Happy name day, Blog!

Happy Second Birthday to Wargaming with Barks! It's been another fun year in the hobby, and I'm celebrating with you with wine, women, and song*. We're all here carousing and reminiscing about the stuff I've got done in the last twelvemonth. I think my favourite little thing was the Zulu project.

Here's a taste of some other things I got done:

15mm Russian counter-terror team

15mm African militia

Get to da choppa!

Blood Bowl Vampire team

River experiment

Larger than Lief

Hobbitses!

I painted more Lord of the Rings than I had anticipated, and less Saga. I made it to four Blood Bowl tournaments. After Blood Bowl (21 games), the most gaming I had was with a pleasantly engaging and thematic cardgame, Netrunner. I played quite a variety of other new (to me) games this year, all boardgames. I finally got to try Twilight Struggle. I've gone in for a few crowd-funded doodads, including a Jane Austen card game. Yes.

It has been a good year. Thanks for your comments and advice, it really helps. I never really see myself as a numbers-chaser, but I casually note in passing that I'm approaching 100 followers, am well over 100 posts, and have gone through the 45K hits mark.

As my birthday gift to you, I'm going to try and tweak the settings to remove the wretched Captcha gizmo, so that comments flow more freely. If I'm getting spammed, then I'll sadly reconsider.

Unfortunately, however, I'm going to be decreasing the frequency of my posts for a while because of external forces. Bitter, sinister, external forces. I'm not going away, but it will be a little quieter around here for a while. I'll pop around every now and then to dust things off and air the curtains. There is so much to be done...

* individual experiences may vary.