Comments on: Elevate Your Game – Tracking Airborne Minis

By: poker

poker — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:35:49 +0000

Very constructive games, really ! Combat Tiers remembers me a french game from the 80’s called Logitac

Renee
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By: Jim Pacek

Jim Pacek — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:24:34 +0000

I bought some old “UpWords” games at Goodwill for $2 each. The tiles in there stack nicely and I got a bunch of them. Added bonus — they have a letter on top of each, so you can use them for markers when you’re not using them for altitude.

By: Johnn

Johnn — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:28:02 +0000

@njharman I’d love to get my hands on some 1″ interlocking chips. My current chips don’t interlock and slide all over, plus they’re larger than 1″ and cause problems in tight quarters on my 1″ battlematts.

By: njharman

njharman — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:26:57 +0000

I have found when using poker chips or better yet the cheapo plastic chips with grooves that “stick” together it’s better to use alternating colors. I use black and white. It makes it much easier to count the number of chips/height from across the table. 10′ for every black chip, add 5′ if white one is on top.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:02:55 +0000

Your english is doing just fine, Andy. Thanks for the suggestion; the more techniques for doing something that we have up our sleeves as GMs, the more able we are to find the best answer to deal with any given circumstance we might encounter.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 14 May 2009 01:15:21 +0000

Hi everybody,

when I was DMing, I used a regular map of the battlefield, plus a “You’re here” vertical map, like those you can find close to elevators, indicating which floor you’re in, and what you can find on the other floors. We had to use a secondary mini of each flying character, but it worked well enough.

Sorry for the poor English. If you didn’t get my elevator example, imagine the maps on Legend of Zelda: it had a regular map, plus a floor indicator.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:59:14 +0000

@Johnn: I believe the computer game was based on the board game. Good memory!

@Loz: the base mechanics work the same way, but there are multiple varieties of aircraft, each with it’s own sheet showing the manouvers it’s able to perform and such. Different designs excel in different areas – this one is able to turn on a dime, this one has greater speed, this one is somewhere in between, and so on. Great memory also!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:57:49 +0000

@ Dave: perhaps a little blutack would help hold everything together without making the setup inaccessable. And, of course, weighting the bottommost one would help give the whole structure additional stability.

By: Loz

Loz — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:16:46 +0000

I suspect Blue Max is the same as a game I once played called “Ace of Aces”. A sort of “You are the hero” textless two-book (one per player) game, where you are presented with a view from the cockpit of a World War I biplane and get to chose from a palette of manoeuvre symbols in order to try to out-manoeuvre and shoot down your rival. Each manoeuvre sends you to a different page/view with its own palette of manoeuvres à la Ian-Livingstone-books/”You are the hero”. Simple, effective and undoubtedly a collectors item by now. They came out in .. the early-nineteen-eighties? Wow that’s an old memory. But a good one.

By: Johnn

Johnn — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:07:25 +0000

@Loz – great tip about the tape measure!

@Target – thanks. I have a review of those coming up, and never considered them for arial marking. I guess they can fall into the poker chips category.

@Mike – neat tip re: blue Max! Is that the same as the Commodore 64 game?