Well if Vladimir Putin can rattle on about his year for hours then so can I…..
Happy Christmas!
December
The year ends and bang! Literally bang! A car slams into the back of my wife when she is driving home. My wife is shaken but the car is a right off!
Thankfully a Morrissey tribute band was playing to raise our spirits!Yeeha! Trump is back!New project: Cowpens: basing by To the Strongest, rules by Commands and Colors Tricorn.Vae Victus boardgame will provide table details.Chalons mega game on 30th December; welcome home Giac!
November
The best TV of 2024! Monday evenings have been so good! God I love Dune!The big question of 2025; will cardboard replace lead?
October
Wouldn’t be good to start rebasing my Royalist horse? To be finished by Christmas! Now where have I heard that before!?Why glue and paint models when you can buy diecasts! Answers on a postcard? Maybe they are a little on the large side!?American civil war is back in a big way. Commands and colors for scenarios: 28mm for Battle Cry and 18s for big battles!
August
SAGA made a welcome return. Always a good laugh but not everyone was convinced at club?Finally the Norman cavalry wing nears completion!
July
Club numbers reach sixty! I finally decided that 150mm wide bases are the future for all 28s! I don’t think I can ever face rebasing again!Everything is going on big bases!!!
June in Iceland:
after Switzerland, my new favourite place to visit!
Mega battle in biblical times! I was terrific!A tense moment with sensei Lane: I believe he was taking selfies!!!
May
The Brecon Beacons opens up.Fanneau BRYCHEINIOG my ass? BRYCHEINIOG was an Irish warlord!!!Italian Wars on a rare appearance. We await TTs renaissance with interest😓Ah Spring pursuits!
April
My Bactrian Greeks will be finished this year!
March
After much searching, we returned to Flames of War!
The 21. Panzer meet their doom to Valley Gaming!
February
The Welsh Open: mid table mediocrity I’m afraid! Great guys though and a show to remember.
January
Actual hand to hand combat on the train home from work! The piece of human waste below decided that he and his fat friend were going to terrorise the railway carriage!
Fat boy threatens to kill everyone in the carriage. I beg to differ and twelve “ men” on the train stay sat down and hope it wasn’t happening! Legalise firearms! Kyle Rittenhouse was right!
Third place in Canalrat dba competition. DBA remains a great laugh!
What a twelve months! Let’s hope we have seen last of the bad news. If you have had a bad year then please keep your hopes up. We maybe surrounded by darkness but there are points of light in the heavens.
Thank you all for your support over the last year and to Dice Studz, near and far, I wish you a safe and prosperous 2025!
I’m pretty sure that bloke in the opening picture is not looking at where his opponent is moving chess pieces to! 😉 Hope you and the family are all OK and enjoy the Christmas holiday, despite other people trying their best to sabotage it! 🙂
Honestly, some people will do anything to distract!!! Been a mad few days! So many idiots though!
Hope you and yours have a great holiday. It’s been good to converse!!!
Happy Christmas!
Despertaferres 
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