TL/DR
- Finished an Imperial
Guard Company for Warhammer 40K
- Decided to go ahead with the Vimy
Project in 2017
- Was awarded a Treasure
Token by Joseph McCullough
- Built some trench
terrain
- Counted
up all my toys, painted and unpainted.
- Celebrated 10
YEARS of blogging
Well… that pretty much sums it
up… do I really need to expand on any of that…?
Should I bother looking back on
the Game
Plan 2016 and see what I actually accomplished compared to what I had
initially planned…?
Why not. Seems like the thing to
do…
First off…
The Game Weekend
I did run a weekend miniature
skirmish campaign… but it ended up being Frostgrave instead of Song of Blades
and Heroes, as originally planned. It turned out okay. Everyone seemed to have
fun. I even played a couple games. Had my initial warband WIPED OUT if the
first game on Friday night (like Wizard and Apprentice killed… dead…). Started
Saturday with a whole new warband… because I can do that sort of thing… Anyway,
you can check it all out here:
Gaming Our Way Through
History
We did finish off the final
volume of the Story of the World and played most of the board games I’d lined
up… I never did finish up the posts about the games we played for Volume Three
and Four – like I did for Volume
One: The Ancient World and Volume
Two: The Middle Ages. I suppose I still could.
We never really did get to doing
any miniature games to go along with it… Which was kind of a shame. Everything
got a little rushed at the end.
We’ll revisit parts over the
next few years and replay some of the games we played and hopefully get a few
more games in that we missed along the way.
Saturday Game Afternoons
I did manage to host a number of
longer games on Saturday afternoons throughout the year. There was a fairly
regular group of about 3 or 4 that came out to many of them. We played a few of
the games that were on the list (Firefly,
Game
of Thrones, Arkham
Horror). Most of the others on the list (Soldier
Kings, Soldier
Emperor, Forbidden
Stars, Axis & Allies (1914,
1942,
1940
Europe, 1940
Pacific, Ikusa,
Empires
Age of Discovery, Joan
of Arc, Wallenstein)
we totally didn’t get to… but we played other games instead… (Power
Grid Deluxe, Railways
of the World, Sky
Traders,
ToonCon
I did take
the family to ToonCon and everyone had a pretty good time. I also ran
a game there (REGINA
TRENCH!), which went over pretty well, I think.
Other Miniature Gaming
This is where I kind of dropped
the ball… While I did play a lot of board games, I didn’t really play all that
many Miniature Wargames.
I did play a few games of Frostgrave
early in the year, but after the Weekend
Frostgrave Campaign in February that died off completely. I’ve picked
up all the books that have come out this year (Into
the Breeding Pits and Forgotten
Pacts), but other than a quick skim through them, haven’t really
given them much thought…
Later in the year I was awarded a Treasure
Token by Joseph McCullough (author of Frostgrave) – which was super nice, but then I felt
guilty because I hadn’t actually PLAYED Frostgrave in ages.
I did play a few games of 40K
with the kids and a friend and his sons. Not my favourite game. After actually
playing it my kids completely lost interest. They’d still play any of the 40K
RPGs from FFG or use the miniatures for other games. But having been raised
playing games like Savage Worlds and Song of Blades and Heroes – with balanced
forces and strong, thematic, designed scenarios… the idea of showing up at a
table with the miniatures they’d lovingly spent hundreds of hours painting only
to have them utterly slaughtered by a gloaty-smack-talking-10-year-old who they felt really only won because he had bought better toys... well… it was discouraging…
I might go so far as to say they thought it anathema.
I had started the year very
excited about En
Garde!… painted up a few warbands for it (Swashbucklers!,
More Swashbucklers!, Still
More Swashbucklers!)… never got around to playing it!?
I had mentioned Flying
Lead and Song
of Drums and Tomahawks… didn’t get in a single game… (though I did
play one game of Fear
and Faith!)
Though I painted a fair bit for Lion
Rampant and Dragon Rampant,
I only got in two games – and one wasn’t even with my own toys!?
I also got very excited about
The
Men Who Would Be Kings when it was finally released. Even painted
up a few more Zulus to finish a force to play it… didn’t get to
playing it.
I did get in a few
games of Star
Wars: X-Wing, if that counts… and maybe a game
of Super
Dungeon Explore!. Oh and Wings
of Glory and Broken
Legions
Including the likes of Xwing and
Wings of Glory I think I played a total of about 13 miniature games all year… far cry from previous years where I was playing at least one game a week...
