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Old 04-15-2010, 07:15 PM
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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.
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Old 04-15-2010, 07:34 PM
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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?)
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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.
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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.
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I run a PbP so 2D works well enough for me. I use Google maps to plot out engagments. I use the symbols and such provided as markers. The birds-eye view doesn't always give the best indication of available cover and concealment so I have to use my best judgement and fudge a bit. The limited zoom in some places (like Poland) can be a bit of a challenge too.

If I ran a FtF game, I'd probably buy some miniatures or something. When I was a kid I used 1:72 scale figures and used WWII model AFVs for stand-ins.
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coloured counters from a board game (mighty empires). Pretty small counters that we put on sheets of paper with maps drawn roughly on. The game has 3 different counter colours: blue, red and yellow. We use blue for the players and yellow for the "enemies" in a skirmish. When the players think (or confirm) they have taken down an enemy the counter is replaced with a red one. When an enemy goes out of sight we flip the counter to the non-coloured side to represent the last known position.

It works real well because scale isn't an issue. They are flat so they don't fall down. I have hundreds of them in a little film canister so they are easy to carry with the dice.
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I'm just starting up a T2K campaign and have started collecting some of these minis http://www.theassaultgroup.co.uk/. They have a great selection of modern minis.
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