2014 - My wargaming year reviewed

[Steve J]

Over the past year I've been keeping a record of games played, rules and figures bought etc. It's been a revealtion for me and very useful. So details can be found on my Blog as well as my plans for next year:

http://wwiiwargaming.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/2014-wargaming-year-in-review.html

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

You got more games in than I did! 
But I painted more! 

[Steve J]

Maybe we should team up Lemmey to even things out a bit ?

[petercooman]

I'm definately in the 'paint more' category myself this year 

I'm having real trouble putting anything out! But at least i have all my BKC troops ready to go, wich was our go to system this year. And i also painted up my entire dropzone commander starter within a month of purchase so that's not too shabby!

[sunjester]

I'm in the "painted less than played" category myself!

[Nosher]

Love the idea.

I think I'll 'borrow' it..... Great to hear your taking a step away from the Rat Race for damned fine reasons 

[Ithoriel]

I'm definitely not painting enough. Seem to have hit a bit of a wall. Tried changing period and also changing scale (I know, I know, heresy!) to no avail.

Playing lots of board games and computer games doesn't help. I reckon. this year, I've played the best part of a hundred games with an opponent or three the other side of the table but probably less than a dozen were figure wargames. Settlers, Smallworld, Heroes of Normandie, German Railways and all the others are lots of fun but no incentive to painting

I got Firefly: The Board Game for Xmas maybe painting the ship models will get me in the painting mood?

I hate to think how many painting hours I've lost to EVE Online, Sacred 2, Skyrim, Company of Heroes: Eastern Front, Ascension, Witcher 2 et al!

How can I not find time to paint? I'm RETIRED for goodness sake!!

[Nosher]

PC games are the death knell of face to face gaming.

Loathed with a passion. 

[Subedai]

My painting output far exceeded my games. I had one game with a live opponent and three solo purely to do some rule testing -all quite early in the year.
I painted -I keep a log- 206 6mm SYW figures, 485 10mm Mongol Project figures and 1 15mm SF figure.
In my defence I also wrote a 59,000 word 1st draft for a novel, 50,000+ for my non-fiction Mongol Book and 6 Mongol articles for WMBG (totalling 123,000+ words).
I made a 10mm Eastern European Medieval Village and an ongoing 6mm SYW/Napoleonic town.

[Nosher]

I just wrote up my own review (see my blog link) http://nosherswargames.blogspot.co.uk/ and noted that I remain undefeated in 2014 

My most comprehensive 'victory' and self-gratifying annihilation of the enemy was at the club when despite facing odds of 2/3 my Saxons smashed the clubs unsavoury rules-lawyers Vikings in a huge multi-player Hail Cheesy game on a 24ft table.

The Umpire suggested we all brought a maximum of eight units of which no more than one could be large and no more than one could be cavalry. My opponent turned up with 12 units, three of which were large and two of which were cavalry.... and had the gall to field all 12 units which made my win even more palatable

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Why can't people stick to a commonly agreed limit. He deserved a tonking for that.

[Leman]

If he'd tried that at my club he would have been told none too politely to go away and re-think his life and parentage.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

And hopefully rethink his list too!

[toxicpixie]

So just how did he slip that one past the ref then?! That's not cheesy rules mongering - it's just plain cheating!

Any pics or write up - always like to see the Vikings get their come uppance

[Matt J]

6 Mongol articles for WMBG

Just like to say I've enjoyed reading these, kudos to you.