Early steps

Items needed:
      Playing surface, pretty counters, mechanisms, ancillaries.

I want to be able to play in a variety of places, so the board will need to be reasonably portable and easy to store. So to will the ancillary scenery .3Foot square seems to be reasonable for this and fits in most rule set recommendations as well as behind furniture. It also subdivides nicely into 9 one foot squares, tiles would therefore give an easy basis for flexible scenery, Green for grassland and the basis for jungle.Sandy for desert, beaches, Reddish for arid areas, mars. Greys for urban, and interiors, All laid over a base blue.
     Pretty counters exist almost without number in 28mm and I am sure I will succumb to temptation, but the intention is to stick to the true scale of 1/72. Means I can utilise my existing terrain scenics and therefore eases storage.
   Mechanisms, I dont like rules because it leads to playing the Rules rather than the Game, witness db? or saga, wow etc. So will use Pulp Alley, no doubt with amendments gleaned from other rulesets, primarily because I like opposed throws and player interaction.
 Ancillaries, Scenery.etc. One of the major reasons for doing this is to impose some order on my painting and modelling, so intend to start with an overview/back story and a series of scenes, within a scenario.Build, paint, renovate repair the necessary then play and record.
      More on this next time.