2025 in Review and Looking Ahead

Fort Magherita at Kuching

2025 was another good year for wargaming.

Once again, I count eleven sessions. Many of the sessions saw new friends whom I gamed with for the very first time, and a couple of them saw decades-old friends whom I reconnected with during the year and join on the tabletop once again after a gap of decades.

Of the games I umpired, they can be broken down into two main categories: grid-based mass battle games in 15mm, and conventional skirmish games in 28mm. I foresee that we will continue to play these games in the coming year.

In particular, I think I have gained enough understanding of Peter Pig's Conquerors & Kings rules to plan scenarios and army lists to give challenging games to both sides. In fact, I have two historical scenarios planned for the coming year, featuring armies which we have yet to pit against each other on our table.

Unplanned acquisitions for this year were the 28mm Baron's War figures, and 28mm Perry Miniatures for Napoleonic skirmish. I have more 28mm figures for these two periods lined up to be painted in the coming year, with games to hopefully follow; after the effort the gang have made completing their respective Baron's War retinues, I certainly owe it to them to run a few more games!

On the 15mm front there have been additions to my existing armies, mainly to fill gaps and allow me to use them to represent different army lists.

I also added to my terrain collection.

While wargaming had been thriving, the same cannot be said of RPGs. My weekly session have had to be canceled on many occasions due to poor attendance.

I am hoping that the delivery of the new Lone Wolf RPG kickstarter next year will result in a new campaign and revival.

Have a good gaming year ahead.