"Do you use Casualty Caps?" Topic

* yes
* no
* not any more
* what?

Ugly!

Never — Uuuuglyyyyyyy!

Only when Bashytubits forces me to.

I use plastic cabone curtain rings.

Noooo….

Yes.

No

No, but, like Winston, I use plastic rings for some games. And I use colored lengths of balsa for others.

No!

Either properly sceniced casualty markers or even markers with a die holder.

Nope. Dice when wounds are counted on a stand.

For most of my gaming I use markers or casualty figures behind the units. But as I go up in scale (1/30 or 1/6) and the need to track wounded figures in skirmish games becomes important, I use red caps.

Matthew

Clutter is clutter. So while I didn't use caps, we used rings or bits of pipe cleaner that moved from left to right across bases to denote casualties. Rosters are just too open to mistakes.

Yes, on occasion, even though they are quite ugly. However, most of the games I play (such as Fire & Fury) require removal of whole stands instead.

Just tiny dice but most games dont need them, I find.

No.

Yes for a few games in the past.

I tried them once in the early 80's. Hated them.

I'd rather use a die or a Litko counter. Or a roster.

I've moved away from caps, but I think caps look better than dice.

Nope

Rings not caps, but yes.

Yes. We use figure removal, and base units so figures can be removed, but occassionally caps are used if more convenient. We have thousands of figures on the table and the few caps do not affect the spectacle.

I'll use casualty caps--or those silly rings--only when they stop making toothpicks, pipe cleaners casualty figures and small dice. But sometimes local custom has left me no choice.

Not since the 70's.

Yup sure do. Never saw a problem with them.

Curtain rings. What's wrong with that?

Yes.

Never.
Ever.

Yes, but it depends upon the game and how the figures are mounted. Coyotepunc was complaining because we used them for wound markers in Frostgrave. I also used them to denote a wizard's eye spell.

No.
Markers or dice, NEVER caps, rings, toothpick s or pipe-cleaners: I hate the look.
But then I guess I never played a game that had large units with eah figure being a potential casualty without figure removal. Not sure what I would do in that case – maybe a dice for smaller numbers of hits and a casualty figure for every six hits?

Clear plastic curtain rings for 15mm

NEVER! These are guaranteed plume and sword breakers.

I don't count casualties. The whole unit is affected and is either disorganized, broken, or eliminated entirely. I also use "big units" 28 privates, 2 musicians, 2 NCO, 1 officer, 1 color bearer on one big 4"by 8" stand.

We use cotton smoke (white or black) on the unit, or small pebbles (natural, black, or dark red) placed behind, or casualty figures, depending on the rules. It's funny how back in the day casualty caps, i.e. "trash bags of doom", didn't faze us, but now we would never "harsh the aesthetic" in that manner.

Yes

Nope. Our figures are all individually based and then mounted on magnetic unit stands. Figure casualties are then individually removed.

ugly clutter

I use rings. I would like to use something as efficient and identifiable which fits in better.

No way, keep it realistic plse and remove casualty per casualty. And better yet, replace a removed casualty by a casualty figure.

No. But I was never very sure what they actually were, so was never tempted.

Beurk!

Caps/rings – no they look horrible and are best consigned to wargames history IMHO.

Yes. It is part of the ethos of gaming.

Caps and rings just look horrible. Never used either. There are better ways.

I hate caps but I do use rings. For very large 15mm and 28mm games like we play, rings just work better. Our bases have 4 or 5 figures on them. I have small rings for 15mm and larger ones for 28mm. I haven't found a system that works better.

For our TSTAF single base 28mm games we just remove the figure. I do use a painted prone figure as a marker for units which go prone, in 15mm and 28mm.

Have used rings for casualties in the past and present and small caps to denote morale status. (Hence the phrase used in our group, "The Yellow Hat of Shame.")

Never used them, and wouldn't want to do so.

Never. I just use small counters.