My How Time Flies

So it's 2016. Cold Wars is in a month. Didn't pre-reg, again. Big line ahead. Elections are in November. Hopefully the next Honcho will actually love this country.
Sad to report the kitty on the first page died December 2014 at the age of 20. Best pet, Ever! Sorely missed even today.
Trying to narrow down wargame choices. I have procured a lot of American Revolution lately. I have a bunch of ACW in two scales 28mm and 40mm.  Napoleonics have grown as well. I've even got some ECW and Assyrians.
Obviously at my age I can't play everything I want. So I will pare down armies. Look for me at Wally's Basement in the future and TMP. Prices will probably be just right.
I am thinking the bigger periods such as Napoleonic and ACW can be handled at a larger scale. That would be basic brigades like in Grande Armee, Volley and Bayonet, and Snappy Nappy.  Dots of Paint blog shows how to play Napoleonics on giant bases. Bases are 120mm wide with 10 28mm figures. I have seen other blogs doing much the same thing. The rules vary on this newer concept but the basic base is 1000-2000 men per base being a brigade. Usually two brigades make a division.
I think it is also doable for ACW and Franco-Prussian War. Just remembered I have Franco-Prussians too. Oh and 40mm Dark Ages, unpainted of course. Dux Bellorum looks good to me for those on a six to eight man base.
Needless to say as a much older gamer than I was in 1976, I am losing friends and wargame brothers every few months. Some of our leading rules authors and game masters have passed on. I salute them all. They have given me many hours of enjoyment playing with toy soldiers and devouring military history. To top it off my love for toy soldiers started with my Dad. He bought my brother and I quite a few Marx playsets over the many Christmas holidays we spent as kids.  He had some Britains and a few painted plastic ACW soldiers. In his later years I took him to toy soldier shows, Civil War battlefields and sometimes painted a figure or plaster statue for him. His real wars were as a  Navy Seaman on a troop ship in WW2 and as an infantryman/cook in Korea in the 2nd Division. He and my Mom rest in Arlington Cemetery in very fine company.
So now getting back to basing or re-basing, it may very well be worth it to enjoy some large scale games. Some of the smaller wars will be just fine as they already are and played with basic four stand units. It's fun to be a wargamer and something new always seems to be around the corner.