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   What did I paint in 2025 A brigades worth of 6mm Napoleonic French. About 12 bases of infantry and 6 of cav ~15 Battletech Mechs   A Vampire Counts Army of ~70 miniatures A few more Warhammer Dwarfs, ~20 miniatures Added around 30-40 infantry and 12 Late Roman Cavalry and three command bases. A similar number of Goths/early Saxons ~100 6mm Sci Fi infantry and vehicles ostensibly for Laserstorm. I painted them all over a weekend or two using contrast paints. Around 20 ships for Russo Japanese war. I have about 12 more to paint. Around 25 French and Russian 28mm Napoleonics for The Silver Bayonet 50+ 15mm Carthaginian and Greeks – ongoing. A lot of 6mm Great Northern War at the start of the year but I cannot remember what was in 2024 and 2025. 10 silly space goblins from Alternative Armies in 28mm. A handful of monsters for Frostgrave, giant spiders, bears etc. Dwarf and Orc Armies in 10mm for Warmaster / Midguard. ~500 figures.   I d...

 My posts fell off in the latter part of the year. So here are some end of year posts   The year in historical games   Blackpowder (Epic Waterloo set & some 28mm Zulu wars) This is probably my game of the year. A new fella started attending our club and had painted his entire starter set +. I felt I should play a game with him and that spiralled into about 10. This isn’t the Napoleonic simulation to end all others. Warlord games are action orientated and use the mechanics you know and love with a few twists. It does perform quite well despite all that, skirmishers are required for screening French columns, big cav charges are a huge gamble and the command and control mechanics make coordinating attacks challenging. If I was to critique its historical qualities I could argue with some aspects of the randomness but I think the bigger thing is reserves. I am not sure holding reserves helps much in this game. As a game this rocks. I have ME/CFS and sometimes w...

  The year in Sci-Fi and Fantasy Games   Battletech Classic and Alphastrike This is mostly workshop games through most of the year but for me Battletech beat the evil empire out in 2025. I only played three games of Battletech and one of Alpha Strike, all were a good time. Battletech has all the box checking appeal of naval games with Sci Fi trimmings. Classic is a little slow but has the major advantage of being very different from most modern skirmish games. In an era saturated with entertainment being different matters. Both forms of Battletech emphasize facing which is also unusual in modern games. Somethings were better in the 80s.   Warhammer the Old World I have played around 20-25 games of Old World. I really loved my first ten games and since then have soured on it a lot. The start of 2025 patch was much needed and definitely improved the game. I think I have realised a few things about myself playing Old World. I enjoy crunchy games but I hate having...