Idea for movement dial replacement.

By mrgoodtrips, in X-Wing

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Got a couple of movement dials that are looking a bit ragged now. managed to use plastic film on my newer ones but my originals are now shabby.

I have come up with the idea of putting all the movement arrows and speed/colour onto a card about the size of the upgrade cards so each movement has its own card. example rather than select a green sharp right on movement dial i just select the card with this on and place it face down behind the ship. each ship will have its own set of movement cards with a picture of the corresponding ship on the back as not to mix them up. this way my dials will see less use(apart from in torny events) and last longer. these i know wont be torny legal but there really is not much difference to using a dial, each ship is still secretly assigned its maneuvre, its just that its on a card.

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Somebody did something similar over on BGG that involves two cards per ship, one with the number and one with the symbol:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/filepage/85337/movement-cards

I think it uses less cards than your system, which would require 15-16 cards per ship.

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What your talking about is recreating the deck movement system used with Wings of War, now called Wings of Glory which was made for FFG. It would work but you would have up to 8 different decks along with needing multiples of certain deck types. Could get very difficult to keep track of during a game. The two card system works also as long as you don't mess up which maneuver your using or can't remember all of the different maneuvers for all the different ships.





What I did to prevent wear and tear and keep the dials for tournaments. Was to cut out the movement chart from each ships packaging. Made them 2” x 3” card shaped and placed it in a hard card sleeve. Using a erasable felt tip pen I just mark the maneuver I'm going to use for the turn on the card and place it face down next to its ship. At the end of the turn I erase all the marks and start over. Easy.


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GeckoTH (who is a card template God) has done some maneuver cards over on A Few Maneuvers that would work great with this system (scroll down a bit to see them):

http://www.afewmaneuvers.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=183

@BigDogg: Kudos to you for coming up with this marking system. Very cool. I always thought of the cards above as just a reference, but you have incorporated it into the game as a useful substitute for tearing up the dials. Well done!

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I'd rather not have another deck of cards per ship.

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I'd just prefer if they starting producing extras of everything so we could buy more if they wore out. A pack of ship dials, a pack of plastic stands and pegs, and so forth.

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VisionVoid said:

I'd just prefer if they starting producing extras of everything so we could buy more if they wore out. A pack of ship dials, a pack of plastic stands and pegs, and so forth.

This. However, I'd appreciate something really high quality - I'd pay $10 / dial for something that is never going to wear out.

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Endgame124 said:

This. However, I'd appreciate something really high quality - I'd pay $10 / dial for something that is never going to wear out.

Absolutely. I'd happily pay for high end versions of all the cardboard bits if they were also tournament legal.

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I have a fix that is very cheap and works wonders. Buy some cyanoacrylate glue(superglue) and put a thin layer on the outside edge of your dials. The glue seeps in little bit and within a few minutes the edges become rock hard. Do not buy the gel, you need the liquid glue. I bought a 2 oz bottle of medium methyl glue from a seller on eBay named themudduck.

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If you have cards I say put them in a sleeve that has a back to hid the ones not in play.

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COOL! Id buy these if mine get in rough shape! If they'd sell multipacks itd be an easy sell!

I already bought a bunch of these. Email them and if you do a large order, you might get a discount. I filled in the maneuvers with the same Sharpie paint pens used on the sides of my tokens.