Well it has been a BUSY First Quarter! 

As with all these quarterly plans, let’s have a look as how the last quarter went… 

(for reference, you can see the actual plan here: Game Plan 2025- Q1)

Q1 Games

These „plans“ are really just „guidelines“ or guesses as what I might play – based  largely on what I have been playing  and enjoying and hope to continue, or what I HOPE to play – something I maybe haven‘ been playing but would really like to make a concerted effort to incorporate into my game playing in the coming months. 

Most of what I „planned“ for 2025 – Q1 was from the former category – things I’d been playing and hoped to continue…

Warhammer Underworlds

I had planned (hoped..?) to return to playing Warhammer Underworlds. I played SO MUCH of it in the first half of 2024… and then it just sort of petered out. There was some hope that interest would be renewed after the World Championship with the release of the new edition, but that was kind of stymied by not being able to get my hands on the cards needed to play the freaking game because the Warbands of Embergard card set sold out within minutes of it going up for pre-order and weren’t available again for three months!? 

Warhammer Quest

Amanda, Finnegan and I have played Warhammer Quest: Cursed City pretty much every week throughout the quarter! We’re all having a lot of fun playing through the campaign – which seems like it will take a while to complete, but that’s fine! 

Role-Playing Games 

The In Person Soulbound game was been going quite well. We were playing pretty much weekly, but that’s kind of petered out… 

The Online Campaign… also kind of fizzled. 

Warhammer Age of Sigmar

I’d had big hopes that when the Ravage Coast campaign book was released we’d get a narrative campaign going and play lots of games… 

Other Board Games

I had hoped we might get a regular board game night going… but with the weekly Warhammer Quest games and the Soulbound role-playing game AND trying to squeeze in a few other miniature games… there hasn’t been a lot of time for other board games. 

We did play a few – mostly at the beginning of the Quarter/end of the Holidaze in early January.

Solo Miniatures Games

If I wasn’t getting other games in, I determined I’d get playing some solo games! Getting games in hasn’t been much of a problem – with weekly games of Warhammer Quest and the Soulbound RPG – it’s been a bit of work to try and get other games in.. Despite that, I HAVE played a few solo games of Five Men in Normandy and FiveCore Pulp Adventure. 

Not only that… but I actually ran games of Five Men in Kursk and FiveCore Pulp Adventure for other people!? 

(STILL have not got in games of Devilry Afoot or Five Parsecs from Home… but I did buy the Five Parsecs from Home Tactics expansion!?) 

Warhammer 40,000

With the expected release of the Astra Militarum, Aeldari and (possibly) Emperor’s Children Codexes, I figured I might pick up one or two of those and start playing, from time to time, mostly with Orion (who still plays a LOT of Warhammer 40,000!) 

I did pick up the Codex: Aeldari when it was released in February… 

I also picked up the Emperor’s Children Release Box… 

Still haven’t played a game, though… 

GAMES I  PLAYED

Here is what I actually played in the first quarter:

[LIST from BGG]

And THIS is why I abandoned Annual plans… and the quarterly Game Plans are more „guidleines“, at best!    

Q1 Miniatures

I painted a lot of miniatures in the first quarter… 

Age Of Sigmar

The MAIN PLAN was to carry on painting Age of Sigmar models and FOCUS on the Slaves to Darkness and Soulblight Gravelords armies. The Slaves to Darkness army I’d hoped to play in the Ravaged Coast campaign and the Gravelords I figured I’d be inspired by the ongoing Warhammer Quest: Cursed City games to paint more undead… 

Also I figured there would be other Age of Sigmar miniatures I’d be painting for the Soulbound Role-playing game. 

What I did paint: 

Warhammer Underworlds

Along with other Age of Sigmar battle game miniatures, I’d hoped I might also get painting the remaining Warhammer Underworlds miniatures… In the end MOST of the Age of Sigmar models I painted were ones needed for Soulbound!? 

Warhammer Quest

There wasn’t a LOT I NEEDED to finish for Warhammer Quest: Cursed City… as mentioned above, I did paint Carmilla du Sang, who is a character in Night Wars, the expansion/sequel to Cursed City (which we won’t be getting to for a bit!) and 

Warhammer 40,000

With the release of the above mentioned Codexes I figured there would be a bit REORG of the 40K armies and the possibility of playing might inspire me to get playing again. 

I did pick up a few Aeldari miniatures from Ebay to fill out a few units… 

Work-in-Progress Wednesdays

the previous year I was posting pictures of my workbench every Wednesday… the idea was to force myself to engage more with the blog and hopefully motivate myself to paint SOMETHING each week so as not to be posting the same pictures EVERY WEEK… 

As I seemed to be back to playing games and painting miniatures I didn’t think it was a necessary practice to continue and considered dropping it… 

I did. 

