No Stars tokens...

[Katie]

By the power of... having done this sort of stuff several times already..

www.fysh.org/~katie/wargames/downloads/no_stars/nostars-t1.pdf

Not sure what multiples/extras to add.

[rflowings]

Bloody hell, Katie, that was quick. Many thanks! That will certainly make things a bit clearer next time.

I've had a look at Warbases and I think, as you say, one of the smaller dials would do the job of marking stress. I quite like the idea of adding a holographic senior officer or journalist trying to micromanage the battle, given that casualties are handled rather differently.

I've got a bunch of stuff to get done before I head off to Loch Lomond, but when I get back I will post my notes on the unit rules and interpretations thereof. Many thanks for last night's action, it looks like the secessionists got away this time.

[Katie]

I've just tweaked the background a bit to make the symbols stand out more.

I'll get a couple of sheets printed up next time I wander past the printers.

[Katie]

Generating the starfield kept me occupied for a while....



% count seed -> list of random floats
/randSeq
{
srand
dup array exch % results count
0 exch 1 exch 1 sub % results 0 1 count
{
% results i
exch dup % i results results
3 -1 roll % results results i
rand 2147483647 div
% results results i result
put % results
} for
} def

/STARCOUNT 500 def

/stars
{
STARCOUNT 4 mul 656736 randSeq
/STARPOS exch def
0 1 STARCOUNT 1 sub
{
/i exch def
/X STARPOS i 4 mul get .5 sub def
/Y STARPOS i 4 mul 1 add get .5 sub def
/W STARPOS i 4 mul 2 add get def
/C STARPOS i 4 mul 3 add get def

/D X X mul Y Y mul add sqrt def

gsave
X HS mul Y VS mul rmoveto
% radius colour width fillness
W .8 mul D 0.1 sub 2 mul .5 true circleHere
grestore
} for
} def



PostScript isn't the most incomprehensible programming language, but it's definitely one of the densest that wasn't specially designed to be that way.