"WW II naval counters top down" Topic

Can anyone recomend some good counters in 1/4800, 1/6000? I saw some which were intended for mounting on some included laser cut plywood bases but, I can't seem to find the link again.

cke1st.com/m_games4.htm

These?

Nope. Thanks, but those all I can find. The ones I was looking for are a commercially produced set.

The ones in the link are just about all I've been able to find after a good long web crawl.

Clash of Arms ( clashofarms.com ) has nice looking counters. I ordered the counters from them a while back without the game. I don't remember the price, but I don't remember them being outrageous in price.

I've seen the COA counters at historicon, cw, fallin, they are nice but all the same size so don't work as mini stand ins (I would be happy to game with them though)

I don't know what scale they are, but Avalanche Press game counters.

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Avalanche Press "War at Sea" game counters, while pretty, aren't to a consistent scale.

MH

Sorry I do not have a pic….are you thinking of the ones included in Victory at Sea OoB by Mongoose?

This is not a complete answer to your inquiry, but you might want to take a look at the Merchant Ship System for General Quarters III on the Old Dominion Games website. It is in the public free download section, and includes a number of pages of top down counter sheets that could be printed on card stock or mounted on cardboard and cut out. This set is for convoy operations, and there are various merchant ships plus several combatants including ASW Sloops, Trawlers, and Corvettes, and two different sizes of submarines. The counter sheet pages include the same ships in several scales: 1/2400, 1/3000, 1/4800, and 1/6000. While this set has a limited range of combatants, it would show how the different scale counters would look on your gaming surface.

My fleet is 1/3000 scale North Head and these miniatures compare pretty closely with the 1/3000 scale counters for the ships represented on these counter sheet pages. Before I "graduated" to miniatures with the advent of Mal Wright's Convoy series games in 2010, I had been playing naval games with counters since the early 1960s, the old Avalon Hill Jutland and Bismarck, and then various Clash of Arms games, without worrying too much about the actual scale of the drawing on the counter, but now I've become a scale "nut" and like to play my Convoy tactical actions at 1-inch=100 yards (1/3600 scale) to fairly closely match the 1/3000 scale miniatures. This works pretty well when tracking down submerged submarines on a table top that is 6-feet by 7.5-feet, but surface actions with long range gunnery between opposing battleship gun lines might not work so well at this scale, at least not in my home that has no enclosed basketball court … Hmmmm, there is this house for sale near us originally built by a basketball team owner that does have an enclosed basketball court …

I got some of the counter sets for Command at Sea direct from clash of arms about US$16:30 per set if I recall correctly. Drop them a line asking if they have the ones your after. I do know they didn't have the aircraft sheets left for Vol. 1 The Rising Sun

I think I stumbled on an option while checking out an upcoming convention. This Vendor will be at ROCKCON at the end of OCT.

Top Side Miniatures.

topsideminis.com

The scale is a bit bigger than the OP was looking for though.

Overall they look pretty impresseive and it appears their offering are expanding. I can see these being used in many Mini games as a lees expensive alternative.

I went ahead and ordered the free promotional unit to check them out.