Solo & Solitaire Wargaming & Historical Gaming Survey Results

Brant Guillory, 22 September 2023

Over the Summer, we partnered with Liz Davidson and Beyond Solitaire to explore the wargaming world’s intersection with solo & solitaire gaming.  Inspired by an annual survey of broader solo gaming on BGG, we wanted to more tightly focus on the wargaming world.

So we launched this survey back in the last week of July, and left it open until early September, and then started crunching numbers.

We asked respondents to give us their top 5 favorite solo / solitaire games, and to give us the URL to the specific entry on BoardGameGeek, so that we wouldn’t have to parse through which edition of the game, or separate which game in a series, or which typo’ed title of three similar games the respondent intended to give us.
We also asked a couple of optional questions about preferred type of content, frequency of play, and how long people had been playing, just to get a sense of the audience that was replying.

Two points of clarification that need to be included here:

• We intentionally chose to describe this as “solo/solitaire” as we wanted people to include any game they enjoy playing on their own, whether it was purpose-designed as a solo game, a broader game with a dedicated solitaire mode, or a truly multi-player game that you’re either playing multi-handed or have adapted to solo play.
• We described this as a “wargaming and historical gaming” survey because we specifically wanted to avoid trying to screen certain games in/out based on some ever-arguable never-agreed-upon definition of “wargame”.  So Twilight Struggle and Gandhi are in, but maybe not Carcassonne or Ticket to Ride even with their historical themes.  This got some attitudinal push-back online, regardless of how we tried to explain it, so we came to the conclusion that some people just wanted to gripe ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So we’ve got two different discussions about the survey, both our podcast, and Liz’s video, where you can hear a lot of thoughts from both Brant & Liz, as well as BBMike, ZillaBlitz, and Mike from the One-Stop Coop Shop.

What we’ve also got here are the overall results of the scoring of the survey – every game that was mentioned in the voting.  Games were scored on a descending 5-4-3-2-1 scale, so if someone voted the game in first place, it got 5 points and second place got 4, and so on down.

We’re providing you both the aggregate score for the games once we’ve added all scores together, as well as the average score for each game¹.  We’ve also included to total count of the number of times each game was mentioned anywhere in the survey.  This is a long table that’s paginated across multiple screens, but it is sortable by clicking on the headers.  In the top 30 or so, we did adjust the “rank” to reflect the ties, but did not continue that effort throughout the whole list².

There 256 total responses

• Ranking – from the top on down, but as noted, once you get past #30 or so, we stopped parsing the ties.
• Title – as it’s entered on BGG from the links provided by the voters
• Count – how many times someone voted for that game in any position in the survey
• Sum – total sum of the weighted rankings
• Average – Sum / Count

