First half of 2025 on the painting desk - Updated 12.5.

Miscellaneous stuff painted 

Finishing the Brotherhood without Banners for Song

Lady Stoneheart

Beric Dondarrion, the Lightning Lord

Thoros

ASOIAF - THE INVITATIONALS 2025 in Stockport UK - Updated 21.4.2025

Best of the best gathered at The Invitational

From left: Seppo (Geelot), Jaakko (Corpmake), Johannes (Forestpond), Antti (Rivarama) and me (Kujala). Photo by Doug

Team Finland joined both the Team event on Friday with 5 players and with 6 players on the actual event. Our team was truly the best players from Finland, at the time of writing this all Team event players are at top 6 in Finnish ranking with an average Elo of 1907 (probably was even higher when we entered the tournament)

Several pictures in this blogpost are by the awesome Doug Gordon, see more of his photos of the event here 

NOTE: my most recent update (last games and conclusions) seem to not have been saved, darn. now re-written.

Armies on parade: Brotherhood without Banners

ASOAIF: Finnish Nationals 2025

 Largest ever ASOIAF tournament in Finland

with 30 players!

Banner designed by Johannes

Hobby year 2024 in retrospect and plans for 2025

 Another very active hobby year gone by

Song (ASOIAF) continues to dominate "what I play", even if it dropped by some 20 games palyes compared to 2023, it's still almost double compared to ALL OTHER games played.

So the balance of different games leveled just a bit in the total of 179 games played. That's more then 3 games a week - an active hobby year indeed.

My regular favourites remained on the top, besides Song: Saga activity is rising with some new players at the club, same goes for Bolt Action where we saw the launch of the new edition. Mythic Battles was played quite a bit as Ragnarok activated me and couple of other players too. First ever Star Wars Legion tournament was ran at the club too. I participated in two ADLG campaigns with my Persians so that kept this game on the agenda, even if I'm not the biggest fan of these detail and quite complex rules, it's the system that is active at the club, so that's what I gotta play as I want to field my 15mm Persians.

Painted 2024 - to be updated

500+ miniatures got painted again!

It's 2024

Don't ask me how many other miniatures I started, but did not finish...

ASOIAF Battle Report: The Others vs. Greyjoys

The White Walkers march again

 I've been building The Others army since 2019, it was originally designed by Yannic & co. for the 1.5 season of Song but has now been redesigned by Board man gaming, find it here.

Since familiarizing myself with Shane's (BMG) awesome work, I've been brooding to play with them again. This week it happened with a club mate Ilmo, playing Greyjoys

Finished some paint jobs too:

FF Heroes converted: Harma, Rattleshirt, Styr, Weaper & Great Walrus 

Some more armoured troops, including a converted Styr's chosen.

When I play FF with these, they are Thenns