All of these annual awards are based on what we call the PG-HQ Year, in this case - Year 12 - all activity from June 6th 2021 to June 5th 2022, 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 20:13:08 on 2021 June 6th, U.S Central Time, joe_oppenheimer added the first play of PG-HQ's twelfth year. Congratulations, you and your play for Guadalcanal #20 were FIRST! in Year 12.
After many years we received another article submission! On September 17th, 2021 plloyd1010 published the contemplative The Lost Battalion of the Pacific!
Let me take this time to remind you that anyone can contribute articles to PG-HQ! Just email your ideas to PG-HQ Admin.
Congratulations garbare83686! For the FOURTH year running you again unequivocally crushed the competition to claim 2022 Player of the Year honors with 117 scenarios logged!
- Runner-up: treadasaurusrex, 104 plays
Most of us play solo, but PG is a dish best shared with friends! Congratulations to treadasaurusrex with 104 shared plays, an incredible new record!
- Runner-up: sagunto, 24 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 treadasaurusrex! Your 79 AARs made PG-HQ a better place in 2022!
- Runner-up: Juiceman, 45 AARs
They just go on and on and on! Hopefully it's all worth reading in the end!
The 2022 winner was Schoenwulf, who averaged 553 words per AAR over 18 AARs!
- Runner-up: goosebrown, 429 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 2022, and therefore the member who most readily got to the point, was Juiceman, who averaged a miserly 160 words per AAR over 45 AARs!
- Runner-up: Daedalus, 220 words per AAR over 6 AARs
Easy to Please goes to the member with the highest average scenario rating over the past year. 2022's most perpetually satisfied member was thomaso827 with an average rating of 4.14 over 7 scenario ratings. thomaso827, you are officially this year's World's Biggest PG Fan!
- Runner-up: geofgibson averaged 4.00 over 6 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!
2022's most perpetually dissatisfied member was Tambu with an average rating of 2.20 over 20 ratings.
- Runner-up: sagunto averaged 2.50 over 24 ratings
The Bounty Master award goes to the member with the highest bounty total for the year. This year's winner is treadasaurusrex, who claimed a peerless 21,148 points over 158 bounties.
- Runner-up: Juiceman, 16,879 points over 79 bounties
The Bounty Sniper award goes to the member with the highest bounty average. This year's winner is Juiceman, who averaged 213.65 points over 79 bounties. Great job filling in the most needed data, Juiceman!
- Runner-up: JayTownsend, 177.41 points per bounty over 49 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 Schoenwulf, who bagged 500 points with their play & AAR set for Groundhog Day 2016 #5.
- Runner-up: Juiceman, 493 points for Deluge #15
"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! 2022's most Decisively Indecisive members were thomaso827 and Cochise75 with 3 draws over 7 plays for a draw rate of 42.9%!
- Runner-up: triangular_cube, 13 draws over 47 plays, 27.7%
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 2022 winner is treadasaurusrex who played 21 different games this year!
- Runner-up: JayTownsend and Michael Murphy, 13 games
Who captained the most different nations in 2022? Michael Murphy and treadasaurusrex share this award with 18 nations played this year!
- Runner-up: JayTownsend and garbare83686 led 15 nations
Unit Spice of Life goes to garbare83686! Over the past year they have led 404 different units into battle!
- Runner-up: treadasaurusrex, 380 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 Juiceman, who marshaled an astonishing 631 units in Fire in the Steppe #46!
- Runner-up: CravenDumps35, 432 units in Africa 1944 #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 9,638 units into battle after battle!
- Runner-up: treadasaurusrex, 6,489 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 waynebaumber who tackled the 216 turns for Red Warriors #8!
- Runners-up: Cochise75, treadasaurusrex, Miguelibal, PANISTA, and Sonora, 199 turns in Afrika Korps #2
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 3,503 turns of death and destruction, garbare83686 is the 2022 Tireless Campaigner!
- Runner-up: treadasaurusrex, 2,016 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, 2022 June 5th.
This year's winner is joe_oppenheimer, who logged a play for Black Panthers #12 at 18:30:09, June 5th. Congratulations, you were LAST! in Year 12.
In Conclusion
See you all next year!