Tokens - now with posters on 'urban' backgrounds to blend in better

[Bellboy]

Acrylic didn't work.  So I've dome some custom tokens, printed out on a colour printer and pasted to 3mm foamboard.

Some examples here - and the tokens in use for a CoZo game.

Note that I've produced some specific items such as Alien Control (for a specific scenario where an alien had mind control over people who came within a certain distance) and Radioactive (nuclear power plant leakage causes havoc - and zombie infestation).

The skull rock is actually a cunningly disguised satellite uplink that the Grymn are defending against the automatons. 

[Bellboy]

Mid-battle.  Automaton down but one Grymn pinned and the other about to run away.  The uplink is as good as won.




Harby under alien control!  A radioactive predator kills one Grymn, forcing the other to Panic.  Run away!

[Pil]

Nice looking counter, but why do you have bothan opportunity fire counter and an overwatch counter? Aren't they the same thing?

[Argonor]

Nice idea - my only objection is, they do not blend in well with a gaming table. They certainly do the job, though!

I'm always in two minds about counters - on one hand I want to be able to tell the exact status of the models, on the other hand I want a nice looking gaming table. A balance is hard to find 

[Bellboy]

Nice looking counter, but why do you have bothan opportunity fire counter and an overwatch counter? Aren't they the same thing?

Yes - they are both the same.  Just trying different types!

[The Rock]

nice idea

[Argonor]

I just got an idea:

How about making counters that way, but 'pimp them up' to look like pieces of slate/concrete/whatever with the symbol(s) shoving as a piece of a poster or something? They'd 'blend in' better without loosing the 'instant reckognition' effect.

[Pil]

I just got an idea:

How about making counters that way, but 'pimp them up' to look like pieces of slate/concrete/whatever with the symbol(s) shoving as a piece of a poster or something? They'd 'blend in' better without loosing the 'instant reckognition' effect.

That's a great idea! Some inspiration:








(Run Forrest, run!)

[Bellboy]

I like that idea. 

A couple of samples (Russian propaganda posters on a concrete background)





Some modern ones - Alien and Batman





And one for the Pulpers




Rezolution, CoZo etc.





Of Course, it doesn't have to be concrete in the background...

[Argonor]

Those are very nice! The edges can then be painted or flocked/painted to match the facing and/or the table 

Glad that I could make a useful input!

[Bellboy]

[Bellboy]

Sheet ready for cutting.




Strips of tokens



In action...Alien forces one cop to panic (with apt image) while the other does a Forrest



Cops again - one is on 'Keep Down' while the other is on Overwatch (denoted by the Stakeout poster)




Some variations on Panic and Rout - the Batman Panic, the Joker Rout and the trusty Forrest.

[Pil]

Lovely, I will surely use this idea and make some counters of my own

[Argonor]

Darn, you work fast 

I think those tokens look much better on the table - the kind of stuff I could be tempted to use 

I would at least use a coloured marker on the edges, though, to cover the white.

[The Rock]

I like the idea of posters 

Excellent for my urban games