The half year update of the 2025 goals

 Already half the year has gone by, and some very good progress has been made in the planned objectives.

 

In that some more goals have been completed... but some are officially failures as well now!

 

So let's have a look at how everything proceeded over the past quarter, and how far we came from the end of march update to this moment. 

And let's immediatly kick in the open door: both the Combat Patrol and the Kill Team of Aeldari are failures.  I looked through the rules, and just couldn't get excited for it, selling them off again, cutting my losses in a failure to get motivated again for the whole 40k universe.

 

Other projects on the painting table aren't labelled (yet) as failures, but due to circumstances and other projects requiring more immediate attention haven't been touched upon yet.  These are the Moonstone warband, the Wood Elf army first and foremost, and the Easterlings and Rohan forces for Middle-earth, though none of them have been given up upon yet. 

Because I have been doing quite a nice batch of painting on other forces!  The Lothlorien force has grown to 99 points, and though I will initially need only 500 pts for a tournament in november, I'm planning on rounding that goal out completely.  Talking gaming events, the Empire army for our club's Escalation League now stands at 1635 out of the aimed 2000 points, even though I bowed out of the campaign for family health issues.  

 

 

Furthermore, painting has been done on the Idoneth Deepkin, now totalling 1050 points (with a new book and as such probably new points values coming soon), while the Hedonites of Slaanesh have expanded to 790 points, an additional bonus being that it also included one of the Underworlds warbands, putting that counter now on 1 out of 5.  Next, for said MESBG tournament in november that I am actually organising, some terrain has been finished now as well, and that stands at 1 out of the aimed 5 buildings.  Finally, the Belgians for Bolt Action have been brought up to 121 points, as they actually need to get to double the 500 points goal for the tournament in november.

 

And that is the part of painting goals for this year, so let's have a look as well at the other things on the list, starting with the viewings parts.   

And that kicks off with a succesfull goal already obtained, as I managed to get to the series goal: 24 out of 20 have been viewed in the past months.  The movies are close on it's heels as well, currently standing at 15 out of 20, so those will be probably reaching their goal in the coming quarter.

 

On the anime front, I watched 17 out of 50 series aimed, and of those 5 where from the 40 Noshi had already seen. Maybe this will help focussing a bit more on reading, because while I already completed the rulebooks and regular books reading with 7 out of 5 aimed, the manga trail behind still hanging at a measly 2 out of 30.

 

For the other goals this year, things are still on schedule, having attended 5 out of aimed 10 wargame events and competitions, all culminating in 38 played games of the prognosed 50 so far. Rounding out this overview, we tasted 55 out of 50 new beers making that a completion as well, while 5 out of 10 frituurs have been visited.

 

So all in all it looks like it is going to be a strong showing for the goals.  As soon as the Bolt Action army hits it's mark this year, I'm going to be shifting my focus on some of the other armies in an effort to get as much done in the final quarter of the year.  The coming quarter will be as such rounding out other projects and deadlines, but I'm not planning on starting any more "must finish" projects in between for this year.  But as it goes now, even with the two abandoned 40k projects included, I still believe finishing between 60% to 75% of the goals set, which makes it a good year that way.

 

Let's see how we progress during the summer vacation period!