I am looking to get a couple sets of templates, and wanted to hear people's opinions on the various sets. I have an opinion but I don't want to bias the discussion; in alphabetical order I am aware of:

Applied Perspective

CorSec Engineering

Litko

Team Covenant

Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks!

Edit: forgot Team Covenant.

I like my litko templates, especially because I got em customized with my name!

I really like my applied perspective stuff. Pay the extra $5 to get customized stuff. My movement templates don't have that hashed line crap on the straight templates. I should have had my initials engraved on them instead.

You could wait a bit on the range ruler and win it from your local store championship event in early 2014.

You could wait a bit on the range ruler and win it from your local store championship event in early 2014.

I could, but then I would have to find a local store! I should ask around and see what local stores play the game. So far I have just played at home with friends.

There have been many previous threads and discussions about templates you may want to check but for me as with the chap above, I bought some litko ones cos I wanted to personalise them and i love them. No complaints

Haven't seen any others in the flesh tho except Rodent Mastermind's and a friend of his made those

Blue Mirrored ones from Applied Perspectives = bestest. I keep trying to find a way to justify replacing my dark blue and red ones.

I got a pair of Team Covenants.
They are exactly identical to each other so no complaining from my opponents!
Having said that, I had 3 core sets and they don't match exactly.
My Range rulers are all the exact same length and their measurements are perfect - I can see the inconsistencies with the cardboard ones but for the movements there are some variations.

From memory: The 1 turns are about a MM too long vs the cardboard while the 2 turns are a MM short, looking at the 3 banks though they are perfect. I'm not sure what to attribute this too, but when looked at on their own they look perfect in angle and turn.

My guess is that they are more accurate than the cardboard, and are perfect matches to each other but it was just odd feeling to see that they didn't match the cardboard from 2 starter sets exactly. Also they look great on the table (black and red) so I'm much happier to use the Covenant ones over the cardboard items.

Sorry for the rambling, let me know if need to clear anything up, typing in a hurry.

I like my Litko custom movement templates.

Blue Mirrored ones from Applied Perspectives = bestest. I keep trying to find a way to justify replacing my dark blue and red ones.

I would like to get 2 sets and have them be different colors so I can sort them easily. I frequently have 2+ games going on at once at my house when we play.

Got a runner-up for 2nd best color? Mirrored red?

I have the FFG official maneuver templates (which I won after finishing seventh at the Nordic. Championship) and an orange range ruler from Applied Perspective. They are all great!

I had Litko do some custom ones for me, although I may be soon ordering some custom ones from Applied Perspectives for my wife, so I can contrast and compare. Anyway, I like to think of these as idiot-proof.