Okay, short anwer: not to good.
The longer answer is more nuanced though, as always a shift in priorities and real life mixing in making it so that I painted over 200 figures for example, yet barely completed any painting goals.
What do you mean, unfocussed?
Let's have a look as such at all the goals this year, and where I stranded in the end, beginning with all those glorious painting failures as such!
And yes, the line "sold off the models" can be inserted left and right, but that doesn't matter to much for this oversight. The first failure as such is the Idoneth Deepkin, whom I wanted to get to 2000 points. I stranded at 1270 points but the return of Elathain in Underworlds resparked my love for them, so they will be included tomorrow again for the 2026 goals and get some good loving, as I'll enter them in the TSA League and tournaments next year. The Hedonites of Slaanesh also stranded far short of the target of 2000, ending at 790 points only, but they will be on the backburner for a long time now, with the Helsmiths of course in the line now as well. What I did succeed in though, was painting up 5 warbands for Underworlds, ticking off indeed at 5 painted, as well as (just barely) finish 5 scenery pieces, the last ones completed just late december with the Spearhead terrain set!
There where also some projects that ended up being stillborn in the year, like the Wood Elves for Old World. They stranded at 210 points of the 2000 points mark, for no other reason then that I just don't like the game. The same as such is the result for the Empire, whom went to 1637 points before forced to drop out of the Escalation League, short of the 2000 points mark and sold of the models in the meantime. If I ever play a game of that system again, I have my Chaos Dwarfs after all to do so with. Other stillborn projects, whom I never even touched with a brush over the whole year, where the MESBG Rohan, Combat Patrol Aeldari and Kill Team Voidscarred, and I doubt those will ever see the light of day, the sci-fi models sold to start the Dark Angels *sometime*. I haven't painted anything for Moonstone either, but I haven't given up on that one yet.
The Lothlorien force for MESBG ended at 99 points out of 750, and will return as well tomorrow, albeit at a lower goal, to cater for the Fog on the Ekeren-downs tournament I'm running again in 2026 and be my force there to play. Which can't be said for the Bolt Action Belgians, as I wasn't able to get to the event I wanted to play them in and if I do the game, it'll be my beloved Italians anyways someday, so they ended at 121 points out of 500 aimed points.
Now, with the paint numbers checked, and not many successes, I did however get to my gaming goals, even with the new job I got in january preventing frequent wednesday night Underworlds gaming. I managed in the end to play 81 games of the aimed for 50, a lot of those being from multiple games at tournaments, but still got about 2 game nights at the club TSA in as well on average. And talking those events, I wanted to join 10 of those this year, and ended at 13, so that's not to shabby at all either!
And that is the miniature gaming part of the goals, always the biggest part of hobby goals, rounded out for the year, so let's have a look at all the other things I aimed for this year. Again a mixed cookie bag, with some huge successes and epic failures...
I set myself the goal this year to see all the anime that Noshi had already seen, but I hadn't. While I started strong with the anime watching this year, because night shifts, around may thay started to shift as I began watching other things while assembling wargame miniatures during work, and usually put on some battlereports and such as a background "radio". This resulted in only 13 out of 40 having been scratched of the list unfortunatly. A large insurgence though on anime series from october onwards again, mostly with newer series I needed to catch up on, did however just got me near to the goal of 50 watched series, ending at exactly 50 in the end by finishing that last needed one, the most recent Gundam series, just two weeks ago. At least that was some good backlog reduction!
On the movie and series front, both set at 20 for the year, I went well over goal, with 32 movies seen as well as 33 series finished, so that has been a very, very good result. The reading front however was more of a mixed result, failing hopelessly in the manga department of reading 30, finishing only a measly 8 this year. On the books and rulebooks front though, I got to 11 out of the planned 5, though most are rulebooks that have been studied I admit.
As always, we round out the oversight with the "culinary" department, and I had set a goal as always of 50 new beers, which was obtained even without visiting any beer festivals this year, clocking off at 97 new discoveries. The frituur's where set at 10 places, and just by the skin of my teeth I ended at 9 visited, guess that is okay even if I didn't quite make my goal.
So there we have it, all the goals of the past year and a tat to many reds on there. Never the less, for next year I have some very, VERY ambitious ones lined up as well, so check back tomorrow for the whole lot of those!
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