As I do each year, 2022 started with a "What's in store for 2022!" so we will use that post as a basis for our year in review.
Middle-earth SBG
Painting Goal: This one is hard to say, as stated above, if we play in the Doubles, I'll have to finish an army in time.
Gaming Goal: Also as above, a few games of practice will be needed, in either case, I think maybe I can get in 1-2 games in for the year.
Well MeSBG had a small chance this year, and I failed to live up to that little bit. The urge to play would come and go, and I even painted a few models to prepare for AdeptiCon 2023 just in case. With a goal of 1-2 games, 0 games were played.
Warhammer 40,000
Warhammer 40,000 will be the bulk of 2022 for me. Between adding on more Units to my new Necron army, and new Codex's coming out for armies I already have to attending tournaments, all my time will be mainly spent here.
Painting Goal: In all honestly, I think for the first time I do not have a painting goal. I would have said my Necron army, but this past Fall I managed to paint over 2000 Points of Necrons, so 2022 will be adding to that army. I also have a Chaos Space Marines, and a Tyranid army on the back burner that are waiting for a new Codex, so we shall see who gets a Codex first and that army probably will hit the painting table next.
Gaming Goal: Last year I had a goal of 24 games and I hit it with 29 games played and I think 24 games will be another realist goal to hit. I do think that with events somewhat opening back up, this number should be easily attained.
I cannot believe what a FLOP! I had with Warhammer 40,000 this past year. W40K was going to be my bread and butter game for 2022 and half way through the first month of January things really turned around. I did attend the Las Vegas Open 2022 and played the first day of the 'Warhammer 40,00 Friendly' with the second day shopping and enjoying myself at the bar.
A few more of my Necron models did get completed, but with a gaming goal of 24 games, I only managed to play 5 games in 2022 (and 2 of them were in Vegas).
X-Wing
X-Wing is a great game that can be played in 75 minutes, so it always seems to make the list for the New Year.
Painting Goal: Not Applicable (pre-painted miniatures)
Gaming Goal: I had a goal of 6 games for 2021 and I fell way short with only 1 game played. An updated version (v2.5) will be coming out early 2022 so I know we will play a few games to try out the updated rules. So for 2022, I think I will set my goal to 5 games.
As with the three games above, X-Wing was another FLOP! for me. We did not try the new v2.5 rule set, nor reached my goal of 5 games played, kind of hard to do when 0 games were played. I have a feeling in 2023 this game will finally be officially shelved/boxed for me.
Events
COVID has really messed up 2020 and most of 2021 for attending events, 2022 has more events scheduled but there seems to always be a new variant coming out, so events are always risky at the moment.
We do have quite a few events planned out so far for 2022:
- January 28th - 30th: Las Vegas Open
- March 23rd - 27th: AdeptiCon
- May 13th-15th: Motor City Mayhem
- August 7th - 14th: Cruisehammer
- September 30th - October 2nd: Michigan GT
New Games for 2022?
NONE.... I have too many games already sitting on the shelf. Warhammer Age of Sigmar did not make the above list and we do have plenty of models for the game now, so if its played, as originally stated way above, it will be a plus.
Okay, here are where things took a change and I believe for the better. Back on January 24th of 2022 in my "Weekly Chronicle #4" I talk about the game Marvel Crisis Protocol (MCP) and how it has started to interest me after attending Universal Studios Florida. That happened to be the week before Las Vegas Open 2022. While at LVO, there were some vendors selling MCP at a really good price so a lot of models were purchased, followed by vendors at AdeptiCon and so on and next thing you know we have almost every model in the range including two copies of the Core Set.
I have always liked games that are quick to play, and MCP is that game (plus the added benefit of Marvel Super Heroes). Between setup, playing, and clean up, you can be done in 2 hours. Each game is 90 minutes (and we play on a clock) and there have even been days where we would get a back to back game in.
So as you can see in the original games above, of the three games, only 5 games were played in total, that is because I had played 62 games of Marvel Crisis Protocol this past year and I do not see it letting up anytime soon.
Another game we picked up in 2022 was Star Wars Legion, we have been going back and forth about this game for awhile and finally picked up some models. We were going to be playing in a Narrative game at LVO 2023 (but that is not going to be happening now) but I did manage to paint up a 800 point force. We also played 5 games this year and then it kind of sizzled again due to MCP. Not sure what will happen in 2023 for this game with talks of a new Star Wars game coming from AMG similar to MCP.
Come back tomorrow for "What's in Store for 2023!"
