Slitherine

Can anyone recommend a good place to download tokens from? Not suggesting anything illegal, i'm just thinking of some sort of free "download, print out and glue onto cardboard" tokens to denote when my BGs are 'disordered', 'broken' etc.

I know you can buy plastic ones from Litko but I figure cardboard ones would do the job just as well.

Try http://www.madaxeman.com/Downloads/fog_ ... arkers.php

I use them as does a club mate of mine. He sticks a pair of each to either side of a piece of stiff card and edges one side red and one side black. Red means placed this turn so can't be bolstered. End of the bound you flip them. Works a treat

thanks.

If not going for truly aesthetic markers (using casualties, for example), I think simple color-coding (with two markers for a fresh cohesion loss, all extras picked up at the end of the player turn) is practical and fool-proof. Marble or glass flats (an online example of what they look like is http://www.megaglass.com/c/opaque-glass-flats.html) are cheap at crafts stores, provide good visual cues, and easy to physically lay down, shift with troops, and pick up even for those without fine motor skills. They also don't crumple, break or wear out.

Personally I don't like the casualty-based markers I've seen either the printed ones or the little dead miniatures. I have to squint at them quite closely to work out whether thee unit is disrupted or fragmented - the printed ones because they often seem to be a riot of random patches of colour that are hard to resolve, the miniatures because there are often shields and other debris scattered around making it less obvious how many distinct "things" there are on the base.

Then again, amybe I just need to go get some spectacles

I bought some really cheap plastic beads with D, F and B written on them at one of these little store that hide in corners of malls. I paint one side red so as to indicate the cohesion change in that bound. In total cost around R30.00 for 60 so not sure how your prices would look but directly converted its about 2 pounds or $4.

lonehorseman wrote:I bought some really cheap plastic beads with D, F and B written on them at one of these little store that hide in corners of malls. I paint one side red so as to indicate the cohesion change in that bound. In total cost around R30.00 for 60 so not sure how your prices would look but directly converted its about 2 pounds or $4.

I have used those in other games to advantage but the ones I have are small and would require sharp vision to read across the table even with good lighting. Color-coding levels the playing field in terms of visual data acquisition and processing capacities, even if the object is a bit blurry.

I put my disrupted casualties on 20x20 mm bases.
I put frag on 20x40mm bases.

Very easy to identify and use madaxemen as backup and have real figure when not travelling.

Dan does not need rout markers, he just turns all them drilled Latin armoured knights around as they break from someones Georgian lancers.

Yours making the most of a rare chance to gloat for once....