2022 in Review and Looking Ahead

We've had a pretty good year in terms of gaming this year, with 28 sessions of RPG (across four campaigns and four one-shots), and four session of wargames.

The biggest change in my gaming calendar is my decision to schedule one week per month to a wargaming session on Sunday in lieu of an RPG session on the Monday after; prepping and hosting for both types of games takes a lot of time, so it is not viable for me to do both back-to-back. 

The decision to schedule regular wargames is prompted partly by the acquisition of a few sets of new rules which I have made over the past few months, some of which are shown above. Like many wargamers (including all the other guys in my group) I own several sets of painted armies, most of them for both sides, but the lack of time has prevented me from playing with all of them. In the recent years I have moved away from more complex rules to simpler ones, with easy-to-remember mechanics, and also towards rules with a grid-based mechanic, which simplifies scenario design, terrain-placement, as well as actual play. Playing games with shorter play-time also allows us to play two different games during a single afternoon and allow the other guys to run the games they like to play.

Of course, RPGs will continue to constitute the majority of my gaming.

I expect to run the Dwarrowdeep campaign into March, ending with the PCs at level 8 (and the Master level of their respective specialisations). In April and May I hope to run a short Covert Ops campaign in the wake of the John Wick movie. After that I am looking at a few options, the choice of which will depend on whether the Blood Sword kickstarter delivers as planned, or whether Green Ronin will release any module for their The Expanse line - if neither of those things happen we will probably play another season of our Savage Gamma World campaign.

Of course, there is always the possibility of a new set of rules or figures coming into the picture unexpectedly as with the previous years. And one thing that FG and I have an eye on in the horizon is the release of Quar by Wargames Atlantic.

I wish you and your family the best in the coming year.