2025 Review - Painting Things

I painted quite a lot of very small things this year, most of which were 1/600th scale aircraft but there were some 1/2400th ships and 1/600th scale tanks as well. I've also refurbished the bases on two 1/3000th scale Cold War naval fleets for the Indonesian Confrontation, so have bundled them in as well. All in all, not a bad effort and quite a lot of the stuff has seen some table top action too, so a fairly productive year of painting things.

2025 Review - Rolling Dice

I set out at the start of the year with the objective to focus on the First World War and, to be fair to myself, I think I have achieved that goal, albeit only from the air. In fact, the vast majority of the games I've played this year have been solo play testing ones for Algernon Pulls It Off!, which has clearly been my principal focus from very early on. I have played a few club games, one Knights of the Sky WW1 air game, a multiplayer Napoleonic 10mm Waterloo game and a single game of Armoured Storm, but otherwise I've stayed away from the club and stuck to solo wargaming. I did also play a couple of try out games of Fly Fight Win: Honcho, which were good fun, but haven't revisited it since the summer. One big change has been the absence of any naval wargaming but this will return next year for sure, in some firm or other. Overall, I've enjoyed my year of wargaming, despite most of it being solo and limited in scope, so I'll be doing more solo wargaming in 2026.

Armoured Storm Eastern Front 1/600th Scale Reinforcements

I enjoyed the Armoured Storm game at the club yesterday so decided to start organising my Heroics and Ros (ex-Skytrex) tanks for the mid-war Eastern Front. These include Tigers, Panthers and Churchills, backed up by some Oddzial Ozmy T34/76 models and air support from Tumbling Dice. I have more Tigers and Churchills on the way,  as well as some StuG IIIG tank destroyers, so will have a good range of kit and enough for several companies. I'll start painting them all up as soon as the order arrives in a week or so.

Armoured Storm After Action Photo Report

A jolly good game of Armoured Storm in the Western Desert last night at the club, even if the Axis got thrashed by the Eighth Army. It's the first time I had played the rules but it was quick to pick up and rolled along swiftly, despite the large number of units on the table. In the end, a combination of terrible dice rolling, poor tactics and inexperience with the way command to tokens could be used, resulted in a bit of a pasting for the Italian and German forces, but they did give the British a bloody nose along the way.