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Hi All

So I am loving playing Deadzone. My Sons and I play at the weekend and we have got past the learner scenario and now play full missions. My son enjoys getting his face into the board to make line of sight calls.

I have always enjoyed the painting part of our hobby and I love alot of what is being produced by other manufaturers such as Scibor and Puppets war and I would love to bring these into Deadzone so i am not just painting them up to then sit in a box. I dont play large table top games so making an alternative strike team would be great.

I could quite happily make them "Count as" Corperation or plague depending upon the scheme but I am an ambitious fellow. I would love to produce my own cards for any new force I make.

Has anyone had any success with producing their own cards?

I've done quite a few in photoshop for other games. Take an image of the stat card, clone-brush out the original text, write new text and cresize the new image to replace the old figure.

However, unless you're breaking the law, PS isn't exactly cheap, so I'd suggest GIMP if you don't already have PS. It's not the easiest program to use, but it's free and there's some decent tutorials to get you started. I haven't used it in years, but i hear it's quite good now (used to be a nightmare to use) and does pretty much anything you'd need PS to do. You could also make your own cards with Excel/OpenOffice spreadsheets, just set the basic card background to a backlay and match your cells to float over it.

An even simpler solution if you don't mind the look is any of the many Magic: the Gathering card generators you can find online. They are generally pretty easy to use and would work out just fine, although the text boxes might get a little crowded depending on the card.