"Do You Use Casualty Caps?" Topic

Not ever. Nor do I use pipe cleaners.

Caps, rings, red bingo chips, figures, dice

Whatever seems appropriate at the time

Prefer rules that use stand removal

No.

Can we get a 'Oh good lordy NO! Those look awful and take away from the game" option?

I do sometimes. I try to make sure I can remove figures and make change but that does not always work.

I'm basically with richarDISNEY on this one. Mind you, I've sometimes been forced to use them by playing on someone else's table. But if you don't want a good-looking table, computer software and cardboard counters are a lot cheaper and easier to store. And if you do want a good-looking board, caps and rings are the two fastest ways to ruin it.

If you need to mark off casualties on a multiple-casting stand, get yourself a length of pipe cleaner or a toothpick the came color as your base. To the left of the toothpick as the stand faces, castings are dead: to the right they are alive. No fuss, no ambiguity, and hardly visible from a distance.

Uuuuuugly.

Fugly.

Certainly not in 10mm.

They were part of the game when I began. Thus they are part of the Sacred Rituals of Gaming for me. They are ugly though and making change is preferable. I don't really care for full base removal rules.

NOPE they look TERRIBLE on the figures. If needed the old Johny Reb Pipe-cleaner does the trick or small dice beside the unit.

Sure. Caps, rings, hoops, poker chips, pipe cleaners, toothpicks, dice, whatever works. I don't get the complaints about "ugly" or non-aesthetic when we routinely strew our tables with papers, rulers, dice, drinks and plates -- casualty markers or other indicators serve a legitimate game purpose and provide organic bookkeeping. I'd rather have a cap or ring on a figure than a die that gets accidentally picked up or turned over, a marker that gets left behind when the unit of figure moves, or anything else that's more bother than it's worth.

I like to use casualty figures when I can. I have made casualty diorama bases on a numbered wheel for some of my armies. I also have small wooden tokens for my ancient armies (shields, swords, etc) I picked up from warlord.

I prefer caps to other table clutter, which is much more unsightly and distracting.

aren't those things rather passe?

Not passe -- retro-chic! Every hipster gamer wants some now!

Not in this century.

all my minis have their own base except my 6mm and a stand is ether removed or alive.

Wally Simon always called them a "first class abomination"!!! Wally played with horribly painted figures, and whatever homemade stuff he created (some of which looked like junk created by a five year old at school) and yet would never allow a casualty cap on his table.

The ugliest and fiddliest manner of marking casualties I can think of.

How anyone can consider them less distracting than tiny and unobtrusively-colored dice mystifies me.

I find that dice markers always get knocked over or left behind or picked up and rolled (!!) by unobservant players -- then there are big arguments over what the die originally said before it was disturbed.

What Piper909 said.
if my players were a little more careful and observant about making sure markers or dice kept up with the units, then they wouldn't be needed.

and how are pipe cleaners any better?