Ranking	Title	count	sum	Average
1	D-Day at Omaha Beach	32	112	3.5
2	Pax Pamir: Second Edition	25	89	3.56
3	Pavlov's House	33	86	2.61
4	Fields of Fire	20	80	4
5	Skies Above Britain	21	67	3.19
6	Enemy Action: Ardennes	16	63	3.94
6	Mr. President: The American Presidency, 2001-2020	19	63	3.32
8	RAF: The Battle of Britain 1940	18	58	3.22
9	John Company: Second Edition	14	55	3.93
10	The Hunters: German U-Boats at War, 1939-43	18	53	2.94
11	Ambush!	14	47	3.36
11	D-Day at Tarawa	13	47	3.62
13	Navajo Wars	13	44	3.38
14	Stalingrad: Advance to the Volga, 1942	12	43	3.58
15	Resist!	15	35	2.33
16	Warfighter: The WWII Tactical Combat Card Game	10	34	3.4
17	Field Commander: Napoleon	11	32	2.91
18	Atlantic Chase	13	31	2.38
18	Fire in the Lake	13	31	2.38
20	Combat!	9	30	3.33
20	Enemy Action: Kharkov	9	30	3.33
22	Stilicho: Last of the Romans	9	29	3.22
23	Votes for Women	8	29	3.63
25	Falling Sky: The Gallic Revolt Against Caesar	10	28	2.8
25	Halls of Hegra	8	28	3.5
26	B-17: Queen of the Skies	7	26	3.71
26	Cuba Libre	9	26	2.89
28	A Most Fearful Sacrifice: The Three Days of Gettysburg	6	25	4.17
28	Europa Universalis: The Price of Power	6	25	4.17
30	B-17 Flying Fortress Leader	8	24	3
30	Skies Above the Reich	7	24	3.43
32	Peloponnesian War	7	23	3.29
33	Raid on St. Nazaire	9	23	2.56
34	Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ?	8	22	2.75
35	Maquis	8	22	2.75
36	RAF	6	22	3.67
37	The Wars of Marcus Aurelius	6	22	3.67
38	Freedom: The Underground Railroad	7	21	3
39	Mrs Thatcher's War: The Falklands, 1982	7	21	3
40	Patton's Best	6	21	3.5
41	Advanced Squad Leader	6	20	3.33
42	Paths of Glory	7	20	2.86
43	The White Tribe: Rhodesia's War 1966-1980	5	20	4
44	Charlemagne, Master of Europe	7	19	2.71
45	Commands & Colors: Ancients	6	19	3.17
46	Lanzerath Ridge	8	19	2.38
47	NATO Air Commander	7	19	2.71
48	The Hunted: Twilight of the U-Boats, 1943-45	6	19	3.17
49	Undaunted: Reinforcements	8	19	2.38
50	Almoravid: Reconquista and Riposte in Spain 1085-1086	6	18	3
51	Agricola, Master of Britain	7	17	2.43
52	Silent Victory: U.S. Submarines in the Pacific, 1941-45	5	17	3.4
53	Carrier: The Southwest Pacific Campaign – 1942-1943	4	16	4
54	Empire of the Sun	6	16	2.67
55	Holland '44: Operation Market-Garden	4	16	4
56	Stuka Leader	4	16	4
57	Thunderbolt Apache Leader	7	16	2.29
58	Aces of Valor	5	15	3
59	Castle Itter: The Strangest Battle of WWII	7	15	2.14
60	Dien Bien Phu: The Final Gamble	5	15	3
61	Enemy Coast Ahead: The Doolittle Raid	5	15	3
62	Hero of Weehawken	5	15	3
63	Last Blitzkrieg: Wacht am Rhein, The Battle of the Bulge	5	15	3
64	Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection	4	15	3.75
65	Soviet Dawn: The Russian Civil War 1918-1921 – Deluxe Edition	4	15	3.75
66	Target for Today	6	15	2.5
67	Colonial Twilight: The French-Algerian War, 1954-62	6	14	2.33
68	Malta Besieged: 1940-1942	4	14	3.5
69	Men of Iron Battles Tri-pack: Men of Iron, Infidel, Blood & Roses	3	14	4.67
70	Tarawa 1943	5	14	2.8
71	Arracourt	3	13	4.33
72	Assault Red Horizon 41	3	13	4.33
73	Case Blue	3	13	4.33
74	Combat Commander: Europe	3	13	4.33
75	Irish Freedom	3	13	4.33
76	Leaving Earth	3	13	4.33
77	Roads to Gettysburg II: Lee Strikes North	3	13	4.33
78	W1815	4	13	3.25
