Representing your in-game dopplegangers?

[Wereferret]

Having played our first few games of T2K, I was curious what everyone is using to represent your characters and the OPFOR during your encounters. Are you using miniatures? Models? Counters, or nothing at all? For our first couple games, as we are figuring things out we used tiny D6's on the little tactical maps in the gamebook with the die showing the initiative of each character...made it quick to tell whose turn it was.

The other night I had a rare flash of brilliance and dug out my 15-year old collection of little micro machine miniatures...the tiny infantry and vehicles are just about perfectly sized to fight on the small grid squares included on the in-game maps.

[kato13]

1:285 scale figures

Mostly GHQ and CinC.

[Earthpig]

HO scale, I have some Russian, Warsaw Pact, and US troopies in molded plastic (airfix, IIRC) for vehicles I bought several toy kits with a military theme and find this represents most encounters with my crew.

[Cdnwolf]

I just use my barbie collection.

[Earthpig]

Originally Posted by Cdnwolf

I just use my barbie collection.

I DO have a collection of GI Joes and some other 1/6th scale figures, @ 52....but the game table get's a little crowded....especially when I do an overrun with my 1/6th scale HUMMWV

[weswood]

I don't have a game going, but I have a whole pile of 1:72 scale plastic soldiers. And a mess of same scale vehicles, some die cast, some ready made plastic and some model kits.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by Wereferret

Having played our first few games of T2K, I was curious what everyone is using to represent your characters and the OPFOR during your encounters. Are you using miniatures? Models? Counters, or nothing at all? For our first couple games, as we are figuring things out we used tiny D6's on the little tactical maps in the gamebook with the die showing the initiative of each character...made it quick to tell whose turn it was.

The other night I had a rare flash of brilliance and dug out my 15-year old collection of little micro machine miniatures...the tiny infantry and vehicles are just about perfectly sized to fight on the small grid squares included on the in-game maps.

I think I've used all of the above at some point, plus alcohol pen marks on maps that are overlaid with clear acetate.

[Adm.Lee]

I bought most of the 20mm T2k figures when they first came out, along with a box of the Airfix Soviets.

I've also used blank counters with numbers on them, counters from my Squad Leader game, and wet-erase markers on a battlemat.

When I was at college, we used to play in a room in the Student Center, that had a blackboard. I got tired of erasing and writing in code letters, so I started just leaving the letters on the map, and adjusting the range figures that I had written in.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by Adm.Lee

I've also used blank counters with numbers on them, counters from my Squad Leader game

I did a lot of that -- even Last Battle works well on a Squad Leader map. I used a lot of hand-drawn vehicle markers (as best as my poor artwork could make), as well as counters from the old Firefight, Cityfight, and Raid SPI games.

One other thing I've used are the battle maps from Sunday Drivers and Truck Stop for the Car Wars game -- they work well with HO and 1/72nd-scale figures.

When using figures, I used to use a lot of Celluclay for terrain features (do they sell that stuff anymore?)

[jester]

I have used HO and 20mm figures I made and painted, to include several vehicles that myself and a couple other gamers and some buildings and such from model railroad dioramas on a table top with a green yellow, brown or white cloth to represent the ground and strips of tan, black or blue to represent a road, a paved road or a river or stream.

[pmulcahy11b]

We often used a simple buildings made from cardboard and colored with markers, or sometimes if we wanted to be a little more fancy, hollowed-out styrofoam packing blocks.