I know this has been done before, but I thought I'd start it again anyway. So what's your wargaming aims for 2012? After a bit of thought mine are:
1. Finish painting the Halfling Army - There's not that much to go now for me to have most of the options I can field for the little guys in there current capacity as goblins. I love painting them and it would great to be able to roll them out for new years resolution number 2...
2. Go to the South Coast GT - Now I appreciate that I will end up facing 97 Vampire Count Armies or whatever the new flavour of the month would be, but I love the setup, its a good chance to play 6 games of Warhammer over a weekend and catch up with everyone from OG. Hopefully this year I will win one of Best Painted (a long shot I know but maybe the halfling theme would carry me through? probably not), Best Sports or more likely, the wooden spoon...I'm going to aim for the spoon.
3. Go to some Malifaux Tournaments - Really enjoying playing Malifaux at the moment to the point where its my current number 1 game having overtaken Warhammer. I've got my crew half painted (see point 4) and hopefully with a bit more practice I won't be a total disgrace at a tournament!
4. Finish some of my half finished projects - I think I can speak for most gamers when saying I have loads of half finished projects lying around that with a bit of effort could be finished. I'm not going to set specific targets or goals, but it would be nice to finish one or two of them (if I can get the Malifaux crew and the halflings done that would be a good start).
So I suppose its over to the floor, anyone else got any objectives for 2012?
I made a new year's resolution a few years ago not to make new year's resolutions. But now like most resolutions I'm going to break that:
1. Finish painting my Circle models for Hordes before buying another faction - I've got into H/WM in a big way since that first intro night at OG when I first learnt how much fun it is to say 'I'll active my warpwolf - oh look, he's just gone mental and eaten everything'. But seriously, it is a great game and a refreshing break from WH. However...
2. I don't want to give up Fantasy completely - I like many of the people on 'the scene' (iPhone just tried to autocorrect people to proletariat, I found this pretty funny!) even if I find the way many tournaments and comp packs are run to be frustrating (time for the proles to overthrow the warhammer 'elite' maybe...!). I will play fun/non-competitive WH games this year - if we can get a narrative or map campaign going down the club, I will get involved.
3. Restart my eldar force, which I used when I was a totty wee lad. I love the models, 40k seems much less stressful/contentious/serious, and it'll give me a game to play at OG with all you lovely people while my Fantasy batteries are recharging. I plan to build up in 500pt installments - may pester one of you veterans for an intro game soon!
Right, let's see which of these I can keep!
1) Get at least 2,000 points of nids painted and go to at least one tourney with them
2) Take part in a narrative campaign
3) Get both my mordheim warbands (witch hunters + khornival) painted
4) Paint twice what I buy
5) Sort my life out! (Well there has to be at least one I won't keep!)
Ah, delightful predictions threads!
So, let's have a bash.
1. Rage quit a game system. (now I know I may have already done this to some degree, but I feeling a true rage quit building... As in selling the lot and the. Thinking oh bugger shouldn't have done that)
2. Start playing some 40k again.
Love the look of the new 'crons codex, so may be taking that up.
3. Un rage quit, learn how to sculpt and do my dogs of war ogre army.
4. Play a hell of a lot of bloodbowl!
Absolutely loving playing on the tabletop, really want to get into the leagues again and would really like to play some on line games. Would also be interested in either sorting or going to may be a small 1 day tournament.
That's about it, any more and I'll let people know.
Oh, find new girlfriend, get new jog and generally sort life out, fairly standard resolutiony type things!
Hmmm.. some resolutions I might be able to keep?
1. Paint the rest of my Legion of Everblight (Hordes) models to a high standard.
2. (Linked to 1) Attend a WM/H tournament and pick up a painting award (let's face it, never going to get any other kind of trophy :P)
3. Play more Malifaux (and finish painting the models I have for it).
That's probably enough to be getting on with. No 40k ambitions this year, unless an interesting book comes out like Chaos Marines or just 6th ed.
I failed all last years, but I did at least get part way through them, and it was a cock of a year!
This year.........
-Buy the new VC stuff... well the vargheists, boob chair, black knights and maybe hex knights.
- make nice movement trays, like matt yeos
- Obtain printed, hard copies of every army book, and study them, and compile notes related to each army and how it relates to my army, and put it in a folder. I'm taking it seriously this year mutherfuppers, Warhammer homework! I WILL Learn what other armies do and stop being suprised and 20-0 all the time!
