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hey Trek fans...I'm looking for sites or anything to do with starhip counters for hexpaper....looking for colored starships....basically I'd like to make the counters but dont have the time...any of the time line ships are good (TNG and so on)
thanks
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Korga =/\=
I'm Drunk of Borg Resistance is Floortile.
Korga, I've got some nice full color counters that I made from scans of starships. I put them up on the net awhile ago for a friend. If you can give me your email address I could give you the infomration to get into my file storage space and DL the counters.
If it's not too much trouble, i'd like a set too !! This sounds like just what i'm looking for
Thanks
Long Tom
heimlich@tinyworld.co.uk
I've got to jump on the band wagon as well. If you have time and inclination please send the counters my way.
Thanks!
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Man is to man a god when he recognizes his duty.
Hmmm, sounds good. Pretty please? http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/wink.gif
popebabylon@hotmail.com
Sorry to bother you but PLEASES, CAN I HAVE A COPY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/biggrin.gif
If enough of us ask for them, do you think Don would put them on the site?
We can only hope...put me on the list too, please.
Phoenix...
Best counters I've seen were done by Owen. In fact I would love to get a copy of that file on TrekRPGNet to share with all. I believe he designed them for the Spacedock playtest way-back-when.
Owen, if you're reading this, share the joy! http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif
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Hey TonyG:
think i can recieve mail but not send out
anyhow E-mail is Hobgoblin01@home.com thanks for helpin me out
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Korga =/\=
I'm Drunk of Borg Resistance is Floortile.
Starship counters by Owen ?
yes please !!
Long Tom
Folks,
Since the counter's I made up were from scans, I'm not sure it is is proper (legal) for me to post them for mass download. Some of the images were from various trek books, like the DS9 TTechnical Manual, and others were from 3D models I DL'd from various sites on the net. This wasn't a problem for personal use, or for emailing to a friend or two, but could be as far as posting on the net.
The files are also fairly large (several megs for a sheet) since the were done at a fairly high resolution.
If anyone knows what the legal status is for this let me know.
[This message has been edited by tonyg (edited 07-26-2001).]
I'm not exactly sure why you'd need hi-resolution scanned counters for starship combat, I mean, heck, I can reach 10 using just my fingers, and if I use my toes, count to 20!!
If possible, i want to receive them to!!!!!!
tx
piri@globetrotter.net
well well..hahahahaha looks like your work is cut out for ya Tony.hahahaha but when are you going to send to me?
dum de dum de dum
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Korga =/\=
I'm Drunk of Borg Resistance is Floortile.
Well Korga, since your email address isn't listed, and you haven't emailled me with your email adress, it is hard to send you stuff.
TonyG I would love to take a look at these as I want to amke a set myself based on the ships from the ASDB http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif
Let me know if it would be possible http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/biggrin.gif
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TonyG:
hee hee look up a few postings i wrote to you tell you my E-mail
hahaha (i'm such a smart ass)
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Korga =/\=
I'm Drunk of Borg Resistance is Floortile.
Stupid question time! What are "starship counters"?
Well... a long time ago
In a game room far far away.
Before Computers fit in a room.
People played wargames like Starfleet Battles and Tactics II.
The little carboard (egad!!!) pieces which represented the starships and other units were called "counters".
BTW I still use my SFB counters and mapboards to run starship combat, 1 hex is 1 MU.
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"Retreat?! Hell, we just got here!"
I was searching various gaming sites and found one that has starship counters you may find useful. The address is www.geocities.com/graylingnator/ I downloaded them and printed them up and they look pretty nice even though they are in black and white. You can always take a colored pen to them. They are in the Playing Aids section. Anyway, if anyone is intrested, take a look.
[This message has been edited by Dexter Knight (edited 07-30-2001).]
Shit! They took the scans of all those filthy B&W ship pics across the net!Quote:
Originally posted by Dexter Knight:
I was searching various gaming sites and found one that has starship counters you may find useful. The address is www.geocities.com/graylingnator/ I downloaded them and printed them up and they look pretty nice even though they are in black and white. You can always take a colored pen to them. They are in the Playing Aids section. Anyway, if anyone is intrested, take a look.
[This message has been edited by Dexter Knight (edited 07-30-2001).]
Tony, yours this good or better?
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SIRSIG :D
AKA: SirPostalot
AKA: The MapMaker
AKA: The Trek Cartographer
AKA:...Well I could keep going forever ;)
Captain Zymmer,
Making shartship counters is very easy, if you have the right software. I use PaintShop Pro. With it I can take a scanned image, or even a screen capture. From there I just cut & past in onto an existining blank counter that I can print off to the desired scale. Orignally I did this to make counters that matched the rather large FASA ship counters, since with 4 copies of that game I had lots of large sized hex maps and ship. It would be possible to print smaller counters (say Star Fleet Battled sized), but you would loose some detail. Of course considering ship movement rates-especially for Spacedock, the smaller counters might be desiredable since you get a larger hexfield.
