All of these annual awards are based on what we call the PG-HQ Year, in this case - Year 9 - all activity from June 6th 2018 to June 5th 2019, inclusive. Furthermore, in order to be eligible for an award you must have played and recorded at least 6 battles during this period. That's equivalent to achieving our first promotion from Recruit to Private. The reasoning is if you can't play once every 2 months you probably don't deserve an award!
Also, don't forget that the full list of yearly winners for each award is in our Hall of Fame!
At 18:58:24 on 2018 June 6th, U.S Central Time, leonard added the first play of PG-HQ's ninth year. Congratulations, you and your play for Korean War: Counter Attack #42 were FIRST! in Year 9.
Congratulations garbare83686! You unequivocally crushed the competition to claim 2019 Player of the Year honors with 57 scenarios logged!
- Runner-up: JayTownsend, 55 plays
- Second Runner-up: KNPayne, 39 plays
Most of us play solo, but PG is a dish best shared with friends! Congratulations to Deepstuff1 and Schoenwulf with 11 shared plays each!
- Runner-up: Dan_Huffman, 7 plays
Plays are the fuel that drives our statistics, but the character, the nature of Panzer Grenadier only truly seeps forth from our After Action Reports. Congratulations JayTownsend! Your 55 AARs made PG-HQ a better place in 2019!
- Runner-up: Schoenwulf, 19 AARs
Was there even a battle? No one knows because these authors aren't talking!
The PG-HQ member with the lowest average AAR word count in 2019, and therefore the member who most readily got to the point, was Arisaka92, who averaged a miserly 148 words per AAR over 6 AARs!
- Runner-up: gulatum, 166 words per AAR over 6 AARs
Easy to Please goes to the member with the highest average scenario rating over the past year. 2019's most perpetually satisfied member was also previous winner Retiredgrunt17 with an average rating of 4.83 over 6 scenario ratings. Retiredgrunt17, you are officially this year's World's Biggest PG Fan!
- Runner-up: Blackcloud6 averaged 4.66 over 9 ratings
Conversely, some people just ain't ever happy with their battles. Maybe they have bad luck picking scenarios to play, maybe they simply hold Panzer Grenadier to a higher standard than the rest of us... no matter the reason, we salute their discriminating taste all the same!
2019's most perpetually dissatisfied member was Dan_Huffman with an average rating of 2.29 over 7 ratings.
- Runner-up: Arisaka92 averaged 2.86 over 14 ratings
The Bounty Master award goes to the member with the highest bounty total for the year. This year's winner is JayTownsend, who claimed a peerless 18,701 points over 110 bounties.
- Runner-up: garbare83686, 7,477 points over 56 bounties
The Bounty Sniper award goes to the member with the highest bounty average. This year's winner is Dan_Huffman, who averaged 184.53 points over 32 bounties. Great job filling in the most needed data, Dan!
- Runner-up: Warhawk1955, 179.32 points per bounty over 22 bounties
Fancy a big game hunt? The Trophy Hunter award goes to the member who has bagged the largest play & AAR bounty set by points over the past year.
This year's winner is JayTownsend, who bagged 460 points with his play & AAR set for 1967: Sword of Israel #14.
- Runner-up: SARACV3, 459 points for Fire in the Steppe #20
"We fought and we fought and we fought and we fought... and at the end of the day... nobody won!"
Frustrating I'm sure! In honor of those among us who, try as they might, seem to always get stuck in stalemates, we've created the Decisively Indecisive award.
If you're going to take the trouble to do something, might as well do it the best you possibly can! 2019's most Decisively Indecisive member was Schoenwulf with 14 draws over 30 plays for a draw rate of 46.6%!
- Runner-up: Deepstuff1, 4 draws over 11 plays, 36.4%
Also known as the special award for taking different boxes down off the shelf, the Game Spice of Life is given to the member who plays the most different games in one year. Our 2019 winner is KNPayne who played 18 different games this year!
- Runner-up: Michael Murphy, 16 games
Who captained the most different nations in 2019? KNPayne takes home yet another award with 16 nations played this year!
- Runner-up: JayTownsend led 15 nations
Unit Spice of Life goes to JayTownsend! Over the past year he has led 317 different units into battle!
- Runner-up: KNPayne, 283 units
Though you can do battle in Panzer Grenadier with as few as 7 counters, the veterans know that vast, sweeping battles are where the command and control system shines best.
Persian Warlord goes to the member who played the scenario with the largest counter total over the past year. This year we had an unprecedented 4-way tie! Retiredgrunt17, Niinivaara, RikuM, and Mikko all marshaled an astonishing 565 units in C&CV2: The King's Officers #18!
And then there's the general who makes his enemies fight in the shade. Xerxes Reborn goes to the member who commanded the most total units over the course of the previous year. This award goes to garbare83686, who led 4,255 units into battle after battle!
- Runner-up: JayTownsend, 3,190 units
On one end of the spectrum, Panzer Grenadier offers a handful of battles that clock in at 105 minutes maximum. At the other end, the iron-grog can immerse himself in multi-day rampages. The Tireless Warrior award is given annually to the member who bagged the longest single scenario by turn total.
This year we again honor Retiredgrunt17 who tackled the 384 turns for Cassino '44 #32!
- Runner-up: Niinivaara, 240 turns in C&CV2: The King's Officers #18
But when the dust settles and the battle has finished, the Tireless Warrior may rest, whereas the Tireless Campaigner must carry on until the last of his enemies are scattered to the four winds.
For logging the most total turns in battle over the past year with an exhausting 1,218 turns of death and destruction, garbare83686 is the 2019 Tireless Campaigner!
- Runner-up: Schoenwulf, 1,059 turns
The Cinderella of our Annual Awards, the glorious honor that is LAST! is bestowed upon that user who recorded a play closest to midnight, 2019 June 5th.
This year's winner is driddle01, who logged a play for Road to Dunkirk #2 at 17:39:04, June 1st. Congratulations, you were LAST! in Year 9.
In Conclusion
See you all next year!