Mentioned In Dispatches S15 E3 – Solo Wargaming Survey, 2025 Edition - "Mentioned In Dispatches" with the Armchair Dragoons

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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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

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

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