Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics - 2016

With the coming of 2017, it is time for the annual blog retrospective on the year, including stats on painting, expenditures, games played and run, and

No actual pies were harmed in the creation of this post!

Expenses

October 2016

Wizard Kraft Kickstarter  $400 
This was way more than I really wanted in terms of product, but it is one that I really believe in, and wanted to see successfully funded, so I supported it heavily with both publicity and funds. I now have a boatload of great terrain pieces on order; I plan to give a substantial portion of that to Jared in support of his Middle School game club. 

November 2016

Michael's  (craft paints, micron pens, wooden Castle, Wooden Towers x 2

$36.78

Staples - Really Useful Boxes x 6

$72

December 2016 -  Nil

4th Quarter Total:    508.78

3rd Quarter Total: $631.23

2nd Quarter Total:   $93.12   

1st Quarter Totals:  $446



GRAND TOTAL 2016:  $1,679

This exceeded my target of $100/month, but that was almost exclusively due to my support of the Wizard Kraft Kickstarter, as detailed above. For comparison, my total for 2015 was $2,235.28

Painting

January 2016

4 Blue Moon Wagons (100 pts)

Touch up and basing on 6 old Limber teams. (N/A)

Egyptians (Essex)  27 (135 pts)

February 2016

BTD Egyptians  20  (100 pts)

Hussite Characters 6  (30 pts)

Murawski Baden Infantry  36  (180 pts)

March 2016

None completed

April 2016

Murawski Polish Uhlans, General  18 (180 points)

BTD Egyptian Spearmen  24  (120 points)

May 2016

18 Hussite Infantry  (90 points)

June 2016

4 BTD Egyptian Chariots (140 points)

19 Hussite Infantry  (95 points)
[Plus 2 large Towers for Assyrian Army]

July 2016

39 Hussite Infantry   195 points

12 Perry HYW Foot   60 points

7 Perry HYW Mounted 70 points

12 OG HYW Knights   120 points

August 2016

24 British Dragoons (Old Glory)  240 points

September

None completed 

October 2016

24 Macedonian Phalangites   120 points

20 British Artillery Crew with 10 guns  200 points

8 Numidian Light Cavalry  120 points

November 2016

47 French Line in Bicorne   235 points
[plus Sokolnitz Castle]

December 2016

30 Austrian Jagers   150 points

Austrian Cavalry Battery  8 crew, 2 guns   60 points

42 Russian Line  210 points
3 Russian Guard Horse Artillery crew (Minifigs, not shown) 25 points

4th QUARTER TOTAL  = 1,120 points
3rd QUARTER = 685  points

2nd QUARTER = 645 points

1st QUARTER =   545  points

 GRAND TOTAL 2016: 2,995 points


2016 Painting Summary

Nationality	Foot	Mounted	Guns	Vehicles
French	47			4
Russian	43	2
Austrian	38		2
Polish		18
British	20	24	10
Badener	36
Hussite	82
Catholic	12	19
Macedonian	24
Carthaginian		8
Egyptian	79			4
Total	381	71	12	8
Painting Point	1905	710	120	200*

For comparison, my total for 2015 was 3,160 (not counting terrain, markers, etc). Notably, that was 100% 28mm Napoleonics, chiefly driven by the huge Ligny game at Historicon that year. Almost half of the figures painted that year being Napoleonic Prussians; that category is conspicuous by its absence in 2016! Napoleonics still accounted for over 50% of all the figures painted in 2016, but the Hussite Wars project came in second. That is an essentially complete project now... or so I claim!

2015 Painting Summary

Nationality	Foot	Mounted	Guns
Prussian	288	48	8
British	90	50	-
French	6	-	-
Italian	-	9	-
Rhinebund	18	-	-
Total	402	107	8
Painting Points	2010	1070	80

The Scoring

28mm foot figure = 5 points

28mm mounted figure, artillery piece or crew served weapon = 10 points
28mm vehicle = 15 points

Great Lead Pile Census (GLPC):

No additional surveys taken... I plead personal weakness there. 
We'll see if we can't survey at least one more sub-location of unpainted lead in 2017!

Some moved out of Part 1 Census stocks this year (Perry and Old Glory HYW figures). 

The Russian figures all came from the depths of another sub-location of long term unpainted, lead, however. 

The majority of lead purchased in 2016 was painted in 2016 as well. 

Games Played 2016

March: Battle of Ainsworth Gorge*, 1799 with Field of Battle, 2nd edition

May: The Winter 1807 Campaign with Snappy Nappy.

July: The Affair at Kisii (Tims WW1 East Arika game at Historicon) with FoB2

September: Montgomery 1644 with For King and Parliament! (ECW rules based upon To the Strongest!, playtest version, solo)

October:  Lavergne and Shurleigh Fields* with FoB2

November: Oritango Downs* with FoB2

* Battles from the LANNES campaign with Barry

Convention Games Run 2016

July: Assyrians vs. Egyptians with To the Strongest!

July: Hussites vs Catholics with TtS!

July: The Great Cavalry Battle of Liebertwolkwitz, 1813, with FoB2

July: The Engagement at Klagenfuirt 1809, with Piquet, Les Grognards 2nd edition. 

December:  Austerlitz for Jared's game club, with FoB2

7 games played, 5 games run, averages out to one a month, which is my goal. 

Blogging 2016

88 posts, a bit less than 2015 and 2014.

204,552 Page views for the year (but hard to asses due to large numbers from amount by Russian/Ukrainian bots, it seems - probably about 80,000! And The Donald doesn't believe our own intelligence agencies that the Russian Government is involved in hacking on a grand scale? Ha!). 

The Blog exceeded 600,000 page views all time as of late December, 2015. Amazing, but see the above! I need to update the links in the Napoleonic Painting guides section again with the posts from the past 4 months.

Publications 2016

None. We might take up a Snappy Nappy campaign booklet(s)... or not!