New Counters Thread

[animus]

Matt has said that new counters are pretty much inevitable. I thought it might be good to start a thread for ideas to help them along. If

My take:
1) Thick cardstock
2) double sided, with "running adrift" on the reverse side
3) print with stat cards for each ship*
4) gorgeous artwork with firing acs, of course

* Beyond being an invaluable resource for old and new players, this would allow Mongoose a bit more product to sell since they could then justify packaging the different fleets. It would also be more attractive for newbies.

 

[Silvereye]

Could they make the counters out of thin plastic? Much like a range of pirate ships...

 

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

That would still give the feel of minis now wouldn't it.

 

[nekomata fuyu]

One slight change to that list that I would make is to have a burnt out wreck on the other side. It would then be used for both when a destroyed ship is stationary or running adrift. You would still use the main side for an active ship running adrift however.

Another idea (if it doesn't clash with any contracts with Gale Force 9) would be to include a load of status and SA counters. Whilst the GF9 counters were nice, they didn't look to have any plans to update their counters at last check.

 

[Taran]

Isn't there another game out there with pirate ships that use cardstock cutouts for their minis...?

 

[Burger]

3) print with stat cards for each ship*

* Beyond being an invaluable resource for old and new players, this would allow Mongoose a bit more product to sell since they could then justify packaging the different fleets. It would also be more attractive for newbies.

Doubt very much this will happen. Mongoose are primarily a book publishing company, and by stopping production of minis, they are returning to that focus. So really the counters would be an aid to selling books, rather than a money-making enterprise in themselves. Oh and there are already stat cards out there, so why would they bother to make their own... sorry about that chaps I guess ts partially my fault!

 

[Shadow Queen]

how about fleet counter pack?

 

[animus]

The cards we have won't reach out to the new players. We "insiders" ACTA junkies know about all the cool record sheets and such, but a newbie (and I'm hoping there will be newbies) won't and so might be better lured by pretty stuff.

It would also help justify fleet packs.

I like the idea of SA tokens too.

 

[Greg Smith]

Fleet packs are not ideal. Part of the point of counters is to play a new fleet without a big outlay (although that is somewhat moot now). A pack containing all the ships would be much better.

Although if they are fancy 3D card models or something, then fleet packs would work.

 

[Taran]

...like the ones Burger has already started making...