put my retiremet game planning on paper - rules first

[workerBee]

My retirement plans are to retain my 1/600th Aircraft (and combined arms "targets") as my primary interest; My Spain in North America (1680 - 1820) in 25/28 mm figures (with pueblo buildings,) as secondary;  to keep small elements of Horror, Western, Spanish Venusian VSF, and Supers to play out with my pueblo related terrain in the 1680 - 1820 (later for VSF) alternate history; my late 1970's early 1980s Dwarf-centric Fantasy armies; and (until I replace it with 1/600th) my 1/300th (and my 1970's/1980's "small 25" mm SST) Science Fiction figures.  

I am currently winnowing out figures from my 37 KR Multicase units plus a few "other" storage boxes to reduce to the "essentials" and get my gaming stuff ready to move from a  "five bedroom" (Missouri considers the sewing room and Library as "bedrooms") house to an apartment in 2017.  More on that in another thread.

Right now I am looking at what rules I need to keep for gaming (or Nostalgia in the case of the RPG ones)

my current rules (Bolded the ones I really like) to keep candidates are:

"Air War C21"   "Air War 1917"   "Wings at War"   "Wings of War"   

Gloiré     MOTW - Matchlocks on the Warpath   GD2D   - Good Day to Die  Gutshot   Comancheria   

V&S&F -  Valor & Steel & Flesh

CiC - Chaos in Carpathia      

FR! - Fantasy Rules, 2nd ed.

OD&D, AD&D 1st/2nd
   
FoF/TW - Force on Force/Tomorrow's War   

(SS) - Supersystem 2nd/3rd ed.

There is an active (and large-ish) war game group in Albuquerque wher we plan to retire so I don't think there will be a shortage of potential players.

So, given my AOIs in the first paragraph  are there any rules I seriously need to consider adding to my retirement storage?  Rules must be able to use the figures/scales I currently have - no chance of building large forces of 28 mm sized moderns or 40 mm Conquistadores for example.

Gracias,

Glenn

[joroas]

I have 198 working days left, but I have never gone down this route......

[workerBee]

I have 198 working days left, but I have never gone down this route......

When your wife is a Counted-Cross-Stitcher/Quilter-wannabe/Scrapbooker and she is doing that for her stuff it dawns on you that selective culling is a right thing to do...                

Gracias,

Glenn

[workerBee]

<snip> no chance of building large forces of 28 mm sized moderns or 40 mm Conquistadores for example.

Gracias,

Glenn

Not that that I have not thought about those TBH.

Gracias,

Glenn

[cdm]

I've been thinking about this lately as well I still have figures from when I was a kid, and I know I am never going to do anything with them. I know I have figures I want to keep but I will never get to paint, so I'm going to solo game unpainted.

I can't help with rule suggestions, but I did decide that I would write my own scenario specific rules for the games I wanted to play. It's one of the things that keeps me tinkering with my armies and last purchases, and keeps me focused on what not to buy anymore. I don't plan on buying any more rules, I think I've seen enough for me to just tinker with what I have. I'm not in your boat though of gaming with others, I plan on retiring into solo Good luck and don't forget to enjoy what you plan to do

[Centaur_Seducer]

I have 198 working days left, but I have never gone down this route......

At 57? That sounds Mediterranian

[Blodwin]

I am definitely NOT going to count the days - they go by so fast. 

If anyone has the secret to slow down time please tell.

[Conquistador]

Despite my intentions, I may buy IHMN to supplement CiC (or use them supplemented by CiC, depending.)

Does Fantasy Rules! 3rd really improve 2nd edition to justify the cost?  I think 2nd edition works okay for me.

Gracias,

Glenn

[joroas]

No, I will, in fact, hit 59 when I go.

Sadly, I think, the last generation to have free university, a good job market, mortgage paid and retired in my 50s.....

As for clearing out, I have amassed a major pile of books, DVDs and minis to work on over the next few years. My shed, loft and spare room are full.

[Centaur_Seducer]

No, I will, in fact, hit 59 when I go.

Sadly, I think, the last generation to have free university, a good job market, mortgage paid and retired in my 50s.....

That is true!
Think of us will you. Sitting there in your loft with just spare time and miniatures, while the rest of us break our backs until we're 70

[joroas]

70, probably. My state pension won't kick in until I am 66 now.  Not long ago women could get it at 60....

[Conquistador]

December 31, 2016 is my goal.  I will be 66 in April with "well over" 30 years Federal Service [FERS, not CSRS,] between uniformed and civilian plus Social Security, the wife 62 (Social Security only,) my health is fair as is hers (since she was adopted from Canada we officially know nothing about her birth parents health history,) and the kids will be 44, 42, 28, and 23 (last just finishing college or tech/trade options by then) and hope to leave Saint Louis for Albequerque in 2017, GLW.

I really want to have just the essentials of what interests us so we aren't "house heavy" in our later years.  Having cleaned out two sets of parents' house I do not want that burden on my kids.

Gracias,

Glenn

[joroas]

September 4th 2014.......

[workerBee]

September 4th 2014.......

Awesome!  Not very long at all!

Gracias,

Glenn

[Wilkins]

45 Years