an occasional visitor to the Tring Wargames club who when he was collecting Mechwarrior spent  very large amounts of money, and must have hundreds if not thousands of miniatures - He only ever painted a few dozen of them. So that does not work.

Perhaps i will look at the analasys at some point

Quote from: Orcs on 04 August 2021, 04:18:49 PM
Also what is the relevance of "How many Painted miniatures do you have".

Two. No, wait, five.

What do I win?

Quote from: Orcs on 04 August 2021, 04:18:49 PM
"How many Painted miniatures do you have".

15,566. Lead mountain currently 5,556. Current Lead Mountain movement -138 (i.e. I paint 138 figures more than I buy every month.)

Estimated completion of lead mountain 30th June 2024. 

Quote from: fsn on 04 August 2021, 05:35:02 PM
15,566. Lead mountain currently 5,556. Current Lead Mountain movement -138 (i.e. I paint 138 figures more than I buy every month.)

Estimated completion of lead mountain 30th June 2024. 

I think mid-November 2024 (based on data provided), although my math skills have been slipping of late.