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22/01/2016 at 11:03 #37128
Phil Dutré
ParticipantI counted all the articles that were published in WI 1-259 (1987-2009) by period. This produced some interested results … (full numbers on http://snv-ttm.blogspot.be/2016/01/wargames-illustrated-period-popularity.html).
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Keymaster22/01/2016 at 11:42 #37140Don Glewwe
ParticipantThat certainly explains why I have such trouble corralling interest/feedback on my WW1 aircombat game…
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22/01/2016 at 12:04 #37142Guy Farrish
ParticipantInteresting.
Still not sure I can believe the first category!
Are the sub genres (eg Vietnam) already included in the main category total (Modern?) or should they be added together to get an overall figure for, in this example, moderns?
Oh – and how did ‘fantasy’ become a ‘historical’ period?
I am surprised that during that period WWI emerges as high as it did (even more so than the winner).
22/01/2016 at 12:49 #37144Fredd Bloggs
ParticipantWW2 has 210 articles in total, splitting it as land, sea and air I could see, but some of the divisions are… odd.
Interesting though.
22/01/2016 at 13:09 #37147Not Connard Sage
ParticipantToo much granularity in places, the TMP disease 😉
Examples:
Wars of the Roses fits into medieval. Napoleonic is…Napoleonic, whatever the theatre. WW2 and WW2 Market Garden, why single out one campaign? I’ll stop there
"I go online sometimes, but everyone's spelling is really bad. It's... depressing."
22/01/2016 at 14:45 #37155Guy Farrish
ParticipantOkay, having been prompted by actual figures – re WWII
WWII 104
WWII Eastfront 50
WWII Naval 21
WWII D Day 20
WWII Pacific 19
WWII Africa 17
WWII Air 12
WWII Mkt Garden 7
Total 250
So I guess that answers the question are the sub periods/genres part of the total WWII figure – no as they add up to more. But as NCS says, why split along these lines? All WW2 together would put it way ahead of medieval for example – even adding the Asian subdivision. A more likely #1
22/01/2016 at 15:00 #37157Not Connard Sage
ParticipantI should have written ‘one operation in a campaign’.
Even Homer nods 😉
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22/01/2016 at 15:59 #37163Phil Dutré
ParticipantThe numbers are exclusive. Every article is only counted once and not in multiple categories. So, Vietnam is seperate from Modern.
As for classifications being questionable, I refer to my blogpost:
Of course, I might have mislabeled some, and sometimes I subdivided (or did not!) a period into several subgenres for no good reason except my own illogical judgement.
It is not a scientific experiment. It’s just a nice little byproduct of my effort of indexing my whole collection of Wargames Illustrated …
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ParticipantYes and I apologise if I seemed critical.
I refer to my very first comment : ‘Interesting’ – a genuine use of the word, in no way ironic or sarcastic.
Just a bit of a harmless numbers game on my part. No doubt as was yours
Prompted largely by my disbelief that Medieval could trounce Ancients, Napoleonics and WWII!
22/01/2016 at 16:07 #37165Phil Dutré
ParticipantWars of the Roses fits into medieval. Napoleonic is…Napoleonic, whatever the theatre. WW2 and WW2 Market Garden, why single out one campaign?
Yeah, well. Typing in the complete index took me roughly 3 months, adding a few issues every day. I (sub)divided in categories as I went along. If I would start anew, I would probably redefine some of the subdivisions, but life is too short …
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ParticipantDon’t worry, if it were down to me the divisions would probably be:
Wargaming.
Other
So you are way ahead of me!
22/01/2016 at 16:09 #37167Phil Dutré
ParticipantYes and I apologise if I seemed critical.
No offence taken 🙂
The numbers are not an endorsement of any sort to proof that period x or y is the most “popular”. It’s just the raw data as I typed it in. Everyone should interpret any way they see fit … 😉
I full agree you have to take the numbers with a grain of salt. Although they do reflect the entries in the database, there are some things you might want to take into account when doing a more detailed analysis:
- multi-part articles in subsequent issues are only counted as one. Some “articles” ran for 5 issues or even longer;
- weighing the numbers by page-count would reflect “popularity” perhaps better, but I am not going to count all the pages in all these issues!
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Phil Dutré.
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Wargaming Mechanics Blog: http://wargaming-mechanics.blogspot.com/22/01/2016 at 19:21 #37179Guy Farrish
ParticipantYou would only end with some twit turning round and saying -‘Ah but what about the pictures in xxxx? You need to do a word count to be accurate!’
(and yes it would probably be me!) so I would happily endorse your decision to stick while you are ahead.
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