@ghansonuoi:
My question is on height of the table. I have an 8’x4’ plywood with border. Standard map size.
My son is 12, I’m 6’2… Was just trying to see what the consensus was for height of the legs and the overall table. Unsure if we’d use barstools (likely) but do most people stand for this, sit for this?
Looking forward to seeing the forthcoming pictures. About the height question you have, my suggestion would be for you and your son to do some “reachability” tests by putting the Global 1940 map on your sheet of plywood, putting the plywood on a low table, then raising the map to various heights by putting books (or whatever) between the plywood and the table. Start low, and check to see if your son’s arms can reach comfortably all the way to the middle of the board from all four sides of the map. If so, raise it some more and repeat the test. Once the middle of the board is out of his comfortable reach, you’ll know you will have gone over the maximum allowable height, and you should therefore aim for something a little lower – but not too much lower, because a table that’s too low won’t be comfortable for you, nor for your son as he grows taller in the future.
This is based on the assumption that your table setup allows players to walk round the board on all four sides. If your table is going to be up against a wall – which isn’t recommended, because the table will only be approachable from three sides – then the table will have to be lower because players will have to be able to reach all the way across the map from top to bottom rather than just to the middle.
