I've had a couple of inquiries off list about making cards for your
games. As anyone who has coughed up for the rules knows there is one
page of examples in the back, but nowt else. The reason for this is
that we simply cannot anticipate what troops you are going to field,
so we leave it to you to knock up your own. HOWEVER, we are always
happy to give suggestions. I've clipped my reply to one of these
questions and stuck it below....
I have a template as a Word Document that divides an A4 page into six
cards. These come out at about 3" by 3". Square cards makes
shuffling easier as you don't have to get them all the same way up!
If anyone wants that template I can email it to them. On top of that
I then put an illustration that is appropriate for the card. For
example British Platoon 1 will have a picture of British infantry on
it. You can, of course, simplify things with Allied and Axis cards
which will do for several nations, I prefer something more specific
but it's up to you. There are loads of nice pics on the net, and as
long as you ain't selling your product no-one is likely to do you for
any copywrite offence. Equally I bought a job lot of old war comics
on ebay recently (for the princely sum of four quid!) and have
scanned some of their pictures in, which gives a jolly result.
A Text Box with the unit name finishes it off, but make sure that you
have "no wrapping" on both the picture and text boxes or your cards
will come out all different sizes, which not only looks crap, but
doesn't work.
Hope that helps anyone else out there struggling with that one.
Cheers
Richard
