Anybody got any good ideas on how to keep all the target locks matched up while in storage and playing come to that I'm for ever trying to find the relevant marker within a pile of tl this also applies to the identity numbers aswell .

I must admit since scum has arrived I need a sort out.

I broke all my ID numbers up into bags of Number 1-10, 11-20 etc. Then I broke 1-4 out into a bag of their own, cause I rarely need more than 4 at any one time. Kinda did the same thing with the target locks. Pulled 5 out and popped them in the the 1-4's.

Buy a bag of 'loom bands' (in the uk its a kids craze)

For a pound or two you get a few hundred small elastic bands in any colour you like (i use bright green for a set of imperial TLs , Red for rebels, black for scum)

Perfect size to hook the corresponding TL chits together.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/1800-Colourful-Loom-Bands-Clips/dp/B00R9IESPE

I saw somewhere pictures of target lock tokens, which had a piece of "Velcro "(? "Klettverschluss" in German, "Velcro" was what I found via google to be the english word for it) glued to it. So you have both target lock tokens together in your bag, and find them directly.

Thanks for the advice

Adhesive Velcro, so matched pairs are always a single unit until the need to deploy them.

Most you'll possibly need in a 100 point game is 10, so you probably won't be missing the backside of the lock.

As i often provide both sides for a game and i've got tons of TLs i try and have a seperate A-z set for each faction.

Personally i think bands is better and easier and cheaper than gluing stuff to the tokens

As i often provide both sides for a game and i've got tons of TLs i try and have a seperate A-z set for each faction.

Personally i think bands is better and easier and cheaper than gluing stuff to the tokens

Orthodontic bands are probably the right size as well.

keep them in small batches.. like 4 matched sets. I go one further and keep my stuff segregated by faction and keep a matched set of TL tokens in each "ship bay" in my travel case. I also use litco tokens which are numbered and match that number to the ship base number.. I mean for a normal game you are only going to need about 6 sets 8 tops if you add targetting computer to stuff...

Most i ever really use a side is 6 and thats if one side is fielding a Z swarm.

I realized I had enough target locks for a double A-X set, so I painted one side black on each token. Now I have a single-sided set from A-X, which is more than I will ever need for even an epic-scale game.

I keep them banded together using the small rubber bands you find in the hair section at a department store. I hook the band over the "ear" on the side, and wrap it around to hook over the ear on the other side.

No more searching for the match, just grab one and go. Really saves time.

The Loom bands are where it's at. I'm a family man in suburbia. It doesn't take too much to find a set. My son has a bunch and he gave me all the colors he didn't want.

Also, I ended up printing out icons or even faces of the pilots to glue on the center of the TL tokens. I found I needed to paint the edges of the tokens either blue or red to really make them stand out.

I recently went with the adhesive velcro trick, and I LERVES it. Keeps them paired in storage and when on standby on the table, and when they are deployed the velcro slightly elevates the token off the map for those of us without fingernails.

Not to mention if you buy a whole roll of velcro (you don't need to though, you can get sheets of smaller bits you can cut apart with scissors just as well) you end up using it everywhere around the house BECAUSE THE FUTURE IS NOW!!!

I'm using velcro target locks since 2 years, and it's my best "Invention" so far.

You can throw them across the room, and they are still together.

For ID Tokens I use a pill box.

I've seen people use paint pen to make the edges of pairs the same color, that seems pretty easy to do, and you don't need to organize them as much that way.

Get an acrylic set and it becomes much easier.