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I want to shop a bit for myself next week, but I don't know what I need. As the title says, what are your indispensable accessories? I'd love suggestions and links for high-end, MDF, acrylic, card, DIY... whatever makes your 9th ed. games more agreeable. Thanks!

Score keepers and tokens are pretty indispensable for large games as well as Kill Team, you don't want to forget a model or activate it twice.

 MacPhail wrote:
I want to shop a bit for myself next week, but I don't know what I need. As the title says, what are your indispensable accessories? I'd love suggestions and links for high-end, MDF, acrylic, card, DIY... whatever makes your 9th ed. games more agreeable. Thanks!

Laminated wet-erase scoresheets.

I really like Art of War's rulers: https://art-of-war-studios-ltd.myshopify.com/collections/guildballcompatible/products/copy-of-guild-ball-measuring-stick-complete-set

They are marketed as Guild Ball rulers (which is a dead game so these may not be around forever) but there's nothing on them to indicate this, they come in a range of colours and look very nice.

I find range rulers very useful in general and I have several different types, but these are probably the nicest ones.

I do like measuring sticks/range rulers. Eliminates fudgery with distances for deep striking or engagement range or whatever type of things where rules say you need to stay outside a certain range.

I will say the new FW legion dice are quite nice. I picked up the Iron Hands ones and they're great. Wish they had squared off sides instead of rounded, but that's the only thing I'd change. Slightly pricy so mostly a luxury item of course.

Another thing that's good in this edition with obscuring and dense cover being a thing is one of those laser lines. Super quick check of what models can see around a piece of terrain or which models get the -1, etc.

Why mess with poorly moulded dice when you could use the fundamental quantum uncertainty of radioactive decay to see if your toy soldiers pewpew good or not? https://hackaday.com/2020/01/02/roll-the-bones-chernobyl-style/

The GW wound tracker dice are very handy. Also, GW has an L-shaped ruler (I can't find on their website, but have seen it in stores) 6 in one side and 3 inch side. Great to see if deepstriking units are at least 9 inches away.

MTG spindown d20s. The sequential numbers make them faster to adjust than GW's fancy-d10 wound counters, and you only need one die even for things with more than 10W. (Until you get to Knights, at least.)

All awesome suggestions... thanks! Love the radioactive marbles... I just gave a Russian fella my bank account number so he can send me some he says he found in the woods in a little town called Pripyat. On the list so far are the spindown d20s and a good ruler, although I still need to find just the right one. Three-by-six seems like a smart configuration, but I'm also tempted by the full set of size-specific. Anyone have a good 0-100 score counter they like?

Laminated score sheets. Free PDF and I own a laminator.
Just received clear objectives (3" extended out from the 40mm sized objective.
D12 dice to keep track of wounds.
9" measuring device.

As some who plays hoard armies, movement trays have become indispensable to me. Not only do they save me time moving all those units, but they also help me with counting.

- A dice tray helps a lot, especially when playing hordes. No more losing dice, fishing them out of terrain or units, or searching where all your dice have gone during a game.
- Don't buy GW wound trackers, 10 sided dice can be bought for a fraction of that, I actually got 10 from china for just 0.18€. If you run knights or larger models a lot, you can also get 10 sided dice with 10,20,30...100 on them.
- As a former competitive MtG player, I have tons of spin-down d20. I use three different colors for secondary tracking, three for primary tracking and a pair matching my D10 for wound tracking on large models like nauts or Mortarion.
- The GW combat gauge has proven invaluable to me, as it makes piling in and checking coherency or engagement range so much faster. Make sure you get one that is made of rubber so it can bend around corners for combat movements, as I also have the metal one GW release along with knights and it has proven to be rather worthless.
- Cards for any stratagems or psychic powers that buff or debuff. People, including me, forget about these all the time. For the PA stuff that didn't have any official cards, I just printed small summaries and glued them to cards from the generic tactical objective deck.
- Small sticky notes and a flipchart marker. If your opponent doesn't have stuff to mark his persistent effects, mark it for them. No more "did I succeed casting fortune last turn?" discussions. Obviously don't put sticky notes on their models, but onto the table near them.
- After a series of bad luck with GWs tape measures I got the one from army painter and am much more happy with it.
- I always have some small plastic banners from the 5th edition token set with me in case no one brought any objective markers.
- A laser pointer in case you regularly have arguments over LoS. I must say that since a certain person left our group I have had no more need for one. I might give one of those line projectors a try though.
- Apoc movement trays. They have reduced the time to move units like boyz or pox walkers by a lot for me, they look natural on the table and you often can just shove them into combat without losing much.

