POLL: Top 5 Causes for Slow Games

500 votes were cast by total voters.

Radetzky March

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Unfamiliarity with rules

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VOTING RESULTS
Answer	Votes	%	Chart
buckets of dice	14	3%
command-and-control systems	11	2%
cross-referencing	28	6%
fighting to the death	22	4%
keeping routing units on the tabletop	1	0%
long checklists	26	5%
long march before units come into contact	43	9%
no rules for rapid marching	7	1%
not holding players to a time limit per turn	19	4%
overly complicated mechanisms	72	14%
poorly designed sequence of play	30	6%
poorly laid-out charts/QRS	38	8%
randomized spotting	5	1%
recordkeeping	23	5%
repetitive actions which have little impact on play	26	5%
resolving low probability events	10	2%
rules that continue play after ending is obvious	5	1%
simultaneous movement	2	0%
terrain generation at start of play	9	2%
too many dierolls	10	2%
too many elements on the tabletop	22	4%
too many modifiers	34	7%
too many types of markers	6	1%
tracking casualties	3	1%
variable length bounds	0	0%
written orders	19	4%
all of the above	10	2%
other (explain)	3	1%
none of these/no opinion	1	0%
this is ridiculous	1	0%
not my cup of tea	0	0%

POLL IS CLOSED

POLL DESCRIPTION
robert piepenbrink writes: Trying to think through what – other than players, of course – actually slows down a wargame. Understand, I'm not looking to run down particular rules sets, but I'd like some opinions about mechanisms which tend to drag out games. Poll set up by Editor in Chief Bill , based on this pre-poll discussion.