Consolidation

I started consolidating my wargame storage.

Why?

It started the other day when I was doing some cleaning and organizing around the house. I had a bunch of little boxes with my MicroBattle wargames strewn about - one each for air, naval, land, and skirmish.

It dawned on me that I could consolidate all these smaller boxes into a larger box and save some storage. I ended up dumping everything into a large box, and then walking away.

I had a day off recently and thought about playing a game. I wanted a break from MicroDungeon so I was looking for something else. Then Little Wars TV sent an email about an upcoming Talavera game. Napoleonics it is!

But then I came upon the jumble of stuff.

What?

Here is that jumble of stuff. Most of my "armies" are in a separate small box. Pictured is the larger, 9 x 12 inch box where I dumped everything else. You can see some of it strewn about outside the box.

The first thing I did was take all the armies and put them in a separate 9 x 12 inch box. 

Each army is in a separate 2 inch square container. There are also some unmounted units and some miscellaneous bases and markers in baggies. I have since removed the bases and markers.

The next step was to sort through all the terrain. I actually have way more than I need because I had a set of terrain for each small box. Extras ended up in the trash. I did the same with extra battle boards.

Here is the final product.

On the bottom, I have markers, terrain, and dice. Battle boards (right) go on top. I also have a printed copy (left) of an old version of MicroBattle.

Bigger Box =

Now that I have a bigger box, I can expand my battle board. I could go to 8 x 11 squares. I find this a bit too big. I will likely go with 6 x 8.