While waiting for the actual art to shape up, I’ve made small tweaks to my test counters. I am still processing the playtest feedback as things weren’t as clear to other people as they were to me (what a surprise).
Small changes that I am trying out include removing unnecessary data from the counter and either replacing them with an image or just clarifying the rules wrt. counter colors.
One of the unluckiest men on July 6th, 1758 – George Augustus Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe – represents an infantry (combat) leader here:
Base color is for the British Army regulars and LT to indicates he can also lead Light Infantry. I really like this bright red & light tan color combination.
As not all leaders are infantry leaders, some are engineers, artillery, or naval leaders. Captain-Lieutenant James Stephens represents the artillery, with that awesome little image of a gun (i.e. cannon) above him, and a white cross in his yellowish “leader box”. Unless all this turns out to be somehow miniature in the physical counter, it should be immediately evident what he can lead – artillery.
A white dot was inserted to simply indicate the counters belong to the British starting units. There really won’t be any difference in the historical and gently-less-historical scenarios for the British, unlike with the French who can define their defenses freely and the exact composition of units may vary slightly. This should help finding the correct counters from the pile on the table.
The raw data for the above two counters actually looks like this, in csv format (had to crop it a bit):
It’s taken a while to learn how to generate counters for my use but now it’s going just fine 🙂