Of those who submitted date:
88 games were played.
15 people admitted to playing these games in January
Equates to an average 5.8666666666666666r games per poled player (effectively one a week).

I tried to roughly group some (some cross into other catagories):
15 were various types of boardgames
11 fantasy (including Midguard, some of which might hae been historical, and LoTR boardgames)
7 WW2 (land)
6 Wild West
6 BBB (5 of which were 1858-9)
5 ACW (although one big game, fought over several meets, could make this higher)
5 Colonial
4 Ancients/Medievals
3 Air games
3 ECW
1 Naval

What does this tell us?
we played a fair few games with family at the beginning of the month.
Fantasy is skewed by Midguard, whether because it is flavour of the month, a certain group of frieds play it, or that covers both fantasy and ancients, but nice to see new rules making an impact.
Cowboys are the big surprise to me, did not realise they were still popular
WW2 in various forms remains on the radar
I skew Colonial...
One person can skew a result set (BBB, but it's not the author)

Thanks for collating. 

No Sci Fi, and no Naps (didn't fsn finish his Naps campaign in Jan, or did he not post these to this thread?)

19th Century is the biggest with Wild West, BBB, Colonial, and ACW giving 22 combined. 

For February count,
day 2 of our ACW battle started tonight, the first turn (being an hour) sees both sides advancing their right flanks into undefended woodlands, whilst an artillery duel on the Union right flank gets the upper hand, the 8 US batteries versus 4 CSA being required due to the unequal dice rolling as usual. 

The author of BBB playing yet another non-BBB game:

Rapid Fire WWII France 1940. Victory to the defending French DLM, whose tanks sensibly didn't try to do anything complicated such as moving.

QuoteThanks for collating.

No Sci Fi, and no Naps (didn't fsn finish his Naps campaign in Jan, or did he not post these to this thread?)

19th Century is the biggest with Wild West, BBB, Colonial, and ACW giving 22 combined.

There was one Naps, forgot to add it to the list (which is the headlines). FSN did not enter his games, which would have taken Naps even higher

QuoteFSN did not enter his games, which would have taken much, much longer

FIFY

Game 1 of February
Blood Bowl Vampires 🦇 Vs Halflings
3-0 to the Vamps.

Back to the one true scale tonight at the Burnley club, 10mm WW2 in Italy late 1943, 29th Panzer Grenadier Division getting another drubbing from the British 23rd Armoured Brigade. The Company commander of A Coy 129th Panzer Bttn managed to single-handedly pot three Shermans before his StuG IIIG was knocked out. The only other impressive feat was the artillery OP shelling his own flak platoon, knocking out a Sdkfz 7/1, the rest retired off table in disgust. Out of my three blunders this evening (half the normal quota!), two were on the OP tank.....

10mm AWI Live Free or Die, Battle of Trenton. US forces scraped a win.

Another Rebels & Patriots 1848 campaign game finished this morning.

Quote from: paulr on 25 January 2025, 10:54:37 PM1. Offer to roll for them, to see if that makes any difference    Point out that you are not suggesting anything but luck here 

2. There is a player known to many NZ gamers who could fix this by simply standing near the table when your opponent rolls   

The most extreme example of the Mike effect I've seen was about 8 players in a larger Modern Spearhead game all complaining their dice had turned to crap. About 10 minutes later several started commenting that their dice were finally improving. It was at this point I noticed Mike walking back into the main hall after having a smoke leaning against the building we were in, unseen by any of us until this point.

 

QuoteMy friend has that effect at the same time!

I once did an analysis of his D10 rolls in a campaign we were doing. He rolls +0.5 per D10 higher than the average. Which doesn't sound much. Until you realise that is in effect +1 per every 2 D10 rolls, or +2 on one in four D10 rolls. As we use a Fire & Fury system, melees involve 2D10 per side in effect, defender shoots, attacker shoots with whats left, both roll melee roll.
 
More mysteriously the high rolls occur at critical sectors, eg when charging with line into grenadiers defending a wood. His low rolls occur where sufficient pluses make it not really a problem.

Dread the thought that there is more than one such deadly dice roller in the gaming world. Maybe we should get them to game each other, it would be bloodbath to the last stand   

My younger daughter also has this effect! 

At junior school they set a probability homework using dice: (effectively) roll 36d6, what do you expect the average of your rolls to be and why.

She put something like, "About 5 because I'm good at rolling dice".  She wasn't too far out!  

Battle Group - using overlord book 500pts last night. I lost 

Black Powder with Glory Hallelujah in 20mm

Towards the end of the evening one of the Union commanders suggested they concede the game and withdraw their forces having lost two of their five brigades. The other Union commander suggested, one more turn. In this turn they broke two Confererate brigades. This on top of the Confederate brigade that had been broken earlier gave the Union victory, a very costly one, but victory.

Live Free and Die, 10mm AWI wargame. Our first go with these rules - which we enjoyed. But the scenario felt a very hard ask for the attacking British.