2024 in Review and Looking Ahead

A visit to the Hellenic Museum in Melbourne

2024 was a pretty good year for gaming. We managed some eleven sessions of wargaming, including two participation games at local conventions, and 17 sessions of RPG, two of which were one-shots GM'd by my friends.

A few major changes took place this year, chief of which was me moving to a new place; this necessitated a change in my work schedule, and resulted in attrition in my Monday evening RPG group, which in turn led my to take a break from a regular RPG schedule after we concluded our Three Worlds campaign.

On the wargaming front, we made contact with another group of wargamers in Singapore, which greatly expanded the pool of players and games each side could now "access". Hopefully this will result in more regular gaming.

I managed to play most of the rules I set out to play during the year, and while I didn't not start new armies, I did expand my 15mm Indian Mutiny and Saracen armies to bulk them up for the rules I enjoyed. This was done with the help of a professional painter, to whom I have also sent some 15mm Tribal Germans to be painted - they should be fighting against Martin's EIR in the new year.

As with previous years there were unplanned purchases of rules, this year being Here's the Ruckus, and Midgard Heroic Battles, neither of which required me to get new figures. The former didn't excite me as much as I hoped it would, its niche being already filled by other sets of rules I own and like, while the latter, which I resisted for weeks before relenting, turned out to fill a gap in my rules collection which I have been hoping to fill. An order for movement trays went out, and we should be playing our first game as early as January.

I do realise that I have been tardy with AARs the past year, and I apologise for it. Hopefully in the coming year I will be able to settle into a routine and post them in a more timely fashion.

Have a good gaming year ahead.