I have done a quick blog post on getting the kit needed for small space wargaming in a single box.

LINK
http://battlefieldswarriors.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-spartan-wargamer.html

I looked into this.
Doing 6mm Necromunda in a box file 
I'll see if I can dig out some photos
Regards
Sean

Years ago I used to do medieval reenactment with the Perry Twins and they created a battlefield-in-a-box they could take to events to while away the evening hours between drinking and falling over dead drunk. It was (as I remembered it) great fun (or it seemed like great fun at the time!).

I think they may have commercialised it in the Perry Miniatures range of wargaming stuff as TravelBattle in a Box - 8mm Napoleonics:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Perry-Miniatures-TravelBattle-Complete-Napoleonic/dp/B0716DSX43/ref=asc_df_B0716DSX43/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=256186093411&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6141919872088658711&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006567&hvtargid=pla-739898724212&psc=1

Nice setup Norm

Now why do I have 100 times this much stuff!

A great post Norm and a good idea. I remember seeing DBA players having fold out battle boxes that became the board, with areas to store terrain and figures. Simple but very effective.

Quote from: fred. on 14 December 2020, 09:12:45 PM


Now why do I have 100 times this much stuff!

You just need 100 boxes

thanks all.

Cracking post Norm, really good idea to do smaller projects that I would otherwise never do.

When you picked the suitcase up did everything just end up in a heap at the bottom of the case?   

Quote from: howayman on 15 December 2020, 05:49:33 PM
When you picked the suitcase up did everything just end up in a heap at the bottom of the case?   

No - that was the really clever bit :-), like the box, it was to be kept flat. of course the case always stayed at home, so there was never the issue of it being a straining carry over any great distance.

Very nicely put together that, Norm.

Wargame in a box is easy.

Once you get the table in the rest sorts of fills in around it.

In fact ... once I've emptied this latest delivery from Amazon, I may use this box to demonstrate.

I had a holiday box. Flat pack cardboard buildings, dice, rules, and about 30 figures was my "Once Upon a Time In The West" 20mm kit. All fitted in to a biscuit tin.

I must confess there was much less thought than what you have shown.

Interesting read.

But, Leicester Models and Micro Tanks? With someone else mentioning Fine Fare earlier it's like I'm suddenly back in 1976.

Nostalgia - it ain't what it used to be . . .

Quote from: fsn on 15 December 2020, 09:43:26 PM
I had a holiday box. Flat pack cardboard buildings, dice, rules, and about 30 figures was my "Once Upon a Time In The West" 20mm kit. All fitted in to a biscuit tin.
I must confess there was much less thought than what you have shown.

The biscuit tin comment has reminded me - I have (somewhere in the wargaming cupboard of wonder) a large round biscuit tin which I converted into a gladiatorial combat arena - I've got a dozen or so assorted gladiators and officials all on magnetised bases.
I stuck a gridded sheet on the bottom of the inside base of the tin with a thin layer of fine sand on it so that the magnetised bases can still stick fast to the tin and the grid could still be seen.
I then attached a plastic pouch inside the lid - where the rules (an old SoA set) and dice were kept.
I printed off an image of stone walls and rows of roman arena going crowd (lord knows where I got that from) and stuck it on the inside wall of the tin.

I'll scrummage in the cupboard over Xmas and see if I can find it and post some pictures. Many hours of gory fun were had in quick and simple gladiatorial combats - but I have not played it  for many years now.

Mark

Quote from: Big Insect on 16 December 2020, 10:24:30 AM
The biscuit tin comment has reminded me - I have (somewhere in the wargaming cupboard of wonder) a large round biscuit tin which I converted into a gladiatorial combat arena - I've got a dozen or so assorted gladiators and officials all on magnetised bases.
I stuck a gridded sheet on the bottom of the inside base of the tin with a thin layer of fine sand on it so that the magnetised bases can still stick fast to the tin and the grid could still be seen.
I then attached a plastic pouch inside the lid - where the rules (an old SoA set) and dice were kept.
I printed off an image of stone walls and rows of roman arena going crowd (lord knows where I got that from) and stuck it on the inside wall of the tin.

I'll scrummage in the cupboard over Xmas and see if I can find it and post some pictures. Many hours of gory fun were had in quick and simple gladiatorial combats - but I have not played it  for many years now.

Mark

would love to see that !
mmmmmm :- now where can I get a round tin from  :-
off to the shops I go.
regards
Sean