The Truly Portable Wargame
While fighting off the stomach bug and allergies, I’ve not been completely idle. I have been slowly building up a paper miniatures layout including a board, terrain and miniatures. Here is a sample...
View ArticleThe Truly Portable Wargame Part 2
I had a long stretch of time and energy last night and was able to complete several more trees and another house. I also drew up some rivers and roads, including intersections and bends. I printed...
View ArticleThe Truly Portable Wargame in action
I’ve finished the armies and most of the terrain. I do still need to make some barricades and perhaps a marker or two for a ford. Below is the setup and the end of turn 1 for scenario 3, Control the...
View ArticleThe game is Afoot!
The action from turn turn 2 through 5. The game really moves along at a good clip. It is also very well suited for one hour wargames. The fight hangs in the balance. One last modification is with...
View ArticleA Close-up of the Units for Portable Wargame
Here is a close up shot of the Red units. The blue units are identical only blue. There is no unit for light infantry or grenadiers in The Portable Wargame. Dragoons fight like other light cavalry....
View ArticleSo what did it cost?
Some point out that this is a low cost way to play wargames and is portable to boot! But what did it really cost me? Much of the game was made from stuff I found around the house and on the internet....
View ArticleFine!
I finished up the game tonight. I won’t get into the details but here is a picture of the action at the end of turn 7 and then at the end of the game. On turn 9, I made a mistake allowing Red to...
View ArticleA Box by any other name…
I’ve been pretty busy with real life stuff over the past few weeks. Birthdays, sports events, more birthdays and work. I finally had a bit of time to make the storage box for my Truly Portable...
View ArticleUgly But Effective
Here are a couple of pictures of my Portable Wargame kit box. It is about 7.5″ square and is 5″ tall (I think). For better or worse, most of the hard parts are done. I will probably add 2 more boards...
View ArticlePortable Hereclea
Kicking the new rules around play-test style, I decided to try a Rome vs Pyrrhus battle. Hereclea is always a good test battle since it can be played on a flat, featureless plane. I made the opening...
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