The 2025 Goals: the Year of the Tournament

 After the Year of Ink and the disastrous Year of the Chaos Dwarf, 2025 will be noted down in my geekiness calendar as the Year of the Tournament.

Even though the name of the year doesn't actually mean that goal will be made, as my abyssmal result of last year showed.

But with higher mobility and Thorin needing just that little less taking care for, I decided (aka was allowed by Noshi) to go out once a while and play some tournaments again.  So as the mainliner goals for the coming year, I've put down 10 tournaments / leagues / game day events, which would equal about one every month with some leeway.  The game system doesn't matter, if I can play it, I will, and as a sort of "side-goal" to that I also want to play at least 50 games in 2025, wether it is casual, at events, in leagues or even solo.

Of course, that will mean getting quite some armies ready for battle as well, so this year I will hopefully get to painting more "focussed" then last year.  To that end, I am putting following forces on the menu to get them finished to a tournament level... yes, it is almost all GW stuff, but the reality is that is where most tournaments are being organised for here in Belgium.  And with the new Underworlds enabling the older warbands, I can happily keep away brushing away at those as well...

 

 

Age of Sigmar: Idoneth Deepkin to 2000 points (currently at 960 points)

Age of Sigmar: Hedonites of Slaanesh to 2000 points (currently at 530 points)

The Old World: Wood Elves to 2000 points (currently at 210 points) 

The Old World: Empire of Man to 2000 points (currently at 424 points)

Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game: The Easterlings to 750 points (currently at 0 points)

Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game: Riders of Rohan to 750 points (currently at 0 points)

Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game: Lothlorien to 750 points (currently at 0 points) 

Warhammer 40k Combat Patrol: paint Aeldari The Fatebreakers: 0 out of 19 figures finished

Warhammer 40k Kill Team: Paint Corsair Voidscarred: 0 out of 10 figures finished

Warhammer Underworlds: Paint up 5 additional warbands

Moonstone Leshavult warband: 0 figures out of 6 finished

Bolt Action Belgian army to 500 points (currently at 0 points)

So that's a serious paint mountain to climb, but if I can get my focus on them that should be do-able.  I'll just need to make sure I won't be butterflying in the paint projects and aim to get them churned out one by one.

 

But there will be one more painting project for this year, which doesn't add to the forces, but to the experience: paint 5 wargame buildings for the gaming table.

 

Of course, that won't be the only goals for this year, as I have an anime challenge lined up once again.  I failed last year's challenge, but for this year I'm going to be catching up on anime's Noshi saw according to her MAL, and that I missed.  Though a lot of drama will be in there as well as I look through her list.  Never the less, that is an amount of 40 anime to watch this year for this challenge.

 

Apart from those, I would like to get the total watched anime tally up to 50, furthering the journey to reach 1000 anime's seen in a year or two time.  Related are of course the manga, and this year I would love to read 30 volumes. Guess that is to compensate for the bad year of volumes read in 2024...

Talking about reading, the rulebook / regular book goal is set rather low this year, as due to above painting goals, there won't be much time for that.  As a result, after contemplating I set the bar at 5 books.

On a viewing level though, I'm sticking with the regular goal numbers of viewing 20 movies and 20 series once again this year, which will be often done when having the paint brushes out, and which as such should be manageable.  And I will be trying to catch up on all franchise series first, like Marvel, Star Wars and the likes, and finally see those Avengers End Game movies for example...  I'm also going to be catching up on a lot of pre-1990 movies at last, because well, backlogs...

 

The final goal, and which becomes actually harder with every passing year as my Untappd gets more and more additions, is tasting 50 new beers.  But there will be more culinary delight, as I'm also wanting to visit 10 new "frituur" this year, which might be do-able if I go often on tournaments and come to new places.  Because you can't play a tournament without some fries afterwards!

So there we have it, the whole list of goals set for the upcoming year and now let's start painting from day one onwards to actually get things done!