Stand Up And Be Countered
As I continue to prep for my upcoming Villain Mission Force RPG / Skirmish campaign, I am working through my presentation methods.
Miniatures? Check. I will be using rebased and repainted Heroclix, SuperFigs (old and new), Crossover Miniatures, Supers Unlimited (from Kitbash Games), and whatever else I can get my hands on.
I will also employ a combo of 3D terrain and 2D maps, and again Wizkids will be leaned on heavily with their 20 years worth of awesome modern and sci-fi maps. And now they do them in 2' x 2', which I find ideal for my 3.5' x 3.5' dining room table.
But what about the other stuff? Especially vehicles. I decided I would go with counters, or figure flats if you will, for vehicles. I began searching around for modern vehicle counters, and some awesome folks on Rpg.net pointed me to the Villains & Vigilantes line of superhero RPG supplements. They often contain amazing vehicle figure flats. Check out the thread here. It has great links to some free sources of counters from V&V as well.
I ended up buying this amazing supplement: Villains and Vigilantes: Always Outnumbered. It has cool flats which I am about to show off. But how to print / mount them? Last year my wife, Emma, who works in a print shop brought home some off-cuts of high-end foam board with an adhesive back. Well, they sat around for months waiting for this moment!
An off-cut complete with adhesive back. |
After getting the V&V counters printed on card stock (at 150% of their standard size), I used a ruler and a craft knife to cut the poster board to the same size as each vehicle flat.
The first batch all complete! |
Battle on the back nine? You bet! |
Chunky and easy to grab at the table. |
And here is a potential setup using one of the newer 'Clix 2' x 2' maps, a piece of glass, and my new counters / flats (along with some minis):
Units respond to a Fire-1 at the docks! |
So there you have it--my figure flat solution to vehicles at the table. Hope you found it helpful. I will be posting again on this when I get more flats done. They're a ton of fun to make.
Thanks for reading!
--Scott
Looking good! I did mine on cereal box cardboard and Elmer's glue back in the day, but I don't think foam core (much less the adhesive-backed kind) even existed back then, and Kid Me sure didn't have access to it if it did.
ReplyDeleteThanks! They're such a great resource.
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