I actually feel like Adam Sandler in Big Daddy - I kind of just want to cover up the awful puddle in the corner of the room that was 2020 with a handful of newspapers and just kind of ignore it. Let's just pretend that never happened. What happened in 2020, stays in 2020... that sort of thing.
It's been a rough year - for me, for everyone - it's been a rough year for gaming and hobby stuff - with the pandemic and the upheaval of the never-ending-basement-renovation and... other... existential-crisis-inducing events....
I haven't even painted any miniatures or built any terrain or even played any miniature games!? On the flipside, I have been doing some OTHER PAINTING.
PLANS
Even in more stable times, without a clear plan, I get NOTHING done. Well, that isn't totally true. I am ALWAYS busy and on the move and doing things. I get things done. It's just without a clear plan that I can focus on and follow, my activity is rather scattershot and energy ends up spread too thin to be noticed as having accomplished anything - so I've tried to have big GAME PLANS for more than a few years... Sometimes they were followed. Sometimes they were abandoned. Sometimes they were modified - or entirely replaced - part way through. This year I tried to go with Quarterly Plans - to keep things more flexible and requiring focus over a more reasonably attainable period of time.
You can find the plans here:
I liked the felxibility of Quarterly plans. Events kind of wrecked some of those plans. The overall instability of the year made it hard to even any MAKE plans at all - even just for a few months - for most of the year. But I think it worked better than and annual plan and, being the perpetual optimist, I will continue with this. (Game Plan 2021 - Q1 - Coming soon!)
GAMES
What DID I play all year...? Well, according to Board Game Geek (where I log all of my game plays), I played the following:
- Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress x23
- Terraforming Mars x19
- Wrath & Glory x18
- Azul x12
- Carcassonne x11
- Warhammer 40,000 (Eighth Edition) x8
- Warhammer 40,000 (Ninth Edition) x8
- Fate Accelerated x6
- Splendor x6
- Viticulture Essential Edition x6 (3x with Tuscany!)
- The Castles of Burgundy x5
- Century: Golem Edition – Eastern Mountains x5
- Hellboy: The Board Game x5
- Necromunda x5
- Century: Golem Edition x4
- Four Against Darkness x4
- 7 Wonders Duel x3
- The Big Bang Theory: The Party Game x3
- Monarch x3
- Patchwork x3
- Sidereal Confluence: Remastered Edition x3
- Abyss x2
- Betrayal at Baldur's Gate x2
- Century: A New World x2
- Codenames: Pictures x2
- Dogs x2
- The Hanging Gardens x2
- Power Grid Deluxe: Europe/North America x2
- Railways of North America x2
- Retro Loonacy x2
- Battlefleet Gothic x1
- Blend Off! x1
- Castle x1
- Century: Spice Road x1
- Dominion x1
- Dominion: Intrigue x1
- Fauna x1
- Firefly Fluxx x1
- Ingenious x1
- Kingdomino x1
- Legendary Encounters: A Firefly Deck Building Game x1
- London x1
- Machi Koro x1
- Mouse Guard Roleplaying Game x1
- Peptide: A Protein Building Game x1
- Power Grid x1
- Sentinel Comics: The Roleplaying Game x1
- Star Trek: Five-Year Mission x1
- Virulence: An Infectious Card Game x1
- Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team x1
215 games...? Did I add that up right..?!
Damn!
I guess at the beginning of the Pandemic Shutdowns Amanda and I DID play a LOT of games - like almost every day for a month...? Or maybe more...? Wasn't much else to do!?
MINIATURES (and Other Hobby Stuff)
I did manage to get quite a bit done in the first half of the year.... less so for the last few months...
You can also see this same info - with links to the posts where I shared pics of the stuff painted on a separate page:
PAINTED
Organized, roughly, by scale and type and when I painted it.
