As much as my reading has suffered, 2025 has been a banner year for wargaming. Since getting hooked up with Mark Luther and the North Georgia Wargamers in March, I’ve managed to play a wargame nearly every Tuesday at Gigabites, our FLGS. In 2025 I’ve played games of Altar of Freedom, Chain of Command, Sharp Practice, I Ain’t Been Shot Mum, Midgard, Strength and Honour, Coastal Patrol, The Silver Bayonet, Fistful of Lead Reloaded, Check Your Six, Eagles to Glory, and Fire in the Sky. Mark and I are halfway through a campaign game of Taking the Gembloux Gap for Chain of Command.
I’ve also raised a bunch of new armies this year. I finished printing and painting my Early imperial Romans and Ancient Britons in 28mm. I also finished printing and painting small AWI British and Colonial armies for Cowpens in 10mm. I printed and painted two more 28mm armies for Midgard, Romano-British and Dark Ages Saxons. I also printed and painted a bunch of 1/300 aircraft: Bf-109s, Fw-190s, P-47s, P-51s and B-17s to play Fire in the Sky. Finally, I printed and painted French and British teams in 28mm for The Silver Bayonet along with a large assortment of monsters and a few pieces of terrain.
My biggest project for the year was putting together the miniatures, buildings, fencing, and terrain in 15mm for Chain of Command’s Taking the Gembloux Gap Pint Sized Campaign.This project involved printing and painting approximately 100 miniatures in 15mm, including both rifle platoons and all support options for both the Germans and the French, more than a dozen AFVs including Panzer I, II, III, IV, SdKfz 221& 223, Souma S-35, Hotchkiss H39, Panhard A/C, 25mm and45mm French ATGs, 75mm German infantry gun, and a37mm ATG. On the terrain side I printed and painted a dozen or so buildings, a pair of culverts, six or eight feet of chain link fencing, another three or four feet of stone walls, and made 6-8 feet of hedges.
I’m finishing out the year by creating 28mm medieval armies for the 100 Year War. I’m printing and painting the English and French armies for Agincourt using the Midgard rules which will run to about 150 figures, including about a dozen mounted. So far, I’ve completely printed the English and made a start on the French. I hope to have all the English painted before the year ends.
Thanks for sticking with me this year, and please stay tuned to see what happens next year!
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