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Post by ammianus on Aug 30, 2021 15:43:07 GMT
Ditto, I'm a solid Book II guy.
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Post by kaiphranos on Aug 30, 2021 15:59:11 GMT
"Next we have the four books by period. It's a little difficult to see much difference here, though Book II does seem to rise above the other three." This analysis on your blog is not convincing. Of the ten top book 1 armylists there are only three generic armies: two of New Kingdom Egypt and Seapeople. All other armies either span over to book 2 (Scythian and Thracian for example) or are a variant of a book 2 army (If i have Late Spartans, i can make without much problems early Spartans too). So it looks like, book 1 has by far the fewest armies and interest. I mean, I'm not the one who decides where to draw the line as far as dividing books I and II.  I would say that Book II seems to be the most popular, followed by Book IV, and with Books I and III about equal. (Though if we want to disregard all the hoplite sublists in the Book I results, maybe we should also be compressing all the Norse in Book III, or the French and English in Book IV... but where do you draw the line then?) |
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Post by Haardrada on Aug 30, 2021 16:30:02 GMT
"Next we have the four books by period. It's a little difficult to see much difference here, though Book II does seem to rise above the other three." This analysis on your blog is not convincing. Of the ten top book 1 armylists there are only three generic armies: two of New Kingdom Egypt and Seapeople. All other armies either span over to book 2 (Scythian and Thracian for example) or are a variant of a book 2 army (If i have Late Spartans, i can make without much problems early Spartans too). So it looks like, book 1 has by far the fewest armies and interest. I mean, I'm not the one who decides where to draw the line as far as dividing books I and II. I would say that Book II seems to be the most popular, followed by Book IV, and with Books I and III about equal. (Though if we want to disregard all the hoplite sublists in the Book I results, maybe we should also be compressing all the Norse in Book III, or the French and English in Book IV... but where do you draw the line then?) I think the census is fine as it is as the data reveals each individual choice.Morphing of armies is integral to the list system and some figures are suitable to use in either list.The diversity revealed by the census shows that gamers have not just been lured by "killer armies" in their personal choice and have opted for armies for other reasons. |
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Post by ammianus on Aug 30, 2021 17:01:05 GMT
While most of my purchases were historically driven (books I had read etc); the morphing ability also came into play quite a bit.
From childhood I have had an interest in Aetius. So my Late Imperial Romans (East & West), Patrician Romans (East and West), and my SUb Roman British all interchange.
For foes my Bavarians, Early Saxons, Visigoths, Franks & Rugi began as a single morphing army.
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Post by macbeth on Sept 2, 2021 8:45:31 GMT
Interestingly I only have 4 armies from the list of the 10 most popular armies in my stable of 145
II/33 Polybian Roman
II/56 Early Imperial Roman (I have 3)
III/40b Viking
II/78a Late Imperial Roman (West)
I have 1 from the list of the obscure
III/60 Medieval Vietnamese
BUT I also have III/42b Sha' To Turks bagged up in the Lead Mines of Mt Neverpaint
I was surprised that the army of Queen Olympias was not in the list of obscure - once the last two pike are based I will put some pix up on the Book of Face
I am five armies from having another 25 to add to My Little Sample
Cheers
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Post by rsdean on Sept 3, 2021 10:11:30 GMT
I do wonder how scale plays across this. Using the Caesar 1/72 plastics as the basis of a late Bronze Age collection steers me toward the available armies, instead of, say, branching out to the Northern European Bronze Age as I might were I using 25s.
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Post by nangwaya on Sept 3, 2021 10:27:57 GMT
My two cents worth is that scale most likely plays little role in the results.
The vast majority of people seem to be using 15mm figures, and thus factoring in other scales probably does not skew the results very much.
Just a guess.
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Post by decebalus on Sept 3, 2021 10:48:53 GMT
I only have 28mm armies and i am absolutely in the standard of the census, i.e. Macedonian and Carthaginian War, Late Rome, late Medieval.
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