Major Rethink

I guess I should just come to the point and lay blame at the door that it belongs...so thanks Thomo!

Although I have not yet succumbed to the pressure to go to 6mm I have decided to abandon what 1/72 (or 20mm) WWII I have in favour of 15mm and Flames of War. The obvious two advantages I can see are that terrain I am already accruing for Napoleonic Europe and Spain will not look too out of place as a substitute for Europe in the late war period or even Italy in the mid. The other is that as a scale 15mm is probably the best of both worlds: large enough to look good and therefore be fairly easy to paint, but small enough so that battles of a reasonable size can be fought without needing a table bigger than my apartment, and all while keeping the budget reasonable. The major disadvantages are that I need to decide what to do with all the stuff I already have, and perhaps more of a disadvantage is that the whole thing has got me thinking.

Work of the Wargaming Cave has sort of stalled. My original design called for a square table, and this was dropped in favour of a longer table once a new home had been found. But lately the flexibility of the smaller table (on wheels no less) has begun to see merit. While it would mean longer battle-fields would have to be fought in stages, it has the advantage of allowing 4 sided access, looking "right" for 15mm and even ok for 25mm fantasy, especially given that I plan to play much more Mordheim than WFB type games. It would also be large enough for future (planned) 40K games and any other 15mm period expansions (thinking AWI and/or maybe Renaissance Italy) would still work.

But it means I have to re-plan the room and look at how to mount the table on said wheels, while keeping maximal storage space and book space. (Though I guess if I bought an iPad and just had digital versions of the all the rules then this would be moot)

...this is simply the bane of those of us without the massive amount of space that some gamers* seem to luxuriate in.

* Yes, I am jealous. ~grin~