79	Warfighter: The Tactical Special Forces Card Game	4	13	3.25
80	Western Front Ace: The Great War in the Air, 1916-1918	4	13	3.25
81	The U.S. Civil War	5	13	2.6
82	Zulus on the Ramparts!: The Battle of Rorke's Drift – Second Edition	6	13	2.17
83	Obsession	3	12	4
84	Aurelian: Restorer of the World	4	12	3
85	Commands & Colors: Napoleonics	4	12	3
86	Hadrian's Wall	4	12	3
87	N: The Napoleonic Wars	4	12	3
88	The Mission: Early Christianity from the Crucifixion to the Crusades	5	12	2.4
89	Banish the Snakes: A Game of St. Patrick in Ireland	3	11	3.67
90	Blackbeard	3	11	3.67
91	Stonewall Jackson's Way II: Battles of Bull Run	3	11	3.67
92	Sherman Leader	4	11	2.75
93	Comanchería: The Rise and Fall of the Comanche Empire	5	11	2.2
94	A Feast for Odin	3	10	3.33
95	Andean Abyss	3	10	3.33
96	Celles: The Ardennes, December 23-27, 1944	3	10	3.33
97	Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear! – Operation Barbarossa 1941 (Second Edition)	3	10	3.33
98	Conflict of Heroes: Eastern Front – Solo Expansion	3	10	3.33
99	Gandhi: The Decolonization of British India, 1917 – 1947	3	10	3.33
100	Storm Above the Reich	3	10	3.33
101	Cruel Necessity: The English Civil Wars 1640-1653	4	10	2.5
102	Endurance	4	10	2.5
103	Ottoman Sunset: The Great War in the Near East	4	10	2.5
104	Stalingrad '42: Southern Russia, June-December, 1942	2	10	5
105	Black Orchestra	3	9	3
106	By Stealth and Sea	3	9	3
107	Mound Builders	3	9	3
108	Phantom Leader: Deluxe Edition	3	9	3
109	The Dark Summer: Normandy 1944	3	9	3
110	Don't Tread on Me: The American Revolution Solitaire Board Game (2014)	4	9	2.25
111	Time of Crisis: The Roman Empire in Turmoil, 235-284 AD	4	9	2.25
112	Tokyo Express: The Guadalcanal Naval Campaign – 1942	4	9	2.25
113	Britannia	2	9	4.5
114	Point Blank: V is for Victory	2	9	4.5
115	Squad Leader	2	9	4.5
116	The MOG: Mogadishu 1993	2	9	4.5
117	Crete 1941: Operation Mercury	3	8	2.67
118	D-Day at Peleliu	3	8	2.67
119	Field Commander: Rommel	3	8	2.67
120	In Magnificent Style: Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg	3	8	2.67
121	Nightfighter Ace: Air Defense Over Germany, 1943-44	3	8	2.67
122	Pendragon: The Fall of Roman Britain	3	8	2.67
123	Soldiers in Postmen's Uniforms	3	8	2.67
124	Space Empires 4X	3	8	2.67
125	Tunisia II	3	8	2.67
126	World At War 85: Storming the Gap	3	8	2.67
127	1914: Nach Paris	2	8	4
128	2 Minutes to Midnight	2	8	4
129	Beneath the Med: Regia Marina at Sea 1940-1943	2	8	4
130	Carrier Battle: Philippine Sea	2	8	4
131	Downtown: Air War Over Hanoi, 1965-1972	2	8	4
132	Freeman's Farm 1777	2	8	4
133	Gorbachev: The Fall of Communism	2	8	4
134	Israeli Air Force Leader	2	8	4
135	Red Flag Over Paris	2	8	4
136	We Must Tell the Emperor	3	7	2.33
137	Twilight Struggle: Red Sea – Conflict in the Horn of Africa	4	7	1.75
138	Land and Freedom: The Spanish Revolution and Civil War	2	7	3.5
139	Memoir '44	2	7	3.5
140	Raiders of the Deep: U-boats of the Great War, 1914-18	2	7	3.5
141	Reconquista	2	7	3.5
142	Rome, Inc.: From Augustus to Diocletian	2	7	3.5
143	Target for Tonight: Britain's Strategic Air Campaign Over Europe, 1942-1945	2	7	3.5
144	A Victory Lost: Crisis in Ukraine 1942-1943	3	6	2
145	Longstreet Attacks: The Second Day at Gettysburg	3	6	2
146	The Deadly Woods: The Battle of the Bulge	3	6	2
