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on: July 24, 2023, 09:06:47 AM
In conjunction with Beyond Solitaire, the Armchair Dragoons are conducting a small survey on people's solo wargaming preferences.
This includes not only purpose-designed solo games, but any kind of wargames that you play solitaire.

The survey only takes a few minutes, we do recommend that you look up your favorite games on BGG ahead of time, since we're asking you to paste the URLs into the survey to help us keep the data consistent.

Thanks!

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/articles/research/soloresearchannounce2023/

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Reply #1 on: July 24, 2023, 05:31:58 PM
Chris High passed the request on to my Cincinnati group and at least a few of us have completed the survey!


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Reply #2 on: July 24, 2023, 06:14:51 PM
word, yo!

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Reply #3 on: August 24, 2023, 03:58:26 PM
Survey still open for another week, and we'll tell you all about it in September.

https://t.co/X3yamvErMF

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Reply #4 on: September 22, 2023, 09:10:57 AM
OK, so here's a bunch of different content on the results of the survey


Our article:  https://www.armchairdragoons.com/articles/research/soloresults2023/

Our podcast on the survey, w/ Liz & BBMike:  https://www.armchairdragoons.com/podcast/mid-s11e1/

Liz's video w/ me, plus a couple of other guys all named Mike: link

The BGG Geeklist of the top of the survey:  https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/321758

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Reply #5 on: September 27, 2023, 06:04:01 PM
Diving a little deeper into the solo/solitaire wargaming survey, with a look at favorites based on how long gamers have been playing

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/articles/research/solocompareage23/

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Reply #6 on: October 04, 2023, 10:03:24 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on September 22, 2023, 09:10:57 AM
Our article:  https://www.armchairdragoons.com/articles/research/soloresults2023/


So which games on the survey do you think are too high?  Too low? 

Which ones do you think are most affected by recency bias?

Which ones do you think are most affected by nostalgia?


Where did your favorites finish?

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Reply #7 on: July 31, 2024, 04:05:00 PM
OK folks, we're wrapping up Summer, so it's time for the (now) annual Favorite Solo War + Historical Games survey w/ Beyond Solitaire and the Armchair Dragoons 🤠

This'll be up until the end of August

https://forms.gle/gUmFpYz7Em599vh1A

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Reply #8 on: August 30, 2024, 08:07:54 PM
ALMOST OUT OF TIME!

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Getcher votes in for your top 5 favorite war/historical solo/solitaire games

Doesn't matter if it's designed for solitaire play, or multi-handed it solo – tell us your favorites!

🗓️ Voting ends tomorrow

https://forms.gle/iL8Z5tjofFzLMgi4A

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Reply #9 on: September 18, 2024, 11:09:00 AM
Solo & Solitaire Wargaming & Historical Gaming Survey Results 2024
Here is this year’s list of games as voted on by our audience . . . all 446 of them
This is just the first of several articles we'll have as we dig into the results

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/articles/research/soloresults2024/


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Reply #10 on: September 18, 2024, 11:24:41 AM
I don't have, and as far as a recall, have never owned an actual solo wargame. :o

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Reply #11 on: September 18, 2024, 12:15:43 PM
We specifically called out the idea of people (like, y'know BBMike 😉) who play multiplayer games as a solitaire player and included them in the project

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Reply #12 on: September 25, 2024, 09:34:06 AM
Data Diving Into the 2024 Solo & Solitaire Wargaming & Historical Gaming Survey

Biggest rise & fall from last year?

What other kinds of games are people playing?


https://www.armchairdragoons.com/articles/research/soloresults2024data/


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Reply #13 on: October 02, 2024, 10:54:12 PM
Exploring Past Solo Wargaming Rankings

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It didn’t take long to discover that Avalon Hill had indeed compiled “an informal rating of the suitability of our titles for solitaire and play-by-mail activity” way back in 1984

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/articles/research/solo24-pastsurveys/

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Reply #14 on: October 09, 2024, 08:58:09 PM
More Data Diving Into the 2024 Solo & Solitaire Wargaming & Historical Gaming Survey ––

How do favorites compare based on how long you've been a wargamer, or what percentage of your boardgaming is focused on wargaming?

https://www.armchairdragoons.com/articles/research/soloresults2024data2/
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