- Spend actual time making my army really nice. I can paint really damn well, but I'm always rushing for tournaments. Maybe I'll start with the new stuff.
-Reach 200 in the rankings. If I get really good, 150.
-Come at least midway in a tournament of at least 20 people!
- paint some goddam terrain!
- I will go to a tournament at NWGC and not get horrifically drunk.
Non wargaming related new years resolutions are:
[spoiler]
- To not make a drunken scene of myself... (Not really a new year resolution, started end of summer and been doing pretty well!) basically the mark for this is to not appear somewhere in the morning to remarks of "YOU had a good night didn't you! wink wink" or looks of horror and disgust, or pity.
- To get steady work and actually some frigging money. Maybe even a job where I don't work Saturdays!
- To sort my life out. Get a doctor and a dentist. Make sure all my addresses are up to date, return the library books, unblock my bank account!
- To NOT MOVE HOUSE.
- To not become a fat bastard.
- Watch David Attenborough and not Jeremy Kyle.
- Get paid for my photography[/spoiler]
Hmmmm, wargaming new year resolutions...well as I failed miserably to achieve 50% of my 2011 ones, so I'll have to think of some achievable one this year.
So lets think hard about this...
1) Continue with army challenge each month to build a 2400point Vampire Counts army. The first 400points are nearly done, and should be ready for the first Spiky night of 2012. Ed (anavorn here) and I agreed on 400 points a month rather than 300 so we could build an army over 6 months but also to have something playable in the first couple of months. So by the beginning of June I should have a painted 2400 VC army.
2) Write up the army challenge campaign Ed and I are playing on here and other forums I'm on, Death in the Forest will continue...
3) Go Cold Turkey in February - no more miniatures, I have far too many that need painting and come January I'm not going to have very much money so can't justify buying any-more wahammer. I say February due to resolution number one and the new Vampire counts models coming out in January since I'll probably pick up the knights, and the engine/throne thing, probably Isabella as well. Or maybe none at all, I'll pick up the book and work out a 2400 list and stick to it choosing stuff I already have. When I (hopefully) finish my course in September and then hopefully get a new job and proper income I'll treat myself with a few minis that I want. The Skaven Doomwheel and Doom-Flayer spring to mind, as well as the Dwarf Gyrocopter as I really like these models. Depends on will-power and seeing any really good bargains online.
Hobby supplies like paintbrushes and spray are an exception to this, also any new wfb army book that gets released.
4) Continue working on Altdorf Empire, I have lots of troops mostly done so they need finishing as well as some units that need starting, such as my flagellants, but also knights. I have two other empire armies (nuts isn't it) and I do not want to get distracted by them. Hopefully this can break up painting VC over the next five months.
5) Improve my performance at tournaments this year. I did manage quite a few in 2011 and towards the end of the year just did bad, hardly any big wins, mainly draws and some big losses. Looking at taking Empire now so need to really think hard about my play style, not to make any mistakes, etc. I'm not looking to do loads of tournaments just affordable ones down south really. However, I want to do well, finish above half way in them and improve my position on rankings.
6) Finish my Crimson Fists, I started these needing some sort of distraction to wfb and luckily picked these up cheap off club mates. It's not a complete army yet, so need some more to make up 1500points, but decided to paint what I have (the tactical marines, couple of tanks, a dred, bikes and a character) before buying anything else (contrary to resolution number 3 - whoops) and make sure I paint that before buying anything else. I'm looking at some terminators and devastors and another rhino probably.
7) Continue getting rid of stuff I don't need, but also go metal free. I'm fed up of metal models and if there is a plastic or finecast alternative, I'm going to go for that instead. After two years of lugging around a metal dark elf army, the damn thing chipping all the time, I've come to loathe metal in a gaming army. So no more metal.
8) Last but not least, work on something none gaming and more hobby. A diorama that I've been thinking of the last few months involving the fulcrum with the spiral stairs and a number of heroes battling chaos minions on it to stop a dark ceremony on top (warhammer quest style.) to be realistic alongside with my other hobby wishes, I'll sketch it out during the next couple of months and then put it on hold until October/November and start it then after my course is over. It'll be a nice little 2012 late autumn hobby thing to do.
Quite a lot there, will have to make sure I stick to it and not get distracted by other wargaming things, but also balance it against uni work which will have to come first. So probably very little hobby over the summer when I attempt to write a dissertation.
1) get into Welsh ETC team.
2) don't embarrass self at ETC if 1) comes into fruition.
