2022 Hobby Recap

2022 was a slower year for the hobby. Despite all the excitement of a new edition of Horus Heresy, I just did not get nearly as many models painted or games played as I did the last few years. Career and family have just taken up more time this year with work being demanding and life being busier with kid activities than ever before. 

2020 output:

• 54 infantry
• 3 vehicles/artillery
• 2 terrain pieces
• 18 blog posts
• 6 games played
• 7 battle reports
• 18 total blog posts

2021 output:

• 81 infantry
• 1 vehicle
• 3 terrain pieces
• 7 games played
• 6 battle reports
• 52 total blog posts

2022 output:

• 10 Stormtroopers of the Fighting 501st
• 6 Steel Legion with grenade launchers and 1 sergeant
• Sons of Horus Contemptor Dreadnought
• 2 White Scars Sabre Strike Tanks
• 10 White Scars Tactical Marines
• Radar Tower terrain piece
• White Scars Ebon Keshig Contemptor
• White Scars Cataphractii Stormseer
• 3-way battle with Pete and Logan and battle report
• Sons of Horus vs Blood Angles battle and battle report
• Sons of Horus vs Blood Angels battle without report yet
• White Scars vs Death Guard battle and battle report

Totals:

• 27 infantry
• 4 vehicles
• 1 terrain piece
• 4 games
• 3 battle reports
• 19 total blog posts

As I said, nowhere near the pace of the last few years, but not a terrible output. Definitely hoping to step it up a notch in 2023. We are off to a good start with a great game on Jan 1 and probably my best battle report completed shortly after. I just need to find more time for painting, but it is tough when the kids have practice almost every evening and I have conference calls for work on evenings and weekends to interrupt things as well. But we shall persevere! I am fired up to build and paint a lot of stuff for my White Scars this year. After getting beaten up and down the planet of Xhorik Prime for the last 5+ years, I am finally going to get serious about fielding some effective units for this poor army. Up to this point, I have just painted what I think are fun and characterful models for the V Legion, but it definitely gets old not being able to compete in games, year after year. It limits the fun things we can do with campaigns and the story has become stagnant (how many times can the same result occur and still have any compelling drama or story?). So I will try to do better to give Pete a good game rather than an easy walk in the park every time except for when we pick a scenario or armies to deliberately give the Scars a chance. Who knows, this may even be the year that I finally build a Super Heavy to compete with the Fellblade that Pete has been using against me for almost five years!