357 Responses
Entire Issues 6.564
| ARTICLE/DEPARTMENT | RATING | Non-
Interest Quotient |
|---|---|---|
| Armies & Soldiers Pike & Shot period | 7.184 | 13% |
| The Reviewing Stand | 6.664 | 0% |
| Eyewitness Accounts of History | 6.545 | 6% |
| The Courier Dispatch | 6.543 | 3% |
| When You're Whipped | 6.462 | 2% |
| Dispatches From The Field | 6.398 | 1% |
| Paoli's Cosican Forces | 6.372 | 28% |
| The Tuck and Tankard | 6,360 | 16% |
| Naval Campaigns | 6.264 | 39% |
| Editorial | 6.068 | 1% |
| The Wilderness Campaign | 6.030 | 16% |
| Day by Day in History | 5.284 | 49% |
67% of the respondents game in Napoleonics.
Figure Scales Used: 30mm - 7%; 25mm - 35%; 20mm - 6% 15mm - 37% 1 person games in 5mm (1) and 56% use more than one scale (usually 15mm & 25mm)!
Napoleonic Rules? Home rules - 31 %; Empire III - 24% CLS - 11%, Fire & Steel - 6% ' Pas de Charge - 5%; Tricolor - 4% " WRG, ~ive L'Empereur, EEI, Quarrie's (?) - 2% each; Frappe, Garde-clu Corps, The Napoleonic Wars -1% each.
What is needed to improve Napoleonic gaming? In order of importance: 1. Campaign rules; 2. More historical information; 3. New scenario ideas; 4. Better rules; 5. Better terrain; 6. More players; 7. More figures,
How many figures in your Btns? 11 to 20 - 57 %; 21 to 30 - 20%; 30 to 40 -13%; less than 10 - 6%; more than 40 - 4%.
How many Btns per side in your games? 11 to 20 - 35%; less than 10 -22%, 31 to 50 - 19%; 21 to 30 - 14%, more than 50 - 10%.
How do you usually buy your figures? Mostly mail - 30%; Hobby shops & mail 50/50 - 27%; Only by mail - 18%; Mostly hobby shops - 14%; On- ly hobby shops - 11 %. NOTE: 75% BUY BY MAIL!
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