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At one time I had a lot of miniatures. They were pretty expensive but now people can design and print one up on a 3D printer. There are entire cities and dungeons including castles sold in 3D print design plans now. Still gotta paint them though.
we played army men with rubber bands, had a good friend that would come and spend summers at his grandfather's every summer, his name was Jimbo and our neighbor his grandfather Mr. Burns, had a fenced in front yard with cactuses and slate rock as pathways and earthy soil in-between it was a good terrain , we would each set up our army men positioning throughout and over the terrains of the cactus garden then picking a side and taking turns at shooting them over, whoever could shoot over the other's first would win ~ Jimbo later joined the Army as soon as he turned eighteen ~ only war board game that we've played was Battle Ship ~ and Risk that was actually a very old game, but we never ever seen it prior to only several years ago ~ thing about small towns and no internet is kind of a safe haven from everything you never knew existed and never missed - as well as news, you would get the local newspaper and that was the talk of the town - people were not caught up in everyone else's business as they are today with the monster that social media has created for the world ~ and no regulations people can spin fabricated story's and reach millions in a matter of seconds and people naturally respond to these comments - me try and distance myself from it change the channel and make better choices on what is allowed into my house ~ house being metaphorical ~
I use to play white queen takes queen; black knight takes white queen; white knight checks king; king moves; white knight takes rook…
Just a few days ago had the game chess on my mind and out of my own curiosity, began researching the actual game chess, wanted to know more about it, its roots where it came from, was it always a board game of sixty-four squares with markers of one through eight and the letters {A} through {H} the information that came up was interesting and mentioned that the game chess has evolved from something much different, from a game that first used dice and involved caricature pieces and later evolving pieces that were elephants and other things that were moved and performed differently, there were roots from Persia and India etc. that was traced to the modern day game that we all know today, as Chess ~ Chaturanga (India, ~500 CE) The earliest widely accepted surviving chessboard is a carved stone board from the Indus Valley site of Lothal (in modern‑day Gujarat, India), dated to roughly 2300 BCE — far older than chaturanga itself. This object is often cited as the oldest physical board with a grid pattern plausibly connected to proto‑board games that later evolved into chess. {my mind wonders} ~
everyone's circumstances geography and up-bringing sure does play a huge part in the quality of people's lives ~ some good humor always helps too ~ so many people have been affected by other people's poor decisions ~ and on the other side of the coin so many people have been blessed by other people's good decision's generosity, compassion, ethics, morals, and kindness ~ good natured people ~
