2019 Year in Review

1. Games Played

Black Powder 2 - Hundred Days (January)
Agnadello II (February)
Battle on the River Glein (February)
Isola della Scala (March)
Isola della Scala (April – Hosted)
Tekumel (April)
Barletta (May)
Isola della Scala (May – Hosted) (Enfilade)
Ravenna (May – Hosted) (Enfilade)
Black Powder 2 – Toulouse (Enfilade)
Deus Vult (Enfilade)
Hussars Rampant (Enfilade)
Men Who Would Be Kings – Boxer Rebellion (Enfilade)
Battle of River Dubglas (June)
Battle of Bassa's Ford (June)
Stratton (July)
Rebel & Patriots x2 (July)
Celidon Forest (September)
Seminara (October)
Agrigentum (November)
Himeras River (November)
Open Combat (December at Ambuscade)
Seminara (December – Hosted)

I hit my minimum goal of playing at least one game per month, which makes all that painting not just a pointless pursuit. Lion Rampant was again my rules of choice, with 9 games played and four hosted.  

2. Miniatures Painted

What I am particularly happy about in retrospect is that I got my Arthurian/"Barbarian West" armies table-ready, and also finally got my 20mm Hail Caesar armies truly table ready, which gives me four eras/periods that I can host an 2 player game in (English Civil War, Italian Wars/early Renaissance, Punic Wars, and Barbarian West).  I also increased the size of my Italian Wars collection to 430-450 figures by adding crossbowmen, archers, and Spanish troops, and made better infantry command stands for my English Civil War stuff.

3. Up Next

On the lead mountain I have 30 English Civil War cavalry and 24 pikemen I would really like to get painted up and table-ready - these will make it much easier to host 4 player games (6 in a pinch) as well as play a wider variety of battles from that period.  I also have 60 Franks and some cataphracts that need to be done up for the Barbarian West project - these will allow me to shift battles out of Britain and onto the continent, setting things up for the real prize of that era (for me at least): Huns and ByzantinesEastern Romans.  Also lurking on the pile are the 110 Swiss pikemen I got at the bring and buy last Enfilade.  I hope to continue to slowly add to my 20mm ancients for the specific purpose of playing Hail Caesar at Guardian Games, hopefully once a month (20mm plastic is much easier to transport than 28 metals!).