147	The Shores of Tripoli	3	6	2
148	Advanced Squad Leader: Starter Kit #1	2	6	3
149	Battle for Germany	2	6	3
150	Islands of the Damned: Wake Island and Peleliu	2	6	3
151	Israeli Independence: The First Arab-Israeli War	2	6	3
152	Lisboa	2	6	3
153	Nemo's War (Second Edition)	2	6	3
154	Silent War	2	6	3
155	The British Way: Counterinsurgency at the End of Empire	2	6	3
156	The Night	2	6	3
157	Versailles 1919	2	6	3
158	Wilderness War	2	6	3
159	Wing Leader: Victories 1940-1942	2	6	3
160	Legion of Honor	4	5	1.25
161	1565: Siege of Malta	2	5	2.5
162	Ardennes '44: The Battle of the Bulge	2	5	2.5
163	Bios: Megafauna (Second Edition)	2	5	2.5
164	Crowbar! The Rangers at Pointe Du Hoc	2	5	2.5
165	Empires of the Middle Ages	2	5	2.5
166	Hill of Doves: The First Anglo-Boer War	2	5	2.5
167	Hornet Leader: Carrier Air Operations	2	5	2.5
168	Pandemic: Fall of Rome	2	5	2.5
169	SPQR (Deluxe Edition)	2	5	2.5
170	Stalingrad: Inferno on the Volga	2	5	2.5
171	Undaunted: Normandy	2	5	2.5
172	414 BC: Siege of Syracuse	1	5	5
173	Advanced Civilization	1	5	5
174	Age of Dogfights: WW1	1	5	5
175	Ambush!: Move Out!	1	5	5
176	Atlantic Wall: D-Day to Falaise	1	5	5
177	Battles for the Ardennes	1	5	5
178	Beyond Valor: ASL Module 1	1	5	5
179	Combat! Volume 2: An Expansion for Combat!	1	5	5
180	Commandos: Europe	1	5	5
181	Conflict of Heroes: Storms of Steel – Kursk 1943 (Third Edition)	1	5	5
182	Death of an Army: Ypres 1914	1	5	5
183	Fierce fight ! Stalingrad Blitzkrieg	1	5	5
184	Gettysburg (125th Anniversary Edition)	1	5	5
185	Guderian's Blitzkrieg II	1	5	5
186	Gunslinger	1	5	5
187	Hidden Strike: American Revolution	1	5	5
188	Hurtgen: Hell's Forest	1	5	5
189	Imperial Glory	1	5	5
190	Imperium Romanum: The Clash of Legions	1	5	5
191	Keep Up The Fire!: The Boxer Rebellion	1	5	5
192	La Der des Ders	1	5	5
193	La Grande Guerre 14-18	1	5	5
194	People Power: Insurgency in the Philippines, 1981-1986	1	5	5
195	Pericles: The Peloponnesian Wars	1	5	5
196	Salerno '43	1	5	5
197	Smokejumpers	1	5	5
198	Stonewall Jackson's Way	1	5	5
199	Strat-O-Matic Baseball	1	5	5
200	The Barbarossa Campaign	1	5	5
201	The Dark Valley	1	5	5
202	The Great Heathen Army	1	5	5
203	The Last Hundred Yards	1	5	5
204	This Terrible Sound	1	5	5
205	UBOOT: The Board Game (2019)	1	5	5
206	Unconditional Surrender! World War 2 in Europe	1	5	5
207	Vietnam: 1965-1975 (2nd edition)	1	5	5
208	Wayfarers of the South Tigris	1	5	5
209	Wing Leader: Victories 1940-1942 (Second Edition)	1	5	5
210	Wolfpack: Submarine Warfare in the North Atlantic, 1942-44	1	5	5
211	World in Flames Collector's Edition Deluxe	1	5	5
212	All Bridges Burning: Red Revolt and White Guard in Finland, 1917-1918	2	4	2
213	Cataclysm: A Second World War	2	4	2
214	Conquistador: The Age of Exploration	2	4	2
215	Days of Ire: Budapest 1956	2	4	2
216	On to Moscow Solitaire	2	4	2
217	Pax Porfiriana	2	4	2
218	The Fall of Rome	2	4	2
219	The Peloponnesian War, 431-404 BC	2	4	2
220	10 Cavalry Brigade/1 Armoured Division from Poland to Wilhelmshaven – Hill 262: Chambois 19-21st August 1944	1	4	4
221	1759 Siege of Quebec	1	4	4
222	Advanced Squad Leader: Starter Kit #2	1	4	4
223	Arquebus: Men of Iron Volume IV – The Battles for Northern Italy 1495-1544	1	4	4
