Your 2024 Year In Wargaming

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2024 Year-End Wargaming Survey

Something we launched last year was our year-end survey from the wargaming world, to ask how your 2023 in wargaming went.  Did you play more than last year?  Meet any new opponents?  How was your wargame spending compared to previous years?  Any particular favorite games?

This year, we’re back for round two, and asking how 2024 went for you.

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Your 2024 in Wargaming, Part 1 – The Initial Stats

Last month, we launched our second annual year-end wargaming survey
Here's the first look at some of the results – how this year compared to last for you, what you play and how long it takes you, and your conventioneering

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As noted in this week's 2024 Year In Review article, here's the list of all games that were reported by 1 person as their most-played game of the year, listed alphabetically

Everything that got reported more than once is in the article

1914: Germany at War
48th Panzer Korps: Battles on the River Chir
A Glorious Chance: The Naval Struggle for Lake Ontario in the War of 1812
APBA Pro Baseball
Advanced Squad Leader: Starter Kit #2
Afrika Korps
Air & Armor: Würzburg, Tactical Armored Warfare in Europe – 2013 Designer Signature Edition
All Bridges Burning: Red Revolt and White Guard in Finland, 1917-1918
Arracourt
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood of Venice
Atlantic Sentinels: North Atlantic Convoy Escort, 1942-43
B-17 Flying Fortress Leader
Band of Brothers:  Old Breed South Pacific
Baptism By Fire: The Battle of Kasserine
Battle Card: Market Garden
BattleTech: A Game of Armored Combat
Battles of Napoleon: Volume I – 2013 EYLAU 1807
Blitzkrieg Commander: Fast-Play Tabletop Wargame Rules for Combined-Arms Operations, 1936-45
Bomber Command: The Night Raids
Border Reivers
Canvas Eagles: War in the Skies 1914 - 1918
Carthage: The First Punic War – 2013 The Ancient World, Vol. II
Case Blue
Chainmail
Charioteer
Classic Warlord
Combat Commander: Pacific
Crete
Crossing the Line: Aachen 1944
Cuba Libre
D-Day at Omaha Beach
De Bellis Antiquitatis: Quick Play Wargame Rules with Army Lists for Ancient and Medieval Battles
De Bellis Magistrorum Militum: Wargame Rules for Ancient and Medieval Battle from 3000 BC to 1525 AD
Death Valley: Battles for the Shenandoah
Desert One War: US in the Persian Gulf, 1979-81
Divine Right
Duel for Kharkov
Enemy Action: Kharkov
Europa Universalis: The Price of Power
Europe in Turmoil II: The Interbellum Years 1920-1939
Falling Sky: The Gallic Revolt Against Caesar
Field Commander: Napoleon
Fireball Forward!
Flames of War: The World War II Miniatures Game
For the People
Forbidden Island
Full Thrust
Game: Advanced Squad Leader
Game: Band of Brothers (Worthington)
General d'Armee 2
Gettysburg (125th Anniversary Edition)
Glory II: Across the Rappahannock
Grand Havoc: Perryville, October 8, 1862
Great War Commander
Gunslinger
Hood Strikes North: The Tennessee Campaign, Fall 1864
Horse & Musket: Dawn of an Era
I Ain't Been Shot, Mum
It Never Snows
John Company
Julius Caesar: Caesar, Pompey, and the Roman Civil War
K– 00f6nigsberg: The Soviet Attack on East Prussia, 1945
Korea: The Forgotten War
Kriegsspiel
La Patrie en Danger 1814: The Campaign in France, Part I
Last Chance for Victory: The Battle of Gettysburg
Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection
Lock 'n Load Tactical: Heroes of Normandy
Lock 'n Load Tactical: Heroes of the Bitter Harvest
Lost Battles:  Reconstructing the Great Clashes of the Ancient World
Luzon: Race for Bataan
Maria
Marne 1918: Friedensturm
Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game: Rules Manual
Mont– 00e9limar: Anvil of Fate
Mr. President: The American Presidency, 2001-2020
Napoleon 1807
Napoleon Returns 1815
Napoleon's Last Gamble: Battles of the Hundred Days
Nevsky: Teutons and Rus in Collision 1240-1242
Next War: Poland
Norman Conquests: Men of Iron Volume V
On to Richmond II: The Union Strikes South
Operation B– 00f8llebank
Operation Mercury: The Invasion of Crete
Pacific War: The Struggle Against Japan, 1941-1945 (Second Edition)
Panzer: The Game of Small Unit Actions and Combined Arms Operations on the Eastern Front 1943-45
Paths of Glory
Plantagenet: Cousins' War for England, 1459 - 1485
Prime Minister
Pyrates!
RAF: The Battle of Britain 1940
Red Strike
Richard III: The Wars of the Roses
Road to the Rhine
Robotech: Reconstruction
Rommel
Saipan: The Bloody Rock
SeaFall
Secret Hitler
Sekigahara: The Unification of Japan
Series: Battalion Combat Series (MMP)
Series: Grand Tactical (MMP)
Series: Great Campaigns of the American Civil War (Avalon Hill/MMP)
Series: Great War at Sea (Avalanche Press)
Series: Next War (GMT)
Sharp Practice: Wargame Rules for Large Skirmishes in the Era of Black Powder, 1700 to 1865
Sherwood
Siege of Tenochtitlan Game
Soldiers of Napoleon
Space Weirdos: A Skirmish Heartbreaker
Spruance Leader
Stalingrad '42: Southern Russia, June-December, 1942
Stonewall Jackson's Way II: Battles of Bull Run
Storm Over Jerusalem: The Roman Siege
Striking Flint
Stuka Leader
Tannenberg: The Introductory Game
Target for Today
Terraforming Mars
The Battle for Normandy
The British Way: Counterinsurgency at the End of Empire
The Campaigns of Robert E. Lee
The Coming Storm: Quadrigame of the Fourth Coalition October 1806 - June 1807
The Eastern Front: 1914-1917
The Great Escape
The Greatest Day: Utah Beach
The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game
The Men Who Would Be Kings: Colonial Wargaming Rules
The Red Flag is Still: The Third Counter Encirclement Campaign
The Western Front: 1914 to 1918
Through Hell And Back
Time of Crisis: The Roman Empire in Turmoil, 235-284 AD
Toot Toot
Tusk
Unconditional Surrender! World War 2 in Europe
Wacht Am Rhein
War Story: Occupied France
Warhammer Epic 40,000
We Are Coming, Nineveh
Western Front Ace: The Great War in the Air, 1916-1918
Wilderness War
Winter's Victory: The Battle of Preussisch-Eylau, 7-8 February 1807

