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Friday, 2 October 2026

The Wargaming Miscellany YouTube channel

Just under three years ago (it was 16th February 2024), I set up the Wargaming Miscellany YouTube channel as an adjunct to this blog. Since then I have uploaded over fifty videos, some of which covered topics that had appeared as blog posts and others that did not.

I decided to look at which of these videos had attracted over a thousand viewers ... and the results were very interesting.

  • The essentials of the Portable Wargame (15k)
  • The Attack on Morobad: A wargame fought using rules from the Portable Colonial Wargame book (3k)
  • A Portable Wargame mini-campaign board (2.3k)
  • Review and play-test of the Dominion of the Spear and Bayonet rules (2k)
  • Firepower!: The Royal Artillery Museum, Woolwich: Part 1 - The Rotunda (1.7k)
  • The Portable Wargame version of Shambattle: Background and the rules (1.6k)
  • Funny Little Wars Lawn Games (1.5k)
  • Eric Knowles: A wargaming original (1.1k)
  • The Franco Prussian War: The Battle of the Southern Frontier (1k)
  • Operation Barbarossa Portable Wargame mini campaign (1k)

The channel currently has just under nine hundred subscribers and has been viewed approximately forty-six thousand times. Of these views, approximately ten thousand were from the United States and just under eight thousand from the United Kingdom.

4 comments:

  1. These are really impressive numbers Bob. Like you I started my YouTube channel to support my blog with videos. Though my numbers are way more modestly than yours, I actually have more followers and views on my YouTube channel than on my blog.

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    1. Roger,

      Funnily enough, I also have more YouTube subscribers than I have blog followers although my blog attracts far more views the my channel does.

      I think that there are some topics that a video explains better than a blog post ... and vice versa. I certainly plan to make more videos as my skill level improves and I master the various necessary techniques.

      All the best,

      Bob

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  2. Must admit I've never looked at the YouTube channel... this is a serious omission by me...

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  3. Bob, Overall do you see any difference in the viewing numbers by subject? Eg does a battle report video attract more views?
    I also wonder if YouTube videos are getting the same "bot" attention that Blogger Posts have had..?

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