I don’t like dice bags much when using them to hold dice, but I use an old dice bag that I had lying around to randomize my Unit Tokens.

I’ve seen a lot of players try to shuffle the Unit Tokens and not use any bag to randomize.

I know that shuffling them is legal, but I don’t think it does a credible job of randomizing and I think it can give players that shuffle an advantage.

Still, I won’t ditch the dice bag. Dice bags are cheap, and I’m not sure why every player doesn’t have one.

Do you use one or are you waiting for that to be one of the prizes in a tournament? Do you even like them for this? Do you have a problem with players that don’t use them? If you don’t use one, why?

I don't have/use a dice bag but an old soft pouch that housed a 7" tablet once. Works great.

I think a bag to randomise the effect is much much better then shuffling around.

I like a bag, it's fun shaking it and reaching in to pull out a prize. I use an FFG dicebag I originally bought for X-wing.

I use a bag, but I've played against people that shuffle and stack and I haven't noticed any advantage. Moreover, I can't see HOW it could give any inherent advantage unless they are actually cheating.

I bought a bag for $25 to use with legion, it came with a free bottle of Crown Royal.

15 minutes ago, Sirdrasco said:

I bought a bag for $25 to use with legion, it came with a free bottle of Crown Royal.

Ive bought a few dice bags that way. The free prize was worrh cost of the bag.

I use my pocket

We shuffle and place the tokens out face down and opponent picks one for you to play. The reason we don’t use bags is in case someone decided to scuff up tokens in order to know which they were “blindly” picking from a bag. I personally would enjoy picking from a bag but opponent chooses seems fairest ?

Do you guys draw while your opponent is activating their unit just to speed things up and start to think while they are moving? Obviously don't show them what you draw while they're activating theirs as that may change their move, but you can at least start to think a little while they're going

Personally, the dice bag I use for legion (An old x-wing minis prize) is too small for the tokens to really randomize. They just stay in pretty much the same position I put them in. So shuffling is generally what I use. Of course, the Last month or so I've been playing small games as part of operations, so a lot of the time I just have a small stack of "random" corps tokens.

2 hours ago, Sirdrasco said:

I bought a bag for $25 to use with legion, it came with a free bottle of Crown Royal.

I too got my bag in this method.

I don't begrudge any method to randomize the command tokens. If you need to cheat, you need to win WAAAAAY more than I do.

I like to bling out my games, so I bought a Star Wars themed (Imperial of course) dice bag and put all my tokens in coin capsules. So satisfying to shake up.

On 10/20/2018 at 8:55 AM, smickletz said:

We shuffle and place the tokens out face down and opponent picks one for you to play. The reason we don’t use bags is in case someone decided to scuff up tokens in order to know which they were “blindly” picking from a bag. I personally would enjoy picking from a bag but opponent chooses seems fairest ?

I use a bag and coin protectors. That way I can't even accidentally damage a token and make it identifiable. If If coin protector gets damaged I just swap it for a fresh one, they're only about 25 cents.

I also go the bag+coin protector route.

If they do include dice bags as prize support, I hope they produce something larger than they’ve done in the past. Prize support bags for Armada and X-Wing are too small, but their for-sale bags are perfect.

I use two Star Wars Dice Bags - one for me and one for my opponent if he/she does not have one (and wants to use it, of course). I also have several X-Wing, Imperial Assault, and Armada dice bags that I can use too. Works great for the random command token draw. I also have each command token in a plastic coin capsules (Lighthouse brand) - perfect size and give more substance and weight while in the bag to draw.

I don’t have a dice bag- when I play Arkham Horror, I use a Halloween candy cauldron with Elder signs on it. So far, playing pretty small armies for Legion (6-9 activations) shuffling seems to work just fine. If you’re really worried about potential cheating/advantage, put the tokens face down and each player then shuffles them for each other, then stack them for yourselves after, leaving them face down. Both players then do a blind randomization of the order tokens, which should make it pretty secure.

I haven’t worried over it, personally. My opponent and I just shuffle for ourselves while b.s.ing and getting drinks for the next round.

I have completely ditched the unit tokens all-together. Instead I play different colored D20s into a dice bag, each color representing a different unit type. They're not going to potentially bend or deform like the cardboard could.