All of these annual awards are based on what we call the PG-HQ Year, in this case - Year 14 - all activity from June 6th 2023 to June 5th 2024, 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 20:31:09 on 2023 June 6th, U.S Central Time, Col. Sonichu added the first play of PG-HQ's fourteenth year. Congratulations, you and your play for An Army at Dawn #7 were FIRST! in Year 14.
Congratulations treadasaurusrex! Your domination continues as you out-battled the competition to claim 2024 Player of the Year honors with 144 plays logged!
- Runner-up: Juiceman, 86 plays
Most of us play solo, but PG is a dish best shared with friends! Congratulations to repeat winner treadasaurusrex with 142 shared plays, continuing their excellence!
- Runner-up: Sonora, 22 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 to Grognard Gunny! Your 69 AARs made PG-HQ a better place in 2024!
- Runner-up: treadasaurusrex 64 AARs - so close!
They just go on and on and on! Hopefully it's all worth reading in the end!
The 2024 winner is treadasaurusrex, who averaged 578 words per AAR over 64 AARs - true dedication to exposition!
- Runner-up: Brad_Newcomer 280 words per AAR over 10 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 2024, and therefore the member who most readily got to the point, was Juiceman, who averaged a miserly 89 words per AAR over 36 AARs!
- Runner-up: Umikaze, 104 words per AAR over 6 AARs
Easy to Please goes to the member with the highest average scenario rating over the past year. 2024's most perpetually satisfied member is McKinley with an average rating of 4.06 over 53 scenario ratings. McKinley, you are officially this year's World's Biggest PG Fan!
- Runner-up: metfan averaged 4.04 over 54 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!
2024's most perpetually dissatisfied member was again Tambu with an average rating of 2.36 over 11 ratings. They have now "won" this award THREE years in a row. Glutton for punishment!
- Runner-up: ACav averaged 2.56 over 18 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 34,025 points over 214 bounties.
- Runner-up: Juiceman, 31,885 points over 143 bounties
The Bounty Sniper award goes to the member with the highest bounty average. This year's repeat winner is Juiceman, who averaged 222.97 points over 143 bounties. Great job defending your championship and filling in the most needed data, Juiceman!
- Runner-up: JayTownsend, 180.74 points per bounty over 46 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 Juiceman, who bagged 633 points with their play & AAR set for Cassino '44 #32.
- Runner-up: Grognard Gunny, with 499 points for Swallows of Death #3
"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! 2024's most Decisively Indecisive member was Umikaze with 6 draws over 13 plays for a draw rate of 46.2%!
- Runners-up: Brad_Newcomer and ravensworth, 4 draws over 10 plays, 40.0%
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 2024 threepeat winner is treadasaurusrex who played 35 different games this year!
- Runner-up: Grognard Gunny, 24 games
Who captained the most different nations in 2024? treadasaurusrex with 25 nations played this year!
- Runner-up: Nvick9 who led 18 nations
Unit Spice of Life goes to treadasaurusrex! Over the past year they have led 541 different units into battle!
- Runner-up: Juiceman, 479 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 again Juiceman, who marshaled an astonishing 565 units in C&CV2: The King's Officers #18!
- Runner-up: Juiceman, it's all Juiceman. They're a giant slayer.
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 Juiceman, who led 10,953 units into battle after battle!
- Runner-up: treadasaurusrex, 10,043 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 themselves 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 Juiceman who tackled the 384 turns for Cassino '44 #32!
- Runner-up: garbare83686, 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 their enemies are scattered to the four winds.
For logging the most total turns in battle over the past year with an exhausting 3,030 turns of death and destruction, Juiceman is the 2024 Tireless Campaigner!
- Runner-up: treadasaurusrex, 2,686 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, 2024 June 5th.
This year's winner is Grognard Gunny, who logged a play for Winter Soldiers #3 at 13:41:52, June 5th. Congratulations, you were LAST! in Year 14.
In Conclusion
2024 was another clash of the titans with Juiceman and treadasaurusrex taking 1st and 2nd, or 2nd and 1st, in a huge swath of categories. Can't wait to see what 2025 has in store for these two legends!
See you all next year!