I always like the idea of marking the ebb and flow of battles in a game. Using carnage and glory as my rules system it makes this very easy. Each time there is combat action the computer registers the impact on the unit affected. This makes it very easy to know how many casualty markers to put down at any given time.
The main problem I faced was acquiring enough markers to make this goal of tracking the flow of battle visually happen. The simple solution presented itself when I came across paper figures at the following link.
ACW casualty figures
These are designed I believe for 28 mm figures. I just copied them into a word document, shrunk them down to a size I liked and then printed them off. They needed only a little detail adjustments before printing to fit my happiness expectations.
I then cut them out and glued them on to small popsicle sticks I found in the craft section at Walmart.
The figures with all 6 icons equals major damage, 3 figures moderate damage, 2 figures equal as minor damage.
A little more work is needed to finish these off by cutting and pasting but the goal is to use up the 150 popsicle sticks in the process. Before that I need to complete by Confederate division. 2 brigades are underway at the moment.
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