Role-Playing Games
We finally finished up the Savage Worlds/Realms of Cthulhu/Masks
of Nyarlathotep campaign my friend Bruce was running in the spring. In the fall he started a
new D&D 5E Primeval Thule campaign.
The Boy did run a game of Star
Wars: Edge of the Empire for us and The Girl ran a quick scenario of Shadowrun.
I never got around to running anything myself… though I’ve been
thinking about it a lot. I’d really like to get a Cthulhu game going –using Fear
and Faith - with a bit of a skill system bolted on…
Other Boardgames
As mentioned, I did played
a lot of games. The most played boardgaems this year were:
1. Loonacy/Retro Loonacy – 26 games
(it takes 5 minutes and my mom can play it, so….)
2. Race for the Galaxy – 25 games
(it was really out Go To game when we had an hour to kill for more of the year)
3. Dominion – 14 games
4. 7 Wonders - 13 games (9 with the Leaders expansion) (our secondary Go To
game…)
5. Legendary: A Marvel Deck
Building Game – 13 games
6. Lords of Waterdeep - 7 games (4
with the Scoundrels of Skullport expansion)
7. Nations – 7 games
9. Star Realms – 6 games
10. A Study in Emerald (second
edition) - 6 games
11. Timeline: Historical Events - 6 games
12. Monty Python Fluxx - 5 games
13. Pandemic - 5 games
14. Railways of the World - 5 games
15. Dixit – 4 games
16. Firefly: The Game – 4 games
17. The Grizzled – 4 games
18. Pax Porfiriana – 4 games
19. Ra – 4 games
20. Samarkand: Routes to Riches – 4 games
21. Sentinels of the Multiverse – 4 games
22. Smash Up – 4 games
23. Agricola – 3 games
24. Carcassonne – 3 games
25. The Hanging Gardens - 3 games
26. Star Trek: Five-Year Mission - 3 games
27. Linkage: A DNA Card Game - 3 games
28. The Red Dragon Inn - 3 games
29. Rumpelstiltskin - 3 games
30. Angola -
2 games
plus lots of others that I played once or twice - too many to list.
Anyway, that's a brief round up of what I got up to last year - now on with the next one!
plus lots of others that I played once or twice - too many to list.
Anyway, that's a brief round up of what I got up to last year - now on with the next one!
Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:
Game Plan 2017?
An Update on the Vimy Project?
12 Days of Gaming (or “How I
Spent my Winter Holidaze…”)?
Looks like a good year
ReplyDeleteThanks, James!
DeleteWhat a wonderful and busy year! Happy New Year Tim...
ReplyDeleteMerci, Phil!
DeleteA very productive year!
ReplyDeleteBest for 2017
Mark
Feast (the previous year )followed by famine last year? That's how it goes sometimes I guess, I'm starting a frostgrave campaign tomorrow and last year I didn't get a game until December. So 2017 will be better!
ReplyDeleteLots of skirmish games with your already painted figures? Rogue star, lion/dragon rampant mwwbk? Other osprey games are available or drive a truck through your khaki program and paint a new army up for a new game?
Best Iain
I was kind of thinking after I posted this how that all came about. For about the first 15 years of the new millennium, I had a regular game night on Saturday evenings. It started off as role-playing and over the years we changed systems, some players moved on, others joined.
DeleteOnce we got going with Savage Worlds it became more of a miniature skirmish evening - and when I didn't have a role-playing or miniature skirmish scenario we played whatever other miniature game I was recently obsessing over and painting toys for.
"Skirmish Saturdays" kind of petered out around the end of 2015 and I just never really got it going again. I'd gotten tired of being THE GUY that did all the purchasing and painting of miniatures and coming up with the scenarios. When I suggested the players should maybe get their own for the new games we were playing (Frostgrave and Song of Blades and Heroes)... they kind of stopped coming...
I thought I'd set up a regular weekly skirmish evening with the family, but that never really got off the ground...
Maybe this year!!!
Sounds great to me! I have enjoyed following along here. The main thing is it seems like you (and your family and friends) have lots of fun with your gaming.
ReplyDeleteWe do have fun - whether it's miniatures of boardgames! I sometimes wonder if I should change the name to Tim's Gaming Blog or just keep it as it is for old times sake, even if there is less of the miniatures and war going on...
DeleteWow... I can't believe I forgot to make mention of painting progress over the year!? Especially since I tried to keep, not only a running total of figures purchased and painted, but a totals of figures by category.... Perhaps I'll have to post something separately about that!
ReplyDeleteWowsers that's a lot of gaming! I'd be happy to get through 20% of that much.
ReplyDeleteIt is. I am very fortunate to have a family that it so willing to play games with me so often!
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