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Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Wargame Vault Review

You may not know, but Wargame Vault using a rating system for products based on their sales numbers. Each level is assigned a "metal" as it rating. Starting at Copper, it progresses to Silver, Electrum, Gold, Platinum, Mithral, and lastly Adamantine.

The sales levels are as follows:

RatingNumber of Sales
Copper51+
Silver101
Electrum251
Gold501
Platinum1001
Mithral2501
Adamantine5001
As of this morning, I did some research and was pleasantly surprised. My books had done better than I had expected. Thank you very much.

BOOKTypeSalesSales Rank
Action at UstilugWWII Skirmish Scenarios81Copper
In The Name of RomaWWII Skirmish Scenarios45-
Battle of Kharkov 1941WWII Skirmish Scenarios149Silver
Second Battle of Kharkov 1942WWII Skirmish Scenarios86Copper
East Front BundleWWII Skirmish Scenarios226Silver
Falcon and The GladiatorWWII Air Campaigns and Scenarios42-
The Coming ThunderACW Skirmish Scenarios156Silver
To Covet GloryAge of Sail Small ship Battles114Silver
The War of Jenkin's EarBlack Powder and Age of Sail Skirmish Scenarios25-
These are only sales from Wargame Vault and do not include the hard copy sales from Amazon, direct sales (before I did a PayHip store), or sales from my PayHip site. Now, I had messed up when i did the East Front Bundle. Within the bundle are both Kharkov Supplements, Action at Ustilug and In the Name of Roma. If you do bundles correctly, bundle sales increaase sales of the products under them. All in all, I am very happy with how they have done. Of the 9 books, only four are on Amazon in print form. Two are available as kindle. Kindle is a terrible format to release the books on.

In the Name of Roma is the oldest of the series and sold 63 kindle copies and anther 14 print copies. The First Kharkov supplement sold 14 kindle copies and 41 print copies. The Second Kharkov book was only available in print and sold 55 copies! Thank you! Lastly, To Covet Glory was only released as a print copy and sold 48 copies!

I forgot to look at PayHip.

BookSales
Action at Ustilug36
In the Name of Roma11
Battle of Kharkov 194126
Second Battle of Kharkov26
East Front Bundle31
Falcon and the Gladiator14
To Covet Glory16
The War of Jenkin's Ear8
Now there are other items that are only on PayHip that are not on the other sites. I may have to change that as it seems peopel trust Wargame Vault more than they do PayHip.

The copies I sold directly and from PayPal are lost to history. No idea of how I would ever figure that out. Anyway, it was a fun exersize to look through how sales have gone. Compared to many, this is a drop in the bucket. But for me, I am pretty proud as to how they have done. I would love to see the War of Jenkin's Ear book get to copper status. That it is half way there made me really happy. I didn't think I would sell 5 copies of that, honestly. It is a very niche subject.

Anyway, that is some motivation to push ahead.

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