2025 gaming Ovelist - second third update

Here's the 2025 second third update, the summary of my gaming from May to August.  The doing update for the same period can be found here. 

This was the gaming Ovelist at the start of 2025 (detail here):

This was how it looked at the end of April having played six games (detail here):

And here's the current status:

I've played eight games during this period, working out at a doable two a month.  I’m very happy with that, especially as I didn't get to play at all in July.  

16th Century - I used the Sword Weirdos rules to play a game set in the Elizabethan era (AAR here).

Verrotwood - I picked up my Verrotwood campaign again and played the fifth and sixth games (AARs here and here).

18th Century - I got the 6mm Seven Years War collection out for my biennial game using the Honours of War ruleset (AAR here).

Second World War - I played another Eastern Front Battlegroup game using forces from the Bagration supplement (AAR here).  

Sci-Fi/Post-apoc Skirmish - the second game of the year using Space Weirdos in my fictional neo-Sov Republic of Grozniansk (AAR here).

Norse Age- the Victrix Rus and Vikings made it onto the table for their first game and my second game of Ravenfeast (AAR here). 

19th Century  - I played a small tester game of Skirmish Kings, a variant of Osprey's The Men Who Would Be Kings rules.  No AAR for this as it was just a test game.

If I can get in a similar number during the last four months of the year, I'll be more than happy.  I'll be trying to focus on those unticked squares and different rules for the last period of the year.  I really want to start trying out some of the Too Fat Lardies rules which I've built up quite a collection of over the  years.  

At the moment it's looking unlikely that I'll play any fantasy games as I've just no interest.  However, we all know how quickly a wargamer can change their mind.

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