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Yeah let’s talk toy soldiers 😀

My plans for 2025 basically are getting my hobby space setup for gaming & crafting.

I’m planning on focussing on a small set of games/settings, but I also find myself wanting more … or discovering new aspects that I want to do.

Things on my list at the moment :

– WW2 Skirmish : Bolt Action 3rd edition : German Fallschirmjaeger vs US Airborne
I’ve got the new starter set and have a few more bits and pieces incoming. The only thing ‘missing’ is the terrain aspect.
Some sort of snow terrain mat will have to be acquired.
There is a big ruined farm resin kit from the 1:48 Tactics kickstarter that I think is perfect as a focus point

– Deadmans’ Hand / Wild West
Terrain was part of the kickstarter, but I’ve got a few extra buildings from TTCombat on order (not sure when those arrive … )
I think a desert / plains terrain mat is needed for this one as a base of the table. Other than that there’s loads of assembly and painting to do 🙂

– Fantasy : Kings of War
I still need to build that Ogre army and I’ve got a few ambush sets to build as well.
I have plans for terrain, but nothing solid yet.

– Multi Award Winning Moonstone
Plenty of minis to assemble and paint.
A few bits of terrain to assemble from Kromlech.

– SciFi  : Halo, Deadzone, Firefight
No real ideas yet, but enough material to make Halo a thing.

– SciFi Epic : Battletech Mercenaries & Mantics’ kickstarter …
Waiting for stuff to arrive is the key thing here. I suspect I will get Mantic’s before anything from CGL shows up, but we’ll see.

– Ancients : Punic wars battle …
I know it’s Lloyds’ favourite scale, but to me it was simpy a good way to get two armies for an epic scale battle.

– Blood & Plunder … I’ve got more than enough pirates and related scum. Terrain is the tricky bit here. Port Royal may be my first focus once that arrives.

– Carnevale … on my list, practically everything for that one is in storage.

– Dropfleet commander … ditto. New starterset is tempting, but I’ve got enough things on my list already

– Rumbleslam … on my list, same as Carnevale it’s all in storage at the moment

– WW2 15mm : Flames of War; somewhere in storage.

– Sci Fi / Pulp : StarSchlock & 7TV … lots of stuff in my pile of potential for those two.

– Vietnam : ‘Nam 68; No minis or terrain yet

– Walking Dead : in storage …

– Modern Skirmish : Spectre Operations … a few squads and some bad guys.
Need to think about terrain for this one.

I probably will think of more stuff as the year progresses, because I haven’t found a single thing that I would prefer over and above everything else in that list.

I’m hoping to avoid kickstarter completely next year, but there’s already two exceptions on my list :

– Strikezone commander : the skirmish game set in the Dropzone universe
– Anything Firelock plan to do for their Blood&… series of rules.

I doubt there’s enough days in the next year to get all of this completed 😉
The real tricky bit is forcing myself to focus on just one project at a time.

I definitely don’t have to fear running out of things to do in the next decades even if I don’t buy into anything new.