As things are shaping up, I should complete my part of the challenge, assuming that I can paint a new HOTT army in the next two weeks, then fit in a game with it. How hard can that be? A couple of other people seem confident of completing their games as well.
Whilst I was away I considered whether to run the challenge again for next year. I decided that I probably won't. It's been a great deal of fun, and it did achieve the aim I set for it, which was to see people blogging game reports rather than just views of their painting table. But it has required a fair bit of effort to administer, and I have also sometimes felt that the challenge has driven the games I've played during the year a little too much, instead of me being able to flit from one project to another with reckless abandon. I am open to coercion if people do want to see it run again, though.
I played two games in November. Hard to decide which was the favourite, so I tossed a coin and got the Action at Morton Fendlow, the end of the first phase of my ECW mini-campaign. I might pick it up again in the new year, possibly with some different rules. I'm having thoughts in that direction.
As for other people, I shall start with Warwell's Wargames because he has decided to do Machinas as a last minute change.
And, as a second choice, I'm going for Sun of York and one of his DBA games.
Kaptain Kobold - The Stronghold Rebuilt
1 - HOTT
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5
2 - Neil Thomas Pike and Shot
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
3 - The Rampant System
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
4 - Machinas
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
5 - DBA 3.0
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
6 - Galleys & Galleons
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
Pat G - Irr Wb (F)
1 - Ace of Aces Handy Rotaries
2 - B17 - Queen of the Skies
3 - Chain of Command
4 - D&D OSR
5 - Gruntz
6 - Space 1889: Soldier's Companion
Game 1 - Game 2
Shaun Travers - Shaun's Wargaming With Miniatures
1 - When Warriors Collide
Games 1-6
2 - Advance to Cover
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4
3 - Battlestations
Game 1
4 - WW2 3x4
Games 1-6
5 - Fall of Rome
Games 1 + 2 - Game 3 - Game 4
6 - Triumph
Games 1 and 2 - Game 3
Ski - Ski's Wargames
1 - X-Wing
Games 1 + 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
2 - Dystopian Wars
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4
3 - Rubber and Lead or other homegrown rules
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
4 - Starfleet Battles
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4
5 - Miscellaneous
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4
6 - MLB Showdown
Game 1
Brian Hamilton - By Brush and Sword
1 - Blucher
2 - Saga
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
3 - Blood Bowl
Games 1, 2 and 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
4 - Arena Rex
Game 1
5 - Strange Aeons
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5
6 - Fistful of Lead
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
Sean Gewecke - Sean's Gaming and Shooting Blog
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3
2 - Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3
3 - The Walking Dead: All Out War
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
4 - Kings of War
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5- Game 6
5 - Imperial Skies
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3
6 - Memoir '44
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
Michael S - ChicagoWiz's Games
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3
2 - Ral Partha's Chaos Wars
Game 1 - Game 2 - Games 3 + 4
3 - HOTT
4 - D&D/5e
5 - One Hour Wargames
6 - DBA or Neil Thomas's Ancients/Medieval Wargaming
Martin Sheppard - Sheppard's Crook
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3
2 - Ancient / Medieval Warfare
3 - Memoir 44
Game 1 - Game 2
4 - Four Against Darkness
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
5 - One Hour Wargames
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
Game 1 - Game 2
4 - Four Against Darkness
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
5 - One Hour Wargames
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
Natholeon - Natholeon's Empires
Kevin Kearney - Warwell's Wargames
Phil Saunders - A Game of Bones / Democratic People's Republic of Philtopia
1 - Black Powder
2 - Team Yankee (6mm edition)
Game 1 - Game 2 - Games 3 + 4 + 5
3 - Blood Bowl
4 - Deadzone
5 - Rogue Stars
Game 1 - Game 2
6 - Dragon Rampant
Games 1 + 2
Peter - Grid-based Wargaming
1 - One Hour Wargames (OHW) and Others - SciFi Variant
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Games 5 + 6
2 - Galleys and Galleons
Games 1+2 - Games 3+4 - Games 5+6
3 - Hundred Years War - Lion Rampant
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
4 - Dark Ages with Dux Bellorum
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Games 4, 5 and 6
5 - WW2 Naval (Pz8 rules)
Game 1 - Game 2 - Games 3 + 4 - Games 5 + 6
6 - 19th Century ImagiNations
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
Sun of York - One Sided Miniature Wargames Discourse
1 - Impetus
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
2 - Saga
Games 1 + 2 - Game 3 - Game 4
3 - Napoleon's Battles
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
4 - DBA
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4
5 - Wings of Glory
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
6 - Songs of Drums and Shakos (will also count Songs of Blades and Heroes).
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
Ricardo Nakamura - Fantalonia
1 - And a Bottle of Rum
2 - Clash on the Fringe
3 - Mercenary Air Squadron
4 - Morale Napoleon
5 - MOTH - The Ion Age
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
6 - Star Trader
Kenneth van Pelt - The Penny Whistle
2 - Blue Max
Game 1
Game 1
5 - Carrera GO Formula 1
6 - Rogue Stars
Games 1 and 2
Dan Foley - Last Stand at Cairngorm
1 - Chain of Command.
