Mentioned In Dispatches S15 E3 – Solo Wargaming Survey, 2025 Edition

3 October 2025 ~

For our third consecutive Summer, we teamed up with Beyond Solitaire for a big survey about people’s solo/solitaire war & historical gaming. We were interested in both purpose-designed solitaire games as well as games people played solo regardless of how they were designed. We had a Google form open for a month towards the end of the Summer for people to vote. We tallied the results, and here is the top of the list, with links to the entire list and our other data diving linked down below.

So here we have Brant joined by Liz (from Beyond Solitaire) and our usual semi-irregular occasional co-host who-actually-loves-solo-wargaming Mike (My Own Worst Enemy) to talk about what’s on the list this year, what’s new, what’s surprising, and what’s expected. We also talk some about how different demographic segments of the audience have different preferences. The top 26 games are below (there was a tie at the 25th spot) and the entire list can be found here.

And audience – talk back to us! Use the comment fields below and let us know what we coulda/shoulda asked of our respondents and let us know what to put into next year’s survey.

Rank	Name	Count	Sum	Average	Designer	Publisher
1	Fields of Fire: Deluxe Edition	33	141	4.27	Ben Hull	GMT Games
2	D-Day at Omaha Beach	34	116	3.41	John H. Butterfield	Decision Games
3	RAF: The Battle of Britain 1940	16	68	4.25	John H. Butterfield	Decision Games
4	Pavlov’s House	17	56	3.29	David Thompson (I)	DVG
4	Comancheria: The Rise and Fall of the Comanche Empire	17	56	3.29	Joel Toppen	GMT Games
6	Halls of Hegra	16	51	3.19	Petter Schanke Olsen	Tompet Games
7	Skies Above Britain	17	48	2.82	Jeremy White	GMT Games
8	Enemy Action: Ardennes	13	47	3.62	John H. Butterfield	Compass Games
9	Navajo Wars	13	46	3.54	Joel Toppen	GMT Games
10	Atlantic Chase: The Kriegsmarine Against the Home Fleet 1939-1942	12	37	3.08	Jeremy White	GMT Games
11	Pax Pamir: Second Edition	10	36	3.6	Cole Wehrle	Wehrlegig Games
12	John Company: Second Edition	8	33	4.13	Cole Wehrle	Wehrlegig Games
13	Fire in the Lake	10	32	3.2	Mark Herman	GMT Games
14	Mr. President: The American Presidency, 2001-2020	7	27	3.86	Gene Billingsley	GMT Games
15	Thunderbolt Apache Leader	9	26	2.89	Dan Verssen	DVG
16	I, Napoleon	8	25	3.13	Ted Raicer	GMT Games
17	Lanzerath Ridge	9	25	2.78	David Thompson (I)	DVG
18	Combat! Volume 1	7	24	3.43	Ross Mortell	Compass Games
19	Enemy Action: Kharkov	7	23	3.29	John H. Butterfield	Compass Games
20	Cuba Libre	6	22	3.67	Jeff Grossman	GMT Games
21	Western Front Ace: The Great War in the Air, 1916-1918	5	21	4.2	Gregory M. Smith	Compass Games
22	Vijayanagara: The Deccan Empires of Medieval India, 1290-1398	7	21	3	Cory Graham	GMT Games
22	Ambush!	7	21	3	John H. Butterfield	Victory Games
24	Maquis	6	20	3.33	Jake Staines	(Web published)
25	Stilicho: Last of the Romans	5	19	3.8	Robert DeLeskie	Hollandspiele
26	Raid on St. Nazaire	8	19	2.38	Robert G. Markham	The Avalon Hill Game Co

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