advocate | 17 Feb 2017 3:44 a.m. PST |
Not ever. Nor do I use pipe cleaners. |
Jamesonsafari | 17 Feb 2017 4:28 a.m. PST |
Caps, rings, red bingo chips, figures, dice Whatever seems appropriate at the time |
Saber6 | 17 Feb 2017 6:39 a.m. PST |
Prefer rules that use stand removal |
StoneMtnMinis | 17 Feb 2017 7:14 a.m. PST |
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richarDISNEY | 17 Feb 2017 7:49 a.m. PST |
Can we get a 'Oh good lordy NO! Those look awful and take away from the game" option?
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Who asked this joker | 17 Feb 2017 7:54 a.m. PST |
I do sometimes. I try to make sure I can remove figures and make change but that does not always work. |
robert piepenbrink | 17 Feb 2017 8:37 a.m. PST |
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. |
miniMo | 17 Feb 2017 9:07 a.m. PST |
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Timmo uk | 17 Feb 2017 9:42 a.m. PST |
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Hafen von Schlockenberg | 17 Feb 2017 10:17 a.m. PST |
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Shagnasty | 17 Feb 2017 11:55 a.m. PST |
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. |
GGouveia | 17 Feb 2017 12:12 p.m. PST |
NOPE they look TERRIBLE on the figures. If needed the old Johny Reb Pipe-cleaner does the trick or small dice beside the unit. |
piper909 | 17 Feb 2017 2:17 p.m. PST |
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. |
Syrinx0 | 17 Feb 2017 5:00 p.m. PST |
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. |
79thPA | 17 Feb 2017 7:04 p.m. PST |
I prefer caps to other table clutter, which is much more unsightly and distracting. |
Asterix | 18 Feb 2017 9:25 a.m. PST |
aren't those things rather passe? |
piper909 | 18 Feb 2017 11:51 a.m. PST |
Not passe -- retro-chic! Every hipster gamer wants some now! |
vtsaogames | 18 Feb 2017 12:39 p.m. PST |
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Ron W DuBray | 18 Feb 2017 4:55 p.m. PST |
all my minis have their own base except my 6mm and a stand is ether removed or alive. |
jefritrout | 18 Feb 2017 5:53 p.m. PST |
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 Beast Rampant | 18 Feb 2017 9:48 p.m. PST |
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. |
piper909 | 19 Feb 2017 1:40 p.m. PST |
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. |
Jamesonsafari | 20 Feb 2017 10:58 a.m. PST |
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? |