Dice tray is pretty mandatory to me. Rolling dice on the battlefield is a real pain and time consuming.

Cards for remembering what buffs are active are also extremely useful but I just use self made ones (just small pieces of paper with something written on them) because I don't want to invest money for those.

I haven’t made them for 9th yet, but in prior editions I used a program called Magic Set Editor to make my own cards. Simple, free, easy to use. And having cards makes it a lot easier to keep track of everything.

I have a KR accessory tray that I enjoy. Sides clip together to make a box to carry your stuff when on the go. Splits into 2 felt lined dice trays for gaming.

 Blackie wrote:
Dice tray is pretty mandatory to me. Rolling dice on the battlefield is a real pain and time consuming.

Cards for remembering what buffs are active are also extremely useful but I just use self made ones (just small pieces of paper with something written on them) because I don't want to invest money for those.

I made psychic power tokens with poker chips and small round stickers placed on the chip. Name, LOS, and Warp Charge casting make it easy to reference.

Mould remover tool, Painting handle and some old Ivory coloured skull dice which I THINK were originally Fantasy magic dice....

stroller wrote:
Mould remover tool, Painting handle and some old Ivory coloured skull dice which I THINK were originally Fantasy magic dice....

I was thinking of the play side, not painting. But I can’t paint without the handles any more. Soooo much nicer.

I've found it helpful to have a single, really large dice for tracking turns.

I've seen to many times where the normal dice being used gets picked up by accident by someone.

The old Dice cubes GW made were great for this.

My favorite "accessory" is my Pack 720, with its magnaracks. Its such an enormous quality of life.

I also like to print out the game trackers from goonhammer, to keep track of scores and command points through the game.

I think the only other thing I really like is a dice tray, as it keeps the dice organized.

A well bound, ruled notebook.

Use it for tracking VPs! Use it for noting down stuff that worked! Use it for noting down your tactical blunders, and how your opponent capitalised! Use it for doodling if your opponent is slow playing for advantage! Use it to write love letters to me!

Tape.
Specifically, a tape with enough sticky to hold the models on and not so sticky that you rip the whole board apart trying to pull off a casualty or two. I use it cause I am a gaurdsman -- and I am either dropping all my scions as 12 separate MSU (so the tape keeps the right folk together as a quantal packet) or moving a bunch of normal gaurd aroudn (so the tape holds the 10 soon do die gaurdsmen in a nice bunch for ease of motion.)

I don't like traditional (by comparison huge and bulky) movement trays -- although the blue tape I use (its a painters tape of mild stickyness) requires me to set up before the game, its less cumbersome and less difficult to store. One roll has been all I needed so far in 2020. For my ... very few games.

Dukeofstuff wrote:
Tape.
Specifically, a tape with enough sticky to hold the models on and not so sticky that you rip the whole board apart trying to pull off a casualty or two. I use it cause I am a gaurdsman -- and I am either dropping all my scions as 12 separate MSU (so the tape keeps the right folk together as a quantal packet) or moving a bunch of normal gaurd aroudn (so the tape holds the 10 soon do die gaurdsmen in a nice bunch for ease of motion.)

I don't like traditional (by comparison huge and bulky) movement trays -- although the blue tape I use (its a painters tape of mild stickyness) requires me to set up before the game, its less cumbersome and less difficult to store. One roll has been all I needed so far in 2020. For my ... very few games.

That blue tape trick is pretty clever! I used to use little sheets of metal and magnets on my guys when I played WFB.

I find most accessories useless, but I'm firmly behind dice trays (or box lids). Keep dice off the table. Fewer 'cocked' dice, fewer collisions, fewer decapitations (actually happened to a model of mine once). Less chasing dice around the floor, and so on.

Watched a fair few 40k videos this year, and watching people roll on tables with a lot of terrain (especially around craters and piles of loose rocks, which Tabletop Tactics does) is just cringe inducing. They slowly creep over to the table edge and try to corral dice into a tiny space rather than keep banging into terrain.