Quick summary of my 2011 and what I'm hoping to achieve in 2012...
2011Gaming:With the missus going back to work I've not had as much chance for getting games in as I used to. At best I've managed to get a couple of games a month in at the club but on a few occasions it's just beeen one because something's come up that has stopped me or my opponent making it down. I've also not managed to get as many casual games in outside of the club as I'd hoped.
In tournament gaming I won 2 games at every singles tournament I went to, although those victories were more down to lack of experience or bad luck on my opponent's part than any tactical brilliance on mine. Due to a lack of funds I didn't end up going to either the Mansfield Maul or Winter Incursion which I had been planning to earlier in the year, so in the end it was just the five tournaments for me (
Open Side event,
Rushden Rumble,
Summer Incursion,
Midlands Open and
Milton Keynes Massacre).
Painting/Modelling:I really struggled to drum up enthusiasm for painting at several times this year, not helped by dad passing away which meant I was having to do stuff to prep for the Summer Incursion when I really wasn't in the mood for it. I started out the year intending to paint up a unit of Sea Guard for use at the Summer Incursion onwards but only got so far before deciding I wasn't playing enough games to figure out a list including them and so decided to stick more to what I know.
I totally failed in one of the resolutions I'd set myself for the year, which was to paint up around 2000 points of the army to finished standard. I seem to have spent most of the year trying to get some of the stuff I'd first painted up to the same standard and scheme I'd sorted out towards the end of 2010.
I'd also been hoping to get some of my scenery built and painted before the end of the year but despite making some progress with building and gap-filling on my Watchtower I'm yet to even get that undercoated.
2012For this coming year I'm going to have to lower my expectations of what I can achieve this year due to lack of money and time (unfortunately a fair bit needs doing around the house and as DIY jobs seem to take at least three times as long to do as I think they should I'm not counting on having much hobby time).
Painting/Modelling:Realistically I want to set myself the goal of getting 1 piece of scenery painted up during the year. I also want to try and get most of the models I'm currently using painted up to the same standard so I can then think about moving them on to a finished standard. Unfortunately that may mean having to redo a number of my metal Sword Masters and my White Lions when originally I'd planned on selling them off and moving to all plastic models
GamingAfter having scored 2 wins at every singles event (regardless of circumstances of those wins) I was hoping to target get 3 wins in at least one event in 2012 but to be honest I'm just not getting in enough games to get the experience of playing different armies to even contemplate that - having looked at my game record spreadsheet (yes, sad I know) since coming back to Warhammer in 2008(?), except for Empire and Orcs & Goblins, I haven't played any army more than 10 times and most only a handful.
So really my aim this year is to just try and get more games in. I'd actually like to run a different army for a while, although this will just end up proxying an army down the club as I don't have the money, and definitely don't have the time, to sort out another army (really regretting deciding to do the joint Skaven army with the missus as at the moment neither of us has the money to spend on getting more models for it, never mind assembling and painting it up).
Tournament-wise I'm only definitely planning to do two at the moment - Polish Sausage (which should see the Leicester SQUIGs out in force unless anyone has cooled on the idea of going since we were discussing it at the club) and the Summer Incursion. Owing to the lack of funds and time I don't think I'm going to be able to do any other 2-day tournaments this year and will probably have to over come my dislike of 1-day 3 game events assuming I can get to any. (Will also try and get to some of the Milton Keynes events if I can).