3) complete beasts army from scratch.
4) go to a 40k tournament.
5) play some RPG's, signed up for some!
6) get a top 10 finish a 50+ tournament.
Some simple goals!
Going to keep mine simple and hopefully acheivable..
1) Paint my Beastmen army to 2400 pts, and take to one Tournie (comped of course)
2) Paint my Grey Knights to 2000 pts
3) Play at least 2 40k 2 day tournies, try to win at least one game
4) Run an RPG Campaign
5) Learn as many new systems (boardgame related) as possible, do intro at club
6) Play the LOTR LCG reguarly, complete some missions at long last...
7) Get as much club scenery painted as possible
Guess I should do some:
1). Try not to Rage-Quit anything this year (almost impossible!)
2). Get my 2 fantasy projects up to date (vampire touch up/new book stuff + special Skaven)
3). Not take such fluffy armies to wfb tournaments (fed up of losing to chumps with net lists! ;) ) Try to finish a bit higher than I have been...
4). Try to get a more fun back into wfb... Do as many waaghs as possible and try to win one!
1) paint all my WM and mainly my Khador and learn them in the Slow Grow
2) Sell all my unused and unpainted WFB models
3) Go to a few more 2 day events
4) Get top Menoth at either Welsh Open or Masters
Finish 3 more wfb armies to tabletop standard. (dwarfs, we, lizzies & tk done) skaven+2 others fiinished in 2012 (empire+daemons likely as all plastic)
Finish painting all my malifaux stuff. (1 crew & 4-5 other figs). Then preferrably only buy what I plan to immediately paint.
Avoid spur of the moment buying 'because it's cheap'. To achieve this I need to partake in 'the pledge'.
Offload unwanted and unnecessay models I have (like 100 odd clanrats when I've 200 painted already).
Play fun armies and avoid netlisting, gonna see what takes my fancy, TK most likely but need more painting.
1) Paint the rest of my warriors figures
2) Paint all the rest of my Dystopian Wars (and learn the new rules PROPERLY)
3) Play some Malifaux
4) Terrain, Paint it....
1) Get my Dwarfs painted to a decent standard (hopefully by Lee).
2) Paint my Trollbloods myself (probably not to a decent standard).
3) Play some games with said (badly) painted Trollbloods.
4) Go to a Planet OG 40k event and play with as many Harlequins as Ol lets me.
5) Play in a Waaargh without the Dwarfs just to see what a magic phase is.
6) Finish in the top 50 of the WFB rankings.
Well for my new years resolutions will go as followed
1) Finish the Space wolves and there fluff with battle reports etc
2) Get best general with the skaven at a tournement
3) Get a podium finish at a tourniment
4) Finish the Warriors of chaos
5) Enter a tournement with my Warriors of chaos
6) Get a Blood Bowl team done and learn the rules
Hmm, tricky...
1. finish my retribution stuff
2. Top quarter at Sheffield slaughter
3. Mid table mediocrity with the eldar at vanquish.
4. Start working on the Apocalypto high elves.
5. Finally and most importantly: Drop more than 6 comets in one game of warhammer :D
Otherwise, just the usual stuff like Party my way around Europe, get a new job down under, finally find a steady girlfriend rather than one offs etc etc...
1. Aquire and paint a goblin bloodbowl team
2. Finish the Skaven army (a bit of rebasing and washing and a few 'sub optimal inits')
3. Get rid of all the stuff I'm not going to realistically use
4. Get a podium in a non waaagh singles event
5. Top 40 in rankings
6. Attend all practice events for welsh ETC (play if picked)
7. Play as much AGOT as possible! Play all factions and a 6 player game
8. Catch up on all the reading I'm behind in
9. Paint at least 5 models a week (unless I get everything painted!!)
10. Get a new non bent 40k army
Mine for the year are:-
1. Get both my beasts and Ultramarine armies painted to a decent standard.
2. Get top beast at one non-OG tournement.
3. take the Ultramarines to a 40k tournie.
4. Generally game more
5. Find a set of dice that don't keep coming up 1's :blush:
1. Stop suffering from shiny toy syndrome
2. Paint any one of the dozen half finished models on my desk
3. Get most of my wood elves finished to the best of my ability
4. Run another single day event
5. Have more fun, isn't that kind of the point of a game?
Only halfway into the first day of 2012 and I'm already thinking of breaking mine. Having decided I'm going to take a break from warhammer and play board games instead I'm going to settle on the following.
