Well that was 2025... hobby wise a good year with a lot of games played, so many it became impossible to keep up with on the blog (though I will try to do better in 2026). Was happy to get a lot more Indian Mutiny gaming in (including the Sharp Practice weekend at BIG in September), a few 6mm Western Desert games of Armoured Storm (Dan Mersey's quick play tanks in the desert game), but the highlight has to be crossing the bridge into Darkest Wales to play a couple of hugely impressive 28mm Modern games in Gareth Lane's wargames shed...
I will try and catch up with some of the 2025 reports this month...
So, how did the Cunning Plan (or two...) for 2025! go?
Well it started well! :-) January 2025 saw me paint over 100 28mm Mutineers for Winter Wonder Lard V which was great, but there was no movement on the Quar and the "earlier medieval" hankering currently remains unhankered! (but see below)...
So what Cunning Plans do I have for 2026?
Well although I have now decided I don't quite have enough time to get it ready for Winter Wonder Lard VI, I have started work on some troops for the War of Spanish Succession - but focusing on the Peninsular fighting rather than Germany and the Low Countries. Five 24 man 28mm units are currently in various stages of being painted, the idea being to play some Sharp Practice and/or Donnybrook with them, but also Beneath The Lilly Banners, the new edition having just arrived before Christmas.
The "earlier medieval" hankering hopefully will be hankered as I backed the Kickstarter for Écorcheurs and have bought a pile of Wargames Atlantic plastics to make up the forces needed for Écorcheurs and a couple of 24 point Lion Rampant armies for the 1217 kerfuffle.
And finally 6mm - I have cracked on with some US armour in MERDC which made its debut in the NORTHAG game just before Xmas (just waiting for some tufts to add to the bases to call them finished for photographing), and I finished some WW2 Italians for Armoured Storm today. Having various boxes of 6mm that could reinforce existing projects or lead to new ones, something 'sixy' will happen, just not sure what...
Wherever the hobby leads me in 2026 I will endeavour to update the blog more often and I hope your dice roll high in '26! Happy New Year everyone!
