A potential solution quite literally hit me!

I recently visited our storage unit to look for several wargaming items I needed. Thanks to the light in the unit not working and my torch battery giving up the ghost after a couple of minutes, I didn't find everything that I wanted.

However, one of the things that I did bring home was a small box containing some plastic bits and pieces I think that I may be able to use for my current Belle Époque project. When I got the box up to my toy/wargame room, I went to put it on top of one of the bookcases, and in doing so, I dislodged a copy of MEMOIR '44 ... which fell off and hit me on the head!

Once I had got over the initial shock and began to pick up all the bits that had fallen out of the box, I realised that I had in my hand the game's playing board ... which is a foldable hexed board that has a grid of 9 x 13 hexes that measure approximately 5.25cm from face to face! My immediate thought was this size of hex should certainly work with my Belle Époque armies and has the big advantage of being eminently portable!

The next thing to do was to see what examples of my based figures looked like on the board, and the results are shown below:

The army of the Baggari of Sahel fighting troops of the Zubian Army.

Another view of the army of the Baggari of Sahel fighting troops of the Zubian Army.

This simple experiment shows that this is certainly a workable solution, especially as I already own several different versions of this board.

Just when I thought that I had made a decision, this 'accident' has made me think again.