1) Continue with army challenge each month to build a 2400point Vampire Counts army. Hopefully this should be finished by June so I can concentrate on my dissertation instead (put painting on hold.) This includes writing up the campaign Ed and I play each month, first report end of this week.
2) Go Cold Turkey in February - no more miniatures, pick up what I should need for VC in January, and maybe some devastators for my space marines. After that no more miniature buying.
3) Continue working on Altdorf Empire Army and Crimson Fist Space Marines throughout the year, see if I can finish my Space Marines before June and investigate whether 6th edition is worth playing.
4) go to Winter War, and the Bristol two dayer and see how I do, how much I enjoy the games and access whether I want to continue going to tournaments over the year or otherwise take a break.
5) Paint up and play with my Dreadfleet, might look at doing one ship and one piece of terrain a month to get it done by the end of 2012.
6) Work on something none gaming and more hobby. A diorama that I've been thinking of the last few months involving the fulcrum with the spiral stairs and a number of heroes battling chaos minions on it, to stop a dark ceremony on top (warhammer quest style.) To be realistic alongside with my other hobby wishes, I'll sketch it out during the next couple of months and then put it on hold until October/November and start it after my course is over. It'll be a nice little 2012 late autumn hobby thing to do.
Hopefully a bit more achievable.
Quote from: Meals on December 30, 2011, 01:53:39 pm
finally find a steady girlfriend rather than one offs
Stop showing off.
Quote from: Meals on December 30, 2011, 01:53:39 pmfinally find a steady girlfriend rather than one offs etc etc...
Strange, I was thinking of adding completely the opposite to my list!
Quote from: noahtonkin on January 04, 2012, 12:11:05 pm
Strange, I was thinking of adding completely the opposite to my list!
Change is as good as a holiday?
Haha Dave, Its not really showing off. Finding a slutty Aussie girl isn't exactly like climbing Mount Everest... :wink;m:: :))
After a bit of a shocker last year I'll keep it simple. Paint more than I buy.
Quote from: Annie on December 28, 2011, 08:43:37 am
-Buy the new VC stuff... well the vargheists, boob chair, black knights and maybe hex knights.
DONE!
Quote- make nice movement trays, like matt yeos
IN PROGRESS!
Quote- paint some goddam terrain!
DONE!
I'm on fiiiiire and it's still January!
okay, it being 1st March I'm a bit late on this, but here goes anyway:
1. Be a more laid-back opponent. I worry that sometimes in the past I may have been a touch too, er, focused at times... :fighting03: and sometimes irritable. It doesn't help that I'm recovering from chronic fatigue syndrome, and frequently when I've been gaming I've been really, really tired. As people may have noticed on the rare occasions when I attempt a single day tournament, or an extended game, and have to crash out for ten minutes! If I realise I've forgotten something mainly because I'm shattered this can wind me up. In future I will try a Gallic shrug. It will be Gallic because it may involve consumption of Stella.
2. Get a model into the Finals Cabinet at Games day 2012. I entered for the first time last year, and learned a lot. I'm nowhere near good enough to place, but I reckon (perhaps contrary to the evidence!) That my best stuff could, perhaps just, make it into the final selection. Okay then, no pressure.
Half way stage just over, time to review
Quote1) Paint my Beastmen army to 2400 pts, and take to one Tournie (comped of course)
Fail on that one, have actually quit WFB
Quote2) Paint my Grey Knights to 2000 pts
Also fail, but have started on other 40k armies
Quote3) Play at least 2 40k 2 day tournies, try to win at least one game
Only played in Planet OGs do far, but I placed top 3 in 3 of them, including one win.
Two big indie events next, Pillage then Warlords....
Quote4) Run an RPG Campaign
Tried, but so much work involved, no time...
Quote5) Learn as many new systems (boardgame related) as possible, do intro at club
Learning new ones every week, Dust was a big hit at club, more to come in 2nd half of this year..
Quote6) Play the LOTR LCG reguarly, complete some missions at long last...
Epic fail on this one, just died for some reason, however Invasion stil gets played and now Magic is coming back combined with two new LCG's in the autumn.
Plus I will teach people how to play the Cthulhu LCG...
Quote7) Get as much club scenery painted as possible
Work in progress. More room at club means more tales, just waiting for one sunny wknd, so we can get this all built...
