After yesterday's overview of what we managed to complete on a goal level for 2025, it's time to have a look at the new year, and a new set of targets for the hobby.
And the coming year, I labelled as the Year of Underworlds, as I set myself a singular, hardcore goal for this year: grab a Golden Ticket and go to the World Championships
The reason is that it just is something I really want to do, as I'm not to shabby a player in this game system and I want to qualify before the game ever comes to an end. It's not like I'll ever get the chance to do it with another gamesystem after all...
To that end, I'm going to turn all my attention to levelling up my game even more, visiting as many events nationally and internationally as feasible (aka, within driving distance), and get all my remaining warbands finally painted up.
And complete the "Horthgorn Challenge" of actually winning an Underworlds Tournament with the loveable, crossbow wielding Ogor hunter...
On the painting level as such, that means I will need to complete still 7 warbands at the moment, mind you I don't own all the warbands over all editions, just the ones I found fun to buy. No Skaven in sight for example, as the ratmen really do absolutely nothing for...
Another thing left over from the first edition, is finally get the White Dwarf painted up which could also be used back then in the game.
Now, this means of course I need to get out and play games of my beloved game system, and I set myself a very hefty goal of getting 50 games of Warhammer Underworlds in this year, as well as participate in 10 events over the course of the year for that end.
And of those at least 10 events, I want to take the crown in 3 of them! Because after all, one must be ambitious...
I also want to close off the year retaining my number 1 spot in the Warhammer Underworlds ranking on T3, and nibble more to that ultimate goal, becoming number 1 in the website's Hall of Fame ranking, where I'm currently holding second place after Valery Mottet, who benefitted from the Covid period to rake up a stunning 1421 days on the top spot, me now trailing with 413 days ever since I took the first place beginning of january 2025. So I have to retain it for just under the coming 3 years (!!!) to overtake him. Seems do-able lol...
Now, not everything will be Underworlds of course, because I have two "big" projects lined up this year. The first is an Escalation League at the club, and if you score the maximum you can end up with 2500 points total. As I will be joining (as a Reserve Player, being the organiser, so it's not sure I'll play every round) with my Idoneth Deepkin, I want them to hit 2500 points (finally after all those years).
The second one is the revival of space ship games at the club, and I'm organising together with Andy a War Fleet (the free agnostic rules from One Page Rules) gameday in the spring. But also A Call to Arms will be played, and to that end I have two spaceship related goals: paint my Earth Alliance Dawn of the Third Age fleet to 5 Raid (the middle one of the three EA era fleets), and paint 50 spaceships for whatever system and range this year.
Two smaller goals are cleaning up some other projects for the excellent Middle-earth game, with on the one hand painting the remaining 13 members of Thorin's Company, only about 6 years now since I painted Thorin himself and only two others since then. And get the Lothlorien force to 500 points for using them in Fog on the Ekeren-Downs II in october, a goal carried over from last year.
And that is it basically... nothing more, nothing less that I want to achieve in 2026...
So, those are the singular but hefty goals for the painting part of the hobby activities, but of course there is some more things that I want to set goals for, and that is the annual viewing and reading targets.
For the viewing part, I'm aiming at goals similar to last years, with 20 movies to watch as well as 20 series, as that is a nice limit I have found myself to obtain the past years. On the anime level, I'm not putting a special challenge in this year, just going to try and reduce the backlog severly. To that end, I once again am aiming for completing 50 anime series.
Now, reading has been on a low level the past two years, and I'm setting my goals as such. For the rulebooks / books goal, I'm aiming at 10 books, while I'm settling on only 10 manga this year though. On the culinary level though, the goals remained the same, with 50 beers to be discovered and 10 frituurs to be explored.
But the final goal is a bit of a "family hobby": themeparks, zoo's, indoor playparks... the things we love to do with Thorin, and as I'm an avid Coaster Cloud user, I want to visit 10 "check in's" of these this year. And to add some more collecting to my themepark love, and especially of The Efteling, I want to complete the "'t Smidje" collection of pins. So far, there have been 8 series of 4 each for them and the 9th just being released for this year, and are not as easy to find, but it is a fine goal. I currently own 10 out of 36 of them, so let the hunt begin!
So that's the set of goals for this year, varied and uberly ambitious, so let's go where we get this year!
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