A project finished, some ECW Painting, and two book games

I have now finished painting all of my Star Wars Legion miniatures. It is good to have the project essentially wrapped up from a painting perspective, especially having started back in March with the starter box set. I definitely ended up spending much more on the miniatures than I originally intended. There was always that one extra units I just needed to make the collection complete or add variety, and it was always on sale. How could I resist!

The Star Wars collection.

The one saving grace is that I spent little to nothing on terrain, having either scratch-built it or repurposed stuff I already had in my wargaming stash. With my son visiting for a day of painting, I needed to quickly find something else to work on and decided to return to my English Civil War collection. The unpainted pile is slowly dwindling, just enough remains to complete three more bases of infantry and four bases of cavalry. Once those are painted, that will likely mark the end of my ECW collecting and painting, though I may still pick up a few heavy artillery pieces in the future to allow for siege scenarios.

One more infantry unit to add to the ECW collection.

The remaining figures to be painted.

Two book games arrived yesterday from Worthington Games: “Waterloo Solitaire” and “Bismarck Solitaire”. Both look very interesting and have solo mechanics driven by dice to manage the opposition. I had originally planned to just purchase the Waterloo game after watching a YouTube review of the game, but then added the Bismarck game to the order to reach the free shipping threshold. You never know it may just tempt me to dust off my naval models and play some naval wargames on the tabletop.

Recent purchases.

I have had a chance to play the first scenario from the Waterloo book, which includes a total of 24 games (12 playing as the French and 12 as the Allies). The games have three levels of difficulty which gradually increase as you play through them. In my first game, I played as the French and was defeated. I managed to break the Allied right wing, but things quickly started to go wrong when the Prussians began arriving over three consecutive turns (3 sixes in a row for Allied orders). From that point on, I was in serious trouble.

Playing a game using pencil so I can erase and play again.