Quote from: sainthale1988 on January 01, 2012, 10:32:39 am
1. Aquire and paint a goblin bloodbowl team
2. Finish the Skaven army (a bit of rebasing and washing and a few 'sub optimal inits')
3. Get rid of all the stuff I'm not going to realistically use
4. Get a podium in a non waaagh singles event
5. Top 40 in rankings
6. Attend all practice events for welsh ETC (play if picked)
7. Play as much AGOT as possible! Play all factions and a 6 player game
8. Catch up on all the reading I'm behind in
9. Paint at least 5 models a week (unless I get everything painted!!)
10. Get a new non bent 40k army
right sit rep;
1.aquired yes! painted....not so much
2.minor progress (few bits and bobs) and not likely to happen now as not that fussed by the rat men and have the good stuff done
3. massive success! i've reduced the amount of stuff i have by aprox 60% (considering i've bought two new armies as well its all change!)
4. success! :2nd: SCGT of all places
5. not so good with horror bad start to the season followed by 6 nations focus. that and rankings pt inflation problem.....
6. sucess, and the 6 nations which is as much as i could do this year
7. played as grey joy (1), lanister (5 times...), baratheon (3), Martell (1). still need stark and tyrell to complete the run though. done several 6 players which have been ace
8. lol! not by half! did get dance of dragons done (which was epic!)
9. sigh such high aspiration. not going to happen now
10. yeah dark angels! :thumbsup: :bash;m:
QuoteFinish 3 more wfb armies to tabletop standard. (dwarfs, we, lizzies & tk done) skaven+2 others fiinished in 2012 (empire+daemons likely as all plastic)
Looks like I might fail this one, skaven are done to about 3000pts and O&G are well under way but a third army has not been started. New Empire book killed my desire for them (everyone now doing all mounted which I'd planned), DE are in boxes as are some WOC so might do them next.
QuoteFinish painting all my malifaux stuff. (1 crew & 4-5 other figs). Then preferrably only buy what I plan to immediately paint.
Succeeded but then bought a load more stuff. Now have 2 x guild guards, 1 austringer, 1 Avatar Zoraida, 1 Lelu, 1 Lelitu and 3 wicked dolls all sat in boxes waiting for progress.
QuoteAvoid spur of the moment buying 'because it's cheap'. To achieve this I need to partake in 'the pledge'.
Hmm, hard to be sure on this one, the O&G were a bit spur of the moment, but then I have painted them. Probably going to fail the pledge again though despite painting lots. My own personal goal of 366 figs in the year is continuing on track. July has seen me go ahead of 1 per day for the first time this year.
QuoteOffload unwanted and unnecessay models I have (like 100 odd clanrats when I've 200 painted already).
Generally fail, but have offloaded some.
QuotePlay fun armies and avoid netlisting, gonna see what takes my fancy, TK most likely but need more painting.
Generally done well with this one. The TK I've used my monster mash list that I enjoy, my WE I tried out triple trees but with glade rider core which was awesome fun and for 6 nations I did do a bit of dull netlist lizards and promptly lost all 5 games!
So overall a mixed bag on the progress side but it's been an interesting year. Going from being Scotland WFB ETC captain to definitely not going due to having a baby, starting to feel quite a bit of WFB burn out despite absolutely loving painting figs for it and only getting in a couple of games of Malifaux despite adoring the figures. Hopefully the second half of the year will remedy this. I plan on playing a lot more Malifaux, giving 40k a run out and generally avoiding tournaments. Hopefully will get to move down to Bristol area at the back end of the year at which point I'll try and get along to an OG weekend or two.
Quote from: Blotthrower on December 27, 2011, 12:37:12 pm
I know this has been done before, but I thought I'd start it again anyway. So what's your wargaming aims for 2012? After a bit of thought mine are:
1. Finish painting the Halfling Army - There's not that much to go now for me to have most of the options I can field for the little guys in there current capacity as goblins. I love painting them and it would great to be able to roll them out for new years resolution number 2...
2. Go to the South Coast GT - Now I appreciate that I will end up facing 97 Vampire Count Armies or whatever the new flavour of the month would be, but I love the setup, its a good chance to play 6 games of Warhammer over a weekend and catch up with everyone from OG. Hopefully this year I will win one of Best Painted (a long shot I know but maybe the halfling theme would carry me through? probably not), Best Sports or more likely, the wooden spoon...I'm going to aim for the spoon.
3. Go to some Malifaux Tournaments - Really enjoying playing Malifaux at the moment to the point where its my current number 1 game having overtaken Warhammer. I've got my crew half painted (see point 4) and hopefully with a bit more practice I won't be a total disgrace at a tournament!
