The great wargaming survery 2016 :page 2 winners and 1st results

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**Praefectusclassis**

Time flies when you're painting minis (or playing games or buying more minis)

**frozenwastes**

Eldarain wrote:Done. Used my discount code to also try out the magazine.

I did the same thing. Got a PDF of a back issue that sounded interesting to me.

The way the magazines have themes means buying back issues seems really good but a subscription means I'll be getting issues I don't care about. Or maybe reading them anyway is how you develop the skill of being sucked into a million different gaming projects in all sorts of different scales.

**Maréchal des Logis Walter**

Done. Didnt even know such thing even existed but thats quite cool

**Aipoch**

Done and done, very well thought out survey. Cheers.

**Praefectusclassis**

First quick result: when will you turn to historical games? http://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/pw/wss/blog/the-answer-is-42/

**frozenwastes**

I'm a bit early, but historical miniatures have dominated my painting table for quite some time. Though sci-fi still makes up the majority of my play time.

**Praefectusclassis**

There's lots of exceptions, but they all confirm the rule, I guess. ;-)

**frozenwastes**

It's all about the distribution of results. I'm sure by the time I'm 42, WW2 gaming will dominate both my painting time and gaming time. It's hard to paint the stuff so much and not want to put more effort into getting games in.

**chromedog**

I'm 47.
I turned AWAY from historicals when I was 19.

Mind you, historicals back then (for me) consisted of WW2 and modern "cold war gone hot" stuff, because it was topical (The wall was still a thing, Germany was two countries, there was one USSR, Eurovision had many fewer countries competing)

**Lovejoy**

Filled in for another year... and I'm pretty sure that my answers were basically the same as last time!

And for the record, I'm in my forties, with no interest in WW2 at all, and 90% of my painting/gaming is fantasy and scifi...

**Captain Brown**

Completed.

Cheers,

CB

**Stormonu**

Interesting... looking back, 42 was about when I started looking at WW2 games - starting with Tide of Iron (though I'd enjoyed the Axis & Allies board game since it came out in the 80's).

**Praefectusclassis**

Clearly it had to be. ;-)

**Praefectusclassis**

Another intermediate update: http://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/pw/wss/blog/wargaming-worries/

**Praefectusclassis**

And some more: http://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/pw/wss/blog/women-in-wargaming/
(there's still time to fill the survey in for yourself!)

**Easy E**

Done. I see my gaming has evolved a bit over the past year.

**Praefectusclassis**

Part of the fun: seeing what changes, right?

**MrMoustaffa**

First time Ive ever done this survey, lookong forward to what the results are

**primogenesis**

First timer, filled it out, as a numbers geek very interested in seeing the results

**reds8n**

http://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/pw/wss/blog/another-survey-complete/

The Great Wargaming Survey is over for 2016. Though we’re slightly disappointed at not breaking the ‘magic’ number of 10,000 responses, we did get very, very, very, close. Besides, let’s face it, 9,997 responses is nothing to sneeze at.

In fact, it’s an increase by 22% over last year and therefore an extremely awesome and satisfying result. Thank you very much to everyone who took the time to respond, to those who shared and liked our promos on Facebook, blogged about it, talked about it on forums or spread the news in any other way.

A very big thank you is due, of course, to video-creators who really helped us draw attention to the survey (names link to the videos, if you’d like see what you missed):

Rick Priestley of Warlord Games
Richard Clarke of TooFatLardies
Jon Baber and Steven MacLauchlan of WWPD
Henry Hyde, author of the Wargaming Compendium
Michael Leck of the Dalauppror blog
Alessio Cavatore of River Horse
Carl Titterington of The Brit, the Yank and the Hobby Podcast
Neil Shuck, Mike Hobbs and Mike Whitaker of the Meeples and Miniatures Podcast
Jonathan J.Reinhart of the Wargaming Recon podcast
Lord S/Carol Vorderman of Gripping Beast
Alan and Michael Perry of Perry Miniatures
Joe Pidlington of Miniature Wargaming the Movie
Jamie Tranter for Rubicon Models
Dennis Biegel from Chaosbunker.de
Javi Valero, ‘El Mercenario’ of Desperta Ferro
The Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy team: Guy Bowers (1,2) and Christy Beall (yeah, I did some too, but thanking myself seems stupid: 1, 2)
And then there are the prizes. 8287 participants left their email address to be entered into the prize raffle. This morning, using random.org, we created 15 numbers in the range 1-8287. That resulted in the following winners. I’ll contact you myself as well, but in case that email goes haywire, please contact me (not the sponsors!) if you recognize the email address below. As above, a we’re grateful to the sponsors for making these prizes available.

