First adventures into Check Your Six

[Rich H]

The game specifies 30x45 hexes so if it's around that it'll be fine.

[warchariot]

I am really tempoet to try this out! Do any of you guys have any experience with Hotz mats?
The have a 45x72" - i think maybe 2" hexes - will there be enough hexes on the mat for this game?

Thanks

Lars

Yes, Hotz maps are very nice, but sometimes take a long time to arrive. He is also not good at communicating so sometimes people worry they won't get their stuff. You might check I-94 if you are in a big hurry, Dave carries some of his mats.

[Rich H]

My magnets turned up they are 4mm by 12mm rods I'm going to use them as altitude markers and remake the bases to track speed only.

[Gunbird]

Interesting to see how that looks. I went with Lego as it is cheap to get 2nd hand, stacks easily and you can use various colours to see the difference between Green, Ace etc

[Lindegaard2007]

Interesting to see how that looks. I went with Lego as it is cheap to get 2nd hand, stacks easily and you can use various colours to see the difference between Green, Ace etc

Legos? Sounds cool - do you have any pictures of how it looks?

[Gunbird]

Altitude 5 (as in 5 pegs), yellow colour denotes pilot level (I haven't picked out what colour works for what level yet). Counter on the base for speed, so no dice are needed on the stands.



Fits in a small storage box.



In the Netherlands the 2nd hand Lego market is huge, and the pegs can be had for 2-3 cents a used piece. Transparant ones go for 7-12 cents so I passed over those for now, but will probably invest in those at a later date, or when I find a local seller who does 40-50 in one go for a nice price (I'm not cheap, just poor).



And all you need to do is drill in a small round bit and glue a magnet in that, very easy and with the simple colours it is easy to see who is what and whom goes first etc.

[Rich H]

Magnets are 6p each (probably about 6 cents by now) from guys magnets.

Had a first proper game on Thursday night, all went well (lost twice) the magnets work OK but they are a bit too strong!
I'll see about a pic or two later!

[Lindegaard2007]

Legos - that looks way cool - where do you buy the bases?

[Gunbird]

Bases are wound trackers from Warbases.co.uk, the 30mm type 2 kind: http://war-bases.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=944&search=casualty+marker

A small lego dish is glued to that with epoxy, and then I just paint everything black.

6p per magnet, that is cheap!

[Lindegaard2007]

Just ordered the rules - cant wait!
Checked out the magnets guys website - i am a little confused with all the different magnets - what did you buy Gunbird??

Tanks Lars:-)

[Gunbird]

3mm round, 1mm tall for the base toppers and most of the aircraft. Remaining with a flat top nail (mostly helicopters and small aircraft)

[Lindegaard2007]

Just got the rules - yeahh
Does anyone know if there are any video battle reports of this game?
Could only find some WW2 ones!!

Thanks

Lars

[Commander Roj]

Just got the rules - yeahh
Does anyone know if there are any video battle reports of this game?
Could only find some WW2 ones!!

Thanks

Lars

I haven't seen a JA one. Let us know if you find one, although the general principles seem gone same.