4. Finish some of my half finished projects - I think I can speak for most gamers when saying I have loads of half finished projects lying around that with a bit of effort could be finished. I'm not going to set specific targets or goals, but it would be nice to finish one or two of them (if I can get the Malifaux crew and the halflings done that would be a good start).
So I suppose its over to the floor, anyone else got any objectives for 2012?
Well, loving the fact that we've gone back to these, so in numerical order:
1) The hafllings are finished. I absolutely loved the project and since finishing them I have been trying without success to come up with an equally crazy cool idea to do as my next army, currently leaning towards Circus themed Tomb Kings....
2) SCGT was brilliant fun as I was officially part of the OG Games team, so much drinking, wargaming and general good times, as always I'll be back next year. Narrowly missed out on the Coolest Army award and got loads of good comments, reviews and pictures of my hafling army, all in all a rousing success!
3) Total failure on this one. Life's got in the way and after SCGT I had a bit of a hobby burn out, just returning to playing some games of Malifaux, looking to go to a one dayer in September.
4) Not a complete failure on this one, I've actually started painting some of the raft of Orc models that I own working slowly towards updating my Steampunk Orcs, Finished the Halflings and I've finished my first Malifaux crew so I'm doing ok! Next up another Malifaux Crew to tick off the list and I should probably work on my Bretonnians., but I do feel the call of a completely new project (see point 1).
Quote1) Get at least 2,000 points of nids painted and go to at least one tourney with them
Done and done, loads more space bugs on the way!
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2) Take part in a narrative campaign
3) Get both my mordheim warbands (witch hunters + khornival) painted
Umm, yeah, not great on these 2, the Khornival evolved into a full Wip army!
Quote4) Paint twice what I buy
Success! See sig
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5) Sort my life out! (Well there has to be at least one I won't keep!)
Maybe...
QuoteBuy the new VC stuff... well the vargheists, boob chair, black knights and maybe hex knights.
make nice movement trays, like matt yeos
Done and Done
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-Obtain printed, hard copies of every army book, and study them, and compile notes related to each army and how it relates to my army, and put it in a folder. I'm taking it seriously this year mutherfuppers, Warhammer homework! I WILL Learn what other armies do and stop being suprised and 20-0 all the time!
I'm getting there, still a way to go but its in progress...
Quote- Spend actual time making my army really nice. I can paint really damn well, but I'm always rushing for tournaments. Maybe I'll start with the new stuff.
Kinda, they are nice but not what i wanted. won't happen for a while as I'm concentrating on gaming but I'm ok with that
Quote
-Reach 200 in the rankings. If I get really good, 150.
currently around 160, I reckon I can wave my way up a bit more!
Quote-Come at least midway in a tournament of at least 20 people!
wooo finally!!
Quote- paint some goddam terrain!
done straight away for slaughter!
Quote- I will go to a tournament at NWGC and not get horrifically drunk.
Brothers in Arms in a few weeks will see.....
Non wargaming related new years resolutions:
[spoiler]
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- To not make a drunken scene of myself... (Not really a new year resolution, started end of summer and been doing pretty well!) basically the mark for this is to not appear somewhere in the morning to remarks of "YOU had a good night didn't you! wink wink" or looks of horror and disgust, or pity.
FAIL. Only 3 I can think of though... thats ok... I think
Quote
- To get steady work and actually some frigging money. Maybe even a job where I don't work Saturdays!
sucess!!!
Quote- To sort my life out. Get a doctor and a dentist. Make sure all my addresses are up to date, return the library books, unblock my bank account!
Pretty sure thats all good! Still no dentist though...
Quote- To NOT MOVE HOUSE.
good so far
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- To not become a fat bastard.
failing, but still time to make good!
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- Watch David Attenborough and not Jeremy Kyle.
The Kyle intake has decreased since getting a job
Quote- Get paid for my photography
I asked... they said no... I stopped taking the pictures.[/spoiler]
All in all this is fast becoming the most successful year for resolution winning!!
Quote from: Tom Loyn on December 28, 2011, 01:09:55 pm
1) get into Welsh ETC team.
DONE.
2) don't embarrass self at ETC if 1) comes into fruition.
DONE. Top in my team at ETC and highest scoring Welshman EVER :).
3) complete beasts army from scratch.
DONE. Was up until 9am for SCGT doing it, but you all witnessed it at the tourney :)
4) go to a 40k tournament.
Still failed here, not sure I'll have time now.
