How do you track units health?

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**VladimirHerzog**

alextroy wrote:
I don't understand how anyone can use d20's to keep track of wounds. Those want to roll so badly that just jarring the table will change the number.

That being said, I normally just use 1-2 d6's to keep track of wounds since my army doesn't have many models with more than 12 wounds. I do have the habit of keeping track of damage suffered rather than Wounds remaining.

i play on a plywood sheet laid on top of two Kallax, that thing isnt moving unless you really shove it hard. Still, i use D6's

**Just Tony**

As far as how to track wounds when they happen I have that 6th Ed. WFB counter set that came in the red tin

**jaredb**

I laminated little cards for all my knights, and write their remaining wounds on them, and just erase and re-write as they take wounds. I keep track of their kill tallies for the blessings of thr gods on the same cards too. Works really well for me.

**BuFFo**

Freakazoitt wrote:
For example, you have 12 tanks each with multople hit points. How it's supposed to keep tracking how many left of each?

Dice.

**chaos0xomega**

NinthMusketeer wrote:

Already said for 10+ I'm using dice like anyone else. The difference is busting out an easily-knocked-over d20 every time a model takes 1 wound adds up to far more effort. If knowing the wounds remaining on a model is so important then all of these people would be putting it next to their full-health models, but they don't. Even with the way damage brackets are in 40k it is easier to count up from a perspective of my opponent not knowing the exact numbers; a person knows a model with 1-5 damage is never going to be bracketed, but a model with 7-15 wounds left is far more ambiguous. I want it to be clear to both me and my opponent how heavily damaged something is and wounds remaining does not give me that information unless I know the total. Additionally dice can easily be knocked about or tipped to an incorrect value whereas colored beads for 1/3 wounds do not have that issue so it is more transparent and largely impossible for me to screw up the wounds count on a model.

You must be sore from all the mental gymnastics you're doing.