So, I'm currently magnetizing my ships to their stands for convenience, and had an idea: stick a magnet to the bottom of the base, and one to a token. Bam. No more messy tokens, no target locks left behind, no "whose focus is this?"

Anyone tried anything like this? The magnets I have a fairly weak after going through the base and the cardboard, but it seems plausible. The one issue I can see would be removing said tokens and them being stuck to the base, which could cause accidental scooting. Fortunately, these tiny little buggers are small enough that there's not a HUGE force of attraction left, and scootage would be minimal. Just stick a finger on there somewhere to hold it down like you would a template.

Thoughts?

For the amount of effort and the potential of moving models, I'd just leave it. You're fixing one problem but creating another at the same time.

I like the idea, if the tokens were half the size I thinknit would be perfect. I feel maybe there might be some issues with the large tokens bulking up your small bases.

Not trying to discourage you, those were just some thoughts... I do like the idea overall..

I like the idea, if the tokens were half the size I thinknit would be perfect. I feel maybe there might be some issues with the large tokens bulking up your small bases.

Not trying to discourage you, those were just some thoughts... I do like the idea overall..

True, but I only use acrylic ones. Specifically, tokens from Applied Perspective for the most part. The target locks are significantly smaller and wouldn't be nearly as bad as the regular TL's

I think the ones designed by Rodent Mastermind for Cog 'o Two might be smaller overall, tokens and target locks

Maybe something to look at... hmmmm maybe.... lol.. I may make an order....

The issue that springs to mind is the tokens sticking to each other in storage and being hard to get apart.

Although I like the idea, like Eltnot says, it creates a whole new problem with the risk of the magnets moving ships around when they're not supposed to move.

The way I solved this was by using different colored markers. I just figured I had enough tokens and ship bases that I was never ever going to use everything at the same time.

The most teams I will ever play using my own tokens and ship bases is 3 factions (Imps, Rebels and Pirates), so I divided all my tokens into 3 batches, used markers to color the cardboard sides of each token either green, red or orange, and the same with the ship base. You still have to know what token belongs to what ship, but it kind of makes the job easier.

So now, everytime I play, each faction has their own colored tokens, and whenever I'm taking my stuff somewhere, I know what's mine.

I think the ones designed by Rodent Mastermind for Cog 'o Two might be smaller overall, tokens and target locks

Maybe something to look at... hmmmm maybe.... lol.. I may make an order....

I picked up some shield tokens, red maneuver templates, and special action tokens from Cog'o'Two and enjoy their use.

Our group really only worries about target locks. We use the back slot on the base to place the blue target lock, the front for the number. That way the target lock travels and we only have to deal with the red one.

The way I solved this was by using different colored markers. I just figured I had enough tokens and ship bases that I was never ever going to use everything at the same time.

That's a brilliant idea! You can take it one step further and paint your bases and tokens a total of 8 different colors (since that's the most you can run in 100pts, but you could reduce the number to 4-5 if you wanted) and then each base (and therefore ship) has a dedicated Focus / Evade / TL token that is color coded to match.

Herm... it almost makes me want to switch back to cardboard tokens to do this...

As mentioned above, I think you will end up knocking your models around more and messing with them. If you wanted to do something similar, you could have a small bar....like a piece of a popsicle stick...and glue the magnets on that. Make one bar per ship. Just keep it near your ship that it's assigned to. Move the bar with all the tokens with the ship. They stay all neat and tidy near each other.

I just found pictures on Google and shrunk them to the right size using MS Paint. I then printed them out in a .doc and cut them out. Glue stick and they are on my Target Lock markers.