{"id":298,"date":"2013-04-22T18:59:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T18:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/?p=298"},"modified":"2013-06-29T22:00:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T22:00:29","slug":"identifying-squads-with-magnet-attached-flags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"Identifying Squads with Magnet Attached Flags"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I started this blog, I used Imgur.com to post my projects – pictures with brief captions. \u00a0There are several albums over there that I’ll be “porting” over to this blog, a kind of catching up when I don’t have a current project to report.<\/p>\n

Right now I’m in the middle of painting 12 of GZG’s Spider Drones, and it’s taking a bit longer than I thought, plus the bases for them are on order, so it will probably be another week before I can show you the results of that. \u00a0In the meantime, here’s “Magnet Flags” :<\/p>\n

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One of the things I love about 15mm Sci-Fi wargames is how generic everything is. \u00a0This means my figures have multiple uses. \u00a0Not only can I use them for multiple rulesets, but I can split my force in two for a smaller battle with just my own figures, or use the whole army against someone else’s army, or use them for RPGs like Traveller or Eclipse Phase.<\/p>\n

Because of this, I need to keep my forces flexible. \u00a0In a game like Gruntz, it’s convenient to identify the squad leader, and, by extension, the squad. In one game, a particular figure might be a squad leader, in another, just a grunt. \u00a0To facilitate this flexibility, I use magnets on the base of certain figures to attach a flag that identifies the squad.<\/p>\n

\"package\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I bought a magnet starter kit. It comes with 50 magnets and the drill bit for $8.99 at TheWarStore.com<\/p>\n

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\"base\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I added the magnet to the mini’s base. I drilled out the plaster part of the base and super-glued the magnet in. Make sure you have the same polarity on all your bases.<\/p>\n

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\"flag\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then I glued a magnet to a toothpick flagpole. I used epoxy to glue the magnet, because the superglue didn’t hold. Make sure you have the right polarity, or the magnet will not stick to the base magnet.<\/p>\n

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\"flag_on_base\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And here’s the result.<\/p>\n

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\"strength\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s a pretty strong hold. \u00a0As you can see, you can pick the mini up by the flag with no problem.<\/p>\n

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\"flags\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s the flags in progress. \u00a0I have black and green flags for when I want to divide my minis into two forces.<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before I started this blog, I used Imgur.com to post my projects – pictures with brief captions. \u00a0There are several albums over there that I’ll be “porting” over to this blog, a kind of catching up when I don’t have a current project to report. Right now I’m in the middle of painting 12 of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44,10,11],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sci-fi-gound","tag-15mm","tag-gruntz","tag-rebel-minis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}