For official colors for tokens

nicofig · Post by **nicofig** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:39 am

Hi,
with the international tournaments, it would be a good idea to have an official opinion about the colors of tokens.
Thank you

shall · Post by **shall** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:09 am

I use

Green DISR
Red FRG
Black Broken

Si

hood_mick · Post by **hood_mick** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:10 am

There is going to be all sorts of stuff used for markers. Ranging from I don't have any or they are all I could find, to casualty figures. At Rotherham for instance we are all going to use 12mm counters of red, white and blue in that order. Seems to me in the UK that should be easy to remember.

I must say for all the talk of making scenery better/ prettier. The one thing I don't like about FOG is the state of the tables. They end up covered in crap. Dice, markers, people marking the end of there battle groups with either extra dice or sticks. All the money and effort put in to the bulk of armies just to surrond them in debris. Yes I know all games tables end up with rubish on them I have been doing this 29 years. But it just seems worse.

nikgaukroger · Post by **nikgaukroger** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:25 am

The only official thing you need on markers is to insist they are different colours/dead figure markers/etc. for the different states - after that who gives a ...

Luddite · Post by **Luddite** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:51 pm

shall wrote:I use

Green DISR
Red FRG
Black Broken

Si

We use

Green DISR
Yellow FRG
Red Broken

However i'm thinking of making up some jolly little 'dead figures' markers...1,2,&3 dead figs...

Personally i don't mind as long as the don't make the battlefield look cluttered...

carlos · Post by **carlos** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 3:29 pm

My colours are Yellow, Red... and PINK!

CLAVDIVS · Post by **CLAVDIVS** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:45 pm

Hi All,

I use,

Green for DISRUPTED
Yellow for FRAGMENTED
Red for BROKEN
and
blue for DISORDERED

petedalby · Post by **petedalby** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:56 pm

Personally I find the visual representation of bases works best.

It is all too easy for counters to be moved.

But as long as both players agree at the start of the game I don't see a need for an 'official' version.

Pete

Luddite · Post by **Luddite** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:56 pm

carlos wrote:My colours are Yellow, Red... and PINK!

Go to the back....tut...there's always one isn't there...

nikgaukroger · Post by **nikgaukroger** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:38 pm

Linda Fairhurst will, however, approve as the pink ones will match her dice

davidandlynda · Post by **davidandlynda** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:30 pm

She also uses pink sparkly dice as markers
David

bertalucci · Post by **bertalucci** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 8:04 am

Wilkinson's do huge packs of Yellow, Green and Orange smilie faces in two sizes.
Enough for a whole club, so 75p well spent!
Use small for disr, large for fragged and routers - well its easy to remember success or failure.

Cuts down on the clutter.

kustenjaeger · Post by **kustenjaeger** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 3:52 pm

Greetings

Picked up a pack from Wilkinsons this afternoon. Good fun - my wife may steal some to take to school on Monday though ...

Regards

pezhetairoi · Post by **pezhetairoi** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 5:17 pm

I'm going to make a set of square 3D counters. I work at a model making shop with access to a laser cutter. I'll try to make them cast-able so I can have enough (8 of each?).

DISR, FRAG, BROKEN

The first set will be "greekified" letters, using a funny font. They will be made to look like ruined ancient masonry lying in the grass/dirt.
Next will be cuneiform-ish, but still legible, perhaps lying in sand.... (maybe Hieroglyphic?)
Later I'll make some other medieval ones in a high gothic type font, or have them resemble some sort of manuscript illumination.

Any other ideas?

rayfredjohn · Post by **rayfredjohn** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 10:00 pm

I just got some green, yellow and red pocker chips. I've got some official Vegas dice on order.
My thinking is that it's such a gamble every time I throw the dice I might as well embrace it.

Ray

CLAVDIVS · Post by **CLAVDIVS** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:05 pm

Ok here are my markes for you all have fun now

bayouwars2001 · Post by **bayouwars2001** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:10 am

I found little white and red plastic skulls at a Halloween store - but I do like the idea of casualty figures to show disruption,etc... also, instead of placing the commander's base in the front rank (which due to its 40mm displacement sometimes creates other "visual problems"), I have painted a few individual flag/banner bearers that can be easily placed on the front rank base to show the presence of the commander without having to displace the rear ranks to make room. I then remove the 40 mm base until such time as the commander can and does leave the BG as per the rules at which time he reverts back to the original 40 mm base.
Chris

MarkSieber · Post by **MarkSieber** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:58 am

I use shields for markers--I already had some 1/72 plastics I had reaped from kits & painted blue and yellow, weathered. I've also used 'discarded' weapons. So far in FoG I've used the base positioning, but with four-stand units in two ranks it's sometimes hard to distinguish Fragmented status after a stand loss, so I'm thinking about using yellow for fragmented, blue for disorder and jogging the bases for the disrupted units.
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mdoolitt · Post by **mdoolitt** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:17 am

How about runes for the 3D markers, or perhaps Ogham?

carlos · Post by **carlos** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:18 am

Not to further trounce a perished equine, but you don't need markers for disordered.