224	Assault Sicily 43	1	4	4
225	Barbarossa: Army Group Center, 1941 – Second Edition	1	4	4
226	Bastogne: Screaming Eagles Under Siege 18-27 Dec' 44	1	4	4
227	Battle Card: Market Garden	1	4	4
228	Battle Hymn	1	4	4
229	Blue & Gray: Four American Civil War Battles	1	4	4
230	Brave Little Belgium	1	4	4
231	Brazen Chariots: Battles for Tobruk, 1941	1	4	4
232	CDG Solo System	1	4	4
233	Campaigns of Montrose: A Year of Living Dangerously, 1644-1645	1	4	4
234	Churchill	1	4	4
235	Cities of the Damned: Aachen and Cassino	1	4	4
236	Corsair Leader	1	4	4
237	Crusade and Revolution: The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939	1	4	4
238	Custer's Last Stand	1	4	4
239	Defence of Rorke's Drift	1	4	4
240	Elsenborn Ridge: Tactical Combat During the Battle of the Bulge – A Panzer Grenadier Game	1	4	4
241	Europe in Turmoil: Prelude to the Great War	1	4	4
242	Fire in the Lake: Tru'ng Bot Update Pack	1	4	4
243	Flying Colors	1	4	4
244	For What Remains: Streets of Ruin	1	4	4
245	GD '42: Grossdeutschland	1	4	4
246	Hastings, 1066	1	4	4
247	Hold the Line: The American Revolution	1	4	4
248	Ici, c'est la France! The Algerian War of Independence 1954 - 1962	1	4	4
249	La Révolution française: La patrie en danger 1791-1795	1	4	4
250	Levee En Masse	1	4	4
251	Liberty Roads	1	4	4
252	Littoral Commander: Indo-Pacific	1	4	4
253	Lobositz: First Battle of the Seven Years War	1	4	4
254	Lock 'n Load Tactical: Heroes of the Motherland	1	4	4
255	London's Burning	1	4	4
256	Napoleon's Wheel	1	4	4
257	Nations at War: Stalin's Triumph	1	4	4
258	Old School Tactical: Volume 3 – Pacific 1942/45	1	4	4
259	Pacific War: The Struggle Against Japan 1941-1945	1	4	4
260	Panzers Last Stand: Battles for Budapest, 1945	1	4	4
261	Pax Emancipation	1	4	4
262	Rise and Decline of the Third Reich	1	4	4
263	Sabika	1	4	4
264	Save South Vietnam!	1	4	4
265	Tenkatoitsu	1	4	4
266	The Chase of the Bismarck: Operation Rheinübung 1941	1	4	4
267	The Confederate Rebellion	1	4	4
268	The Greatest Day: Sword, Juno, and Gold Beaches	1	4	4
269	This Guilty Land	1	4	4
270	Thunder at the Crossroads: The Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863 (Second Edition)	1	4	4
271	Trench Club	1	4	4
272	Ukraine '43	1	4	4
273	Undaunted: Stalingrad	1	4	4
274	Western Desert	1	4	4
275	Zurmat: Small Scale Counterinsurgency	1	4	4
276	American Tank Ace: 1944-1945	2	3	1.5
277	Death Valley: Battles for the Shenandoah	2	3	1.5
278	Flashpoint: South China Sea	2	3	1.5
279	Give Us Victories	2	3	1.5
280	Operation Olympic: The Invasion of Japan 1 November 1945	2	3	1.5
281	Solitaire Caesar	2	3	1.5
282	The Third World War: Designer Signature Edition	2	3	1.5
283	Warfighter: The WWII Pacific Combat Card Game	2	3	1.5
284	1914: Offensive à outrance	1	3	3
285	A Wing and a Prayer: Bombing the Reich	1	3	3
286	Advanced Squad Leader: Starter Kit #3	1	3	3
287	At Any Cost: Metz 1870	1	3	3
288	B17 Twenty Five Missions	1	3	3
289	Battle Above the Clouds	1	3	3
290	Battles of the American Revolution Tri-pack: Guilford, Saratoga, Brandywine	1	3	3
291	Bayonets & Tomahawks	1	3	3
292	Bitter Woods: Designer Edition	1	3	3
293	Carnegie	1	3	3
294	Civilization	1	3	3
295	Combat Commander: Pacific	1	3	3
296	Dark Ages: Heritage of Charlemagne	1	3	3