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As noted in this week's 2024 Year In Review article, here's the list of all games that were reported by 1 person as their favorite game of the 2024, listed alphabetically

Everything that got reported more than once is in the article


ASL Action Pack #19: Roads to Rangoon
Advanced Squad Leader: Starter Kit #1
Arabian Struggle
Axis Empires: Ultimate Edition
Banish All Their Fears: Bayonet & Musket Battles, Volume 1
Battlefront Valkyrie
City of Six Moons
Corvette Command
Crossbows & Catapults: Fortress War
Deux Années de Gloire: Two Years of Glory
Drive on Leningrad: 1941 (Campaigns in Europe Volume 1)
Europe in Turmoil II: The Interbellum Years 1920-1939
Field Commander: Robert E. Lee
Fields of Fire: Deluxe Edition
Fighters of Europe
Fistful of Lead: Core Rulebook
For the People
Gettysburg: A Time for Heroes
Grant: The Western Campaign of 1862
Heroscape: Master Set – 2013 Age of Annihilation
Mark Simonitch  <--- yes, someone reported that Mark was their most-played game. Unknown if it was his partner  
Midgard: Heroic Battles
Napoleon's End
Necromunda: Underhive
Norman Conquests: Men of Iron Volume V
Normandy '44
Panzer North Africa
Phantom Fury
SAS: Rogue Regiment
Schutztruppe: Heia Safari 1914-1918
Sedgwick Attacks: Salem Church (May 3, 1863)
Sicily II
Solitaire General: Napoleon at Waterloo
Striking Flint
Tarawa 1943
Tattered Flags: Into the Whirlpool
The British Way: Counterinsurgency at the End of Empire
The Fate of All
The Plum Island Horror
The Siege of Alesia: Gaul, 52 B.C.
Traces of War
Undaunted 2200: Callisto
Undaunted: Battle of Britain
Victory at Sea
WWII Campaigns: 1940, 1941, and 1942
War Plan Z: The Kriegsmarine Strikes
War Story: Occupied France
Warfighter: The Vietnam War Special Forces Card Game
Warhammer Age Of Sigmar (Fourth Edition): Core Rules
We Are Coming, Nineveh
Weimar: The Fight for Democracy
Prelude to Vicksburg: Chickasaw Bayou, December 26-29, 1862

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Your 2024 in Wargaming, Part 2 – Your Games & Decision-Making

This week, we take a look at some of your decision-making in the wargaming hobby.

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And that's just JD's collection. Wait until you see Mike's!

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The influence of awards and game purchase decisions I thought was telling.