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MaliciousCrumb
Posted: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:59:42 AM
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What do you use for keeping track of opened and closed doors? Blown open doors? Poisoned and other status markers? Holding your cards? Keeping your minis? Checking for line of sight? Gambit? Rounds? Storing maps? Force points and damage counters? (for anyone who doesn't have enough official counters)

Here's what I use for them:
open door: blue 2x1 lego brick.
closed door: red 2x1 lego brick.
blown open door: blue 4x1 lego brick.
poisoned: I try to remember!
holding my cards: just a simple rubber band!
keeping my minis: in a lego bin.
line of sight: a thin long rubber band.
force points and damage counters: lego bricks and studs.
keeping my maps: a flat file.
(nothing for gambit or rounds(I don't usually play with gambit))

(as you may see, I'm more than just an SWM fan!)ThumbsUp

I'll be looking forward to seeing what clever ideas are out there for keeping your minis tidy and organized.
AndyHatton
Posted: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 12:30:53 PM
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We use a small gem for blown open doors (they used to come with Pokemon cards that is how I have some.)
A D6 for overriden doors (1 is open, 5 is locked)

my personal stuff
LoS: An ID badge holder with a retractable string
Damage: I prefer D10 as they are easy to ready quickly.
Force Points: Usually D6s
Cards: rubberbanded together and kept in a small box divided by faction
minis: 1 big rubbermaid bin of fringe/factions I don't play a lot and then a small tower with 3 drawers divided up by faction.
corranhorn
Posted: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 1:42:01 PM
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I just remember which doors are open and closed
Line of Sight, pretty much anything handy, usually a card edge if it's long enough.
Force Points and Damage Counters: D6 for Force Points, and I have a buttload of damage counters from various starter sets (including Dnd minis and SSB). Face-up means 10 damage, face down means 20.
Darth O
Posted: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 2:53:06 PM
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Location: New Zealand ( kind of by Australia)
Doors: Nothing, and it's proved to backfire :/
Conditions: Same story.
Holding cards/minis: I have my minis in a big box or two (depending on whether or not I take my whole collection) and my cards in the RotS starter box :)
LOS: Slope formula from geometry :3
Force/damage: Force and damage counters from the starters :P
jak
Posted: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 5:08:14 PM
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how primitiveFlapper
might as well use bear skins and stone knives -LOLLOL

you'll see at GenCon my awesome methodsUnsure
MaliciousCrumb
Posted: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 6:03:21 PM
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Darth O wrote:
Doors: Nothing, and it's proved to backfire :/
Conditions: Same story.
Holding cards/minis: I have my minis in a big box or two (depending on whether or not I take my whole collection) and my cards in the RotS starter box :)
LOS: Slope formula from geometry :3
Force/damage: Force and damage counters from the starters :P

For LOS, do you mean like
OXXXXXXXX
BBBBXXXXX
BBBBBBBBO
O=character
X=wall
B=blank
I use this method too, if it's a close decision.
(O can't target O)
MaliciousCrumb
Posted: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 6:06:12 PM
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jak wrote:
how primitiveFlapper
might as well use bear skins and stone knives -LOLLOL

you'll see at GenCon my awesome methodsUnsure

Unsure Wish I could go... Sad No Bloo Milk ThumbDown

I'm sure you've got some LOS machine, mechanical damage counters, a steel case for your minis, and a book full of laminated cards!ThumbsUp
Darth O
Posted: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 5:23:38 PM
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MaliciousCrumb wrote:
Darth O wrote:
Doors: Nothing, and it's proved to backfire :/
Conditions: Same story.
Holding cards/minis: I have my minis in a big box or two (depending on whether or not I take my whole collection) and my cards in the RotS starter box :)
LOS: Slope formula from geometry :3
Force/damage: Force and damage counters from the starters :P

For LOS, do you mean like
OXXXXXXXX
XXXXX
O
O=character
X=wall
I use this method too, if it's a close decision.
(O can't target O)


Yeah, basically counting the squares up/down and left/right and checking if it hits a wall with the same slope. Like 2 up, 3 left.
FlyingArrow
Posted: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 5:50:32 PM
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open door: d6: 1 showing
closed door: d6: 5 showing
blown open door: glass bead
poisoned: I try to remember.
holding my cards: card storage boxes, sorted by faction
keeping my minis: storage boxes (3 toolbox type and 3 craft types)
line of sight: a retractable thing-a-ma-bob
force points and damage counters: white d6 for FP, red d6 for damage

