Looking back on 2012

It's the time of the season for bloggers to reflect on the previous 12 months.  As the Dreadnought glides through the last hours of 2012, I thought I'd share my take on how the year turned out for me, gaming-wise.  I had a number of wargaming goals for the past year, and I was able to carry out quite a few:

• I attended two game conventions, GuadaComaCon and MillenniumCon, and I ran games of Star Navy at both these cons.
• I ran a starship campaign with strategic moves from online admirals and battles fought on my gaming table with local commanders (which kind of fizzled out after the last big battle).
• I released my own starship combat game, Kill Radius, which even got linked to on Starship Combat News.
• Although I didn't organize a gameday, I did get to play in a Hordes of the Things campaign.
• I painted and based plenty of spaceships, including a new fleet.
• I completed a forest's worth of miniature trees for land combat games.

Not on my list, but a personal goal was to blog on a regular basis.  You're now reading my 288th post of the year, giving me an average of 24 posts per month.  I continued to get my D&D fix with adventuring in the Hill Cantons.  I also got in plenty of gaming with Ed the Two Hour Wargames Guy, who (unfortunately for me, but great for him) moved to Arizona in the fall.  All in all, a great year for gaming.

Of course, we all start out the new year with good intentions, and there were a number of objectives that I didn't come close to finishing:

• I didn't even start working on a 28mm scale game board for Search for the Emperor's Treasure.
• I purchased the materials to build a 3'x4' battle board for HotT, Song of Blades and Heroes, and other games, but they're still in the shrinkwrap.
• While I bought waaaaay to many new figures in 2012, I didn't complete even one new army for Hordes of the Things. 
• So much for my idea of scratchbuilding structures for 1:300 sci-fi games--guess it's time to throw out all the plastic lids, old ballpoint pen parts, and other junk I'd collected for that purpose. 

I would have liked to have gamed more in 2012, but I'm sure everyone else would, too.  So I can't complain too much about my gaming accomplishments for the past year.  What about y'all?  Did you accomplish everything (or at least something) you set out to do?