"Rules and Minature Storage" Topic

Where do you store your miniatures and corresponding rules?

1) My miniatures and rules are collocated. Ancients with ancients, etc.
2) My miniatures and rules are separated. Rulebooks on bookshelves and miniatures somewhere else.

My miniatures are in boxes separate from the rules. My rules are on a bookshelf at the moment.

Depends on period, scale, and definition.
My rules for 30mm CLS Napoleonics are in the house in Ft Wayne IN. The troops are in Pendleton, IN. Presumably counts as separated.
Rules & scenarios for 28mm are on a shelf in the closet containing the troops. Is that "collocated?"
Rules for 6mm are in a binder on top of the bases containing the troops. Probably counts.
My rules for 2mm are in the same big zip-lock bag as the armies they are rules for. Counts.

I don't know why people keep asking poll questions based on the assumption that I do every period and scale the same way. That's one reason I have different periods and scales.

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I've started putting rules I actually use in a Really Useful Box, along with related things, like a Quick Reference Sheet, dice (particularly game unique dice, like those used in Saga), and a tape measure. The figures themselves are a few feet (maybe a meter) away in Chessex boxes on a different shelf. We do rent a storage unit where, among other things, I store a couple big scenery pieces, like my seaside cliffs and beach.

WARNING! Reading back on that paragraph, it may portray a more organized arrangement than you would actually see on the ground. WARNING!

Rules I don't actively use are on two bookshelves, one near the figures, one in the basement.

Grelber

My figures and vehicles live in boxes, mainly on shelves, but also under the spare bed and up in the attic.

My rules also live on shelves, but some are in boxes in the attic. The rules on shelves are roughly grouped by period and game scale (so operational WW2, grand tactical WW2, Ancients, Napoleonic etc).

Rules I use a lot often just live on top of random boxes on the shelves, along with scenarios. In some cases the rules are in proximity to the toys they get used with, in other cases not. Some scenarios live in folders, others are stuffed into the rules they pertain to.

I have a 'game bag' which is stuffed with all my essential game things – dice, markers, smoke, rulers, felt templates, cards etc.

# 2

Miniatures are in a large metal pigeon hole drawer cabinet and plastic boxes

Loose rules, and period scenarios, terrain and other information are organized in notebooks or their original binding on bookshelves

Like Grelber – there are loose disorganized items as well

I can see myself putting rules with the books covering the same period but never with the miniatures.

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My rules are stored in various places, my figures on shelves in boxes.

So 2.

Good idea, Grelber. Those often go with my rules, and especially so in 2mm. Also templates & swathes.

When I'm running a series of "away games" in 6mm, or "home games" in 28mm, I generally stock one of those Plano or imitation craft boxes--clear plastic, flat with lots of dividers--to include everything not troops, rules or terrain. Everything goes back into the dice or measuring device sweater boxes at the end of the series.

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2 – Figures in boxes in cupboard or loft. Rules on bookshelf (next to cupboard).

2 print rules on their own shelf and a half. Miniatures and scenery in their dedicated boxes in game room closet, where everything is climate controlled.

There is not a 1:1 relationship between my miniatures and my rules sets -- some miniatures get used with different rules sets, and some rules use different sets of miniatures -- and so there is no reason to store them together.

When I am running a game, however, I do put rules and miniatures (and terrain and other stuff) into the same box or boxes.

Play aids are typically kept with rules sets, although the compartmented boxes with the counters for StarGrunt have drifted around a bit and are currently with the miniatures for the last game.

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Most of my minis are in a dedicated cupboard and most of my rules are either on the bookshelves or on the home office desk.

Some minis and some rules do however reside, along with various terrain, hobby supplies, and similar in another cupboard, and more or less by accident some of those minis go with some of those rules.

I don't connect my minis to specific rules.

I have three sets of minis stored with the dice used for the most common ruleset we use. One of those sets is my Battle of Puebla set, which pulled Mexican civilians out for a Dia de lost Muertos scenario, and thus used different dice.