28mm Foot
Q1
- 5x Khorne Flesh Hounds
- 10x Khorne Bloodletters
- 10x Slaanesh Daemonettes
- 20x Nurgle Plague Marines
- 2x Daemon Hedgehogs
- 1x Chaos Sorcerer
- 1x Chaos Lord in Terminator Armour
- 2x Chaos Space Marines
- 8x NOISE MARINE
- 1x Inquisitor
- 4x Imperial Fist Space Marine Scouts
- 1x Tangermarine Space Marine Scouts
- 1x Imperial Guard Commissar
- 1x Daemonhost
- 12x Blackstone Fortress Characters
- 4x Blackstone Fortress Spindle Drones
- 4x Blackstone Fortress Beastmen
- 14x Blackstone Fortress Traitor Guard
- 3x Blackstone Fortress Chaos Space Marines
- 4x Rogue Trader Glitchlings
- 4x Space Millipedes
- 4x Necromunda Scavvies
- 11x Necromunda Plague Zombies
- 1x Necromunda Giant Greenback Spider
- 1x Hellboy Frog Creature
- 1x Servoskull
- 1x Hive Scum
- 1x Ratling Bounty Hunter
Q2
- 1x Amazon Hoplite
- 25x Imperial Guard
- 1x Penitent (for Blackstone Fortress)
- 8x Traitor Guard (Blackstone Fortress: Servants of the Abyss)
- 2x Nega-Volt Cultists (Blackstone Fortress: Servants of the Abyss)
- 2x Chaos Beastmen (Blackstone Fortress: Servants of the Abyss)
- 1x Chaos Space Marine (Blackstone Fortress: Servants of the Abyss)
- 1x Rogue Psyker (Blackstone Fortress: Servants of the Abyss)
- 1x Traitor Commissar (Blackstone Fortress: Traitor Command)
- 1x Chaos Ogryn (Blackstone Fortress: Traitor Command)
- 2x Ogryn Retinue Characters (Brogan Brothers) for Blackstone Fortress
- 1x Ogryn Pit Fighter for Necromunda
- 1x Gellerpox Infected for Kill Team Rogue Trader
- 1x Eversor Assassin
- 1x Vindicare Assassin
- 1x Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn
- 1x Inquisitor in Terminator Armour
- 1x Death Watch - Watch Master
- 1x Death Watch Space Marine
- 1x Grey Knight Brother
- 1x Genestealer Patriarch
- 3x Grey Knights
- 1x Grey Knight Terminator
- 2x Imperial Fists Scouts
- 1x Master of Possession
- 2x Greater Possessed
- 13x Kreuger's Unvalids
- 1x Little Robot Thingie from Space Hulk
- 2x Chaos Space Marine Raptors
- 1x Necromunda Hive Scum
- 29x Genestealer Cultists (for Finnegan)
- 12x Kroot Warriors for (Finnegan)
- 2x Fabius Bile and Surgeon Acolyte
Q3
- 12x Death Guard (Plague Marines and Terminator Lord)
- 4x Inquisitorial Stormtroopers
- 1x Genestealer Cult Sanctus (for Finnegan)
- 1x Genestealer Cult Kellermorph (for Finnegan)
- 1x Kroot Shaper (for Finnegan)
- 3x Inquisitors (including one for Finnegan)
- 7x Deathwatch Veterans (for Finnegan)
- 1x Daemonette
- 13x Flesh Hounds
- 6x Grey Knights
Total 28mm Foot Painted: 303
28mm Mounted/Smaller Beasties
- 1x Karanack, The Hound of Vengeance - Q1
- 1x T'au Commander in XV86 coldstar Battlesuit - Q2
- 5x Seekers of Slaansesh - Q3
- 2x Chaos Space Marine Obliterators - Q3
28mm Bigger Beasties/Vehicles
- Hellflayer - Q3
28mm Super-Heavy/TITANIC
- 1x Renegade Knight Acheron - Q1
Wee Planes
- 2x Imperial Navy Thunderbolt Fighters - Q2
Micro Space Ships
- 2xChaos Cruisers - Q3
- 3x Imperial Escorts - Q3
- 22x Assorted Ordanace (Fighters/Bombers/Torpedoes) - Q3
Terrain
Little Bits/Markers
- 1x Chaos Objective Marker
- 1x Space Hulk Objective Chalice
Ruined Bits (Walls, Rubble Piles)
- 8x Assorted Wall of Martyrs bits (trench, 3 emplacements, 4 end bits) - Q3
- 2x Small Sector Imperialis Ruin bits - Q3
- 4x Chaos Monoliths - Q3
Buildings and Larger Bits
- 2x Daemon World Rocky Outcroppings - Q3
- 3x MORE Daemon World Rocky Outcroppings - Q3
- 1x BFG Planet - Q3
Terrain Tiles
- 1x 4'x4' Game Board - Q3
PURCHASED (or otherwise acquired - gifts, trades, etc.)