You didn't ask, but we use d10s to track gambit and a d8 to remember the round number
fett19
Posted: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 6:18:38 PM
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opendoor- a d6
closed door- nothing
blown up door-d20
holding my cards/minis-i use a toolbox with all my cards in the top part that you can take right out of the box, and the minis in the bottom (although I do have a seperate part where i keep the accident prone minis, such as malak who's lightsaber i can't keep from falling offThumbDown )
LOS- long elastic
Force points- d20
damage- i write down on a small flip book
HelpDeskHustler
Posted: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 7:07:08 PM
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I laminate my maps,so I can just use a dry-erase marker and mark down which doors are open/closed. I also have clear plastic sleeves for my cards, which I can write on with dry-erase markers to take down damage and such. Makes it super easy to keep track of force points. I usually just eyeball the LOS, but if its close i'll go grab a straight edge or a piece of string; Whatever I have laying around.
I keep my minis from RS and CS in a dual sided tackle box, and the rest of my minis I keep in the RotS Starter Game box. My huges are kept in various old booster boxes. My cards are in a three-ring binder with those clear 9 card pages. Pretty easy to flip through real quick and pick the cards I want.

I started playing minis back in the Rebel Storm days and and have always played super casual games. No counting rounds, no gambit or any of that. Deathmatch all the way. It keeps someone from just going and locking them self in a room with override, and can make some very intense matches that come down to initiative rolls. Fun times
MaliciousCrumb
Posted: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 7:12:22 PM
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FlyingArrow wrote:
open door: d6: 1 showing
closed door: d6: 5 showing
blown open door: glass bead
poisoned: I try to remember.
holding my cards: card storage boxes, sorted by faction
keeping my minis: storage boxes (3 toolbox type and 3 craft types)
line of sight: a retractable thing-a-ma-bob
force points and damage counters: white d6 for FP, red d6 for damage

You didn't ask, but we use d10s to track gambit and a d8 to remember the round number

Thanks, I'll add those.ThumpUp
MaliciousCrumb
Posted: Thursday, August 16, 2012 12:28:50 AM
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Darth O wrote:
MaliciousCrumb wrote:
Darth O wrote:
Doors: Nothing, and it's proved to backfire :/
Conditions: Same story.
Holding cards/minis: I have my minis in a big box or two (depending on whether or not I take my whole collection) and my cards in the RotS starter box :)
LOS: Slope formula from geometry :3
Force/damage: Force and damage counters from the starters :P

For LOS, do you mean like
OXXXXXXXX
XXXXX
O
O=character
X=wall
I use this method too, if it's a close decision.
(O can't target O)


Yeah, basically counting the squares up/down and left/right and checking if it hits a wall with the same slope. Like 2 up, 3 left.

Oops. I messed up on that demonstration up there. I fixed it above.
Biggsy
Posted: Thursday, August 16, 2012 7:10:26 AM
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Here's what i use



Small dice for keeping track of force points and damage, one of those stringie things that everybody uses for LOS, and some nice tokens for door control (green for open, red for closed, and the orange explosion for destroyed doors)

I keep these in a baggie. Same for my squad(s). The stat cards are in a small card holder, and it's all thrown in a small box for transportation.
swinefeld
Posted: Thursday, August 16, 2012 8:05:15 AM
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Biggsy, those door tokens are cool! Where did you get them, are they from another game?
MaliciousCrumb
Posted: Thursday, August 16, 2012 8:54:40 AM
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Wow. Those door tokens ARE cool. I'm surprised everyone uses dice for HP and FP. I thought that the counters were more common.
Biggsy
Posted: Thursday, August 16, 2012 10:43:10 PM
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I think dice is so much easier. The counters are rather fiddly.

Yeah the tokens are cool, right? ThumbsUp

I ordered them from LITKO Game Accessories, an awesome supplier of game tokens, markers and lots of other cool stuff. I highly recommend their products.

Here's a link for the blast tokens

The other two are conversions of the Flanked and Defend tokens. They have other customizable tokens, so i just contacted them asking if i could order some of these with "open" and "closed" on them instead. They were very helpful.
swinefeld
Posted: Friday, August 17, 2012 7:43:51 AM
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Thanks for the info Biggsy BlooMilk
Darthbane53
Posted: Friday, August 17, 2012 9:08:06 AM
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I use the tokens made for the game XD
R5Don4
Posted: Friday, August 17, 2012 9:53:22 AM
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