Looking Back at 2020

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: 

Game Plan 2020 - Q1 Plans

Game Plan 2020 - Q2 Plans

Game Plan 2020 - Q3 Plans

Game Plan 2020 - Q4 Plans

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: 

2020 Painted Versus Purchased

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!