Painted Desert, But Not the Real One
It is done. A full table of desert terrain. Primed and ready for color But not too much color – it is a desert after all. Chicken Joe showing off some big rocks. A small camp near the dunes and columns. Hiding behind a small dune. Deep in the...
Wrap It, Stack It…
Smack it on the bing-bong! The four fantasy boxes are done. Four mounted troops, three big bossmen, thirty-five infantry, and a cute little doggo. If you can’t field a good four skirmish forces out of that mix, you’re in the wrong hobby, buddy. This aerial shot shows how well the...
End of the Box
To fantasy up the four small wargame boxes, I needed something with a touch of magic. Hence four wizard towers. Yeah, they all look a little different. So do the ponds and the houses and the woods. And most of the figures. It’s nice – they all have that...
Four by Twenty Figures
Last post I showed you my current project’s status. For those new to Chateau Abox, I’m building four identical game sets, so that I can do some online wargaming with a tactical component. If you ain’t pushing lead, you ain’t miniature wargaming, after all. By using 10mm figures already in hand,...
The Compleat Castle Meatgrinder
Who are we kidding? A project like this is never complete, it just goes into hibernation. As we round out the year of fantasy skirmish here at War In A Box, let’s take a look at where the project stands. At the current time we’ve got over 50 characters in...
Temporary Storage Solution
One of my Christmas gifts to myself was this great box. It had personal hygiene products in it, but I’m a gamer, so did what gamers do and threw that in the garbage. This box, though. Sliding top, solid wood, pretty swanky. At some point I will need to...
Small Box Blues, Part Five
Over the course of the week we have been looking at a number of different strategies to maximize the gamable space that you can fit into a small storage box. As promised, today presents my own solution to the vexing problem of making a sci-fi interior battlefield with attractive...
Small Box Blues, Part Four
There’s no way around it – big multi-layer pieces of terrain just aren’t going to fit into a small box. So let’s just stick with a one level floor plan. Everybody and his uncle uses some variation of rectangular or hex-based tiles for their terrain. But since this is...
Small Box Blues, Part Three
Last time we looked at a few ways that smart people approach the challenge of cramming as much terrain into a small space as possible. This time let’s look at how a dumb person does it. And by dumb person, I mean me. In addition to cramming as much...
Small Box Blues, Part Two
There are basically two ways to build wargame interiors. You can place freestanding walls on a ground surface (aka “the maze”), or you can integrate them into the ground surface (aka “tiling”). There is a third way, a hybrid method with tiles that represent rooms and corridors. Let’s look...