n**@helh***rpg.com - A Warlord Games Waterloo Black Powder starter set
bi**az1900@h***ail.co.uk - A Rubicon plastic box set of the winner’s choice
Da*.*mrt@g***lemail.com - A Plastic Soldier Company plastic box set of the winner’s choice
Tro**y99@h***ail.com - A Victrix plastic box set of the winner’s choice
Bri**tz@xtra.co.nz - A Gripping Beast plastic box set of the winner’s choice
Tim.**ine**m@btinternet.com - A Perry Miniatures boxed set of the winner’s choice (ACW starter set excluded)
an**ony.b**nington@ora***.fr - A copy of Osprey Publishing’s Horizon Wars and one of Poseidon’s Warriors
s**on**ig@ho***il.com - Two Pen & Sword wargames books of the winner’s choice
ol**uyjj@gm***.com - The 4Ground ‘Chicago Way’ complete terrain set
ld**27@***oo.com - A Pendraken 10mm army pack of the winner’s choice
ev**mor**s85@g***l.com - Two copies of Baccus Polemos rules of the winner’s choice
G***don**8@bti***rnet.com - A two-year subscription of the winner’s choice to Ancient Warfare, Ancient History Magazine, Medieval Warfare or Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy
ch**home@bl***onder.co.uk - A two-year subscription of the winner’s choice to Ancient Warfare, Ancient History Magazine, Medieval Warfare or Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy
Tote**op**warf@***oo.com - A two-year subscription of the winner’s choice to Ancient Warfare, Ancient History Magazine, Medieval Warfare or Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy
Es**rex@***oo.com - A three-year subscription of the winner’s choice to Ancient Warfare, Ancient History Magazine, Medieval Warfare or Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy

**reds8n**

http://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/pw/wss/blog/gws-2016-first-glance-at-the-results/

Before we delve into the awesome amount of data for analysis and further reports, I thought it’d be interesting to provide a quick overall glance at the respondents of the Great Wargaming Survey of 2016. Between July 19 and August 19, 9997 people took the survey (actually, there was at least one more but that was so obviously a troll entry that we deleted it). According to SurveyMonkey, 93% of those completed the survey (ie: clicked the ‘Done’ button at the very end), the exact same percentage as in 2014 and 2015.

Because we’re in the awkward position of not knowing the size of the population - we don’t know how many wargamers there are worldwide - it’s best to state that all results only speak to the opinions and attitudes of the respondents. However, just for curiosity’s sake, I filled out Surveymonkey’s Sample Size Calculator to see the kind of population a sample this size would require. If you play around with that calculator, it quickly becomes apparent that the population size a sample can speak for is entirely dependent on the desired confidence level and margin of error. For instance, for a population of 1 million and a desired probability of 95% that the sample accurately represents the population with a 1% margin of error, one would need a sample size of 9513 responses. Take that for what you will.

Age-wise, the graph for the age groups looks more like a nice parabola than in previous years and they’re still almost all male (though 1.9% is female, a slight increase again). Unlike previous years, where we asked for general regions people live in, this year we asked for their country. Respondents came from 74 countries, though only from 31 did we get more than 10 responses. The top 10, UK, US, Australia, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Sweden and New Zealand, account for 87.8% and just the UK and US for 62.6%. Finally, for 65% of respondents this is the first time they took part in the survey.

More on wargaming later!

**reds8n**

https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/pw/wss/blog/gws-2016-what-do-you-want-to-know/?utm_source=Karwansaray+Publishers+General+Newsletter&utm_campaign=55133eb632-Karwansaray_Publishers_Newsletter17_10_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_519a3fa91b-55133eb632-407492313&mc_cid=55133eb632&mc_eid=9f8ca09f0a

It’s been very busy here at WSS HQ and I’ve not posted as much about the results of the Great Wargaming Survey as I would’ve liked. However, we’ve found a solution to catch up quick. Episode 4 of the WSS podcast will focus on the Survey, and we want your input: if you’ve taken the survey, you may have some idea about what’s in there. If not (booh! ;-) ) feel free to ask away about the wonderful world of wargaming.

What would you like to know? Post your questions below and we’ll select a few we feel are both interesting and actually possible to resolve using the results of the Great Wargaming Survey. I’ll probably grab a few as a topic for future blogs as well. We’ll get around to answering those questions, sooner or later (at least before the GWS2017!)

they previously did this :

https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/pw/wss/blog/dutch-wargamers-according-to-the-gws-2016/

**Praefectusclassis**

Does this make sense?
https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/pw/wss/blog/american-wargamers-according-to-the-great-wargaming-survey/

**Pacific**

Not surprising that an interest in historicals seems to increase (corresponding with a lower interest in sci-fi/fantasy/pulp) at 40+.

I wonder if the interest in WW2 of 40+ will decrease as the next generation, who perhaps did not have parents/grandparents who were involved in that conflict, comes through into that age bracket?

Would be interested to know how these results differ by region, or if in fact there is any statistical difference?

**Praefectusclassis**

We'll have to see about that. It's probably significant that the one historical setting in the top 5 of the 'under 40s' is WW2.

By region, do you mean within the US? We were never that specific in our questions.

**Pacific**

I meant by world region (different parts of Europe etc.) Was going to mention Asia and Russia although assume there probable wasn't much of a responding demographic from those areas?

I think WW2 has a lot of cross-over at the moment, you have games that are written by ex-GW rules writers (a creator of 40k for one) and from my experience there was a big migration of early-mid teens who want to wargame, but move into something that is perceived as more 'adult' (at an age where you care more about that sort of thing). I think that's really helped the likes of Flames of War and Bolt Action thrive, away from the traditionally perceived historicals market.

**Praefectusclassis**

Ah, yes. More regions forthcoming, split by country if possible (such as NL: https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/pw/wss/blog/dutch-wargamers-according-to-the-gws-2016/ )
As for WW2, I think you're right.