Game markers

These are some markers for WW2 gaming. Casualty figures are from Great Escape Games, pin markers were made from Warlord Games’ old markers for Bolt Action with some extra bits, mounted on bases from Warbases. Lastly, fire/smoke markers, mainly for marking knocked out tanks or destroyed buildings. All work for both Bolt Action and Chain of Command. The burning tanks and dead Soviets arent really necessary to play, but they look nice. Casualty figures can be useful in game terms when you have weapon crews fixed to one and the same base and need to mark losses.

The fire/smoke markers were made from household cotton balls, which were sprayed with black, grey and white primers. The lower part was then first brush painted black and then drybrushed using a couple of different shades of red, followed by orange and yellow. One could easily make markers for a smoke grenade effect (commonly used in CoC, less often in BA) in the same way, just excluding the last step of red/orange/yellow. However, I had no base of the appropriate size (3″) at hand, so that will have to wait until another time.