Damage Markers

[Stu--]

Hi all, been considering how to show damage during a game.

The current idea is pipe cleaners for 'smoke/fire' etc (yes I know there's no fire in space unless it happens to be a snip on fire..)
But it could also be plasma venting / etc

It looks okay, and it's immediately obvious which ships have criticals to resolve.

Just wondering if anyone else is using some other visual method?..

 

[McKinstry]

I had some Litko markers made that show crippled ( fluorescent red cross ) and a flourescent red shield marker for shields down.

 

[AdrianH]

There was a post by someone over on the "Other Miniatures Games" section linking to his own web page about making burning ships.

Searching... Got it!

http://maker.e2ogame.net/tutorial-burning-starship-wrecks-and-how-model-fire

 

[Stu--]

The fire he's made looks great.

I might have a go at making some of that... but how to fix it to the ships as needed during a game? and without damaging the paintwork..

Any ideas?

 

[billclo]

I find that just using a bit of cotton ball stretched out to make a streamer maybe 2" long works fine. I put it on crippled ships to help keep them straight in my mind, and it looks decent as well.

 

[Stu--]

So do you put it on top of the model, or on the base?

I'm using mine for crippled and criticals so we can see at a glance what the status of a ship is..

 

[billclo]

So do you put it on top of the model, or on the base?

I'm using mine for crippled and criticals so we can see at a glance what the status of a ship is..

On top of the mini of course.