All of these annual awards are based on what we call the PG-HQ Year, in this case - Year 11 - all activity from June 6th 2020 to June 5th 2021, 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 10:38:49 on 2020 June 6th, U.S Central Time, NBGB added the first play of PG-HQ's eleventh year. Congratulations, you and your play for Defense of France #5 were FIRST! in Year 11.
Congratulations garbare83686! You again unequivocally crushed the competition to claim 2021 Player of the Year honors with 93 scenarios logged!
- Runner-up: triangular_cube, 89 plays
Most of us play solo, but PG is a dish best shared with friends! Congratulations to plloyd1010 with 20 shared plays!
- Runner-up: TonyM, 14 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 68 AARs made PG-HQ a better place in 2021!
- Runner-up: Juiceman, 27 AARs
They just go on and on and on! Hopefully it's all worth reading in the end!
The 2021 winner was Schoenwulf, who averaged 467 words per AAR over 7 AARs!
- Runner-up: splat99, 454 words per AAR over 12 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 2021, and therefore the member who most readily got to the point, was elfram2, who averaged a miserly 31 words per AAR over 9 AARs!
- Runner-up: metfan, 102 words per AAR over 6 AARs
Easy to Please goes to the member with the highest average scenario rating over the past year. 2021's most perpetually satisfied member was DocBear with an average rating of 4.33 over 6 scenario ratings. DocBear, you are officially this year's World's Biggest PG Fan!
- Runner-up: TFGA73 averaged 4.16 over 19 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!
2021's most perpetually dissatisfied member was treadasaurusrex with an average rating of 2.56 over 9 ratings.
- Runner-up: plloyd1010 averaged 2.80 over 20 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 28,198 points over 136 bounties.
- Runner-up: triangular_cube, 15,702 points over 108 bounties
The Bounty Sniper award goes to the member with the highest bounty average. This year's winner is SARACV3, who averaged 210.18 points over 28 bounties. Great job filling in the most needed data, scrane!
- Runner-up: JayTownsend, 207.34 points per bounty over 136 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 scrane, who bagged 587 points with their play & AAR set for Maple Leaf Brigade #12.
- Runner-up: Juiceman, 502 points for Bron Pancera #4
"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! 2021's most Decisively Indecisive member was Bangla with 2 draws over 7 plays for a draw rate of 28.6%!
- Runner-up: tlangston28, 3 draws over 11 plays, 27.3%
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 2021 winner is Michael Murphy who played 17 different games this year!
- Runner-up: joe_oppenheimer, 16 games
Who captained the most different nations in 2021? Michael Murphy takes home this award with 15 nations played this year!
- Runner-up: joe_oppenheimer led 14 nations
Unit Spice of Life goes to JayTownsend! Over the past year he has led 320 different units into battle!
- Runner-up: garbare83686, 297 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's winner is scrane, who marshaled an astonishing 605 units in Maple Leaf Brigade #12!
- Runner-up: waynebaumber, 276 units in Workers & Peasants #2
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 triangular_cube, who led 7,540 units into battle after battle!
- Runner-up: garbare83686, 6,681 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 honor Jockulus who tackled the 199 turns for Afrika Korps #2!
- Runner-up: triangular_cube, 195 turns in Guadalcanal #5
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 3,470 turns of death and destruction, triangular_cube is the 2021 Tireless Campaigner!
- Runner-up: garbare83686, 2,209 turns
In Conclusion
See you all next year!