Weather Counters

Digger Goreman · Post by **Digger Goreman** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 8:12 pm

Having happily said all of the above... I'm not as pleased with the "prone/stunned" counters.... Nothing to do with the quality of said counters, per se, as they are excellent... but they don't sit well on all bases.... as opposed to the oval counters (no zone and rooted) that sit excellently on nearly any base+figure.... I'm very seriously considering having a 2-sided oval made with "prone" on one side and "stunned" on the other....

I've got 11 of the prone/stunned disks if anyone is interested in buying them off of me....

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 8:43 pm

Vomit Lickspittle wrote:I've got 11 of the prone/stunned disks if anyone is interested in buying them off of me....

They aren't made to put on the player's base.

They were made to be put on the pitch in place of the player (ie you remove the figure from the pitch) and have the counter there instead.

Sorry if this is just me ... never thought someone would want to leave the figure upright and then put a counter to say he was prone/stunned on him. To me that would really visual cause me problems as your opponent and I'd probably request that you not do that if I was your opponent. (that could just be me ... but an upright player with a stunned marker on him would just really mess with my way of reviewing the board).

Galak

Digger Goreman · Post by **Digger Goreman** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:16 pm

Wow... never thought of it that way, Galak.... Just how do you reference the marker to the removed player? (Honestly, you might be doin' it in a much better manner....) I started putting Go chips on the bases years ago in preference to laying them down....

Lay it on me, Tom..., I'll hold onto those counters!

Darkson · Post by **Darkson** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:30 pm

I intend to get a couple of the stunned counters, but I only expect to use them for BGs - normal players just don't cause that much of a problem to lie on the pitch (things like BOBs might be an exception).

sann0638 · Post by **sann0638** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 10:00 pm

I use coins, and my ogres are numbered 1,2,5,10,20 and 50.

Heads down - stunned.
Heads up - prone.

Seems to work!

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 12:06 am

Vomit Lickspittle wrote:Lay it on me, Tom..., I'll hold onto those counters!

I only use them for my Big Guys.

And I painted the player number on both side of the token that represents them for my Ogre team. (if your team only has one Big Guy than you don't need to worry about it).

Galak

Virral · Post by **Virral** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 6:22 am

If you want to use them on all players, perhaps getting some custom tokens made at the same size as the No Zone or Rooted tokens? You can get them done quite simply in batches of 10 from Litko, and with a bunch of different shapes and colours to use.

Here we go, custom set 1 (geometric shapes):

http://www.litkoaero.com/page/LAI/PROD/TS/CTOK001

Custom set 2 (bombs and bullets etc):

http://www.litkoaero.com/Merchant2/merc ... de=CTOK002

tenwit · Post by **tenwit** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 9:08 pm

If you have enough minis that benefit from the stunned/proned tokens (don't have to be large ones: the GW saurus minis don't have an obvious up/down, so I'll be using the tokens for them), then spare stands with the player's number work well. Put the token on the stand.

Digger Goreman · Post by **Digger Goreman** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:06 pm

Customs are a little expensive, but the mini skulls are an option.... Reds for stunned and whites for prone....

The pre-litko option I used was to place #10 rubber washers on some body extension and that was visually useful (one if prone and two if stunned, requiring the removal of one to change from stunned to prone)....

What I did, today, was to replace all downed players with a prone/stunned counter and place the mini next to the sideline, on the same row the player occupied.... It was easy enough.... And it really improved the visualization of lanes where there were no zones of control.... The down-side was that you had to check the sideline if you forgot which player was down where....

On the other hand, the blue "no-zone" markers sat extremely well on either facing of the mini and were visually noticable.... An option to the larger stunned/prone counters would be a custom jobber, in red, the same as the "no zone" or "rooted" counters....

Tom, with all due respect, I'm not placing my painted minis down on the field... not to mention minis like Beastmen who don't have a placeable face down.... A visual counter is a much better solution for me....

Meradanis · Post by **Meradanis** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 11:17 pm

Vomit Lickspittle wrote:Tom, with all due respect, I'm not placing my painted minis down on the field... not to mention minis like Beastmen who don't have a placeable face down.... A visual counter is a much better solution for me....

We never had problem with beastmen, but try to find a solution for Skinks and Sauri.

On a sidenote, are you worried about your paintjob, or why don't you place your minis on the board ?

Digger Goreman · Post by **Digger Goreman** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 11:22 pm

Meradanis wrote:On a sidenote, are you worried about your paintjob, or why don't you place your minis on the board ?

Yeah, even with coats of sealant, over time things wear through... dinks... bends, whatever.... It takes me soooooo long to put a half-way decent paint-job on a mini.... and, really, minis take up to much space (cept for the stunties)....

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 10:34 pm

Tokens are back in stock and for sale on the Impact! site.

Galak

Post by **Dave** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 8:14 am

on those lizzies: givvem square bases and paint 'prone' on one side (left / right) and stunned on the other (Anca did that on his team IIRC)

Igor Tahavanale · Post by **Igor Tahavanale** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:06 am

I've yet to find a mini where "the rule of crotch" doesn't work (groin up is player down, dangly bits hanging down is stunned)

Ignore the face, follow the crotch

tchatter · Post by **tchatter** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:22 pm

What about tokens with 1 - 16 on them? For randomly picking a player on your team. I know a lot of people use a 16 sided die, but... having tokens would be cool.