Here we are, almost 2 weeks into 2025. 2024, was really strange year. Very chaotic, I suppose the death of our son-in-law in March set the tone. Helping my daughter out, moving her back in, a bunch of dental work, setting up our first Takticon convention, and my wife becoming an American citizen, kind of made it a crazy year. But, that's all behind me, and we are on to a new year, and a new year of gaming.
At the end of 2023 I set out some goals for 2024. So lets take a look and see how I did.
Here were the goals
Complete my Mexican American War Project
Complete my Last Alliance Army
Complete the figures that I have on hand for the Peninsular War
Complete all my 20mm vehicle kits
Get all the painting done for Pavia so I can start playtesting the scenario
Complete all my 28mm Japanese terrain for the samurai
Paint one 15mm ancient army
Complete the AWI project
Start my 15mm project for the '45
Start my 10mm 1864/70 project.
Considering all that was going on I think I did ok on my goals
Complete my Mexican American War project - Really this was to be a cleanup of the stuff I have left on hand and finish up a few units. I have some random stuff left to do, but, most of the project is complete. Just need to finish this up, Quite possibly this year.
Complete my Last Alliance Army for MESBG - This is mostly done. Working on the last figures right now. They will be done this week.
Complete my figures on hand for the Peninsular War - This was a bit too ambitious. I did not realize how many I had. I bought enough 15mm figs for Albuera, or so I thought, and had a second order to flesh out the forces for Talavera. I got about half done, most of Albuera. The rest may get worked on this year.
Complete my 20mm vehicle kits - Yeah, no. started some but no where near wrapping these up.
Get all the painting done for Pavia - I have most of this done. I am finishing up the Imperialist forces in the next couple weeks then I'll get them based up and take account of what I have and still need. I know for sure I need to do the Landsknecht pike for the French, but I think most everything else is done. One good thing was that there was an Italian wars scenario book published last year that included orbats for Impetvs, that will save me a lot of work in formulating the game.
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| Landsknecht Pike for Pavia |
Complete all my Japanese terrain in 28mm - I did about 1/3 of it. I still have a bunch of Sarissa stuff to build, a couple printed buildings, 3 hovel bldgs, and the Sarissa castle.
Paint one 15mm ancient army - Didn't happen
Complete AWI project - Did not start this
Start my 15mm Jacobite project - Did this and painted all the figures I had on hand, including some I had purchased this year
Start my 1864/1870 project in 10mm - Started thinking about this but never got too far with it. Not sure where this is going.
I did get some Romans done for SAGA here's a few pics
In retrospect this was probably a pretty aggressive plan, like I usually do, but it did not survive first contact with real life. I am happy with what I got done. Probably struggling with storage more than anything at this point. I'll get it figured out. I did not keep track of painting last year or purchases. I am already changing that for this year, tracking my painting so far. Looks pretty good at the moment.
Goals for 2025
I have struggled a bit with this. I have plenty to do, but other than getting Pavia done for the fall, and playing more. I don't have anything I want to set in stone here. Planning is gearing up for our second Takticon convention in November, and I have been thinking of games to run at a couple of shorter events as well. I think I am going to leave it at that, and maybe try to double my painting output over my purchases this year, or better.
I am planning on posting at least once a month going forward, we will see how that goes.....
