What's Next?

As temperatures begin to cool and the calendar confirms the seasonal change to fall, thoughts drift toward what the fourth quarter may hold.

Having recently finished up the third playing of the Quistello battle on Thursday (thank you, Peter!), I wrestle with either bringing another 18th Century battle to the table while the rules are still fresh in mind or jump to something else for a brief diversion.  The rules withstood the change over from each BMU occupying a one larger hex to each BMU occupying two smaller hexes.  Still, a few situations need to be codified (at least in my mind) before the next run-out of the rules as I adjust and become more familiar to the two-hex format.  While Peter has provided a terrific battle report on his blog (see Quistello), I ought to hammer out my impressions of our game as well.  Sadly, my Allies fell in defeat but managed to put up a respectable fight despite having de Contades' Brigade caught almost entirely by surprise.  Well, I thought so at least! 

On the painting front, painting seasonality in the graphic below illustrates that my painting production tends to increase from now until year-end.  Will 2025 maintain this seasonal pattern?  I guess we will see in January.  Since I have not re-run this seasonality study since 2020, perhaps, it is high time to update this analysis and assess whether this pattern still holds today?  Hmm.  Something to add to my To Do list. 

Sticking to the topic of year-end painting, before the weather turns cold, time to think about what I want to tackle in the painting queue and get those figures primed for the long winter.  FPW Germans still figure prominently in the painting queue with a number of units already completed and awaiting a turn at the photo box.  My early August order from Lancashire Games, long held hostage by Irish Customs, finally made into my mailbox last week.  Hoorah!  Now, I have some more FPW Prussian and Bavarians to push into the production line.  What I want to concentrate on over the winter months is still undecided.  Probably more 15mm figures as I strike off on a project expansion into a new conflict but a return to Biblicals in 25mm is likely as well.

Plenty of time to formalize plans before the weather becomes too cold to prime figure outside.

Data for the GWS2025 have been recoded and processed.  First thing I took a peek at was the number of PWJ readers who completed the survey and entered the identifying code into the Observations field.  Nineteen of you took that extra step in the survey.  The number 19 seems about right in capturing those readers who regularly leave a comment.  Thank you!  Now, as a profile of those readers responding, a few of the demographic attributes are illustrated in the panel below:

Hardly surprising to see Old Grognards frequenting these pages!