"How do you know when it's done?" Topic

1. It is NEVER complete.
2. When I have all possible units covered.
3. When I have enough done so all players have enough for a good game.

Etc.

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When I have enough units to put on every battle.

Sometimes I think there's a danger in considering a project " complete ".
A few years ago, I proudly finished all the French and British regiments for the Plains of Abraham. So we played a game with Age of Reason. Good game but I forget who won.
Then I finished a regiment or two and we did St Foy. Twice. Ho him. Now what?
I think I got burned out by all the work. And then when I achieved my goal, what was left? So needing money badly, I sold them off.

AWI is much more open. Even though I could probably have 6 players, each with a brigade of 5 regiments and lots of units left over , I am still slaving away and painting more.
Shoot. There are at least 45 British regiments I haven't done yet, and at least 2/3 of the Hessians are not in my collection. I have proxied Hessians for Brunswickers but felt dirty after. So I need separate Brunswickers.
And now I am happily looking for more units to paint, having rediscovered AWI skirmish gaming. Pulaski's Legion is on my paint table right now.

So for me, the French and Indian War was "completed". But AWI will never be.
Hey. At least I kept the Indians!

When you pry it from my cold dead hands!

I consider 'projects' in a smaller scope then most. I am working on support weapons for my WWII airborne right now, once I have them done (three .30cals, 5 mortars and a pack howitzer) I'll be finished with that 'project'. That will give me all the options I should ever need for a battle. But in the scope of my US forces I'll probably never be done.

When I've painted all the figures I bought, unless of course I buy more.

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It's complete. Then somebody makes something new that I just have to add to it!

I recently completed a Waterloo project … but then I bought a few more figures to add to the collection … and I suspect that when they are done I will add a few more.

I don't think that most wargames ever fully complete a project; they just have them on hold.

1,2 and 3!

1 but when you achieve 3 then the painting momentum drops off and the project stalls.

1 trumps 3 every time

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For example, I have at least 3 different versions of the same Maryland Continentals. They fought everywhere and changed uniforms at least 3 different times, maybe more.

I don't know – never had a chance to even consider tha I am finished a project

Mostly 1

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Pics or it didn't happen.

three

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1 mostly, sometimes 3

Depends on what you consider a project. For me, it is a group of units of one nationality for one period, and I have several going at any given moment. Some have been completed (e.g., the Napoleonic Mecklenburg and Hanseatic Legion projects), some are close (e.g., the Napoleonic Spanish (Patriotes) and Russian Opolchenia projects) and others not even started (e.g., the Napoleonic Hapsburg Advance Guard Brigade and the AWI British and American projects). I consider a project completed when all the planned units are painted.

Bill has a point about a specific unit.
I have the Queen's Rangers based for Age of Reason. But I bought the Old Glory bag for skirmish basing.
And as soon as someone makes Line Infantry with a fusilier bearskin, I will get a bunch for the 23rd at Boston.
Heck. The Welch Fusiliers had probably 4 different uniforms during the war.

3, plus that couple more units

When your wife says you can't get any more troops on your deployment area, then your mistress says the same thing?

When I can do the entire war 1:1. Or when I no longer feel like buying more.

When you are no longer willing to add any more or do any more, then it is done.

NEVER, or when I get burned out and lose interest in the whole thing.

FINISHED??????

It's always complete. When I add something new, it becomes another, different complete thing.

1 always!!

I know its done when my plans have been completed. I can only fit so many figures on the table, and so I plan accordingly.

I apologize for sounding like a prig. In earlier days I greatly overspent, and ended up giving my mistakes away. I like to think that I've learned something as I grew older.

A silly question, but for me 3 and 1. Meaning I count it done at 3 but I often add units just because I like them, or want them, or need them for a specific game.

Some things I paint just to paint. Sometimes I paint troops to replace older, less well painted troops.

Etc. etc.

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I have only completed 3 projects. Wayne's Legion, Greeks, and WWII 15mm. The only way to say complete is not to buy anymore.

When the last proton decays and all the universe is just empty space with trillions of light years between each quark…

So some billions of trillions of years into the future.

When I get tired of it.

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When the timer goes off. Then I take it out of the oven.