Hi Everyone. You might know (or not) that I am running a kickstarter for a neat little thing called the Digital Coin Forge that allows you quickly and easily print tens of thousands of different coins at home: but there is a new twist being added that you may be very interested in. The gist is that I am adding not just coins - but Shell casing tokens and bullet chits to the Forge available in a boxed Ammo Crate. One of the backers and I are discussing how to go about it: here is an excerpt of my reply detailing possible options. As I understand it, there are very few places to get bullet tokens, so this could be a good opportunity for you to weigh in as there are custom options available to get your own tokens/coins designed how you like. Alright, here is what the options are:
A2: Frankly I love the idea of an Ammo Crate and cylinders - and I think there is definitely room and time in the campaign to put something together.
Here is how I see it: there are three design choices to go with or a combination:
(1) Rectangles could be fashioned into Handgun clips or TNT blocks, Entire Boxes of Rounds or Top-down Shotgun Shell Casings and bullets such as .22 and .303 etc so whole cartridges are visible. Players could reload by placing the required new rounds onto templates during play.
(2) Round coins in sizes 1.25"/1"/0.75" and 0.5" can be used to illustrate the bullet end-on from the back so you can see the Primer / strike-point with markings and size indicating the shell type.
(3) Round coins in 1.25" and Rectangles in 2x1" can be fashioned into open Cyclinder, Open "X-Ray" Clips or Shot Shells or Double Barrels of a Shotgun can be EMPTY and onto which can be placed coins from concept (2).
We might also consider having casings that can be reversed after use to show a spent cartridge by being blackened and having a cross through them for instance.
On the reverse side can be Power Numbers/Assigned Values as you say - and since these fall under Denomination - I can add these freely so backers can ensure they suit the purpose required. I can make up some basic colour schemes for markers for these - and if something more is required backers can buy the Custom design for $5 per coin or use their exclusive pledge freebies.
If backers choose the denomination rather than me making set values - this makes the DCF infinitely more valuable. Given that the DCF can make tokens, coins, poker chips, markers of thousands of varieties I see no reason not to expand into shells and bullets as an add-on.
You spoke about the physical handling of such tokens -while I cannot custom design a means to encase the bullets in a specifically designed carrier I can suggest using a scrabble type shelf to make them visible and easy to change over and manipulate. If I think of any other means I can offer besides small flat boards/mats with graphics for placing the tokens on - I will let you know.
As for creating a AMMO CRATE for the box - not a problem, I will make that possible
If interested, please let other Wargamers know and you can also check out the campaign here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gametilewarehouse/digital-coin-forge-design-print-rpg-coins-on-your
PS - I have some of my Terrain available as digital downloads now, here:
https://game-tile-warehouse.myshopify.com/
A set of specifically military meanders with battle of Normandy, Russian Steppe, Afghanistan, Carrier etc are coming in 2017.
Kind Regards,
Kris