Other Games

I acknowledged that, if playing some solo games, I might paint some miniatures for those games… 

In reality it was OTHER GAMES that I did the MOST Painting for!? 

So… XX miniatures for Age of Sigmar (and other related games)… and XXX miniatures for World War Two…  

AGAIN…  THIS is why I abandoned Annual plans… and the quarterly Game Plans are more „guidleines“, at best!  Rigid plan would mean I wound end up feeling like I had FAILED, instead of celebrating the fact that I did DO THINGS… in fact, rigid plans of teh past often meant I did NOTHING as i constantly flip-flopped back and forth between trying to force myself to do something I wasn’t interested in anymore and NOT painting what I WANTED to paint (because I SHOULD be following the PLAN!). Lean into strengths. My strength is my passionately move forward and be HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE with whatever I am intersted in at the moment… unfortunately I have VERY LITTLE CONTROL over what I am interested in, in any given moment… I mean, there are ways I can try to keep myself focused on things to a certain degree (like PLANS, and actually PLAYING GAMES) 

If, at the end of last year, you’d told me I was mostly going to paint World War Two stuff this first quarter… well… I wouldn’t have laughed in your face or utterly denied the possibility… I do know myself enough to know that NOTHING is IMPOSSIBLE… I would have thought it highly improbable and wondered how that might happen as the Second World War collection seemed, at the time, the LEAST likely to see use at any time in the immediate future… (despite having played a game of Five Men in Normandy in the previous year!?)

How did this happen!?

It largely was precipitated by the fact that the Second World War collection seemed, at the time, the LEAST likely to see use at any time in the immediate future!? I’d been going through the collections of miniatures and rea;oizing I have more stuff that I will likely EVER be able to paint in my life and trying to figure out what things I could get rid of. 

GAME PLAN 2025 – Q2

GAMES

Warhammer Quest

This has been going extremely well… I can’t forsee any reason we would stop? It will take a minimum of seven more sessions to complete the initial campaign in Cursed City (but more likely eleven or more). So, if we keep up the weekly schedule, we COULD be finished the initial Cursed City campaign by the end of this Quarter… but then there is the Night Wars expansion! I have no idea how many sessions that might take.

I do wonder what we’ll do AFTER Night Wars… I know there were a few expansion scenarios in White Dwarf magazines… will I hunt those down (and buy a PILE of Ghouls to play them!?) Will we return to playing Blackstone Fortress (I’m not sure Finnegan would be as interested in that… and playing that might just shift my interests back to 40K and I’d ditch AoS entirely. Will there be a NEW Warhammer Quest this year?! It feels like we’re due for one!? I had kind of hoped, with the release of the new edition of Age of Sigmar last year, there might have been a new Warhammer Quest – possibly set in Hammerhal again (with much of the narrative focus shifting back to Aqshy again!) 

Role-Playing Games 

World War Two – Bolt Action/Five Men at Kursk

Other Warhammer Games – Age of Sigmar/Underworlds/40K

I haven’t written all of these off entirely… I mean, I’m still playing Warhammer Quest, so some part of my brain is still interested in the Age of Sigmar setting.

Board Games 

Wow… I really miss playing a lot of the board games we’ve played in the past… and I’d like to play more… but realistically..? I don’t know if I have the time or energy to organize and play regular board games… 

Solo Miniature Games 

It would be fun to continue the current solo games… 

Paras in Normandy

Pulp Adventure

Five Parsecs from Home

I’s also LOVE to try out Devilry Afoote… and I’ve had SO MANY IDEAS about other campaigns I could play… 

MINIATURES

What will I get up to the next few months… 

World War Two – Bolt Action

This seems to be where things are mostly focused at the moment. I have been working on forces for the desert war in North Africa… 

I’ve acquired a BUNCH of tanks to play in the sand with. That will probably be the primary focus for the Quarter. 

There are a few collections I might re-base, to bring them up to the current basing standards. 

I don’t have any immediate plans to BUY any more stuff until the stuff I have is painted… and that’s probably going to take most of this quarter to complete. 

Warhammer Games
Age of Sigmar/Underworlds/40K/Cursed City/Soulbound

Well Cursed City is still going strong. If we finish up the Cursed City base game and move on to Night Wars, I will need to finish up a few things… the Fell Bats and Radukar the Beast! Perhaps that could be expanded again into larger Age of Sigmar forces. 

Most of the adventures in Soulbound – at least in Brightspear, where the characters are currently adventuring – focus around Chaos foes – primarily the Disciples of Tzeentch, but also Skaven and Slaves to Darkness… 

I would, if nothing else, love to finish up the Harlequins I have for 40K… so many of them are just SO CLOSE to being finished… I don’t know how I could motivate myself to do this?

Other Games

And there is always the possibility that I will paint stuff for something else entirely… 

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