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Hi,

Any suggestions on how one could preserve the cardboard tokens and boards used in games like Kill Team? Theyre just cardboard so its easy for edges to get banged up, vulnerable to moisture etc...Anyone tried sealing their tokens with anything? Maybe glued page edge protectors to the corners of their boards?

Looking for some tips on how to buff the cardboard up to withstand some wear and tear.

Cheers

Using CA glue (i.e. zap-a-gap) is a popular method to stiffen up cardboard. It's not water based, so it doesn't warp the cardboard (rather, it cures solid before the cardboard has a chance to warp).

You can soak the edges with CA glue and it will weather bangs a bit better (i.e. it still won't survive a 5' drop on the corner).

Yup, I do the superglue thing and also use a colored marker on the edges (before you superglue them, very important) to make them look less like cardboard tokens on a lot of my boardgames and tokens. The thin superglue is much better for this than the thick or gel superglue, it soaks into the edge and hardens almost immediately into a plastic like consistency. You can also hit them with a couple coats of matte varnish just like you would any miniatures to protect the printed paper faces. Between superglue and matte varnish they'll last for years

Won't work on boards (even if it technically works, it'd cost a fortune) but a lot of Crisis Protocol players are using Modge Podge Dimension to pretty/toughen up their tokens.

There's loads of tutorials about it, I think it's something trad boardgamers have done for a while.

Mod Podge or few coats of clear varnish seems like should do the trick.