From there you just print the counter off on "lable" paper and attack to carboard and cut out.
Assuming you take your time, get a hi-res image, and a good printer, you can get counters that look pretty good.
Here is a link for a sample of an Akira class counter. Since the image that I used for the counter is availble all over the net, I figure one more image on a hex isn't going to cause any problems. Go to
http://y42.briefcase.yahoo.com/kingperryn
I'm Working on a new counter sheet. I'm using Photoshop 6. I found color scans of top views of just about every starship I could find. I plan on putting them on 1 inch hexes, big enough for some detail but not too big. So far I have Galaxy, Akira, Ambassador, Defiant, Soveriegn, B'Rel, Vor'Cha, Neg'Vhar, D'Deridex, Cardassian, and Jem Hadar ships. I'll be printing them out on card stock. Maybe even mount them on wire stands... oh the days of table top SFB matches. I'll really ry to finish it up if anyone wants a copy. It'll be a JPG file.
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"Retreat?! Hell, we just got here!"
Making countersheets is fairly easy. If you insist on a top-down view of the ship, the images get harder to find.
Point me to images you want to use, tell me what dpi and size you would like the result to be, and I'll see what I can do.
I mean, we're just talking about a picture on a hex, right?
I'f you're willing to settle for side-views, I've already scanned the ship pages of the Encyclopedia. http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif
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You're a Starfleet Officer. "Weird" is part of the job.
Hi
I'd like a copy plese.
Long Tom
heimlich@tinyworld.co.uk
Hey Tonyg
Your briefcase seems to be empty
Long Tom
Wants a password.Quote:
Originally posted by tonyg:
Here is a link for a sample of an Akira class counter. (snip) Go to
http://y42.briefcase.yahoo.com/kingperryn
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You're a Starfleet Officer. "Weird" is part of the job.
You got further then me then.Quote:
Originally posted by spyone:
Wants a password.
It doesn't think there's any files to look at.
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SIRSIG :D
AKA: SirPostalot
AKA: The MapMaker
AKA: The Trek Cartographer
AKA:...Well I could keep going forever ;)
SIR SIG,
D'oh!. Sorry about that. I'll have to get the password up for everyone. The counter is on a firend's Yahoo site at the moment, so I'll have to contact him. Will have this fixed sometime today.
So far I have ten Federation ship classes, 4 Klingon classes, 3 Cardassian classes, 1 Romulan class, and 2 Jem'Hadar classes.I'm putting them on at 75 dpi, that about 50 ships to a page, so far I've laid out the Federation ship, 3 each, and have used a little over half a page. Haven't laid out the hexes yet. But you could just cut them out. I have a finished version of bigger counters but's it's for Printmaster 8.
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"Retreat?! Hell, we just got here!"
Ok folks, the Akira counter should be acessable now. Resident techical guru messed up and originally put the counter in his pirvate folder rather than in the public one. THe situation has been resolved. If it happens again I'll buy him the Shatner albulm.
Re: Akira Counter
Nice !!
Long Tom
I have a rough counter sheet set up, it has 57 ships on it, 3 each of every ship I had. They are all in color the file is 98k. Does anyone want a copy to look at? There are no hexes on these. I intended to cut them out and use them to help my players to visualize the relative positions and heading of the ships in the game.
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"Retreat?! Hell, we just got here!"
I've put up one of my counter sheets of Federation ships. The file is 1.72 Meg, compressed, and is devoted to Starfleet vessels. I believe it is set to the same scale as the FASA ships. Hopefully no one has any problems with my selections. If someone has any problems with a particular counter just left me know and I'll remove it.
I'll try to get the other ships formatted for easy download.
Also, I'll try to get something up at a small er scale for those who are using 1/2 inch hex maps.
Have never heard of these counters before this post: how do they play as against ship mini's? I have a complete set of Micro-Machines we use. Which would be prefered, the SC/MM?
Counters are cheaper. You don't have to worry about breaking them, tearing maybe, but not breaking them.
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"Retreat?! Hell, we just got here!"
Very Nice!
Although the snob in me would wish for a higher resolution http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/wink.gif
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SIRSIG :D
AKA: SirPostalot
AKA: The MapMaker
AKA: The Trek Cartographer
AKA:...Well I could keep going forever ;)
I’d like to request that all previous forums on counters/miniatures be linked to here. The reason I request this is because I was looking for a previous forum which had a link to a website with scans of counters from Fasa’s Trek Battle Simulation, but I can’t find it now. Any ideas where it’d be?
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