[Consim-l] Empire in Arms Leader Expansion Question

[Thomas Cundiff]

Well, I understand your sentiment, but your methods are crude.  If you 
checked out the "Old Soldiers Magzine" website, you'd find that I actually 
make for sale many counter sets and expansions.

Commentary regarding the quality of my counter sets range from "Beautiful! 
to "Better than factory Made" to "The Best Counters Made Anywhere".  I 
sought high and low for the best quality products and methods to produce my 
own counters for precisely this purpose and when I was finally happy with 
them, I made what I had done for my own games available for others.

I'll give you a hint.  My counter sets are all Laminated!  I do that not 
only for a beautiful finish, which it accomplishes, but more importantly to 
create a hard wearing surface which lasts far longer than what is found on 
counters that come in game boxes from the game companies.  My sets are 
expensive, but if you want the best ... well, you get what you pay for.

And, yes, I do intend to finally get around to making my own set of counters 
for Empire in Arms, as alluded to in the previous post, that was one of the 
reasons I was trying to figure out who that stray counter belonged to.  But, 
I think I'll probably track down the various variants and produce those 
counters too.

Don't know what this set will cost just yet, but I'll let you know.  Since I 
can get 285 half inch counters on a sheet I suspect it will not cost much 
(can't imagine there'd be more than 285 new leaders for all of the variants, 
plus re-making the originals in the correct colors).

Take Care,
Tom
Old Soldiers Magazine
Website: http://mysite.verizon.net/rjlein/osm
Forum: http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=179

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerber, Hjalmar" <hjalmar.gerber at ualberta.ca>
To: "consim" <consim-l at mailman.halisp.net>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 5:42 PM
Subject: RE: [Consim-l] Empire in Arms Leader Expansion Question


> Get some graphics/drawing software, glossy photo paper, an inkjet printer,
> glue, cardboard . . .
>
> And make the counters and colours you want.
>
> Hjalmar
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: consim-l-bounces at mailman.halisp.net
> [mailto:consim-l-bounces at mailman.halisp.net] On Behalf Of Thomas Cundiff
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 3:29 PM
> To: consim
> Subject: Re: [Consim-l] Empire in Arms Leader Expansion Question
>
>
> Hehe, my British are actually PINK, not red, and the Turks and Russians 
> are
> both the same shade of Green, except for the Peckiluan counter which is a
> sort of yellow with a bit of green thrown in for flavoring.  The French 
> and
> Prussians (especially the variant Prussians and French) are
> indistinguishable except that the "sash" across the French is PINK and the
> Prussians Purple.  The background colors are precisely the same.
>
> I once wrote to Avalon Hill about this and they offered to replace the
> counters, but before I could get them sent in AH ceased to exist.
>
> I ran across some expansions that had been on the net some years ago 
> (close
> to 10 years now) that I took off a server at Indiana University
> (Bloomington) [ they're not there now - at least I didn't find them]. 
> Those
>
> expansions were for the 7 Years War, the Great Northern War, several for 
> the
>
> French Revolutionary Wars, and oddly one for the Franco-Prussian War of
> 1870.
>
> All of those variants came with their own leader counters and ratings.
> Seems to me prime ground for some of my counter sets :)
>
> Tom
> Old Soldiers Magazine
> Website: http://mysite.verizon.net/rjlein/osm
> Forum: http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=179
>
>
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