Wargames Illustrated ... period popularity

With the completion of a complete index for Wargames Illustrated issues 1-259, I thought it would be interesting to make a histogram of all the articles divided over all the different periods. Of course, I might have mislabeled some, and sometimes I subdivided (or did not!) a period into several subgenres for no good reason except my own illogical judgement. Nevertheless, the results do look interesting. It reflects interests in (historical) wargaming from 1987 to 2009.

The data below are the raw numbers. Please interpret as you see fit.

• Articles which have a "blank" as period (usually modelling), have not been counted.
• Some periods have a general category as well as several subdivisions (e.g. WW2, Napoleonics). The numbers are exclusive. I.e. articles counted under "WW2/Eastfront" are not duplicated in the general "WW2" category. Every article is only counted once.
• A multi-part article in subsequent issues only has one entry in the database, hence it is only counted once here.

Row Labels	Count of Numb
Medieval	106
WW2	104
Ancients	102
Generic	91
ACW	83
Napoleonic	69
Modern	68
WW1	53
18th	51
WW2/Eastfront	50
19th/America	46
17th	45
16th	44
19th	41
Colonial	38
ECW	34
Fantasy	33
20th	28
Pulp	28
AWI	27
WildWest	24
Vietnam	23
Colonial/DarkestAfrica	23
Scifi	22
WW2/Naval	21
Colonial/ZuluWar	20
WW2/D-Day	20
WW2/Pacific	19
7YW	18
FPW	18
WW2/Africa	17
Napoleonic/Peninsular	17
WarRoses	16
Napoleonic/Waterloo	15
CrimeanWar	15
WW1/Naval	12
WW2/Air	12
Renaissance	11
Pirates	11
BoerWar	9
Colonial/Sudan	9
15th	9
Medieval/Asia	9
GNW	9
Ancients/Naval	8
20th/Naval	8
SCW	7
War1812	7
WW2/MarketGarden	7
19th/Naval	7
RCW	6
Colonial/IndianMutiny	6
19th/China	5
Napoleonic/Egypt	4
FIW	4
Ancients/Gladiators	4
WW1/Air	4
Grand Total	1597

Wargames Illustrated "old style" complete

Yesterday I finished my index for Wargames Illustrated, issues 1-259 (up to the takeover by Battlefront in 2009). These are the issues physically in my collection.

You can find the complete index, along with indices for Battlegames and Miniature Wargames with Battlegames here: http://snv-ttm.blogspot.be/p/wargames-magazine-database.html

I might still add some loose issues from other magazines to the database, but most of the work has been done. Of course, the description of specific articles can always be made better, so there will always be some further refinements.

Halfway through Wargames Illustrated

My efforts for indexing my magazine collection are progressing steadily. By now, I have entered the first 130 issues of WI, halfway through my collection (runs till issue 259).

Battlegames and Miniature Wargames w Battlegames have been completed some time ago.

Once WI is done, I will try to tackle the older issues of Miniature Wargames. Henry Hyde has been so kind to send me a number of files from the MW archives, so I have all the data, it's just a matter of converting them.

The link:  http://snv-ttm.blogspot.be/p/wargames-magazine-database.html