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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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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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