Thoughts on a "Chessboard Campaign"

Besides shipping  another 6 pounds of  figures out and having a quick wargame,  little has been done with the hobby, until last night.

I woke up in the middle of the night. Sometimes I get the strangest thoughts when I wake like this.  I started thinking of a "Chessboard Campaign". For this campaign I would use simple rules such as  Chris Salander's Horse & Musket 2.0 rules. With his rules there is a headquarters on the base line of each side; the goal being capturing the HQ. In most of my games, one side is usually destroyed before it comes to that.  My thought is to have the first side to lose 50% of their forces forced to retreat one square backwards; that would end the day. Next day both sides would be back to full strength, and the battle would start anew where the battle line ended the day before.  First side to capture the HQ would win the game. Of course, I have started thinking  of variants on these rules, such as each side would only get a percentage of their forces back every game. Also, the possibility of having several villages on each side, which would be goals for each

side to capture.

This being Memorial Day weekend, I'm hoping to get a game or two in using the campaign idea.

One of the readers to receive some of the plastic toy soldiers sent me this picture of some of them in action.  It 's good to see them in action again.  

18 Pounds

      That's the weight of the toy soldiers that I sent to several people since I started thinning out my plastic soldier collection. While it doesn't sound like much, you would be surprised how many toy soldiers there are in 6 pounds of toy soldiers.  I thought I would regret giving these figures away. However, I am keeping my earliest Airfix and Atlantic figures, my "Old Guard". I 'm also keeping select figures, such as the Revell TYW figures I have and the few Revell SYW figures I have.

IThis picture was taken before giving away many of the toy soldiers in the bin. There are still many figures still on the spruces. I am thinking of trimming the spruces so I can fit more into boxes.