Token Replacements

[xmakina]

Hey folks!

I used to love this game back when I was a kid and I've managed to get some starter decks together. However, I'm struggling a bit with the token sheet, there's 3 on ebay but they're pretty expensive and also, fundamentally, they're just bits of card and I'd like something a bit sturdier. I've scaned etsy and places that do custom tokens but they all seem to wind up either needing very large orders, don't do double sided and few have the capacity for images.

So, do you folks have ideas for replacements for the token sheet? Even better, have you replaced yours and can you share what you did?

[Fireblood]

I used to use dice to track wounds, alien tokens and to represent characters ect. But recently I got creative and printed out copies of the character cards I'm using in my decks at 2.5 x 1.5 inches, then put them in mini card sleeves and stuck them on plastic card stands to hold them up. I use those to show where characters are on locations. For hidden movement and alien tokens I use some cards that I made. I just stack the alien tokens under the alien character's card and put the hived card on a location when it gets hived.  For hidden movement, I printed the cards out at 2.5 x 1.5 again and play them face down on the locations just like the old cardboard tokens (the motion tracker card is the back of the hidden movement cards).

[xmakina]

I just wanted to follow this up with my solution. My partner copied the original artwork into vectors and I had a deck of mini cards made up. The cards match the original tokens, 4 double sided, 8 single sided of the unit icons, and the double sided damage/combat point tokens.



I've not managed to get a game with them yet, but here's hoping they work nicely!

[doctordolemite]

Vector images. That was a great idea. They look good. Much less likely to lose them lol.

[Axlotl]

ooh, nice.

[sherm]

just what im looking for ... finally attempting (again) to get back into this game and need to make myself some replacement tokens.

i have my tokens in my started decks (for collection purposes, but i seem to have 2 token sheets in each deck - is this corrrect, as most places ive looked at only say 1 sheet.

im looking to design some full color versions as well

[doctordolemite]

It has been a very long time since I've opened a new starter deck box but I think it was only 1 sheet.

[sherm]

Thanks Dr, I found a couple images on BGG that showed 1 sheet. guess I have some extra tokens now... Was thinking to upsize them to suit some spare 30mm coin cases i have, but stuggling to find suitable images