ye olde chitless game!

I was thinking about some of the ideas tossed 
around. I'm working out my own twist. We do 
find chits ugly up the photos, and if there was a 
good way to do away with them, that'd be 
great. 

Figures mounted on pennies. Bottom of penny 
has space to mark quality of figure/unit & 
leadership of figure/unit.

1" washer (with space in center for penny) is 
used to place squad leader on. Serves dual 
function of illustrating who is squad leader and 
provides extra space for other indicators. 

Penny with some empty mags or shell casings 
or whatever is used to indicate activations. No 
penny = has not activated. Penny = activated. 
Set beside unit. 

In position indicated by a stand with some tree 
branches or a fair sized (but not too large) 
rock - something you could take cover behind. 
Instead of being an independent counter, this 
could be the washer used by the command 
figure. 

Wounded... ideally wounded figures like the NSL 
wounded figures. Maybe I'll work on making 
some for the other nationalities. Dead.... well, 
you can just take them off the board or you 
could use a dead figure. Or a body bag, though 
I prefer a dead figure. 

Suppression would be a penny with a small 
crater on it. Several of these could indicate 1-3 
suppressions, place around the unit. 

The only tough one is confidence. I like the 
"bare washer" (CO), some "low grass" (ST), 
"med grass"(SH), "high grass and shrubs" 
(BR), "discarded gear" (RO). That would mean 
that the in-position counter should be separate 
from the washer surrounding the SL. But that's 
not a big issue. 

I prefer not to use smoke, as burning vehicles 
and popped smoke frequently appear on our 
battlefield. 

The only other counters that I want to represent 
that I can think of:
1) an overwatch counter - maybe a range stake 
on a penny placed in the direction the unit is 
watching.... 
2) EW counters - dunno. No good idea leaps to 
mind. 
3) Ammo - pennies with 1, 2 or 3 munitions on 
them (stolen from model kits, etc)
4) Dummies - Shrub on a base. 
5) CDMs - Can make these on a penny easily 
enough. 
6) Buried mines - Same. Easy to represent on 
a penny.
7) Lettered markers. Dummies which, when 
turned over, contain a letter marker on the 
bottom. 
8) Fire counters.... smoke rising from a penny 
or quarter, bottom half painted bright 
orange/red, top painted black. 
9) Last stand - appropriate national or unit 
emblem on flag pole (frayed and torn if 
possible) mounted on penny. Flags don't really 
have any other place, but this seems like one 
("Here we plant our flag, and here we hold or 
die....."). 
10) Smoke - Larger Smoke (cotton batten)
11) MAK or HEF - MAK should be a pile of 
small craters on an appropriate template 
(maybe hardboard or polystyrene) and HEF 
should have fewer, larger craters
12) Booby Trap - some punji sticks sticking 
through some grass on a penny
13) Drone - actual drone model
14) Imm - a few broken track sections, a spare 
road wheel
15) Dis - some smoke (small amounts) curling 
from around the turret
16) Sys - dunno
17) Destroyed - some dark smoke (with the fire
effect) all over and the turret popped off.... 
vehicle engulfed
18) Decoy - small missile or flare on brass rod 
and flocked washer.... something that looks like 
a decoy might
19) Sniper - sniper figure
20) Hover - obvious from vehicle base 
(Hover/Flight have separate stands, landed is 
obvious with no stand)
21) Turn - not required. Use a die or something 
off at the edge of the board. Or use a pile of 
gravel (one big rock per turn) on a board 
corner.
22) Panic - dunno. 

Those are my ideas. I think I'm gonna try to put 
some of them into play before my next game. 

Tomb. 
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Thomas Barclay
Co-Creator of http://www.stargrunt.ca 
Stargrunt II and Dirtside II game site

No Battle Plan Survives Contact With Dice.
-- Mark 'Indy' Kochte