"Lion Rampant markers retinues" Topic

I was taking my new Sengoku collection for a solo test spin with Lion Rampant rules yesterday….

and had one of those hand-slap moments
For my idea see my blog post at:
link

That is an excellent idea for Lion Rampant.

Very nice. I'd been using three colors of disks--"activated" (green) "battered" (yellow) and "half-strength" (red.)

The other speed thing was to have two sets of 12 dice, very different. (I use LOTR Gondor blue and Sauron red.) It gets rid of any problems about whether that particular stray die was part of the bucket you rolled.

All those spells in Dragon Rampant, though, and the Psychic conditions, pins and stress in Rogue Stars are more troublesome. I'm hoping Litko makes a game support package for each.

Good idea of your own, Robert. I try to avoid bright markers on the table; however a marker for half strength might be good to use.
I have a retinue coloured dice for my medievals and might think to do likewise with these guys to avoid that stray dice effect as you mention.

That's a very good idea.

Here's what I use for battered markers: link

Jim

I agree about the bright colors, but they were handy.

(What I do is keep three boxes--measuring tools, randomizers and status markers--then put just the ones for any particular game in a plastic tackle box. So LR needs a tape measured in inches, three types of status markers and two sets of 12 D6's. Next game might need metric or base-width measure, a canister swathe and D12's. Either way, it's all right there and not buried in a bunch of stuff.)

I like those battered markers, though. Time to look through my own bits box.

Col.JImC: Yup have those for my medievals and variations for others, but this was my "lightbulb !!" moment when both battered and activated? can be combined into one marker for the table. Funny how these things come about.
Now the idea has germinated, I might well go back and do my other retinues in a similar way.

Why have I never thought about using my Samurai with Lion Rampant…I feel an idiot.
Love the look, and different shaped and sized bases.
PS may I ask how did you paint the bamboo spears, they look really good.

Most of my LR/DR retinues are singly based so casualty count isn't an issue. I have a lot of red lava markers from an old board game which look like blood spots, I use those for Battered markers and I use skulls to show lost strength points on reduced model units in DR.

Tribble:
To be honest, the Japanese weapons were seldom of bamboo but of wood however I did do some for my peasants

I used straight wire, cut on a angle at the end (and even painted the end with a dab of black as if it were hollow, although even at 28mm, one hardly notices this detailing…)

But the painting was pale green (to indicate fresh bamboo – brighter than aged ) and painted thin black rings together with a tan colour to give the smooth rod a bamboo look. The soft metal weapons of the pack I did not care for and these will not warp.

I have to say there is something appealing to me about this multi stand technique. I have adopted a variation of it for my 28mm medievals.

Greenknight: the odd collection of different shaped stands does not allow for straight ranks which many players tend to align if given single stands.
I have seen upon the table rank upon even rank of tribal warriors which looked very "out of character" as it were. Bloody silly actually!
By having the different sizing, it gives each unit more a skirmish-y look which are the intention of the rules.

Figures and painting look great.