Games Played
- Marvel Champions: The Card Game - 14 plays. Clearly, this game has gotten a lot of play by me over the year, and it's continued even in the last quarter of the year! Nine of these games were solo, and five were with Rob. Major parts of this- Rob and I finished the Rise of Red Skull campaign, and then lost several times to Kang. I managed to finally beat Kang two-handed solo. I also spent a lot of time playing Spider-Woman and Ant-Man in various builds, and got a great feel for those two heroes. Overall, I'm still loving this game, still excited to play more, and get more content, and really, they've done such a good job with this one. My record over this period was 11-3.
In case you weren't aware- Kang has large table space requirements. - Marvel: Crisis Protocol - 3 plays, all against my brother, Matt. I've been switching to try out Web Warriors, after picking up the Miles-Morales/Ghost-Spider box. I win all three games against Matt, and I'm really enjoying the Web Warriors, although I'm not making the best use out of them, thus far. I have found Captain Marvel in Web Warriors AMAZING though. Ridiculous!
- Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps - 1 play with Bob. We play the first scenario to get the hang of the rules and mechanics. We do manage to win, but we played it on super easy mode (a single motion tracker card a turn- apparently we should have drawn FOUR a turn). We're going to revisit this early in 2021 with a bit more challenge, and see how it goes!
- Godzilla: Tokyo Clash - 1 play with my brother and his kids. This actually turned out to be a lot of fun - a little like Monsterpocalypse, but not as deep. With that said, it was easy enough for some young kids to play, and complicated enough that I had a good time playing it. Quite pleasantly surprised!
- Horus Heresy - 1 play against Bob. I took the Heretics, and spent the early game reinforcing the various spaceports to ensure that I could claim that victory when it was available. Bob used the White Scars to almost rip apart my forces at one spaceport, and then made an attack on Horus. I had a card there, however, and moved Horus into a spaceport, safe and surrounded by my traitor pals, and was able to claim the win when the Spaceport victory was legal.
- Monsterpocalypse Miniatures Game - 1 play against Matt. This was mostly a learning game, as we took the starter sets and a few additional units on each side, so he could learn the basics of the system. He ends up defeating me, and enjoys it enough that he buys in.
- Old School Tactical (Vol II) - 1 play against Bob, tackling the first Airborne scenario. I took the Americans, who are assaulting a small village held by the Germans. We didn't end up completing the game, but it was going pretty well for me, as I had been aggressive, and managed to lock almost all of his forces in melee, allowing my other units to move in and get prepared for the end game.
- Star Wars: Legion - 1 play against Matt, trying the Skirmish format. I take Rebels, he takes Droids. I think I'm doing pretty well, as I obliterate one of his best units early on... but then Dooku arrives in the middle of the table. He takes out Luke, and really... I just run out of steam and things to throw at him, and I lose big.
Apparently not shown, the Dooku who is about to wreck my day. - Tannhäuser - 1 play against Bob- I take the Germans in a Deathmatch game against the Americans. I roll extremely well, and roll through his forces en route to a win. It's been a long time since I've played this game, but it was better than I remember. It has really held up well!
- Tiny Epic Tactics - 1 play against Rob. We learn the game, and I didn't record the specifics of our teams, but I know I get out to an early lead, and keep the pressure on, and manage to win. I remember seeing this on Kickstarter and being very interested in it, but just couldn't manage to afford it in time. Definitely a regret- this game was really cool!
It's over, Blue. I have the High Ground!
New Arrivals
- Several Kickstarters arrived, significantly lowering the number of outstanding Kickstarters I have! Let's have a look...
- First Legion Fantasy Miniatures
- Part two of my Warcaster: Neo-Mechanika Kickstarter!
The minis included 
The playmat, marked to aid scenario play! - Watch on the Rhine
- The Riot Quest Kickstarter
- Battletech: Clan Invasion, the new ATO Annual, A Splendid Little War: 2nd Edition, La Resistance (new game from Flying Pig Games), and the Illuminati Big Box.
- Plenty of new miniatures, expansions for card games, and a variety of other things I didn't keep track of!
- I have finally finished painting models! These are my first models that I've completed since I lived with my parents... literally, what, 2005? Fifteen years.... and now, I have models that I've completed painting. Really, it's been quite the year. Let's see what I've finished...
- Bane Lord Tartarus (2 painting points)
- Four Stalkers (2 painting points apiece = 8 total)
- Adam (From Cthulhu: Death May Die) (1 point)
- G-Tank (Monsterpocalypse) (1 point)
- Two Machine Wraiths (2 points apiece)
- Finally, I started on a Cygnar Ironclad.
Reading
- Lots of magazines, a few rulebooks.
- Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier, Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar, The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J Evans, and Branches by Adam Peter Johnson. All were pretty good, although the Coming of the Third Reich was a notch above- a very interesting, informative read.
- I am going to skip this for this period, because I totally didn't keep track of this for the last few months.
- It's the end of the year- I'll have a separate post covering this.