The Year in Review - 2024

I hope everyone has a wonderful New Year and may your 2025 be bless with lots of laughter, love and gaming!

In 2024 I was able to play 18 miniatures battles and record 172 board games (Euros or Wargames). That is a new record for me, but it was helped along by my retirement in April of 2024!!

Here is the breakdown of the games played, and Castles of Burgundy was a huge hit! 

EUROS\WARGAMES

32 x Castles of Burgundy

15 x White Castle

11 x Obsession

10 x Viticulture (Tuscany Essentials)

9 x Endeavor: Deep Sea

8 x Burning Banners

6 x Great War Commander (WWI Combat Commander) - Hexasim 

5 x Bloodstones

5 x Fighters of the Pacific

5 x Space Base

4 x Ark Nova

4 x Suburbia 

3 x Castles of Mad King Ludwig

3 x Hansa Tuetanica

3 x Lost Ruins of Arnak

3 x Fallen Lands

2 x A.R.T Project

2 x Downfall (GMT Games)

2 x Dominion

2 x Artemis Project

2 x Twilight Struggle (GMT Games)

2 x Copenhagen

2 x Gest of Robin Hood (GMT Games)

2 x 7 Wonders Duel

2 x Teotihuacan 

1 x Battle of Britain (Undaunted)

1 x Pyrates 

1 x Dune Imperium: Uprising

1 x Resist!

1 x Manila 1945

1 x War of the Ring

1 x Plum Island Horror (GMT Games)

1 x Charioteer (GMT Games)

1 x Domesday (ATO - playtest)

1 x Maria (War of the Austrian Succession)

1 x Hegemony (very interesting game)

1 x Crisis 1914

1 x Imperium 

2 x Lamps are Going Out

1 x Black Orchestra

1 x Conquest & Consequences

1 x Triumph & Tragedy

1 x Here I Stand (GMT Games)

2 x Terraforming Mars

2 x Art Society 

1 x Shifting Sands

1 x Explorers of the North Sea

1 x The Hunt

2 x Trekking the World (2nd Edition)

1 x 1807 Eylau

1 x Operation Barclay

MINIATURE BATTLES

1 x Naval Thunder (1/1200)

1 x Boar War 1881 (28mm)

1 x Zombies (Dead Run) 28mm.

1 x Sikh Wars (15mm) Using Battle Commander

1 x French in Mexico - Solo (15mm) using Battle Command.

2 x French Foreign Legion (15mm)

1 x Battle of Custoza | 15mm (Regimental Fire and Fury)

1 x Full Thrust - Sci-Fi Fleet battle 

1 x 1st - Battle of Mollwitz 15mm (EB, Rob, Michael, Rich) WAS using Battle Command

1 x SYW 15mm - Battle of Bergen using Battle Command

6 x To the Strongest (two each: 15mm Medieval, 15mm Greeks vs Persians, 15mm Punic Wars)

2 x Star Saga (Sci-Fi RPG) - 28mm

Another great year of gaming and I can't wait to see what 2025 unfolds. I plan on running lots of miniature games, and even some at Historicon in July 2025.

On the Painting table I finished many SYW units (blog posts coming), waiting for flag for my SYW British army and they will be completed. Eight new French SYW cavalry (waiting on flags before I blog about my completed French army). Saxons are nearly complete, while Hanoverian, Brunswickers, and Hessioes are completed. Lastly, my SYW Reichsarmee is 95% complete. Also finished my SYW Bavarian army! Whew! 

Painted my new Roman Marching Fort and that will be used this year to fight Alesia vs the Gauls. 

I based a lot of WWI British in 15mm (Late war), about 5 Brigades. 

Cheers!

Eric