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
2 - A Gentleman's War
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
3 - Sharpe Practice 2
4 - Saga
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4
5 - Mad Dogs with Guns
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
6 - Lion Rampant (and variants)
Jay - Numbers, Wargaming and Arseing About
1 - 1914 Opening Moves (Minden Games)
2 - Remagen Bridge (Minden Games)
3 - Flying Eagles (High Flying Dice Games)
4 - Courage under Fire (HFDG)
5 - Manoeuvre (GMT)
6 - Poltava
JWH - Heretical Gaming
Attempting the full BGG 10x10 Challenge
Games 1 and 2
Dan Foley - Last Stand at Cairngorm
1 - Chain of Command.
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
2 - A Gentleman's War
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
3 - Sharpe Practice 2
4 - Saga
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4
5 - Mad Dogs with Guns
Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5 - Game 6
6 - Lion Rampant (and variants)
Jay - Numbers, Wargaming and Arseing About
1 - 1914 Opening Moves (Minden Games)
2 - Remagen Bridge (Minden Games)
3 - Flying Eagles (High Flying Dice Games)
4 - Courage under Fire (HFDG)
5 - Manoeuvre (GMT)
6 - Poltava
JWH - Heretical Gaming
Attempting the full BGG 10x10 Challenge
"I have also sometimes felt that the challenge has driven the games I've played"
ReplyDeleteGood point there. I had tried to pick games the group I was in were interested in but even still we missed a few of them. I have played about 40 games so far this year with a chance of one or two more. Also one point of the challenge was to gain knowledge of the rules by playing them more than once or twice. For the games I completed this was done and I found that we played and enjoyed some games beyond the number of the challenge.
It was very hard to choose a set of games at the beginning of the year which I was likely to play throughout it. The fact that I made about three changes of game during the course of the year is a testament to how hard this was to stick to, although more to my inability to stay focused on a particular game :)
DeleteI have felt the same so I was going to drop out if it were run again. However, it was a good experience because I tried out games (Spandau and Lewis; Machinas) I may not have otherwise tried.
DeleteFor next year, I pondering a greatly scaled down challenge where I try out 4-6 new games (just 1 game each). I already have a thought of trying Galleys and Galleons and Dragon Rampant
I also felt that the challenge drove me to play, or advocate playing, certain games. That kind of worked out, since the games I chose were ones that I was hoping to get to the table. Despite coming up short, I'd be up for doing the same again for 2018.
DeleteHi Kaptain,
ReplyDeleteHow about 4 x 4 as an option? I ought to warn you - I have not thought this through in any way, shape or form so I am sure you will tell why it is a rubbish idea!
I have enjoyed reading the reports though - it makes up for my own lack of table action over the year.
All the best,
DC
It's not a rubbish idea at all, and would certainly generate game reports. I picked six by six as a fairly arbitrary number and because I felt it was achievable (it's three games per month).
DeleteThe original challenge this was derived from was 10x10, and was designed to get people playing games, especially unfamiliar ones, more than once or twice because it was felt that multiple plays are the only way to get a feel for how the game truly plays out. A case in point; we spent over a year playing Maurice before we clicked how the game actually worked (as opposed to just following the rules), and our games after that have been richer and more interesting based on this understanding. Obviously if you pick games you're familiar with (like my choice of HOTT) then this isn't an issue, but I picked DBA 3.0 for example, something I'd only dabbled in up until this year, and by being required to play it intensively have a much better feel for how it works now. I don't think I would have acquired this understanding with only four plays.
From the learning standpoint I think that four plays gives you a good idea of the game six gets you to the point of do I still want to devote time to this. Our last few games of Chain of Command went well from a mechanics point of view but we're not overly enthused about playing them again.
DeleteI would think a 3x6 or 4x6 may be an option.This still leads to 18-24 games in a year which for some is a challenge in it's own right and allows you to play some other games you already know you like. This was a great event to be part of and I look forward to how it works out next year.
For me the challenge was to finish 6 games with more than 2 sets of rules. I knew I was a bit of a butterfly but the challenge has shown I am a huge flutterer! It would be fairly easy (and it was this year) for me to play 6 or more games with 2 rules, but it has been hard sticking to something to play for the other 4. I think 6 plays with one set of rules is the key and so a 3x6 or 4x6 comp would be preferable. But it has the disadvantage of not having a nice ring to it, compared to 6x6 or 10x10, and 4x6 does not seem to really a stretch target (but see the next paragraph on why that is not really relevant).
DeleteI really think 6x6 was, and is, a great idea. Not that many of us made it (although the year is not over yet!). It did achieve its main goal of getting people to play and post. So in reality setting a smaller goal would still achieve its aim.
I am unlikely to join in next year due to I have too many small side projects that fell by the wayside that I would have liked to have given a go but didn't as they were not on the list of 6; and I and the family will be moving and renovating a house for the first 6 months of next year, so "spare" time will not be gaming :-) But if something was happening in 2019 then I think so. Also if KK did not want to run it, I think a blog with a page that people can update with where they are at may work, or something similar with collaborative editing e.g. a Google Doc. .