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Oh thank God, 2020 is finally done!

So, that was a long 365 days..... Yeah yeah, I know today looks very much like yesterday did. Nothing magically changed at midnight.
But on the assumption 2021 will get better, what's your AoS goals for this year?

Mine:
1) Get our next Path to Glory campaign up & running. Target time frame: Jan/Feb.

2) Build & paint up a Chaos Marauder?/Dark Elf? Maybe Idoneth? slaver/raider force. Along with a village + villagers & a small CoS defense force.
This is aimed at being more of a mass battle scenario for use in our D&D game than just an AoS project, so I'm undecided on the enemy raiding force atm. The BBEG (who's not actually present in the battle) has sent out his raiders to capture as many villagers as possible for his dastardly plan (wich the PCs will ultimately have to foil). Different VPs for different types of villagers/defenders captured/saved.
It'll also serve as an AoS demo game for the shop. The one I did last year Goblins invading "The valley of the Druids" (CoS/Sylvanth alliance) went quite well. Furthered our D&D game and drew in two new players to AoS/40k. So let's do it again!
Target time frame: June(?)

3) Play more AoS games than I did in 2020.

A) paint std and gloomspite armies i started
B) paint 5k stormcast i have waiting
C) wrap up fec still unpainted
D) paint more lumineth by the looks of it(teaser video hinted at those so expected within 3 months excluding corona delays)
E) try to figure how to deal with bonereapers
F) try to win vs local guy and his lumineth i'm running 0-3

Painting and modelling wise
A) Finish my nurgle daemons.
B) Finish my Beastmen
B) Paint up my Stormcast Elementals (Bascially the stormcast start collecting with Stone, Ice, Fire and Lightning themed minis)
C) Finish my Wood Elves (would be my first ever completed elf force!)
D) Finish magnetising and then paint up my Lizardmen (I have the start collecting and the christmas box from a while ago, but I want to magnetise all the beasties so I can use them on their own in Dungeons and Dragons without the skinks or saurus riding them!)


I think if I got that done, I would be happy painting wise. I also have some Slaves to Darkness and an Island of Blood set I wouldn't mind getting finished, but that is definitely a lower priority. Wrath and Rapture might be a sudden dark horse if I can get over my previous bloodletter assembly trauma.

Gaming wise:
A) Play some games with my Beastmen, hopefully vs. Wood Elves or Stormcast.
B) Play a siege game using my ringfort I made last year!
Depending on how the vaccine rollout goes I might get a lot more games in this year as I can bring my stuff with me in my car for games now that I have got a few different armies for people to use and a couple of terrain sets for battlefields.

Scenery wise:
A) Make some rocky crags and fungal forest terrain for an "underway" board or just a rocky badland board.
B) Make some mesoamerican ruins for my jungle terrain set.
C) Make a herdstone or corrupted tree as a centrepiece for my beastmen.
D) Make some generic ruins with wooden floors for fantasy games. I think I want to try magnetising them so they can flatpack as well...

My terrain is really coming along, my "dark ages temperate" setting is pretty much done but for some river sections and I am getting a decent bunch of bits made.

Finish some more BoC and a friend HoS armies. Thats about it.

I plan to continue to work on painting up my Slaves to Darkness army. I don't necessarily think I will finish it this year (Archaon still awaits being built), but forward progress is progress. I still have a few Warcry cultists I want to get for the army. I know they aren't very good, but the models look nice and are fun to paint to me.

Put real effort into painting my Lumineth army. I also don't know if I will finish it this year, but I would like to get it to my minimum tabletop standard before I start gaming again would be nice.

As of now, I plan on using 2021 to focus on my 40k stuff more than my AoS stuff. I do think it is possible I can get everything done this year, but I don't know what new releases might catch my fancy or become wants to add to my existing armies. So I don't want too much pressure and turn my hobby into work. Outside Lumineth already getting an expansion, I don't really see any of my major factions I play getting much this year. So that will allow some breathing room. I also doubt I will be starting a full army of anything this year as well. If I do, it will be something crazy easy to paint like Necrons or Stormcast Enternals. I also don't plan on working on any commissions this year. So I can focus on my stuff that I have already.

At some point I want to do the 30 Swordmasters and 3 Werewolf (Kurnoth Hunters) left for my City. Have a ton of Gloomspite but not prioritizing them right now.

I've just started, really. Always loved old Vampire Counts, so I've gotten into Death. Going for Legions of Nagash and Flesh-Eater Courts. Have a bunch of stuff I've assembled over the past couple of weeks, hope to paint up 2k points of each this year.

Get all the terrain painted.

Play more games.

Sell off the stuff I don’t use.

Possibly start another army.

Slaanesh!

And then any lizardman models that GW might churn out.

After that I'll be on the look out for human mortals of any variety, though I will always hope for a darkoath barbarian release.

I'm starting a bonereapers army!

Gunna be starting up a weekly path to glory livestream so that's cool.

making those two army's from the starter legal army's

Hedonites. Definitely doing Sybarites, but I definitely got a second keeper for christmas. While 2 keepers in AoS is kind of a bad move, its good for 40k.

