Slitherine

There are several threads running in different sections about markers/tokens for FoG. For those who like the plastic, labeled kind I've reviewed a couple of sets on my blog:

http://blog.belisarius.org.uk/2010/05/r ... rkers.html

http://blog.belisarius.org.uk/2010/05/r ... -pt-2.html

Hope it's of use.

Cheers

Andy

i have the Litko Tokens these are good but the 1 inch wheel templates are of not much use

I like the first set personally but have a feeling shipping to UK may be prohibitive. Not mailed them to ask yet. Might do when I have time.

The set costs $17.99 and shipping is just $5.25. For what you get and the quality I think it's fine.

Andy

Does that take them under the customs limit? If not the Royal Mail will sting you for almost GBP 9.00 extra.

timmy1 wrote:Does that take them under the customs limit? If not the Royal Mail will sting you for almost GBP 9.00 extra.

It is under, but not by a lot

No. Duty is not charged if either:
• the total value of the goods (not including shipping charges or insurance) does not exceed £135 (€150, or equivalent in local currency)
• or the amount of duty payable on any given item, does not exceed £9 (€10, or equivalent in local currency).

Neither duty nor VAT is payable if the total value of the goods (not including shipping charges or insurance) does not exceed £18 (€22, or equivalent in local currency).

It is roughly £16-50 all in, assuming current exchange rate of $1-44.

Thanks. I will have to take a look.

Well, I ordered some of the tokens from Wright Bros and paid by PayPal on 17th. Had a receipt from Paypal but nothing from Wrights, no reply to an email I sent on 21st querying receipt of the order either so hopefully they will come.

You could also look at this guy

http://the-d-d.net/

Pete

I have the Litko tokens and I have mixed feelings about them.

The biggest problem is the colors:
Disrupted; yellowish-green
Fragmented; golden
Broken; Black
Disordered; orange
Severely Disordered; red

So, this isn't too bad until you have multiple and different status tokens that get scattered on the different battlegroups. Because I frequently loose to my local players, I am often playing with multiple Disrupted and Fragmented BGs. This means that the color difference between Disrupted and Fragmented are not distinctive enough. I get by because I always leave the Disrupted tokens on the BGs until I can rally them to steady. So, in other words, if a Disrupted BG becomes Fragmented, I leave the Disrupted token on the BG and add an additional Fragmented token. If they go broken, then I obviously add a Broken token as well. It has only happened once, but I did have a Broken unit that was Disordered; I was leaving 4 different tags on the same BG. This is not ideal, but it works.

Personally, I would have swapped the Fragmented and Disordered, and Severely Disordered colors (IOW, the Fragmented should be red, Disordered should be golden and the S. Disordered should be orange). Better still, they could have used other colors like blue, green or use opaque colors as well. Also, Litko can make different shaped tokens as well. What if the Disordered and Severely Disordered tokens were circular or oval instead of the jagged shapes?

So, if I were to think this through and buy the customized tokens instead, I would make the Disordered/Severely Disordered type tokens opaque yellow/red, and circular. I would keep the Disrupted/Fragmented/Broken shapes the same shape, but adjust the Fragmented color to red.

Well, I ordered 2 sets of the tokens from Wright Bros. They have arrived but is has ended up being costly!! £28.87 for the two sets and got stung £12 by the lovely Customs people. Not seen them yet as I am away but at £20 a set I hope they are good. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose on getting hit by Customs. Got clobbered this time. Not VFM IMO with charges that heavy. Good value in US maybe.

I have the Litko ones too, but I think I need more or another solution . I discovered this weekend at the Hcon tourney that it is useful to place 2 markers on the turn a unit suffers morale loss and then remove one in the JAP so you can keep track of which happened that turn or not for a general's boosting morale