It’s that time of year again, to look to the future and say we’ll do better next year. Possibly even set some goals.
Few things planned:
A - paint up the 3k of Abyssal Dwarfs I built towards the end of this year.
B - build & paint swamp themed Trident Realm army (much of which has already been bought).
C - build and paint more militia 
WGA have released a peasant sprue and villagers and guardsmen kits forthcoming.
D - finish painting Halo stuff (plus probably the upcoming releases)
E - try to avoid getting into Deadzone after building all the plastic terrain from the above!
F - do similar amount of events as last year.
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I’m hobbying undead in 2025.
I have an undead army on spures in my cupboard and I’ve decided to get it painted this year. I’m already getting a feel for the army by trying it out on UB.
I have almost an army’s worth of assorted fantasy minis, I should get some of them painted. At least enough “good guys” to play Deth Wizards.
I typically have a 15mm project on the go all the time, as the in progress miniatures are small enought to fit in my portable hobby box. It will be Vikings this year, though I’m not saying I’ll actully get the army done.
To phrase that as goals:
- Play Undead at the Halloween event my scene (Hamilton Ontario) has in October.
- Play a game of Deth Wizards, with painted miniatures.
- Get some Vikings painted. Hopefully get the project organised and the miniatures primed.
- EDIT: Get my Napoleonic Bavarians on the table for at least one game.
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B sounds like an interesting project. Water effets are an adventure. Lots of frogs, I hope?
Good luck with E, but I’m not sure that would be a bad thing.
Watch out for ending up with enough Deadzone that you might as well try Firefight 
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This is the general planning for B, plus I’ve since picked up some previous era saurus warriors as placoderms.
E will almost certainly fail and I’ll get some! Have a firefight asterian intro set free from Clash, which look quite nice, and there is so much fun stuff in the whole DZ range.
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I think next year i am going to make my hobby goals a little different. Instead of aiming to paint a particular army i am going to aim to engage more with the community. So goals are:
- Attend small KoW event in January and hopefully a couple more later in the year
- Get more involved locally (with restriction of job and kids meaning this is probably one thing a month!) Maybe including demoing firefight.
- Get distracted by epic in march!
- Help my daughter put together a forces of nature army (mainly 3d printing elementals!)
- Support my son (who has done nearly 2300 of nightstalkers and a whole plague force for firefight)
Not highly ambitious but now i have a fully painted Ogre force and two firefight armies i can relax and dabble here and there.
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Unfortunately I also am looking to start a wetland froggy army this year, hopefully they don’t come off as too similar!
Those WGA peasants look fantastic, I resisted buying a box just for more improvised weapons and Chaos Cultist kitbash fodder! Let us know how the box looks in real life once you get a chance to mess around with it.
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Complete more minis in 2025 (painted and based) than in 2024. I painted just shy of 200 minis and have based 7 infantry regiments, 3 monster/titans, and all (3) 40k and one off (2) models I painted this year.
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Complete, playable 2300 points of undead. This means basing my legion of zombies, building, painting and basing wights, and finish painting revenant king on undead burrowing worm.
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Stay on top of painting my spouse’s Ratkin (not leaving 2025 with unfinished minis unless bought on black Friday or later)
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Dedicate time to UB/play by email (new concept for me) so I can make informed decision of next army list. Choice between Sylvan Kin, Trident Realms, Varangur and Herd. Have never played against any of these lists, so that means learning the software and messing around with up to four new armies.
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Get started on Elves/frogs/lizards army. To beat my mini count that’ll probably be at least 6 infantry regiments unless I cheat and count cavalry as 2 minis.
Low priority:
- Finish repairing admech army from a nasty move so I’ll have 2 playable OPR armies
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Cool. A couple of local players have stunning vibrant ocean/barrier reef style TR armies so wasn’t going to try to compete.
If you don’t paint everything brown you’ll be fine!
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- Add 2500 points across my various armies.
- Play 30 games (2.5/mo).
- Attend two in-person tournaments.
- Write at least one post a month on dataanddice.com.
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- I want to add additional skeleton infantry and skeleton horsemen to my Empire of Dust army. I’m going to buy Wargames Atlantic sets, because I want super-simple models that my kids can have a go at painting. These models are literally naked skeletons, so they should be pretty hard for them to mess up.
- I want to add additional shooters / boomers and a giant to my Ogre army, just to make it a bit more interesting. Possibly even some goblins, for the sake of colour and variety.
- Twilight Kin, not a priority, but my son wants to get himself some more fleet wardens and void skiffs.
- Forces of the Abyss army is chunky at the moment, no plans for anything additional.
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- I have the Bolt Action 3rd edition rulebook, and I am flirting with the idea of buying a couple of platoons and dice set, to play some small games and see if I like it. I don’t particularly want to play Deadzone, HALO or go back to 40k, but I miss individually-based shooty games.
- I have Wargames Atlantic’s THE LAST WAR boxed set, and I need to paint up those models and look at what else I need to play. From reading the scenarios, quite a few additional models would be required to play all the scenarios … mainly monsters.
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- Build / Paint 1,000 points of Orcs and Abyssal dwarves on multi bases. Same army with extra units on the side to oean more into either but a core of both with the orcs being slaves.
- Paint enough halflings to reach 2,300 points. I hate painting these models… Humans maybe involved so 2,300 of LoR
- Not 3d print anything im not going to immediately paint.
