I was waiting on the discount to pull the trigger... I guess I don't really need it then since Duplicacy + Veeam works well.

Veeam agent for Windows is simple and works but it is quite limited in terms of retention policies. So I use Duplicacy for my backups and Veeam is there in case Duplicacy fails or I need an image based solution because Windows crashed.

I wanted Macrium because of it's ability to boot from an image directly where I would have to do a reinstall if I used Veeam agent for Windows.

I think I could just use Veeam community edition for the more complicated retention policies and booting from an image but the time investment is inmense. You need a dedicated Windows server, an SQL server, I think paid hypervisors in order to boot from the image directly and then time and patience to dig through the bible length manual...