1) Paint up the old and damaged Kroq-Gar model that I salvaged and restored from a friend's collection I inherited. This will be the centrepiece for my Seraphon army.
2) Paint up the 10 saurus warriors and 10 skinks I already own.
3) Get the skinks start collecting force and paint up my first 500-1000pt force of seraphon.
4) Create a display board for the army.
5) Create a few matching pieces of lizardmen themed terrain including a ziggurat.
6) When it is finally safe to do so again: learn to play AOS and get some games under my belt.

ccs wrote:So, that was a long 365 days..... Yeah yeah, I know today looks very much like yesterday did. Nothing magically changed at midnight.

Well, yeah, it would be a long 365 days, when we actually went through 366!

ccs wrote:
But on the assumption 2021 will get better, what's your AoS goals for this year?

If anything, I might start a Warcry or Underworlds band or two. A lot really depends on finances, employment, and local interest.

 Charistoph wrote:

ccs wrote:So, that was a long 365 days..... Yeah yeah, I know today looks very much like yesterday did. Nothing magically changed at midnight.

Well, yeah, it would be a long 365 days, when we actually went through 366!

As crappy as 2020 was I don't think most people really noticed that it was leap year.

But fine, have it your way. It was a really long 366 days.

Starting an Ironjawz army for the New Year New Army thing.
Decided on the Skybasha Clan from the How to paint Ironjawz app. Want to convert up some shields for my Brutes then start on an airship for them. Maybe a Mega-Gargant merc with pig iron armour

A) Replacing all dried up/empty paints.
B) Fighting my pile of shame.
C) Obtaining one more SC! Skeleton Horde to get last remaining mortarch.

- Get a SC-box to bump the Gits i got from the battleforce to 2000
- Get a SC-box for FEC because they look cool and have awesome fluff. With the Warcry box I got for them I have around 1000 points, which I hope is playable.
- Use said FECs and my Beastmen to get a friend to try out the game with me.
- For the painting side, maybe prime my WoCs? I know I'm slow with that stuff

ccs wrote:

 Charistoph wrote:

ccs wrote:So, that was a long 365 days..... Yeah yeah, I know today looks very much like yesterday did. Nothing magically changed at midnight.

Well, yeah, it would be a long 365 days, when we actually went through 366!

As crappy as 2020 was I don't think most people really noticed that it was leap year.

But fine, have it your way. It was a really long 366 days.

Hey, if I have to be hammered by political ads every leap year, I like to know why, even if it is just to know when it will finally stop.

Waiting for new rules.

 Shadox wrote:
- Get a SC-box to bump the Gits i got from the battleforce to 2000
- Get a SC-box for FEC because they look cool and have awesome fluff. With the Warcry box I got for them I have around 1000 points, which I hope is playable.
- Use said FECs and my Beastmen to get a friend to try out the game with me.
- For the painting side, maybe prime my WoCs? I know I'm slow with that stuff

A) think you are being optimistic with that　unless you mean 2 battlefore i have 2k with battleforce, box of hoppers, 2 manglers and sc plus herder box
B) i got 750pts with　sc and box of ghouls. Again 1k feels optimistic.

Though maybe i'm totally off!

Would like to add :

Buy at least 2 of the Knight-Questor Anniversary Model that was revealed today.

The same plan I've had since the start:

Wait for Malerion

I currently have no AoS minis, I'm waiting for my King (I never liked Morathi much).

I didn't know I needed an axe-hammer wielder but apparently I did.

I'm not 100% certain but it looks along the lines of:

1. Paint 1k SCE
2. Paint 1k Nurgle
3. Paint 1k NH
4. Hopefully actually get to play games
5. In relation to 5, start attending tournies again

More specifically this year I hope to:

-Collect, build and paint up to 2000 points of Flesh Eater Courts
-Collect, build and paint up to 2000 points of Beasts of Chaos
-Collect, build and paint up to 3000 points of Legions of Nagash
-Collect, build and paint up to 2000 points of Gloomspite Gitz
-Collect, build and paint up to 2000 points of Slaves to Darkness

Holy gak, that's a lot

 Lord Corellia wrote:
More specifically this year I hope to:

-Collect, build and paint up to 2000 points of Flesh Eater Courts
-Collect, build and paint up to 2000 points of Beasts of Chaos
-Collect, build and paint up to 3000 points of Legions of Nagash
-Collect, build and paint up to 2000 points of Gloomspite Gitz
-Collect, build and paint up to 2000 points of Slaves to Darkness

Holy gak, that's a lot

An army every two months, taking November/December off?

ccs wrote:

An army every two months, taking November/December off?

It's almost certainly not getting done. I have a pretty full Middle-Earth schedule. But I'm gonna try.

I wanna get my Lumineth going. Ideally I'd like 2000pts by the end of the year, but to at least paint the starter box would be nice. I doubt I'll get a chance to play in any tournaments this year, but I'd like to have something I don't have to tweak much for 2022.