ECW casualty markers

This week, I decided to make some new casualty markers for my English Civil War games. With my Medieval games, I use individual cardboard figures that are placed on the unit's base. This works fine for low numbers of hits, but in my ECW games, units are eliminated after more than 8 hits. I normally use plain green square tokens with numbers on the sides to track the hits, but I thought it would be more interesting to try and improve the look of these tokens.

The current way of tracking hits. Here the unit has accumulated 6 hits.

To make the new tokens, I found some images of dead ECW miniatures and enlarged them to be suitable for 25mm figures. I then printed them, cut them out, and used their shape to paint over them in new colours. After that, I photocopied them and added the numbers, then photocopied them again. These were glued to cardboard, cut out and glued back to back with 1-4 on one side and 5-8 on the other. After drying, the edges were painted green.

The new casualty tokens.

The first step in making the tokens was finding images of dead ECW miniatures and enlarged them to be the right size (approximately 25mm). They were cut out and the shape used to paint over.

A batch of four dead tokens are made.

After photocopying the originals the numbers are written on them.

Additional photocopies were made and stuck to cardboard.

The tokens are cut out ready to be back to back, 1-4 on one side and 5-8 on the other.

The edges are painted green.

Sticking the cardboard the two sides of the tokens back to back makes them thicker and easier to handle.