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Offline Alan maguire

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Romans bigger than other ranges?
« on: November 22, 2014, 01:18:57 PM »
Am i right in thinking Ancients are more popular than all other ranges?

Offline Jeff965

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Re: Romans bigger than other ranges?
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2014, 01:39:44 PM »
Short answer is no. Ancients is a popular period to wargame and Romans are a popular army to wargame with. However wargamers in my humble opinion rarely stick to one period and just recently popularity of period is very much driven by new rules and figure ranges. One of the mainstream magazines just done a survey on this and they reckon World War 2 is the most popular, or at least the most popular amongst the gamers who responded to their survey.

Jeff

Offline Alan maguire

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Re: Romans bigger than other ranges?
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2014, 01:45:01 PM »
@ Jeff965

Napoleonics are realy big? and yeah that makes total sense about what you said about what ranges are out there.

Offline Steve F

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Re: Romans bigger than other ranges?
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2014, 02:51:17 PM »
One of the mainstream magazines just done a survey on this and they reckon World War 2 is the most popular, or at least the most popular amongst the gamers who responded to their survey.

This was Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy.  They has 7,759 respondents, so unless there was some sort of selection bias, the sample is a respectably large one and can probably be taken as reasonably accurate*.  They asked respondents to rate interest in different periods.  WW2 was rated "a favourite" (the top rating) by about half the sample, with fewer than a thousand "not interested" (the lowest category).  Ancients got equal numbers in both categories: something under 2,000.  In terms of the number ranking the period "a favourite", Ancients was sixth, behind WW2, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Medieval and Napoleonics.

It's worth bearing in mind that Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy does not itself cover SF and Fantasy, which might suggest that those two periods would receive lower scores in the WSS poll: however, WSS advertised the poll widely, including in forums such as the GW-centred Bell of Lost Souls, so respondents were not necessarily readers of the magazine.

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* The British Polling Council explains: "Imagine a country that divides exactly equally on some issue — 50% hold one view while the other 50% think the opposite. Statistical theory tells us that, in a random poll of 1,000 people, with a 100% response rate, then 19 times out of 20, a poll will be accurate to within 3%. In other words, it will record at least 47%, and no more than 53%, for each view. But there is a one in 20 chance that the poll will fall outside this range.  With a sample of 2,000, the poll will be within 2% 19 times out of 20."


Offline Alan maguire

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Re: Romans bigger than other ranges?
« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2014, 11:43:55 AM »
Thank you everybody for the wealth of information!

 

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