Great Wargaming Survey blog

GWS 2020: The future is plastic

This entry was posted on September 21, 2020 by Jonathan Freitag.

To quote Mr McGuire in the 1967 movie, The Graduate, "there is a great future in plastics." According to the 2020 edition of the Great Wargaming... Read more

GWS 2020: highlights and maybe some shadows

This entry was posted on September 18, 2020 by Jasper Oorthuys.

And we’re done. Well, we were done a few weeks ago, but despite (or because of) Covid, it’s been a bit hectic around here. Time... Read more

GWS 2019 - Scale versus Style

This entry was posted on February 18, 2020 by Jonathan Freitag.

In Jasper’s GWS 2019 Size Matters post, Jan Bruinen asks, Is there a combination in the survey between figure scale and scale of game and the... Read more

GWS 2019 – Digging into the numbers: size matters - to whom?

This entry was posted on January 29, 2020 by Jonathan Freitag.

In Jasper’s GWS 2019, Size Matters post, he presents a summary trend analysis of changes in scale/size preferences over time. The analysis suggests preferences on... Read more

2019 GWS - size matters

This entry was posted on January 20, 2020 by Jasper Oorthuys.

There is one standard question we get asked after every single Great Wargaming Survey: which game is the most popular? And we always say the... Read more

2019 GWS - "Digging Into the Numbers: Hobby Spending – Age vs Interest"

This entry was posted on December 9, 2019 by Jonathan Freitag.

In Jasper’s GWS 2019, Take my money! post, the question on planned hobby spending is addressed. Taking two components of Jasper’s summary, I dive into... Read more

2019 GWS - "Take my money!" and other preferences

This entry was posted on December 3, 2019 by Jasper Oorthuys.

So far, we've only looked at the age of the responding wargamers, bulging boomers or otherwise. Let's look at some preferences now. Hobby spending We've... Read more

2019 GWS - The Battle of the Bulge or “OK, Boomer”

This entry was posted on November 25, 2019 by Jonathan Freitag.

In Jasper’s GWS 2019 - The Basics, post, he brings attention to ‘age pyramid’ attributes present in the 2019 data. This ‘age bubble’ or bulge... Read more

2019 GWS - the Basics

This entry was posted on November 18, 2019 by Jasper Oorthuys.

Over the last few months Jon Freitag and Miles Reidy have taken time out of their busy schedules to start the proper analysis of this... Read more

2019: Prizes

This entry was posted on October 8, 2019 by Jasper Oorthuys.

A few quick points of order today. First, I've already seen some very interesting results from this year's survey, but we're still brainstorming about how... Read more