Twelve years...

Today marks the twelfth anniversary of this blog - has it really been twelve years?

According to Blogger Statistics there have been 969 posts (including this one), 696,279 visitors (although at least half of them are bots or Viagra advertisers) of which 174 have chosen to follow and 12,258 comments have been posted - half of which are, of course, my replies.

For the occasion I have looked through all the posts (yes all 968 of them) and picked out one from each year as a favourite.

• 2013 - My first post about building something - Building a Bohemian Village
• 2014 - A brief stroll down memory lane - Reminiscing - Wargames Holiday Centre 1986
• 2015 - Five Games in Five days, Part 1 and Part 2
• 2016 - Bringing together a number of projects into a single game - Annual Gaming Event - Day Two - The Crimean War
• 2017 - A bit of fun in the snow - Tarawera Week - Day Five (the last Day)
• 2018 - Visiting some Franco-Prussian War battlefields - News from the Front (2)
• 2019 - A BIG Napoleonic battle - The Battle of Kleinkorbetha
• 2020  - a BIG Crimean War game - A Little Action in the Crimea
• 2021 - The first game after an extended COVID lockdown - A Game at Last!
• 2022 - Digging deep with some historical research - Von Bredow's Death Ride
• 2023 - A odd title for a Prussian hussar regiment - The Dancing Hussars of Krefeld
• 2024 - The culmination of three year's work - The Japanese Invasion of Korea 1592-93

Here's to another twelve years of blogging...if blogs still exist in 2037...

Kurassier Regiment Sachsen-Teschen, Number 3

In my last post I mentioned that while the intention going forward is to not expand the collection apart for the occasional unit. Well this is one of those occasional units.

I decided I needed some Austrian heavy cavalry for my planned 1813 Napoleonic solo campaign, so I bought myself a Christmas present of two boxes and additional command frame of Perry plastic Austrian cavalry to make up two standard size cuirassier regiments and a small chevaux legere unit.

So here is Kurassier Regiment Sachsen-Teschen, Number 3. The regiment was raised in 1768 as Carabiner Regiment Number 5 and was converted to Kurassier Regiment 3 in 1798. From its creation to 1822 the inhabership was held by Albert, Herzog zu Sachsen-Teschen.

Year's End Review

So another year has gone.

On the painting front 2024 was the third least productive year since I began keeping records of my efforts in 2014. It wasn't unexpected since I have deliberately called an end to any dramatic increase to my already substantial collection, limiting purchases only to completing existing collections or the occasional new unit.

The year has seen work on five projects: Austrian, French and Ottoman Napoleonics, American Civil War and terrain tiles. The completion of six Swedish generals can't really be called a project. The end result is:

Consolidated Points by Project		%		Item Count by Project
Project	Points			Foot	Mtd	Guns	EQ	Scratch
Swedish Napoleonic	60	1		0	6	0	0
Austrian Napoleonic	350	5		54	8	0	0
Scratch Built Items	2350	36						127
French Napoleonic	2400	37		388	37	4	5
American Civil War	45	1		9	0	0	0
Ottoman	1310	20		138	48	6	8
	6515	100		589	99	10	13	127

Or graphically:

On the gaming front there were fourteen games played: four, Napoleonic, two WWII, two AWI, one each of American Civil War, 1920's Afghanistan, War of Spanish Succession, Imjin War, the Sudan and English Civil War.

So with painting dropping away the goal for the year is to play more games.