So I just picked up the game yesterday, and everything looks great, except for one thing:

The basestar damage counters.

As soon as I saw them I was worried. I'd like to say that I think it's a really really awful idea to ever have counters that need to be punched out that have really sharp corners and acute angles like those counters do. And, as I thought might happen, though I tried to be careful when punching them out, they got a little messed up. The front faceing of one corner got ripped off, but that won't hamper it in play since it's on the side that will be face down. What really concerns me is that in the process of punching them, a couple of them started to split apart and I'm sure this will only get worse in the course of play.

Does anyone have any suggestions for things I can do to try to help these counters survive?

fnord3125 said:

Just be careful? I didn't damage my counters in the least neither during ounching out nor during play.

I was careful when punching those tokens out but mine also split.

Buy a d4. Assign each token a number value and roll the die. You can also use a d6, just consider two of the numbers a 'roll again.'

I agree these counters are kind of a bad shape for what they are used for. Mine are also splitting a bit, but just mixing them up each time to grab a random one is a bit tough. I think they should have just made them circle like the Galactica ones.

Maybe circle replacement ones is something they could include in an eventual expansion set, yeah?

I haven't seen the game, so may not know what I'm talking about.

But couldn't you just use a sharp knife to cut them out of the cardboard sheets?

Hello!

Maybe could you just laminate them...

I saw boardgames players using fine plasticsheet frame to cover delicate tokens and cards. The result looks like a second skin and doesn't seems to hamper the gameplay.

What about Puzzle Glue? The kind you coat a finished puzzle with to permanently laminate it? I know you can get this from pretty much any games store. My only question would be how well it holds up to repeated handling.

Or just ask FFG for replacements

I could see these might be a problem, so I turned them over to the back, and used utility knife to score the back before I tried to pop them out.

All went fine and got perfect tokens.

I noticed it best to press them out from their "sharp" side... there is a rounded and sharp side. I think its opposite side of were the "punch" comes in...

i didn't know I had to be careful, so I just gave em a good punch, as I was in a hurry, and they all came out fine...

But my suggestion would be to glue them back together and give them some varnish/lacquer

Don't rightly know what puzzle glue is, but I am guessing the concept is the same as mine...

Besides, what I heard of FFG, is that they have really high service in this area, and want you to have the best possibly experience with your components, so try and write them...

...Idless

(deletes a comment on other peoples useless arrogant posts)

Guess it won't help noe that you've already punched them...

But with boardgame componants I always find that pushing the tokens through from the (more deeply scored) front out through the (unscored) back ensures that they survive the punching process intact, or at worst you have a little excess paper "flash" to be removed from the token (if you punch from the back through to the front you frequently rip the tokens front off),

As for game-play - those corners will suffer over time I guess, sadly sharp points aren't a great shape for tokens... At least they are a deent thickness, so it shouldn't be too bad,