"How Many Games = Success?" Topic

It depends on the project, but voted 1 as the minimum.

(This excludes, of course, the very occasional thing I paint that was never intended to be used in a game.)

If I am happy and enjoyed tackling the project, then it's a success for me. Games are icing. (But I do prefer the icing.)

Has to be more than 1.

If only 1, that might mean the game was so bad, I never went back!

I went with a somewhat arbitrary 6--or five or more as the poll has it. In the last days of my last regular opponent, a game a month for a six-month "campaigning season" was what we could do, and we'd try something else the next year. But those six games proved the armies were big enough for a game, the rules worked and I had the right terrain and accessories.

I'll grant you that painting 1,000 28mm horse & musket castings and all the necessary terrain and only ever playing with them six times would be something of a Pyrric victory.

I could see the argument for a single game--thinking of the showier convention games. But (a) usually the scenario is run more than once, and the castings and terrain are used in different scenarios, and (b) I really hope there is usually a practice/test game at home before the convention.

I went with 1, because usually I paint both sides. If I can slog through all the work of painting both sides, getting them on the table via a huge success.
I even count as a success my 1920-ish Irish project. I ran a game once, before I had to sell it.
I played with my Polish Renaissance army twice. Once as Warhammer Empire Kislevites. So, a success.
Failures include Trojan War, Aztecs, and so on. Finished painting, never played.

So, 1 is good enough to count as a success. It's of course a lot better if I get more games out of them.

+1 Parzival

There's too many variables for me to just base success on whether I use the figures/models in a game. Examples:

Did I enjoy the reading and research into the new army/period? Yes= success.

Did I enjoy getting the figures/models ready (assembled. painted, based, etc)? Yes= success.

Do I feel I wasted my time? No= success.

Like favourite foods, I think everyone's definition of success will be (at least) slightly different to someone else's.

I need to get a minimum of three games out of project. I measure success by how the games go. If the scenarios work and everyone enjoyed the games. Then that is a success.

Depends on how one defines success. If (as in my case) it consists of having a nicely painted army, then zero works and anything more is icing