It is time for the annual retrospective on what I've played in the year and painted over the year. The wargaming stuff has been a bit hit and miss this year. We've had a few more holidays than last year, the Battlefield Society has taken up more time than anticipated, as has the new grandchild.
My plans for 2025 actually worked out. I did buy and paint figures for the First Opium War, and I did run a large refight or two in the first half of the year. I did also then order and start to paint figures for the Anglo-Sikh Wars, and good progress has been made on them. I didn't do anything further for the Northamptonshire Battlefields Society following on from the Edgcote booklet with allotted time being taken up on other things. I didn't publish any further rule sets, but I have done the first few sections of "From Pike to Bayonet", so may be we'll see them next year.
Right, lets get started on the hard data. Here's the tally of games and rules:
The numbers are down YoY, dropping from 97 to 89. I sort of expected this to happen, and it'd have been an even greater drop without that flurry of Dominion of the Spear in the last SHQ day. Perhaps I should log the actual numbers of hours spent wargaming rather than just the numbers of games.
The DBA numbers have fallen slightly:
But peaked? Probably not. If it hadn't been for the issues noted on the last blog, they'd have been slightly lower by a couple of games.
This might be because I didn't do a tournament this year, but as this chart shows the number of games as a percentage played is still rising:
Without the Dominion of the Spear games the percentage would be up again. I enjoy DBA, but I don't think I want over a third of my games to be DBA. However, it fits in with our group dynamic for now, enabling the newer members to get armies to the table without years of work. And it requires so little prep.
The percentage of games I run has fallen too, mainly because we now have two main venues and then Phil aiming to host once a month. Number of rule sets has nudged up slightly and periods are down, again slightly. For the second year in a row I'm not my favourite author, coming in second behind Phil Barker.
The painting tally shows signs of increase, although oddly for those who know me there's no soft plastics in there this year:
Nearly 500 figures! Actually, if you count the crew figures on the artillery at four each it's nearly 600, Blimey Charlie! I hadn't realised how many Opium/Sikh War figures I'd churned out this year. Really must get round to working out how I'm going to game those Sikhs. All of my reading is probably nearly a year old and has gone a bit stale. Likely to stay that way for a while as I've got to read a load of Wars of the Roses stuff for a variety of reasons.
And I need to re-read a load of early 18th century stuff for the "Pike to Bayonet" background.
Still, it's good to keep busy.
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