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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
Drop in on your podcast platform of choice (iTunes | Spotify | Amazon | Castro | whatever we forgot to link) and throw our way to help other listeners find us
2025 Solo & Solitaire Wargaming & Historical Gaming Survey Results
ANNOUNCEMENT | MASTER LIST | DATA DIVING | BEYOND SOLITAIRE YOUTUBE DISCUSSION
BGG GEEKLIST | MENTIONED IN DISPATCHES EPISODE | MORE DATA DIVING
Thank you for visiting the Regiment of Strategy Gaming and riding with The Armchair Dragoons.
Rather than list a bunch of social media links, the easiest thing to do is to check out our LinkTree, which connects you to all of our various locales around the web.
You can also support The Armchair Dragoons through our Patreon, and find us at a variety of conventions and other events.
Feel free to talk back to us either in our discussion forum, or in the comments below.
The results of our 2024 survey can be found here:
2024 Solo & Solitaire
Wargaming & Historical Gaming
Survey Results
ANNOUNCEMENT | MASTER LIST | DATA DIVING | BEYOND SOLITAIRE YOUTUBE DISCUSSION | BGG Geeklist | Historical Rankings
MORE DATA DIVING | MENTIONED IN DISPATCHES EPISODE
The results of our 2023 research can be found here:
2023 Solo & Solitaire
Wargaming & Historical Gaming
Survey Results
ANNOUNCEMENT | MASTER LIST | DATA DIVING | BEYOND SOLITAIRE YOUTUBE DISCUSSION | MENTIONED IN DISPATCHES EPISODE
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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
Drop in on your podcast platform of choice (iTunes | Spotify | Amazon | Castro | whatever we forgot to link) and throw our way to help other listeners find us
2025 Solo & Solitaire Wargaming & Historical Gaming Survey Results
ANNOUNCEMENT | MASTER LIST | DATA DIVING | BEYOND SOLITAIRE YOUTUBE DISCUSSION
BGG GEEKLIST | MENTIONED IN DISPATCHES EPISODE | MORE DATA DIVING
Thank you for visiting the Regiment of Strategy Gaming and riding with The Armchair Dragoons.
Rather than list a bunch of social media links, the easiest thing to do is to check out our LinkTree, which connects you to all of our various locales around the web.
You can also support The Armchair Dragoons through our Patreon, and find us at a variety of conventions and other events.
Feel free to talk back to us either in our discussion forum, or in the comments below.
The results of our 2024 survey can be found here:
2024 Solo & Solitaire
Wargaming & Historical Gaming
Survey Results
ANNOUNCEMENT | MASTER LIST | DATA DIVING | BEYOND SOLITAIRE YOUTUBE DISCUSSION | BGG Geeklist | Historical Rankings
MORE DATA DIVING | MENTIONED IN DISPATCHES EPISODE
The results of our 2023 research can be found here:
2023 Solo & Solitaire
Wargaming & Historical Gaming
Survey Results
ANNOUNCEMENT | MASTER LIST | DATA DIVING | BEYOND SOLITAIRE YOUTUBE DISCUSSION | MENTIONED IN DISPATCHES EPISODE
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