By John 'The Hermit'
I know, I know, you all thought I’d forgotten it this year didn’t you? But despite our setbacks from the zombie pandemic and Doris and his nanny state government’s responses we did manage to score a few games throughout the year and if you count Mike W’s sterling efforts at running the entire ACW as a remote (virtual) game then we still have a clear winner in the two categories of;
1. Most popular period
2. Player who contributed to the most gaming weeks.
Therefore without further ado (fanfare please!)
The most popular period of 2020 was.......yes, you guessed it........ACW! Hurrah!
Followed (miles behind) by.......Medieval in second place and Colonial in third place. (Medieval speaks for itself and Colonial covers the Boer War and the Sikhs)
The Player who contributed the most was........yes, you guessed again!.......Mike W! Hurrah again!!
Followed (again miles behind) was Steve in second place and finally me coming a distant third due to a late spurt of a couple of clandestine games at Mikey’s in a brief moment of Dorris allowing households to mix for a nanosecond around mid Autumn.
Rupert, Dave and Mark also just made it onto the scoreboard in time. Rupert due to his games in January and Dave and Mark as late entries (Dave assisting me with Sikhs plus his Viking skirmish, Although that added even more points to Mike W for providing the figures and finally Mark with his WW2 effort at Steve’s house.)
So there you have it; the “efforts” of 2020. Without Mike W whose campaign ran for 27 weeks non stop we’d have a had a pretty dismal year, but trust one of our boys to come up trumps when our backs were against the wall to keep us amused in our hour of desolation and bewilderment when trips up to The Star were like a distant memory and we’d all but forgotten what Chinese on a Friday night tasted like. Along came ‘Tommy Atkins’ to save the day. Well done Mike W for such a resounding success with his ACW campaign.
Oh, and thanks to everyone else for taking part. It’s not much of a party if you don’t have any guests!
Stay safe and lets hope 2021 is more gamer friendly.
