ED NOTE: All but one of the respondents were subscribers (question 24). This suggests that we should wait one issue before printing the results of a questionaire to give those who buy their issue in a store a chance to respond to it and make their voices heard as well. Therefore, the results of this issue's questionnaire will appear in No. 4 and so on. 1. AGE ? Under 20 9% 21-29 43% 30-39 39% over 40 9% 2. SEX? 100% Male 3. EDUCATION? Grammer School 0% High School 16% College 52% Graduate School 32% 4. INCOME? Under 10,000 28% 10,000 20,000 40% 20,00D 30,000 25% Over 30,000 7% 5. ORGANIZED GROUP MEMBER? 50% Yes 6. AVG. CLUB MEMBERSHIP? 12-14 8. HISTORICAL RECREATION SOC.? 10% Yes 10. SPENT ON HOBBY? Average of $400/yr. 11. MONEY SPENT ON-? 78% spent on figures, 41 % spent on books. 12. GAMING OTHER THAN MINIATURES? 16% None 75% Boardgame 34% Fantasy Game 27% Science Fiction Game 11 % Computer game 14. MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT OF WARGAMING? 50% Accuracy 50% Playability 0% Competition (!?) 15. FAVORITE GAME TYPE 36% Campaigns 18% Team Competition 32% One-on-one 18% Historical Recreations 16. WHAT FIGURES DO YOU WANT? Besides many requests for various ancient army types, some 30% wanted to see "well detailed hard plastic 25mm figures", while others wanted more new types than I can list here. The results of this question will be forwarded to the various manufacturers. Oh Yes -- One correspondent felt that we were pampered by too many figures! 17. VARIETY OF POSES PACKAGED TOGETHER? 68% No 32% YES for barbarian ancient armies. 18. 20mm FIGURES? 55% No 19. COLOR PHOTOS? 50% Y 20. MAXIMUM PRICE PER 25mm FIGURE? Foot $.59 Horse $1.10 31% Dropping 25mm's. 21.REVIEWER INFLUENCE 8% Greatly 66% Moderately 16% Not at all 4 22. HOW DID YOU FIND US? 39% Flyer in minifig order 39% Direct mailing 22% other ED NOTE: I wonder what happened to the thousands of flyers I sent to Heritage, Ral Partha, Grenadier, etc. 23.SUBSCRIBERS? 67% subscribed to the old Courier. 25. CLUB NEWS? 50% Yes 28. RATE THE ARTICLES Painting wargame armies 7.95 How to Raise Colonial Armies 7.19 Figure Review 7.14 Zulu fire power 7.00 Table top talk 6.93 Sappers Report 6.90 Campaigning without maps 6.90 Forage party 6.90 The Battle of Leipzig 6.67 Uniforms of the Swedish Army 6.63 Advice to wargamers 6.62 Drill Manual 6.54 Designing wargame scenarios 6.19 Shootout at Burinass Creek 6.17 ED NOTE: If I had the names of those 6 readers who gave my article a "0"...!!! 29. FUTURE ARTICLES There were many great suggestions (as many different ones as there were respondents), all of which will receive consideration. I will list those that were mentioned by several people and which will be addressed in The Courier in the near future. They are listed in order of the most numerous adherents first. A buy, sell & trade column An opponents wanted column Musket and Pike period articles More consumerism -- what is happening with the manufacturers More Naval articles, especially age-of-sail. More Maximus Gluteus In depth reviews and comparisons of existing rules Info on Solo Gaming Info on Play by Mail techniques How to Seduce your Wife into Wargaming Reprints from Table Top Talk and The Old Courier Tips for setting up wargame scenarios Uses of different troop types More Bob Jones - Jim Getz articles - and much more 30. OTHER COMMENTS Get an ACW editor Get a naval editor Avoid Editorialyzing Excellent mix Too many short articles Don't fall into "Slick Magazine" Syndrome More "Nuts & Bolts" of gaming Back to Table of Contents -- Courier Vol. 1 #2 To Courier List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1979 by The Courier Publishing Company. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com