5) play some RPG's, signed up for some!
Failed, well, rolled my character and was well up for Cthulu, but Ol pulled the plug on it :(
6) get a top 10 finish a 50+ tournament.
Sort of done...I won a 42 player tournament finished 2nd at a 15 team team tournament (so 60 players) and 5th at a 30 odd player tournament. I'm getting better...ish.
Some simple goals!
Now that we're coming to the end of 2012, how has everyone got on with their 2012 wargaming resolutions. Myself...
Quote from: The Trampoline on January 01, 2012, 01:43:05 pm
1) Continue with army challenge each month to build a 2400point Vampire Counts army. Hopefully this should be finished by June so I can concentrate on my dissertation instead (put painting on hold.) This includes writing up the campaign Ed and I play each month, first report end of this week.
Well this project pretty much died, I've done the odd bit of batch painting on zombies and painted up the female metal vampire that came out for the 7th edition release and that's pretty much it, otehr than buying some vargheists and a mortis engine. A project I would like to resurrect though... :bash;m:
So, fail.
Quote from: The Trampoline on January 01, 2012, 01:43:05 pm
2) Go Cold Turkey in February - no more miniatures, pick up what I should need for VC in January, and maybe some devastators for my space marines. After that no more miniature buying.
Well I don't buy half as much as I used to but I didn't go cold turkey though. Off the top of my head bought a box of demi-gryph knights, box of vargheists box of skeleton chariots, mortis engine, sniper scouts, landspeeder, devastators, emprie captain, 2 rhinos, and a bunch of random figures and bits.
So, fail!
Quote from: The Trampoline on January 01, 2012, 01:43:05 pm
3) Continue working on Altdorf Empire Army and Crimson Fist Space Marines throughout the year, see if I can finish my Space Marines before June and investigate whether 6th edition is worth playing.
I basecoated a unit of 30 swordsmen and that was about it for the Altdorf army, did a bit on my all red Empire army but not really part of the origian; brief. Had a bit more success with the Crimson Fists, but only basecaoted the army, needs finishing off and sadly I've lsot interest in them in favour of my Genesis chapter.
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4) go to Winter War, and the Bristol two dayer and see how I do, how much I enjoy the games and access whether I want to continue going to tournaments over the year or otherwise take a break.
Went to Winter War and did okay, didn't go to the Bristol two dayer in February but went to one in October which I really enjoyed. I went to Downfall this weekend and had a good time. I enjoy tournaments, but it's picking the right ones and sorting it out in advance to keep costs down. These things are silly money once you add them all up and I'd rather spend the money on city breaks abroad. However, I've had a good break so feel more inclined to do them now.
So, I'll take this as a win :1st:
Quote from: The Trampoline on January 01, 2012, 01:43:05 pm
5) Paint up and play with my Dreadfleet, might look at doing one ship and one piece of terrain a month to get it done by the end of 2012.
Well I spent one weekend taking them off the sprue and assembling them but no further than that so thsis project sank... :bash;m:
Quote from: The Trampoline on January 01, 2012, 01:43:05 pm
6) Work on something none gaming and more hobby. A diorama that I've been thinking of the last few months involving the fulcrum with the spiral stairs and a number of heroes battling chaos minions on it, to stop a dark ceremony on top (warhammer quest style.) To be realistic alongside with my other hobby wishes, I'll sketch it out during the next couple of months and then put it on hold until October/November and start it after my course is over. It'll be a nice little 2012 late autumn hobby thing to do.
Well this particular project didn't even begin to happen, although I have painted the odd figure just for hobby purposes rather than for a tournament army, but not that many so really another fail!
5 fails out of 6, damn my hobby resolutions were not kept to at all.
Quote from: Tom Hale on January 01, 2012, 10:32:39 am
1. Aquire and paint a goblin bloodbowl team
2. Finish the Skaven army (a bit of rebasing and washing and a few 'sub optimal inits')
3. Get rid of all the stuff I'm not going to realistically use
4. Get a podium in a non waaagh singles event
5. Top 40 in rankings
6. Attend all practice events for welsh ETC (play if picked)
7. Play as much AGOT as possible! Play all factions and a 6 player game
8. Catch up on all the reading I'm behind in
9. Paint at least 5 models a week (unless I get everything painted!!)
10. Get a new non bent 40k army
1. bought yes, painted nope. 1/2pt!
2. not really but sold it to Tom U so i guess that counts for something!
