I welcome your opinions in the comments below.Įlectronics can often turn into a runaway train. This type of wargame is called a skirmish wargame, and since I’ve introduced my boys to this style of play I’ve discovered some real benefits that I’d like to share with you. They can touch the miniatures and the houses and trees and move them all around. Thankfully, there’s a type of wargame that isn’t too complicated for them to play. And I never got to play.ĭecades went by before I would get my chance to play a wargame, but once I did… I was hooked. I was told the rules were too complicated. I saw the table covered with miniature houses and trees and a lake (possibly a river), and I wanted to play. I watched a group of men move around large blocks of soldiers and then roll dice and argue over distances and whether or not this group or that group of painted soldiers were tired or scared.
I saw a large table covered with sand and hundreds of hand-painted metal miniatures when I was a kid, and that image has stuck with me for decades. I enjoy some d6 only games and find some dull.įinanciers for commercially produced games correctly worry about new wargamers intimidated by polyhedral dice.I’ve been fascinated with wargames almost my entire life. I am fine with any polyhedral dice in any quantity. I am not adverse to mixing dice within the same game. No one (statistically insignificant) who prefers non-d6 polyhedral dice will refuse to game a strictly d6 game.
(A disproportionate number of these are older gamers.)Īmong experienced wargamers (mostly in that 85%), many (50%) have developed moderately strong, but flexible, preferences for d10 systems, percentile systems, or d20 systems. It may not be a gamer's preferred dice size, but a d6 does not keep people away from a game.Ĩ5% of gamers don't give a flip what dice are used.Ībout a third of gamers prefer to use a single sized dice for all game mechanics, but don't care what size.Īt least a third of new wargamers are intimidated by polyhedral dice.Ībout 5% to 10% of wargamers snub games unless they strictly use a d6, the way God intended. Other polls and comments made in this thread suggest that the d6 does not have as many people who are adverse to the dice size as mixed polyhedral dice ( TMP link TMP link ). In polling for market research, preference is not the only factor. Do people like the dice size or the 1% granularity?Īnother interesting question might be, "If the d20 is popular among RPG gamers, will a wargame utilizing such a dice attract former RPG players?" The referenced poll is also murky as percentile dice systems often rely on d10's. More research would be required to distinguish the relative popularity of d6 and d10 systems, but the old poll does reveal a preference for these two dice sizes.Įven the best funded scientific poll has a margin of error of roughly plus/minus 3%. See Phil Fry's comments regarding using a d8 at TMP linkĭ20 systems and percentile dice systems are preferred by some miniature wargamers, however d6 and d10 systems are the most popular of those expressing a preference. As a game designer you will catch grief for basing mechanics on dice such as these. I think the proper way to read these results are thusįew gamers prefer d4, d8, d12, or d30 dice in game mechanics. The way this poll was constructed, 18% is a large result.
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