At Last!

The various rearrangements and reductions in "Stuff", etc. are coming along. In this case, though the table repaint, shelf rearrangements, preparations to reduce 'stuff' in general and so on, are not complete, I'm ready for a test game of the roughly marked squares.   

Since I was committed to an ACW game, that's where I've started. 

Not a reenactment of an historical action, just a fictional game based on one of the requests and
a scenario in the original Fire & Fury rules from the 1990's. The picture looks a little odd (I blame my phone's mucking) but its actually 5' wide (left and right) and 4'deep (from camera to wall). On all sides there is a little shelf to put off table reinforcements.

Each map square represents 9x4" squares on the tabletop.
( 180 grid squares if my computer is right. Oddly enough, each square is the width of those 3 stand units I rebased before I started thinking about grids again.) 

,If all goes well, I'll start rolling the dice Saturday morning.

SNAFU

Very few plans are carried out as intended. Things were going so smoothly when domestic concerns  interrupted. A minor thing, like a pebble rolling down a mountain side.......

Chaos

Anyway the house will be improved by the rearrangement and the long overdue planned reduction in junk and clutter. My wargame tabletop will soon resume normal operations, but back to a 4x5 rather than the makeshift 4x6 or the previous 5x5. My room also now has a young, permanent, Italian Greyhound inhabitant. A 10th generation lad, descended from the hound who moved in with me 45 years ago, (with his 'mom'), and spotted my usefulness as a softhearted kennel servant. 

Well, I had been wanting to rearrange my game room and table arrangement anyway. 

"Regular service" should resume by Friday.......  

Back To Table Top Games

Back to where the soldiers are rarely wounded and can usually be repaired if they are.

My table has started looking a bit shabby so I set out to touch up the paint. Then it occurred to me that my new organization on 2" wide bases mean that a 4" grid would work again and I wouldn't have to chase around the table to grab one of the rulers or tapes in order to move. My 40mm 16thC and 25mm fantasy collections, both on 60mm wide bases, won't fit, but the squares can easily be ignored. 

After hemming and hawing for the better part of a minute, I got a start.

The Inspector General inspecting the current state of her table. (She lets me use...usually). 

A 22mm ACW brigade with 1 regiment per square.

1/3 of the table has been done but I'm slowly getting better and quicker so I hope to have the table set by tomorrow evening. Past experience suggests that once the basic grids are laid down, the painting may be improved or modified to taste.