By Brush and Sword: A Year In Gaming

Friday, December 31, 2021

A Year In Gaming - 2021

Well, that's another year come and gone. And what a year it was.

In-person gaming became more regular again as wargamers got vaccinated. This also meant that the SJGA could start meeting again face-to-face. And I even went to a convention!

Here's what I played this year:

'O' Group - 4
Battletech: Alpha Strike - 1
Beyond the Gates of Antares - 1
Black Powder - 1
Bolt Action - 5
British Grenadier - 2
Chain of Command - 1
Field of Battle 3 - 1
Frostgrave - 1
General d'Armee - 1
Glory: 1861 - 1
Hail Caesar - 1
Live Free or Die - 1
Middle Earth SBG - 3
Mythic Americas - 4
Rebels & Patriots - 1
Saga - 2
Strength & Honor - 1
To the Strongest! - 1
Warlords of Erehwon - 3
Warmaster: Revolution - 4
Wings of War - 3

That's 43 games total for 2021. Far less than 2019, but hopefully it's building up again.

It's also another year of mostly one-off games. This is something else I noticed while going back over the end-of-year posts for 2020 and 2019. This year, I only managed to play a single game at least five times; that was Bolt Action. The same set of rules also managed to hit that benchmark in 2020. But back in 2019, there were five sets of rules I managed to play at least five times. Hopefully I'll get into some sort of league or campaign next year.

And now a look at what I painted over the year:

10mm Cavalry - 60
10mm Infantry - 146
10mm Monsters - 32
15mm Infantry - 118
2mm Infantry - 1
28mm Cavalry - 1
28mm Infantry - 100
28mm Monsters - 9
28mm Vehicle - 5
6mm Vehicle - 15

In reverse of 2020's played games, I painted less. But then again, I didn't have a span of three months when my workplace was shut down and I was stuck at home.

It was more spread out this year, with no scale really taking precedence. Though I did paint my first set of 2mm miniatures!