2013 new year's resolution

It's that time of the year again.
Did we do, what we wanted in 2012?
What are we going to do in 2013?

For those with a short term memory or don't know what the idea is, see this:
Last years resolutions

for me, the following was planned in 2012:
I will play some tournaments and friendlies and will be captaining the ETC team.
I also will add some models to my current armies, but most likely will not start a new one.

I have added some stuff to my ogre army with maneaters, mournfang and a stonehorn.
I have played more games, then 2011.
So I am happy with my last years resolution.

For 2013, I want to do the following:
1. Cut some armies loose; I have too many models with nothing I want to do with.
    They are just using space.
2. Start a "new" army.
    I am planning to start daemons or warriors of chaos if they come out in 2013. the accolades are because I already had armies of both.
3. Play alot of games abroad as well as domestic.
    Planned are the ETC, the ETC warm up, a tournament in England, in Belgium and of course in The Netherlands themselves.

so what are yours?

Start Lizardmen. Nice models, nice fluff, good rules.

Add to my ogre army. 1 stonehorn was ordered yesterday and scrap build some maneaters. Speed up the development of the armies my friends started and of course play more games

Time to sit down and look at this year in review and throw out some (random) resolutions for the next year. So first let's see how I did this year on the resolutions I made in January 2011.

Update the Bellower blog with "real" content at least once a week all year - FAIL
I think I updated the blog maybe 10 times all year. So sad! So much potential but I am busy maintaining this blog as well as my metal blog for the Grind. I guess two blogs at a time is my limit. I want to contribute but not be the person who runs the whole thing. Hope someone in the Ogre Kingdoms community wants to step up and take a crack at it! *hint hint*

Finish painting all of the Blood Bowl teams I have started - WIN/FAIL?
Well I took a stab at it and probably would have gotten them all done if I had started a bit earlier in earnest. I "finished" my Chaos, new Necro/Undead/Human (wasn't on the list at the start of the year), Khemir (also not on list), and most of the Lizardmen but not the Orcs. Both the LM and Orcs are teams I want to look really nice and I stopped painting both earlier in the year when I realized my skill level wasn't high enough yet to get the results I wanted. I feel better about tackling them now so that is a success! Plus now I have a bunch of teams to choose from for both league and tournament play. So it's a mixed bag but mostly good.

Play some WHFB somewhere, somehow - WIN?
I managed to get exactly two games in this year. The FLGS I was playing at really fell apart and wasn't fun to play at. I have a friend who wants to play, and there was a local escalation league going, but I just couldn't get my arse up to play. 8th has let me down a bit but I am feeling the urge growing again. I expect I will play a couple games this year and maybe even paint some unpainted models from my huge (and growing) collection!

Attend as many Blood Bowl tournaments as possible - WIN
Was able to attend 7 NAF tournaments this year, two of which were large two day events. Felt like I was playing almost every month! Certainly more in with the BB scene now and it feels good to go to tournaments/events and see your friends even while you lose game after game after game.

Paint more models than I bought - WIN?
I bought more models but I painted almost all of them. Not counting that insane Reaper Bones KS I got into (like you probably) I think I did alright. I did buy new VC stuff that sits unopened under my painting table...


Here is a list for this year:

Update my blog/gnoblog at least twice a week all year: Been getting into the habit of posting almost daily while on vacation and I have found it helps inspire me to do more, paint more, and want to play more. Of course it's easy to say that when you don't have the time and energy suck of a 50+ hour work week waiting for you every day. Still... a goal worth pursuing!

Finish painting all of the Blood Bowl teams I have started: Lizardmen and Orc teams gotta get done. Also have a Dwarf team in route from a KS campaign. That's all I have on my table at the moment but I have been thinking I "need" some sort of "elf" team to represent Wood Elves and Dark Elves (the only ones I would ever consider playing ever... don't look at me that way I HATE ELVES)

Play some WHFB somewhere, somehow: Just for fun. Want to keep it going since I have thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of my time and money put into the damn game! Plus it is fun?? And new WoC book might help get me motivated too.

Attend as many Blood Bowl tournaments as possible: 7 this year so I need to attend at least 7 again this year. First one coming up is my very own local tournament the Dog Bowl in Feb! Then Headbangers, then ....

Win an award in Blood Bowl league or tournament play: Going to try not to play terrible teams all the time so hopefully I can place or win some kind of award. This year I won a couple wooden spoons and also MOST BRUTAL but I would love to get a painting award or place somewhere in the top three at an event. We'll see...

Complete 12 monthly painting pledges here at the Ogre Stronghold: This "new" forum tradition seems to be coming along nicely. I finished about 75% of my pledges this year but I want to get 100% this next year!

All in all that seems pretty doable. Notice I removed the "paint more models" resolution. That's because of the Reaper Bones KS miniature BOMB that is going to drop on me. No way I can or want to get those all painted. Well I can't do much worse than I did last year, but that is still a pretty intense list. The focus is really on painting and playing games so it shouldn't be too hard to get done. We'll see how I fare when we review this again next year! What do you hope to achieve in your new year of hobby?

1) Paint and model more! : I'd like to get 3 hours of painting/modeling in a week on average. Sometimes I can do more, sometimes I don't feel like it. Gotta play less computer games but that can't be a bad thing right?

2) Play more!: I need to play more, I was getting 1 game a week in November then December came and I couldnt get any games in past the 1st weekend so definitely looking to play more.

3) Get the girlfriend to play a game! : With her being pregnant, she'll be spending a lot of time home and if I can get her to watch one or two games, I'll probably get her to play once with me after. If that happens, I deserve a trophy!

4) Play in a tournament! : I know the FLGS houses at least one tourney a year, it will be one of my goal to attend it.

5) Participate in a painting masterclass! : Mathieu Fontaine actually works at my FLGS and I'll be attending the Masterclass 1 in February, might even try to attend the 2nd class if I see a lot of improvement in my painting.

6) Get my Ogre army painted! : That is quite the goal right there, I have 1 model fully painted and working on my 2nd one. I've got 2k worths of Ogre already bought so it will probably take me the whole year but you gotta aim high in life don't you?

This is easy

1) Not Purchase another single Warhammer Model until I completely finish building and painting my Ogres.  Right now I have all of the Finecast Maneaters and 2 sabretusks left to build...everything else is built and primed (I have at least one of everything else in the range...everything..lol).  5 Ogres are fully painted to High Tabletop/Low Propainted standard (takes me 2-3 hours a model) and that's it.  I anticipate this taking me until mid summer

2) Table at least one opponent in 4 turns or less

3) Say "Good Game" when I lose...and mean it....that might take some serious effort

Happy New year everyone!

Didn't have a resolution last year on hear. 

But there's 2 main goals for here:-

1.  Paint more.

2. Get more games in!

Simple    Happy new year guys!   

Not buy any more models, before I have finished my OK and Dwarfs. Not much to do, but enough at least for a year....I think

Trying to play 3-8 games in a month.