It was a (somewhat) lighter year for purchases... largely because I wasn't doing any miniature hobby-like-stuff for the last half of the year, it made NO sense to buy anything NEW!?
(I did pick up a few things in this past week - I blame Boxing Week Sales and Hope For a Brighter 2021)
28mm Foot
Q1
- 1x Necromunda Scavvy
- 29x Nurgle Plague Marines
- 1x Nurgle Malignant Plaguecaster
- 3x Squats
- 4x Imperial Guard
- 1x Eldar Farseer
- 2x Space Marine Scout
- 8x Cultists of the Abyss
- 10x Chaos Cultists
- 18x Noize Marines
- 13x Chaos Space Marines (to be converted into Noise Marines!)
- 5x Chaos Space Marine Raptors
- 7x Chaos Terminators
- 1x Master of Possession (Start Collecting Chaos Space Marines)
- 2x Greater Possessed (Start Collecting Chaos Space Marines)
- 2x Obliterators (Start Collecting Chaos Space Marines)
- 10x Chaos Space Marines (Start Collecting Chaos Space Marines)
- 1x Chaos Space Marine (Servants of the Abyss)
- 1x Rogue Psyker (Servants of the Abyss)
- 2x Negavolt Cultists (Servants of the Abyss)
- 2x Chaos Beastmen (Servants of the Abyss)
- 2x Ur-Ghuls (Servants of the Abyss)
- 2x Spindle Drones (Servants of the Abyss)
- 7x Traitor Guardsmen (Servants of the Abyss)
- 1x Goblin Commissar
- 1x Inquisitor in Power Armour
- 1x Female Psyker
- 20x Ngoni Tribespeople (gift from John)
- 6x Plastic WW2 Germans (gift from John)
- 6x Plastic Landsknechts (gift from John)
- 10x Plastic Roman Legionaires (gift from John)
- 3x Ogryn
Q2
- 1x Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn
- 3x Plague Marine miniatures (Blackstone Fortress: No Respite)
- 6x Poxwalker (Blackstone Fortress: No Respite)
- 1x Traitor Commissar (Blackstone Fortress: Traitor Command)
- 1x Chaos Ogryn (Blackstone Fortress: Traitor Command)
- 1x Arco-flagellant (in trade from Orion)
- 109x Mantic Space Orks (gifted from Other Tim)
- 15x Burnaboyz (gifted from Other Tim)
- 2x Warboss (gifted from Other Tim)
- 2x Fabius Bile and Surgeon Acolyte
Q3
- 2x Daemonifuge – Ephrael Stern & Kyganil
- 11x Flesh Hounds (including old version of Karanack)
- 2x Syll'Esske (okay, it's ONE model... but there really are TWO distinct figures, so I'm calling it 2)
- 1x Rubrik Marine
- 1x Thousand Sons Sorcerer
Q4
- 5x Morgwaeth's Blade-coven miniatures
- 10x Melusai
- 5x Khinerai
- 1x Melusai Ironscale
- 10x Daemonettes
- 1x Lord of Pain, champion of the Hedonites of Slaanesh
Total 28mm Foot Purchased: 373
28mm Mounted
- 1x Zoat!
- 10x Hellstriders
28mm Big Beasties/Vehicles
- 1x Aerosan transport (to convert for use by Valhallans!)
- 1x Venomcrawler (Start Collecting Chaos Space Marines)
- 1x Mantic Ork Warbuggy (gifted from Other Tim)
- 2x Hellflayer
Small Terrain Pieces
- 1x Tactical Command Table
Wee Planes
- 2x Imperial Navy Thunderbolt Fighters
- 2x Imperial Navy Marauder Bombers
- 3x Ork Air Waaagh! Dakkajets
- 2x Ork Air Waaagh! Fighta Bommers
Mirco Tanks
- 2xOrk Bone Krusha Tanks
Micro Sailing Ships
- 2x Wee Ships (gift from John)
DISPOSALS(Traded or Sold)
- 12x Old Plastic Space Marines (traded for Arco-flagellant!)
Welp... that's it.
Hope you all had a... well... good-ish year.
I REALLY hope 2021 is better for us all!
All the best for the coming year , cheers Tony .
ReplyDeleteThanks, Tony!
DeleteWow a lot achieved, I do like your qauter idea, I will be stealing that!
ReplyDeleteYeah, the Quarterly Plans work so much better - at least for me!
DeleteCheers!