Setting Up My Next Wargame Table

This is how things looked before the clean up began (click pix to enlarge)

 This afternoon and on into the evening, I decided to clear away my wargame table and set things up for my first annual Fife & Drum July Fourth Wargame. This will be a solo game with about 7 or 8 British battalions and 10 to 12 Continental and militia battalions. I might also add some Minden SYW Prussians that can serve as a Hessian brigade in order to balance out the numbers a little bit. That is one of the great things about the Fife & Drum range: you can also use Minden Miniatures and RSM 95 miniatures since they are compatible in size and proportion.

Feel free to browse through the pictures to see how the game table took shape. The end result was very pleasing to my eye. I think I spent an extra hour just examining the troops up close and adding a few more terrain bits and pieces. I am ready to game!

Double click on all pictures to seem them at their maximum size, especially the last two pictures in the series.

All of my big battalions go into these large plastic storage boxes. I can get five 60 man battalions into each box.

The troops are now stored away in their boxes. Now to pick up the other bits.

Clean at last!

Slide some books underneath the game mat and start placing road sections.

Now we add the trees and some fences. Hmm, I don't like the way that this scenario is working out. Time to change it again.

That's better - a more game-able terrain. We will be playing along the long axis of the table.

Finally, just add miniatures and we are ready to game!