Overview of 2025

It’s that time of year again to look back on the output in 2025. So what were the plans for this year? I just had the two, Republican Romans and Franco Prussian War, both in 15mm.

For the Franco Prussian War, I definitely smashed this one out of the park. With 3 large linked games at the beginning of the year I found myself highly motivated to get the collection expanded. For the Prussians I added the Baden Division, a Hessian Division, Prussian Cavalry Division. This brought the army up to three full Infantry Corps and 2 Cavalry Divisions. I only need a few artillery pieces and a couple of infantry regiments to complete a 4th Corps. For the French I did a little re-organising before adding 2 more infantry divisions and 3 cavalry divisions. I could do with adding at least 1 more infantry division to the 4th Corps.

The 3 linked games were well received by the club members, so much so that Thom ended up adding the French I Corps which helped balance the numbers. On the horizon Neil B is planning another campaign so the collection should see some action in 2026.

For the Republican Romans, I didn’t really get started until around May and have been slowly building up the collection to include Carthaginians, Gauls and Italians. I even picked up the Midgard rules and after a couple of games I really like them, so definitely expect more of these next year.

Painting Totals for 2025, just under 1400 figures, this is well down on the last 2 years, but I feel those 2 years were inflated with the epic scale ECW infantry in strips.

• 10mm Scenic/building - 4

• 15mm Artillery - 14

• 15mm Foot figures - 730

• 15mm Mounted figures - 141

• 15mm Scenic/building - 13

• 15mm Vehicles - 13

• 28mm Artillery - 3

• 28mm Foot figures - 306

• 28mm Monster - 8

• 28mm Mounted figures - 19

• 28mm Scenic/building - 111

• 28mm Vehicles - 17

Overall a productive year, though I could do with actually playing a few more games myself instead of being the one running the majority of the games. For those that follow the blog and/or leave comments it is much appreciated. I hope you all have a Happy New Year and your dice roll well. Hopefully see you back in 2026