- Get involved in the local community.
I did the classic dropping gaming in the mid 20s til mod 30s and I need to reconnect. - Attend 1 tournament with a fully painted army. I will have to keep an eye on the dates but its a goal.
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Ok i failed most of my 2024 goals and i wont do all of them again but here are my 2025 goals:
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Finish my Basilea army including basing etc. At least enough to have a tournament ready army.
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Wrapping up my Bretonnians for The Old World. That means rebasing the remaining models and finish painting what is not painted yet (20 kitbashed Foot Kights, 12 kitbashed Questing Knights, 1 Duke on Pegasus, 1 Paladin on Pegasus, 1 Metal Foot Knight, 6 Grail Knights from 5th Edition, 6 Pegasus Knights, 1 Duke on Hippo).
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Getting a Fire Fight force (Enforcers) and paint them like ADVENT Troops from XCOM 2
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Halflings… it is finally time to get started on my Halfling army. I have ca. 3k points filling up my pile of opportunities.
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Getting started on a second army for Conquest Last Argument of Kings (City States)
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It’s almost through the first quarter of 2025 and I hit a milestone, so time to post an update and hear how everyone is going?
My goals were:
The milestone is for the undead! I’m done with assembly.
Now for priming, when the weather allows.
We’ve had a bit of nice weather leading up to spring, so I got these Frostgrave wizards and hires or good guys for Deth Wizards primed.
It’s a mix of the Frostgrave soldiers box and Frostgrave Wizards 2, to get a few women in the mix.
I’ve organised the Vikings (still need some prep before priming) and Napoleonics will have to wait until after my Medieval ADLG tournament this weekend.
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Loving this! Looks like excellent progress.
Intereating to see how some people assemble all then paint whilst others (like me) assemble a few at a time.
I progressed towards one of my goals by attending a 2000pt event. Finished mid table and won “most sporting”, which i was proud to get as i felt everyone there was very sporting in how they played the games!
Ive also got out to play firefight once and am doing so again on monday, so working towards my “go to more events” goal and “getting more involved locally”.
Ive also suppirted my son by getting him an asterian force for his birthday! His Nightstalkers are nearly all finished too.
My goals are not too ambitious this year but it is good to be meeting the more relaxed milestones
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I’ve got about 32 Wargames Atlantic skeletons bought, assembled but not painted or based. Couple of spare riders I might put on some sandborne wryms if I buy some suitable wyrm proxies.
I’ve got 2 boomer regiments and 1 warrior regiment painted and on the table, using a Wargames Atlantic ogre kit.
No movement on the TK purchases mentioned.
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No Bolt Action purchases and I didn’t try any of the other games mentioned either… Just no time.
THE LAST WAR set is still unassembled.
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A matter of circumstance in this case.
I don’t usually paint an army up all in one go like this.
Usually I collect armies over time; so buy, assemble and then paint bit by bit. I collected these over a few years, but was busy painting nightstalkers, so they piled up in my cupboard.
I also started this project with the year as 2025 hobby goal (literally January 1st). Which is winter here and Canada, and too cold for outdoor spray priming. I do not want to try brush priming this lot, so assembly has been the only thing to do until spring.
If I were to get another army all in one go, I think I would be inclined to assemble most of it first.
The difference would be that I would only work on enough for a playable list to start and get stuff primed as the weather allows.
This time that’s all the undead I have for KoW (so far), which I (thankfully) don’t need all of for October.
I have a list without zombies for the tournament in October:
Skeleton Warriors (Infantry) Horde [140]
Skeleton Spearmen (Infantry) Regiment [100]
Skeleton Spearmen (Infantry) Regiment [100]
Wraiths* (Infantry) Troop [120]
Wraiths* (Infantry) Troop [120]
Werewolves (Large Infantry) Horde [250]
Sir Jesse’s Boots of Striding [15]
Werewolves (Large Infantry) Horde [255]
Helm of the Drunken Ram [20]
Zombie Trolls (Large Infantry) Horde [190]
Wights* (Large Infantry) Horde [260]
Wights* (Large Infantry) Horde [260]
Revenant King (Hero (Infantry)) 1 [90]
Surge (5) [10]
Liche King (Hero (Infantry)) 1 [190]
Ej Periscope [5]
Surge (10) [40]
Lightning Bolt (5) [35]
Drain Life (6) [30]
Undead Army Standard Bearer (Hero (Infantry)) 1 [75]
Tome of Darkness [20]
Surge (5)
Lykanis (Hero (Large Infantry)) 1 [150]
So that’s all the skeletons plus filler bases, wraiths, all the large infantry and some of the induviduals.
I can use the deathpack as filler and they are simple to paint, so I get them early and add them to the list if I don’t get through all the skeletons by Autumn. I can also use more werewolves as lykanis to get more points per model in a pinch.
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Tend to vary the approach depending on the army in question, types of models etc. With the additional stuff for my AD I’ve built about 3k and will then start batch painting. With my new TR one I’m more or less painting a unit/type of model at a time and them painting them.
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For my marauder army for Firefight I’m assembling them all at once and then I intend to prime them all black with an airbrush.
I’m going to try it with the fantasy models too, not sure if to base them first or not.
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Carry on painting what I want, when I want, like a hobby gadfly and refuse to get drawn back into the cycle of ‘PAINT A NEW ARMY FOR CLASH OF KINGS’ etc etc
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