2020 - A Year in Review

I've looked back on my goals versus accomplishments for 2020 and I did pretty good considering the state of the globe.

First, Happy New Year! May your families be blessed with happiness and health.

I was able to get in 120+ face to face games. MG stands for Miniature Games, while BG stands for Board Games. My list of other goals is after the game list. I would have liked to have gotten in more miniature games, but I was focused on rules writing most of the year.

JANUARY (MG: 0, BG: 9)

 8th - Black Orchestra
15th - Terraforming Mars
18th - Jaws x 2
22nd - ACME 
23rd - 2 x Undaunted: Normandy
29th - SpaceCorp
31st - Champions of Midguard

FEBRUARY (MG: 0, BG: 9)

 1st - Jaws, Champions of Midguard
 5th - Virgin Queen
12th - 3 x Undaunted: Normandy
19th - 218: Hannibal
22nd - Virgin Queen
26th - Storming the Gap - Scenario 4

VIRGIN QUEEN - GAME DAY

FEB 22 - EB, Phil, EC, Brian, Wes, Ben
9:30 to 7:30
• Ottoman (Brian)
• Spain (Wes)
• England (Ben)
• France  (Phil)
• Holy Roman Empire (EB) - winner!
• Protestants (EC)

MARCH (MG: 0, BG: 4)

 4th - 218 BC: Hannibal
 5th - Race to the Rhine
11th - Rurik
21st - Tuscany

APRIL (MG: 0, BG: 1)

 2nd - Raiders of the North Sea

MAY (MG: 0, BG: 22)

 2nd - 2 x Pandemic 
 6th - Crusader Kings
 9th - 2 x Pandemic
13th - Atlantis Rising
15th - JAWS, 2 x Azul
20th - 3 x Table Battles
24th - 2 x Azul, 2 x Fistful of Meeples
25th - Zombicide
26th - Pandemic, 3 x Fistful of Meeples
28th - Terraforming Mars

JUNE (MG: 3, BG: 19)

 1st - Robin Hood, Fistful of Meeples
 3rd - Terraforming Mars
 5th - Culture Wars 
11th - Dungeon Saga 
13th - 2 x Copenhagen, 1 x Fistful of Meeples
17th - Dungeon Saga
20th - 3 x Fistful of Meeples, 2 x Azul
24th - Dungeon Saga 
26th - Tuscany and 2 x Fistful of Meeples
27th - Explorers of the North Sea
29th - JAWS
30th - Viticulture and Fistful of Meeples

JULY (MG: 0, BG: 9)

 7th - Imperial Struggle
 8th - 2 x OP Arena
12th - 2 x Viticulture
15th - 2 x OP Arena
22nd - Game of Thrones + Mother of Dragons
29th - JUNTA

AUGUST (MG: 0, BG: 15)

 4th - Viticulture
 5th - Explorers of the North Sea
 6th - Viticulture & Fistful of Meeples
 8th - Viticulture & Fistful of Meeples
12th - ROOT
15th - 2 x ROOT
19th - ROOT 
22nd - 2 x Azul, 2 x Fistful of Meeples
26th - Nemesis 

SEPTEMBER (MG: 1, BG: 4)

 2nd - Steampunk Rally
 4th - Gaia Project
 7th - Congo
 9th - Gaia Project
30th - Mare Nostrum

OCTOBER (MG: 2, BG: 5)

 5th - 2 x Dungeon Saga
28th - 3 x Quartermaster General
31st - 1 x Tuscany, 1 x Trekking the World

NOVEMBER (MG: 0, BG: 6)

 4th - QMG 1914
11th - QMG WW2 
27th - 1 x Trekking the World , 2 x Azul
28th - ROOT

DECEMBER (MG: 1, BG: 16)

 9th - AuZtralia
13th - Blood Red Sky
13th - Caesar
16th - Junta
20th - Caesar
23rd - Caesar
26th - 9 x My City
27th - Caesar
29th - Caesar
30th - Conquistadors 

ERIC'S 2020 GOALS

• Publish Vauban’s Wars in the third quarter of 2020. (done!!!)
• Finish building my PaperTerrain Vauban fortress in 15mm. (done!!!)
• Finish painting and flocking my 15mm Potemkin Russian forces. (failed)
• Finish painting, basing, mounting flags, etc for my SYW Russians. (Only need to flock now, all the rest was done) - Blog post on this one coming.
• Finish flocking my Maximilian collection: Imperials(done), French(done), Republicans (done)
• Finish my Japanese for the RJW: 2nd division (done), Imperial Guard (done), and 12th Division (TBD)
• Finish painting Taiping collection, then flock them. (incomplete)

All in all a great year of gaming and project completion.

Still doing lots of gaming in 2021 with over 40 games played so far this year!! May will be a massive Napoleonic festival with wall to wall games and miniature battles in honor of the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's death.