Thinking the Unthinkable

The siren call of 6mm Wargaming could be heard in my house at the weekend. And for one brief moment of utter madness I actually contemplated the idea of selling all my 15mm WWII stuff to make room for a wider range of 6mm terrain and armies. Such heretical thoughts don't belong in my head and I had to stop myself because that way lies madness - the madness of selling armies that have yet to be played with properly and haven't even seen the surface of a decent sized games table.

"Buy more 6mm! You know it makes sense!"
Source : Kamran Goudarzi on deviantART

So what spurred all this nonsense? The wife and I spent Saturday afternoon doing a little spring cleaning (despite the plummeting temperatures and very un-springlike weather) and that also meant re-organising my wargaming stuff. A major part of the big clean-up was sorting out the bedrooms which have grown more and more cluttered over the winter. The younglings rooms are always a mess (I hope your reading this kids!) but ours has also become less like a bedroom and more like a store room. And I have to admit that my ever growing collection of figures and terrain isn't helping matters. It's not a bone of contention yet, but it could be if I don't find a better storage solution soon. 

I recently bought eight 60 ltr lidded storage boxes to help us make better use of space (the loft is too damp and inaccessible to be of use at the moment). So I pulled out all my terrain boxes and cases of models and had a radical reorganisation. This mostly consisted of deciding what I could safely box up long term and what I needed ready access to. The problem is as I was doing this I found myself looking at my 15mm collection and thinking how much easier it would be if I were collecting just 6mm stuff. The Siren song was tugging at my willpower like never before...less storage, cheaper models, easier to paint, bigger armies and 'larger' games... oh you temptress!

Odysseus never knew how lucky he was, all he had to loose was his life! My usual lack of willpower is legendary (hence the 'Big' in BigLee) but for once I resisted the whispered entreaties of these muses of ruin and decided to keep my 15mm models. In fact I'm going a step further and have spoken to my Brother-in-law about fitting in a game sometime in the next few weeks (ie as soon as our schedules come into alignment). I feel the need for a Normandy battle coming on. Maybe my Panzergrenadiers verses the Parachute infantry of the 101st Airborne defending a vital crossroads in a French town. Anything to get these models out of their boxes and onto the games table before I am tempted to sell them again.