3. epic success! i've sold huge amounts of stuff (dark elves, skaven, imperial guard, ravenwing, most of the random stuff: only uncharted seas to go :cool3:)
4. 1st at brighton :1st:, 2nd at SCGT :2nd:, 1st at beerhammer :1st:, and 1st at downfall :1st: .......yeah! :cool3:
5. as i speak i'm 30th, after the downfall result goes i think i will jump the the dissing heights of 15th. one week late for :yesmaster:
6. again went well, did the 6 nations (beating England 100-60 particularly sweet) and looks like im in for next year so very happy
7. payed all 6 houses, 6 player games and got the expansion. love this game :thumbsup:
8. much much more done in last 2 months, only 1 book behind on horus heresy (cause i'm not shelling out for hardback!) but got a few new books for birthday presents.
9. absolute total fail. i think i've painted just one model all year (and i did that in hr and half evening before an event)
10. well with the dark angels now being considered filth at the club (what is that with armies i have!) i'm settling for an allies expansion of nice underpowered (so the internet tells me) sisters of battle. who can complain at that! :wink;m::
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After a bit of a shocker last year I'll keep it simple. Paint more than I buy.
Keep it simple - hmm. Still failed. Next year I'll try something else
Quote from: Blotthrower on December 27, 2011, 12:37:12 pm
1. Finish painting the Halfling Army - There's not that much to go now for me to have most of the options I can field for the little guys in there current capacity as goblins. I love painting them and it would great to be able to roll them out for new years resolution number 2...
2. Go to the South Coast GT - Now I appreciate that I will end up facing 97 Vampire Count Armies or whatever the new flavour of the month would be, but I love the setup, its a good chance to play 6 games of Warhammer over a weekend and catch up with everyone from OG. Hopefully this year I will win one of Best Painted (a long shot I know but maybe the halfling theme would carry me through? probably not), Best Sports or more likely, the wooden spoon...I'm going to aim for the spoon.
3. Go to some Malifaux Tournaments - Really enjoying playing Malifaux at the moment to the point where its my current number 1 game having overtaken Warhammer. I've got my crew half painted (see point 4) and hopefully with a bit more practice I won't be a total disgrace at a tournament!
4. Finish some of my half finished projects - I think I can speak for most gamers when saying I have loads of half finished projects lying around that with a bit of effort could be finished. I'm not going to set specific targets or goals, but it would be nice to finish one or two of them (if I can get the Malifaux crew and the halflings done that would be a good start).
So, a productive year of wargaming all round by the sounds of it! ;-) I think I'm pretty much in the same boat as everyone else:
1. The Halflings were completed. Definitely the best project I've undertaken to date and it's got a lot of love this year.
2. I did get to the SCGT and didn't disgrace myself with the Halflings. No awards sadly but a lot of great feedback from people and I had a wicked time. I may go next year, depending if I can pull together another army as the Halflings are going to have a rest for a bit!
3. Epic fail, no Malifaux tournaments this year, but I've got an ever growing Neverborn Crew and I'm hoping 2013 could be the year to roll them to the wider world.
4. Off the top of my head I can't think of an projects (other than the Halflings) that I've finished! A little ambitious of me given I had the Halflings to finish as well, but lesson learnt and next year I won't be quite so ambitious!
I'm going to roll out a 2013 new years resolution thread in a minute, so...see you there!
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Finish 3 more wfb armies to tabletop standard. (dwarfs, we, lizzies & tk done) skaven+2 others fiinished in 2012
Failed, but rather ambitious particularly once it turned out I was going to be a dad! Still got 2 armies done and started on a third (and 4th too).
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Finish painting all my malifaux stuff. (1 crew & 4-5 other figs). Then preferrably only buy what I plan to immediately paint.
Succeeded but then bought a load more stuff!
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Avoid spur of the moment buying 'because it's cheap'. To achieve this I need to partake in 'the pledge'.
Bit of a fail, largely due to kickstarter purchases, not recieved them yet but 300 odd figs to come.
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Offload unwanted and unnecessay models I have (like 100 odd clanrats when I've 200 painted already).
Generally fail, but have offloaded some but most progress through stripping old metals ready to go, need to spend some time taking pics and getting a list set up of what I've got.
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Play fun armies and avoid netlisting, gonna see what takes my fancy, TK most likely but need more painting.
Generally yes, but played weird semi netlist armies but with some massive differences! So O&G with Savage orc crutch but then a big troll unit whilst putting my general front line and no protection... Had a fun year.