297	De Bellis Antiquitatis: Quick Play Wargame Rules with Army Lists for Ancient and Medieval Battles	1	3	3
298	Dunkirk: France 1940	1	3	3
299	Empire at Sunrise	1	3	3
300	Empires in Arms	1	3	3
301	Force on Force: Modern Wargaming Rules	1	3	3
302	France '40	1	3	3
303	Ghost Division: The 7th Panzer Division's Drive to the Sea	1	3	3
304	Gulf Strike	1	3	3
305	Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage	1	3	3
306	Heroes of Normandie: Big Red One Edition	1	3	3
307	Jeff Davis: The Confederacy at War	1	3	3
308	King Philip's War	1	3	3
309	La Bataille des Quatre Bras	1	3	3
310	Legacy of Yu	1	3	3
311	NATO: The Cold War Goes Hot – Designer Signature Edition	1	3	3
312	Napoleon's Last Battles	1	3	3
313	Nemo's War	1	3	3
314	Next War: Poland	1	3	3
315	Old School Tactical: Volume 2 – West Front 1944/45	1	3	3
316	Operation Dauntless: The Battles for Fontenay and Rauray, France, June 1944	1	3	3
317	Pacific Tide: The United States Versus Japan, 1941-45	1	3	3
318	Paladins of the West Kingdom	1	3	3
319	Saladin	1	3	3
320	Samurai	1	3	3
321	Save Afghanistan, Comrade!	1	3	3
322	Smolensk: Barbarossa Derailed	1	3	3
323	Solitaire ASL	1	3	3
324	Storm over Arnhem	1	3	3
325	Strike: Counter Strike – 4th Armored Division vs Panzer Lehr along the Saar	1	3	3
326	Tank Duel: Enemy in the Crosshairs	1	3	3
327	That Others May Live: Combat Search and Rescue – Vietnam	1	3	3
328	The Civil War 1861-1865	1	3	3
329	The French and Indian War: War for North America Game	1	3	3
330	Thunder At Dawn: The Battle of Wilson's Creek (August 10, 1861)	1	3	3
331	Turning Point: The Battle of Stalingrad	1	3	3
332	U-Boat Leader	1	3	3
333	Utmost Savagery	1	3	3
334	Vive L'Empereur	1	3	3
335	War and Peace: Game of the Napoleonic Wars	1	3	3
336	Warfighter: The Private Military Contractor Card Game	1	3	3
337	Warriors of God: The Wars of England & France, 1135-1453	1	3	3
338	Waterloo Campaign 1815	1	3	3
339	Wings of War: Famous Aces	1	3	3
340	Winter War: The Russo-Finnish Conflict	1	3	3
341	World in Flames	1	3	3
342	Zero Leader	1	3	3
343	Lone Sherman: A Solitaire Wargame	3	2	0.67
344	Caesar: Rome vs. Gaul	2	2	1
345	Field Commander: Alexander	2	2	1
346	Spruance Leader	2	2	1
347	Tetrarchia	2	2	1
348	Tiger Leader	2	2	1
349	1066, Tears to Many Mothers: The Battle of Hastings	1	2	2
350	1815, Scum of the Earth: The Battle of Waterloo Card Game (2022)	1	2	2
351	A Distant Plain	1	2	2
352	Advanced Squad Leader: Starter Kit #4 – Pacific Theater of Operations	1	2	2
353	Ancients	1	2	2
354	Arc of the Kaiser's Last Raider	1	2	2
355	B-29 Superfortress	1	2	2
356	Balkan Front	1	2	2
357	Barbarians at the Gates: The Decline and Fall of the Western Roman Empire 337 - 476	1	2	2
358	Battle Hymn Vol. 1: Gettysburg and Pea Ridge	1	2	2
359	Battle for Kursk: The Tigers Are Burning, 1943	1	2	2
360	Bitter Woods (Fourth Edition)	1	2	2
361	Bomber Command: The Night Raids	1	2	2
362	Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear – Operation Barbarossa 1941 (Third Edition)	1	2	2
363	Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear! – Russia 1941-42	1	2	2
364	Conquest of Paradise	1	2	2
365	Crossing the Line: Aachen 1944	1	2	2
366	D-Day at Saipan	1	2	2
367	Dawn of the Zeds (Third Edition)	1	2	2
