RE: Re: fighter bases

This is all aiming in a fascinating direction. We
all work better with pictures and colors than
dice, and this sort of system, properly refined
has the potential of making things much easier.

What about a post using maybe a dowel from a
craft store. Then a metal band around it with 
1/6 of the side of the post exposed any one time
by a 1/6 sized slit cut in the metal band (perhaps
it's not quite big enough to fit around the dowl
entire. I'm thinking the things they put on pens
to attach to the pin that clips the inkpen to your
pocket. You could paint the dowel in colors from
red - orange - yellow - green - blue - purple.
Purple - 6 CEF's, red - 1 CEF. Or you could just
put numbers or perhaps both (number written on the
color). In user interface theory, multiple cues
reinforcing each other tends to make things more
resistant to error.

You could use just the number black on white for
the number of fighters represented by the counter.
No dice at all. One dowel could make two posts,
all we need is a source for the metal rings that's
fairly cheap. Paint or magic markers could write
the numbers on the posts or rub off lettering.

I wonder if your bead idea might be even easier
though. Colored beads, if you could find the
right sizes and colors could mount on a simple
pin or small nail to convey the same information.
It's harder to represent the number of fighters
this way though. Maybe a single long pin with 
multiple beads on it that can be removed once
fighters are destroyed?

--- "Bell, Brian K (Contractor)"
<Brian.Bell@dscc.dla.mil> wrote:
> I used this also, but the natural ridge of the penny
> is not enough to keep
> the dice on the penny. Many at the CanAm FT game can
> attest.
> 
> I am now looking at 4 remedies:
>  1) Cut and glue a cardboard rim around the penny
>  2) Find a small ring, about the size of a middle
> ring of a click ballpoint
>      pen, just slightly larger than a die to glue
> on.
>  3) Find a ring smaller than a penny, but large
> enough to slide over the
> fighter
>      easily. Get 6 each of 2 colors (count and
> endurance) to fit over the
> fighter.
>      Remove a ring as endurance is burned and
> fighters lost.
>  4) 2 extra posts for beads. One color bead is
> endurance, the other fighter
>      count. I did one test, but it made it ackward
> to grab the fighter
> (fighter was
>      at the same height as the beads). To make this
> work, the fighter must
> be
>      taller than the stack of beads.
> 
> 
> -----
> Brian Bell
> -----
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	David Griffin [SMTP:carbon_dragon@yahoo.com]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, June 06, 2001 10:19 AM
> > To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> > Subject:	Re: Re: fighter bases
> > 
> > 
> > --- Allan Goodall <awg@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > > 
> > ...
> > > I have my own technique for making fighter
> bases, so
> > > I haven't looked at these.
> > > 
> > What is it?
> > 
> > Mine is to glue a section of styrine pipe onto a 
> > penny off center and glue one fighter to the top.
> > Then there's room on the penny for a dice. The
> > penny has it's own lip.
> > 
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