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-- Year 11 --
March -- No Poll -- Challenge -- Vote -- Space Marine
April -- Poll -- Challenge -- Vote -- From the Scrapheap
May -- Poll -- Challenge -- Vote -- May Day!
Summer Side Quest -- Poll -- Challenge -- Vote -- Mega Open Round
June -- Poll -- Challenge -- Vote -- Slow and Steady
July -- No Poll -- Challenge -- Vote -- Sidekick
August -- Poll -- Challenge -- Vote -- Weathered
September -- Poll -- Challenge -- Vote -- Chaff
October -- No Poll -- Challenge -- Vote -- Halloween Special
November -- No Poll -- Challenge -- Vote -- All Your Base Are Belong to Us
December -- No Poll -- Challenge -- Vote -- Open Round
January -- Poll -- Challenge -- Vote -- Shiny New Toy
February -- No Poll -- Challenge -- Vote -- Finish It!

Year is not over, but as some people are wrapping things up I wanted to start the retrospective thread. Time to look back on what we’ve done, and plan for the future!

Due to some ties, and adding another fixed month in Feb, not a lot of polls this year. I think people enjoyed the Finish It, so unless there is serious pushback, we’ll keep that as another fixed month. Which will make a 3rd of the year set. If anyone has any thoughts on things to change for year 12 ( ) now’s the time to speak up. If not, we can continue to keep plugging along. It feels like there might be an ebb in participation, but I’m not sure if that’s just a global thing we are cought up in, or if there is stuff we can do to boost things up a little. Thoughts, and ideas for topics, are alway welcome.

Any thoughts for a summer side project again?

Thanks as alway for everyone who participates and helps out. Special call out to Midget Gems for the league table.

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And my personal retrospective:

If my count is right, that’s 57 minis. Which is crazy, seeing that the normal cap is 60. But for September we lifted the model cap, so a lot bodies there. But there were other months (April, February) where I was picking 5 out of a bunch to enter. There were 2 months were I didn’t finish my whole entry. I’m still trying to wrap up the jump intercessors. Overall a good assortment of minis. 6 different armies. In something that I’m still baffled at, my Apothecary won me my first win in May. Some of my favorites this year were the soulblight. The mounted wight king, a few specific skelies, vampires.

The summer side project got me painting about 2,000 points of soulblight, many of whom were also in the monthy comp. Still plenty of undead lurking in the shadows, which might see the light of day if the topics line up. And there is always October.

This month saw the last of my Tyranids. Started in 2020, my hive fleet has showed up in 16 different competitions here. While there is a chance we’ll see more, it’s unlikely.

The Necrons are on the rise though, So I’m going to try to wedge them into the comp whenever I can. I’ve got a little less then 2k points of them either in the primed pile or the PoS to get done, and these comps help a lot with motivation. January is just the start for them.

Overall real happy with what I’ve done this year. Lot of high quality work, good mix of stuff, knocked out a bunch of goals/milestones. Looking forward to the next one!