368	Dead of Winter: The Battle of Stones River (Second Edition)	1	2	2
369	Devil Boats: PT Boats in the Solomons	1	2	2
370	Drive on Suez: Rommel Drives Deep, 1942	1	2	2
371	Enemy Coast Ahead: Operation Chastise – The Dambuster Raid	1	2	2
372	Fields of Fire 2	1	2	2
373	First Team: Vietnam	1	2	2
374	For the People	1	2	2
375	Grand Havoc: Perryville 1862	1	2	2
376	Hapsburg Eclipse	1	2	2
377	Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory	1	2	2
378	Inferno: Guelphs and Ghibellines Vie for Tuscany, 1259-1261	1	2	2
379	Kaiserkrieg!	1	2	2
380	Kido Butai: Japan's Carriers at Midway	1	2	2
381	Lost Victory: Manstein At Kharkov, Winter 1943	1	2	2
382	MBT (Second Edition)	1	2	2
383	Men of Iron	1	2	2
384	Next War: Vietnam	1	2	2
385	Nights of Fire: Battle for Budapest	1	2	2
386	Pandemic: Iberia	1	2	2
387	Panzer Grenadier	1	2	2
388	Panzergruppe Guderian	1	2	2
389	Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition	1	2	2
390	Premières Gloires	1	2	2
391	Raiders of Scythia	1	2	2
392	Red Winter: The Soviet Attack at Tolvajärvi, Finland – 8-12 December 1939	1	2	2
393	Return to the Rock: Corregidor, 1945	1	2	2
394	Rogers' Rangers: America's First Commandos	1	2	2
395	Rogue State	1	2	2
396	Series: Nations at War (Lock 'n Load Publishing) | Family | BoardGameGeek	1	2	2
397	Sicily II	1	2	2
398	The Battles of Mollwitz 1741 and Chotusitz 1742	1	2	2
399	The Drive on Metz (Second Edition)	1	2	2
400	The Fields of Normandy: A Solitaire Wargame	1	2	2
401	The Grass Crown	1	2	2
402	The Great Wall	1	2	2
403	The Lost Cause: The American Civil War, 1861-1865	1	2	2
404	The Ming Voyages	1	2	2
405	The Republic of Rome	1	2	2
406	The Seven Days Battles	1	2	2
407	The Third Winter: The Battle for the Ukraine September 1943-April 1944	1	2	2
408	The Western Front: 1914 to 1918	1	2	2
409	This War of Mine: The Board Game (2017)	1	2	2
410	Tiny Epic Kingdoms	1	2	2
411	Twilight Struggle	1	2	2
412	Undaunted: Battle of Britain	1	2	2
413	Victoria Cross II: Battle of Isandlwana & Rorke's Drift	1	2	2
414	Volters Lead the Way!	1	2	2
415	Warfighter Shadow War: The Modern Night Combat Card Game	1	2	2
416	We Are Coming, Nineveh	1	2	2
417	White Eagle Defiant: Poland 1939	1	2	2
418	Wing Leader: Supremacy 1943-1945	1	2	2
419	A House Divided: War Between the States 1861-65	1	1	1
420	ACW Solitaire	1	1	1
421	Afrika: 2nd Edition	1	1	1
422	Amateurs to Arms!	1	1	1
423	American Megafauna	1	1	1
424	Archie's War: The Battle for Guadalcanal	1	1	1
425	Arctic Front: Battle for Norway	1	1	1
426	Atlanta Is Ours	1	1	1
427	Band of Brothers: Ghost Panzer	1	1	1
428	Blackbeard: The Golden Age of Piracy	1	1	1
429	Blitzkrieg!: World War Two in 20 Minutes	1	1	1
430	Bomb Run	1	1	1
431	Brotherhood & Unity	1	1	1
432	Caesar: Epic Battle of Alesia	1	1	1
433	Cataphract	1	1	1
434	Centrifugal Offensive: The Japanese Campaign in the Pacific, 1941-42	1	1	1
435	Corps Command: Dawn's Early Light	1	1	1
436	Counter-Attack: The Battle of Arras, 1940	1	1	1
437	Darwin's Journey	1	1	1
438	Empires in America: The French and Indian War, 1754-1763 (Second Edition)	1	1	1
439	Europa Universalis	1	1	1
440	Fading Glory	1	1	1
441	Fleet Commander: Nimitz – The WWII Pacific Ocean Solitaire Strategy Game	1	1	1
442	Four Battles in North Africa	1	1	1
443	Friedrich	1	1	1
