ADLG: UK Survey Overview

Here're links for all posts about the 2018 Art de la Guerre (ADLG) Survey along with a pdf compilation:

• Launch post with the initial aims and intentions.
• Part 1 - Basic information like age, favourite periods, etc.
• Part 2 - People's views on the rule book and the use of the rules in games.
• Part 3 - Further analysis and deeper insights.
• Comparison with the DBMM survey of 2009.
• Pdf compilation of all the above.

I hope you've found the survey of interest?  I certainly enjoyed doing it.  It's surprising what a few simple questions can uncover.

What About DBMM And ADLG?

This is a follow up to both this year's survey about Art de la Guerre (ADLG) and my previous survey about DBMM v1.

In 2009 I ran my first ever online survey about wargaming.  The subject was DBMM v1 and examined all the things you might expect.  As I've already stated no one took a blind bit of notice. Even so, I decided to run another survey.  This time the subject was ADLG.

When designing the ADLG survey I intentionally re-used many of the DBMM questions with a view to writing a comparison post like this.

Unfortunately the specifics of some questions do not allow a direct comparison despite being superficially the same.  For example: DBMM uses four books of lists whilst ADLG lists are divided into seven periods.  So the question "What's your favourite period?" produces very different answers.  Eliminating such questions left seven directly comparable questions.

So without further ado here's a short comparison of the two surveys.

ADLG: UK Survey Results (Part 3)

This is the third, and final, part of of my look at the results from my recent online survey into ADLG.  The previous posts in the series dealt with:

1. Basic information like age, favourite periods, etc.
2. Views about the rule book and the use of the rules in games.

This post aims to tidy up a few odds and ends.  All the previous data was presented as simple averages and distributions.  I made no attempt to link the answers to the various questions with one another.  In this post I'd like to show you a couple of interesting correlations and discuss what they might mean.

ADLG: Top 10 Tournament Armies

I suppose I should have include this list in my previous post on Super Armies but as the table below shows they are in fact nearly all fairly average.

In time honoured fashion the top ten most popular armies are, in reverse order:

N°	Army Title	Period	Played	Efficacy
86	Late Imperial Roman	Roman period	489	40.1
224	Condottieri	Late Medieval	489	50.6
109	Sassanid Persian	Roman period	493	59.2
9	Assyrian & Sargonid	Ancients	503	52.0
40	Alexander the Great	Classical	536	52.7
87	Patrician Roman	Roman period	547	54.6
79	Classical Indian	Classical	548	54.2
55	Carthaginian	Classical	673	44.2
128	Nikephorain Byzantine	Dark Ages	679	54.9
42	Seleucid	Classical	729	51.3

These armies have an efficacy rating of 51.4 +/- 5.5% compared to 48.9 +/- 10.9 for all listed armies.

Hardly super but possibly slightly more dependable?