Just watched your vids. What an awesome table!!! Well done sir.
Just watched your vids. What an awesome table!!! Well done sir.
Thanks MC,
As far as counting casualties are concerned, we used to keep track with our fingers, but the common solution is to have a handful of chips ready. I know some hardcore players that don’t even use an income tracking chart, they just count it at the end of every turn.
I use national markers to mark 10 units.
usually I just move the losses back (behind the causality line)
on complexes I use a regular dmg marker to mark the stack, and the other chips to mark the number of dmg
Wow…can’t believe I didn’t even think of using the plastic chips for it haha. � We usually use fingers for small battles or paper and tally marks like I meantioned. � Just kinda wanted to see if investing in a $5-10 dollar electronic one was what some people do. � So that as your opponent rolls their 18ones, 8 twos and 12 threes or whatever you just hit a button for each time. � But I see how the margin of error might be slightly greater. �
I do like the plastic chip idea. Just added more chips today actually. They were from my 1942 copy, I play at a friends and we can run low sometimes on global when we play defensively.
Thx for the shoulda been obvious answer lol
P.S. � It is an awesome table grasshopper, I am going to definitely have to print out some of those NO cards and those individual unit trays would be nice � :)
Too much work. Remove casualties after each throw of the dice but allow the defender to “trade” a hit on one unit for another unit. No tallying, no wasted paper (you anti green people! What would those earth luvers think of your wastefullness!) no buying stuff (what would those communists think of you supporting big business!) just simple arithemtic.
Did I hit everyone? Should I make an anti communist, pro earth destruction comment, or did you all get that I am speaking tongue-in-cheak? (yes, I recommend just removing the units, it’s not THAT hard.)
Math sucks! (that was my anti-education comment).
what has math ever done for me?
what has math ever done for me?
Mathematics keeps you fed. :P Without mathematics, you cannot have agriculture since the farmers won’t know how to count and plant the seeds, you also won’t have economy since no one will know how to count money.
That’s my pro-mathematics comment of the day!
@Cmdr:
what has math ever done for me?
Mathematics keeps you fed. :P Without mathematics, you cannot have agriculture since the farmers won’t know how to count and plant the seeds, you also won’t have economy since no one will know how to count money.
That’s my pro-mathematics comment of the day!
I am actually a mathematician :)
and basically all of modern society is dependent on math to do engineering
@Cmdr:
what has math ever done for me?
Mathematics keeps you fed. :PÂ Without mathematics, you cannot have agriculture since the farmers won’t know how to count and plant the seeds, you also won’t have economy since no one will know how to count money.Â
That’s my pro-mathematics comment of the day!
I am actually a mathematician :)
and basically all of modern society is dependent on math to do engineering
and getting food, and getting water, and making the car go, and making the electricity work, and disposing of the dead bodies, and medicine, and voting, and ….
@Cmdr:
@Cmdr:
what has math ever done for me?
Mathematics keeps you fed. :P�� � Without mathematics, you cannot have agriculture since the farmers won’t know how to count and plant the seeds, you also won’t have economy since no one will know how to count money.�� �
That’s my pro-mathematics comment of the day!
I am actually a mathematician :)
and basically all of modern society is dependent on math to do engineering
and getting food, and getting water, and making the car go, and making the electricity work, and disposing of the dead bodies, and medicine, and voting, and ….
So you admit its contributing to the future zombie apocalypse? Â We must stop math! Â 1st we need a mathematician to calculate the best possible strategy to dealing with math.
To much math in a game = crappy game, for example: Dungeons & Dragons has a lot of math, therefore…. D&D SUCKS!
@Cmdr:
Too much work. Remove casualties after each throw of the dice but allow the defender to “trade” a hit on one unit for another unit.Â
Isn’t what most folks do? I’ve always just removed the causulties after each throw. Both attacking and defending. On very rare occasions, when there’s like 20-30 units attacking & defending, we’ll use tally marks on the dry-eraser board.
@Cmdr:
Too much work.� Remove casualties after each throw of the dice but allow the defender to “trade” a hit on one unit for another unit.�Â
Isn’t what most folks do? I’ve always just removed the causulties after each throw. Both attacking and defending. On very rare occasions, when there’s like 20-30 units attacking & defending, we’ll use tally marks on the dry-eraser board.
Yea thats what we do, or a hand count in small battles. I just created this thread b/c I hate using tally marks. I don’t know why, don’t understand it myself, but would just rather do something else.
The counter on my customized table is called an “Abacus”. If you use google images for this device you will see how easy it is to create one for your own games. Just make sure that it is small, perhaps portable, and not a burden to have around the table.
My brother and I use a lot of dice.
Roll for 1’s. set aside dice that hit.
Roll for 2’s. set aside dice that hit.
Roll for 3’s. etc.
count all the hits after round of battle.
remove casualties.
We find this method much faster.
My brother and I use a lot of dice.
Roll for 1’s. set aside dice that hit.
Roll for 2’s. set aside dice that hit.
Roll for 3’s. etc.
count all the hits after round of battle.
remove casualties.We find this method much faster.
That’s a common system and a good one at that. I don’t trust players that say “I’ll count my own casualties in my head”, not that they’re cheating, but that stuff always ends up in arguments after battle rounds, so I end up counting all hits on my counters for my own piece of mind… plus there’s enough to think about during combat rounds without remembering how many times you hit.
We use the FMG Combat Dice so we can roll for both attacker and defender at the same time (we have a LOT of those dice).
Also, we use a system like Gliven.
For small battles we just remove pieces as they get hit. For the large battles we have whoever is not rolling be a hit counter and record the hits using spare dice, and then at the end of the round tally up the hits and remove. Also I don’t use the IPC track chart. We just figure it out after your turn. I didn’t know I was so hardcore.
I use my fingers.
Right hand - Hits 1 through 5 normal; 6-10 pointing left; 11-15 pointing down; 16-20 pointing right.
Left hand - Hits 21 through 25 normal; 26-30 pointing right; 31-35 pointing down; 36-40 pointing left.
If it goes beyond 40, start over on the right hand. Once the hits are known, we just pull that many pieces from the board. Each land piece has its own color poker chip (except ships, so many ship pieces), so armies get colorful and stand tall.