444	Grant Takes Command	1	1	1
445	Holdfast: Russia 1941-42	1	1	1
446	Hungarian Rhapsody: The Eastern Front in Hungary	1	1	1
447	Imperium: Classics	1	1	1
448	Kernstown	1	1	1
449	Lock 'n Load Tactical: Core Rules v5.1	1	1	1
450	Manoeuvre	1	1	1
451	Maori Wars: The New Zealand Land Wars, 1845-1872	1	1	1
452	March to Victory: West Front 1914-1916	1	1	1
453	Minuteman: The Second American Revolution	1	1	1
454	Neanderthal	1	1	1
455	Next War: Taiwan	1	1	1
456	Normandy '44	1	1	1
457	Normandy: The Beginning of the End	1	1	1
458	North Africa: Afrika Korps vs Desert Rats, 1940-42	1	1	1
459	On to Richmond II: The Union Strikes South	1	1	1
460	Pax Renaissance	1	1	1
461	Pegasus Bridge: The Beginning of D-Day – June 6, 1944	1	1	1
462	Phantom Leader	1	1	1
463	Rostov '41: Race to the Don	1	1	1
464	Sink the Bismarck!	1	1	1
465	Sink the Bismark	1	1	1
466	Skyhawk: Rolling Thunder, 1966	1	1	1
467	Space Infantry: Resurgence	1	1	1
468	Sticks and Stones: Platoon-level Combat in World War IV	1	1	1
469	The Doomsday Project: Episode 1 – The Battle for Germany	1	1	1
470	The Supreme Commander: World War II in Europe, 1939-1945	1	1	1
471	The Three Days of Gettysburg (Second Edition)	1	1	1
472	The War of the Worlds: England	1	1	1
473	Three Battles of Manassas	1	1	1
474	Thunder in the Ozarks: Battle for Pea Ridge, March 1862	1	1	1
475	Thunderbolt/Apache Leader	1	1	1
476	Triumphant Fox: Rommel's Finest Hour – The Gazala Battles May-June 1942	1	1	1
477	Unhappy King Charles!	1	1	1
478	Warfighter: WWII Expansion #1 – United States!	1	1	1
479	Which Side?	1	1	1
480	Wings Over France	1	1	1
481	Zeppelin Raider: Imperial German Naval Airships	1	1	1

 

 

Finally, here are some descriptive stats that talk about the audience that replied to the survey.  Please note, these are not generalizable to the broader wargaming & historical gaming audience, nor even to the specific solo wargaming & historical gaming audience as a whole.  These are here to tell you about this audience that replied to this specific survey.  There are 5 total slides in this set, and we do discuss them on both of the broadcasts linked above.

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Look for some more data-crunching from us over the next week or so.  We’re also very interested in the analysis that other folks come up with using this dataset.  Please feel free to drop your comments & questions in the comment area below, or in our forum, where we’re happy to have extended chats about this survey.

 

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The results of our 2023 research can be found here:

2023 Solo & Solitaire Wargaming & Historical Gaming Survey Results
ANNOUNCEMENT ~ RESULTS ~ DATA DIVING ~ BEYOND SOLITAIRE YOUTUBE DISCUSSION ~ MENTIONED IN DISPATCHES EPISODE

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“True wargame!” they declare,
With a passionate glare,
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1. note that these are heavily-skewed toward games that only received a single first-place vote and we recommend only analyzing games with at least 3 votes when looking at averages
2. there’s probably a Google Sheets or Excel command to do that for us but we didn’t go looking