Sired's Custom Cash

These look great!  Excellent work, sireblood.

Super job, sir! Super job! I wish I had your talents. :-D

I’m in the opposite boat… if I didn’t already have a tray full of IPC Poker Chips, I’d be interested in these, as they look quite good.

To be fair, I have the original 1980s IPC paper money, AND HBG’s IPC paper money (as well as the IPC poker chips)… and while HBG’s paper money is only one-sided, maybe people forget that the original 1980s paper money is only one-sided as well.  Two-sided is nicer, but it’s not exactly a big problem if the money is only one-sided… it’s still massively better than 2nd Edition’s “great idea” to track all IPCs with pen-and-paper (thanks for that flub, Avalon Hill).

All in all, this paper money is great, any paper money is great, and so are the poker chips… anything is better than pen-and-paper… options are always great, and now we have one more.  Thanks Sireblood!

Really cool idea Siredblood! And well executed!

The only thing I wonder is how easy they are to play with considering the color indicating the value is only visible in a relatively small area. Although you might get familiar with the images of the plane, truck and ship.

Would you consider creating a 20 note as well? I find that easy during game play, especially when nations like germany, japan and the US can have big incomes. Although that might brake with your land, air, sea theme. As nothing else then a battle ship could be on the largest note right  :-D

BTW: HBG is planning to do a double sided print run in the future

@Tjoek:

The only thing I wonder is how easy they are to play with considering the color indicating the value is only visible in a relatively small area. Although you might get familiar with the images of the plane, truck and ship.

Personally, I think the 1’s, 5’s, and 10’s, stand-out just fine in Sireblood’s money… it stands out more than similar denominations of US currency.  I would see no problem using Sireblood’s money (if I didn’t already have a big investment in poker chip IPCs).

@siredblood:

About making a 20, my tray was designed for 3 bills, after the original, so making another note does not work for me.

I know the original game only had 1’s, 5’s and 10’s, but that doesn’t mean its optimal.  A lot of the reason you run low on 10s is because you don’t have 20s, which I’m sure would be in much more widespread use if it was a denomination… US Currency operates on 1’s, 5’s, 10’s, and 20’s, so if a cash drawer/tray was an issue, you can find many, MANY cheap cash trays that come with 4-slots (due to US currency primarily operating on a 4-bill system).

I’m currently using the IWNGU poker-chip-style IPCs, which come in 1’s, 5’s, 10’s and 25’s… (yes, 25’s, I know it’s weird, but oh well, pretty much works like 20’s do).

@siredblood:

I made 120 bills (40, 40, 40), cost was 14 bucks. Two games of global now, we never ran out (though tens got low). I think another run of tens should take care of any future “close calls”.

If you stuck to the 3-bill system, and wanted to keep costs down, you could do a run of 40, 30, 50, and that would probably work just fine and cost the same.  Of course the initial run cost isn’t very expensive anyways, so ya, you could just print more of whatever you need.

These look really nice Sired! Great job!

If I had any inkling to use paper money (I don’t) I would be all over them! ;)

Thanks for sharing! To me, they look good printed from my printer.

Nice - they really look “official.”

@siredblood:

20’s are now available. :)

Cool! Might be just me overlooking something, but could you please (re)share where I can download the file?

@siredblood:

20’s are now available. :)

Might as well do a 50 and complete the set…

:-D I’m glad it wasn’t just me. Looking great. I’ve been playing Global with HBG battle bucks and love the 20’s. There is no need for 50’s in my opinion. They are not practical when figgering out your buy. I like to place units on top of their costs (our small groups of units on their total costs) so I see what I’ve already spend.

@siredblood:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/g1u4swp01dfs40f/Siredblood_Custom%20Cash.rar?dl=0

I forget where the original link is lol, too funny… been more active on youtube these days, musta put it there… now I have to find it here…

Oh no man…nothing like getting paid with a big fat 50 and a 20 when you are doing good!