I tried this and ended up not enjoying it. You can actually use a hobby knife to split cardboard tokens apart and glue them back together.

Something I have been thinking about doing is glueing some magnets to the tokens and ship bases

It would help with all the table clutter if tokens can't come of the ship they are assigned to until you want them to.

I've been thinking about using a red 4-sided die to represent stress tokens. Gets rid of all the clutter while flying R3-A2 or Tycho. Another thing that went through my head is taking some excess target locks and repainting the identifiers into something more obvious like MD, CH, PD, R3, etc. That way I only need the red token and only need to use the blue one if the opponent or referee requests it.

Please No dice on the table.

One of my major peeves is when people want to use dice for shild tokens etc.

We have tokens for a reason, use them.

Something I have been thinking about doing is glueing some magnets to the tokens and ship bases

It would help with all the table clutter if tokens can't come of the ship they are assigned to until you want them to.

I would think that would cause a lot of problems with unintentionally moving ships when you try to remove the token. You'd have to be much more careful.

I would have actually preferred that target locks had the same letter on both sides, as the tokens do sometimes get flipped over in normal play. In my group, we end up only using each token once even though it has two letters to prevent issues from arising. I'm glad FFG didn't make other dual purpose tokens.

To make it easier on myself, I just started using double sided tape and sticking 2 same lettered ones together.. So much easier and no confusion on which TL was mine.. The big fatty on the table.. Lol

I now use a numbered token I got from eBay that are made on buttons.. So I do the whole, number on ship is number on token. Works very well..