POLL: Best Historical Period That's Not Popular (Final Round)

117 votes were cast.

unknown member writes:

Wait just a few more years, and everything later than about the French Wars of Religion and earlier than 1919 will be "not popular." (Might have to carve out an exception for Western Gunfight?)

Effectively, for land warfare there will be
Fantasy
Fantasy-adjacent (Dark Ages through FWOR)
"Pulp"
Science Fiction
Science Fiction-adjacent (WWII and forward. Or, as we say "Kill Team Historical.")

No mode of warfare not intuitive to the modern movie-goer will rate above 6th place.

And it turns out I didn't need those "few more years." Here's the Great Wargaming Survey for 2024.
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As you can see, even though they split up fantasy, SF and my "fantasy-adjacent" into two categories each, only the classical world (Ancients to 500 AD) and Napoleonics rate in the top ten.

Lumping them as I described, in 2024 it was
1) SF
2)Fantasy
3) WW2
4) Fantasy-adjacent
5) Napoleonics
6) Pulp

Close enough for TMP comments.

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VOTING RESULTS
Answer	Votes	%	Chart
all of these periods	3	3%
Seven Years War	32	27%
Mexican-American War	17	15%
not my genre	0	0%
Indian Mutiny	10	9%
this is ridiculous	1	1%
Korean War	20	17%
not my cup of tea	1	1%
WWI in the Middle East	21	18%
none of these/no opinion	12	10%

POLL IS CLOSED

POLL DESCRIPTION
For miniature wargaming, which of the less popular historical periods is best for the tabletop? Poll set up by unknown member, based on this previous poll.