"Playing Solo" Topic

What percentage of your tabletop miniature games are played solitaire?

None.

75%
If y0u don't count my kids – $100 USD

5 percent….generally to get familiar with a set of rules

None.

Zero, but I keep contemplating doing it but so far too lazy to try.

Not rolled a d6 in anger for 8 years. I expect to be solo once I get going again.

Nearly 100%, if you count several players playing against a solo system run opponent!

50/50

100%

The majority of mine are fought solo.

Probably 80% or more.

100%

Probably 90%. I like being able to setup a game and play a turn or two as I have some free time. It's a leisurely approach, I admit.

Like raylev3 5% mostly to learn a set of rules.

90%

Highly variable.

90% for me

99%

I have what I consider two distinct modes of play:

Playing … roughly 3/10. We have one big game day a month with half a dozen to a dozen people playing, and SWMBO and I (and the kids, if they're home) will play about two games a week otherwise. Once or twice a month, those will be solo games instead.

When I write scenarios, I like to playtest parts of them, then give them a run through solo three or four times (with refocused part testing) before having people playtest them about a dozen times (which may lead to one or two more full, and a handful of partwise playtests solo).

These overlap a bit, as I will have SWMBO and I (+ optional kids) do a first playtest occasionally.

65%

90%

100%

Currently 50/50 bit will likely rise to 75%+ once my game room is done.

Currently, none.

In the past, 100%.

Before that, about a third.

@Great war ace- intriguing concept "In the past… Before that"!

Ever since I moved five years ago, 100%.

Fifty fifty.

Fiddy-Fiddy

90% las las

The $$/ plilosphocal question with solo games:
Do I always win or always lose?

100% with huge interruption after divorce from First EX hocklermp5 after 24 years together. I literally left my life in Houston, after 3 years in the what the Official Texas "Guidebook" called "The 2nd worse climate in Texas". The number 1 "Worst climate in Texas" was Amarillo. I literally left my life down there only bringing my books and some figures and models North to JoCo Kansas which I call "Occupied Territory" flying a Missouri State out front every day to irritate "Redlegs", "Jayhawkers", and very nasty old ladies. I spent the first 18 years of my life 1 block East of the Kansas State Line in a neighborhood that was like a village with 3 generations of families in a time and place that is gone forever. When I refer to "Redlegs" and "Jayhawkers" above it is in reference to the Border War that began in 1855 and ended in 1865, not really ending until Jesse James and company were exterminated in Minnesota and the Bob Ford, "The dirty little coward who shot Mr. Howard and laid poor Jesse in his grave" in 1882.

Cheers,
hocklermp5

75-85% are solo.

100%

0%

Probably 50%, but it can vary wildly.

The $$/ plilosphocal question with solo games:
Do I always win or always lose?

For me the best games are usually those where I feel like an observer.

5-10% Mostly to learn rules.

A little more for board games, though. There are quite a few suitable for solo play.
(Tiny Epic Galaxies is excellent for that, for instance.)

probably 50%

<1%

Only if trying out a new set of rules, to fix the mechanisms in my head.

50%.

50% overall, but 0% or 100% by game. If the guys I game with will play a game, I'll play it non-solo. If the guys will not play it, I will play it solo. This lets me play whatever game I want while still enjoying playing with my buddies from time to time.

0%

All, give or take a few…

100%, Thanks to Two Hour Wargames.

Maybe 80%, although I haven't gamed in a long time. More if you count rpgs.

100% due to geographical situation.

100%

None, 0%. If I had to play solitaire, I would find another hobby. I just don't see the point of going to all the trouble just for myself.

At the very least I would go to the local game store and set up a game if not to play, then as a static display. But that is a lot of trouble.

I am considering playing board games solitaire due to lack of local interest. Everyone just wants to play miniatures.

80%.

0% I have played so but I couldn't stand the rampant cheating, the constant arguments, the screaming and the shouting.